# Nostalgias of the Future: The Materiality of Memory in Solaris and New York 2140 ![Poster for the sixth annual Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture: David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, speaking on “Nostalgias of the Future: The Materiality of Memory in Solaris and New York 2140.” Event on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 5 PM in Harvard Hall 101, Cambridge; hosted by Harvard’s Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Literatures and Languages, open to all.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-04/4.21.26%20Boym%20Memorial%20Lecture.jpg?h=f387f0aa&itok=Zs2qjJXn) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 21, 2026** 05:00PM - 06:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Room 101, Harvard Hall** [Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA 02138 United States ]() **The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages cordially invite you to the sixth annual Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture.** **Speaker | David Damrosch** Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature **Nostalgias of the Future: The Materiality of Memory in Solaris and New York 2140** In The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym writes that “at first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time – the time of our childhood.” Science fiction adds a new temporal dimension, a prospective nostalgia set in a distant future. This talk will compare Russian and American nostalgias as seen in the varied ways objects carry memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. Event open to all For more information: Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/node/1601456/event-feed.ics) Copy link link