Issue 53 | September 2023

A Special Feature, Thinking Eurasia Now.

• Introduction by Arina Rotaru

Research

• “Eurasia as a ‘Norm Neutralizer’ in the Relation between Europe, the US, and China” by Barbora Valockova

• “Exploring the New Middle Ages: Japanese Intellectual Discourses and the Eurasian Intersection” by Noriaki Hoshino

• “The Poetic Cinema of Sergei Paradzhanov: An Opportunity to Rethink Eurasia” by Adrianna Hlukhovych

• “Asian Futures or Western Futures? The Increasingly Varied Faces of Science Fiction” by Holger Briel

Commentary

• “Two Divided Countries in the Divided Supercontinent: Hungary and Ukraine in Eurasia” by Chris Hann

Visual Art

• “Eurasian Past Presents,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Fiction

• Dying is Easier Than Loving by Ahmet Altan, translated from the Turkish by Brendan Freely

Poetry

• Bathhouse and Other Tanka by Tatsuhiko Ishii, translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato

Interviews

• “Mediating Eurasian Pasts: An Interview with Soyoung Kim” by Arina Rotaru

Book Reviews

• Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in World War II and the Cold War, reviewed by Oksana Ermolaeva

• Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cities, reviewed by Julie Rugg

Campus Round-Up

• “Developments in Higher Education in the Eurasian Realm” by Hélène B. Ducros

Editor’s Pick

• Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum
  

• Planting Our World, by Stefano Mancuso (translated by Gregory Conti)

• Hoarding New Guinea: Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures by Rainer F. Buschmann

Cover image: Almagul Menlibayeva
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros