The Conference 'Challenging the Borders of Fantasy' in Wroclaw

Scholars from School of Philology discussed the poetics of fantasy

The conference 'Challenging the Borders of Fantasy' organized by Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and the Russian-Polish Institute (Wroclaw, Poland) took place on 18-19 April in Wroclaw, Poland. 

Scholars from Russia, Poland, USA and Israel presented papers on various aspects of fantasy as a source for artistic inspiration. Some talks concerned theoretical frontiers and dealt with the possible approaches to fantasy fiction. Other papers looks like as case studies. Conference papers covered different subgenres from high epic fantasy to the newest forms of magical realism. 

Selected articles will be published in a scholarly journal Yearbook of Eastern European Studies (no. 1/2016). Guideline for submission of articles is available at:http://ip-r.org/rocznik/edit-ru/. The journal publishes papers in Russian, English and Polish. Please note that the editorial office may reject the article or return it to be revised. Submissions of full papers are due to  1^st July 2016.