Science fiction has inestimable value for considerations of alterity
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Ilaria ParogniOn April 8, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a conference entitled “Radiant Futures: Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction.” The conference was convened by Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Collegiate Professor at New York University, and it featured a varied lineup of speakers from the literary field. In his introduction, Borenstein said that the idea behind the conference was to gather a group of people who have been thinking about nauchnaya fantastika (scientific fantasy) from a scholarly and non-scholarly perspective, particularly given the peripheral role this genre usually plays in the academic context.
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Ilaria ParogniRussia, Ukraine, and the Fantasies of War
Eliot BorensteinWhy should we surprised when the facts of the Ukrainian bloodshed prove so malleable in the media?
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