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Magyarország és Finnország 1920-1945 (Napkút: Budapest, 2014). The most recent of the conferences he
has organised took place in June 2015 and was titled Discovering and Imagining the Nation (Jyvaskyla
University, June 11-12, 2015). The conference dealt with the topic of how the sciences, humanities and
arts contributed to nation building in Hungary and in Finland c. 1830-1918.
Eda Kalmre, eda@folklore.ee
Senior researcher at the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literary Museum. She defended her
PhD thesis on rumour studies (socio-political aspects of folk narrative and narration) at the University of
Tartu. Her latest book The Human Sausage Factory: A Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu (Rodopi 2013)
relates to this field. She has also written monographs, articles, anthologies and textbooks about Estonian
child and youth lore (especially about lore as it relates to girls), about types of Estonian folktale, the
history and methodology of folklore, media and storytelling, urban legends, etc. She is editor of a series
of publications called Contemporary Folklore. Eda Kalmre is currently participating in an institutional
project (Narrative and Belief Aspects of Folklore Studies).
Tomasz Kalniuk, kalniuktomasz7 @gmail.com
PhD, was born in Trzcianka (Poland) in 1980. In 2004 he finished his ethnology studies at Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Torun (Poland). In 2012 he completed his PhD thesis Mythical Stranger:
Children and Elders in Polish Folk Culture of the Turn of the 20” Century. Currently he is working at the
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, UMK. His research fields are: the religion—culture
relationship, cultural manifestations of sacrum, transformations of religiosity, problems of social ostracism
and strangeness.
Olli Kleemola, owklee@utu.fi
Doctoral candidate at the department of Political Science and Contemporary History at the University
of Turku, Finland. His publications include books and articles on Finnish and German war photography
and Finnish visual war propaganda during the Second World War. His main research interests are the use
of photographs as historical source material, the use of enemy images in war propaganda and new military
history. His current research project (doctoral thesis) compares the enemy images created in Finnish and
German war propaganda by using photographic materials.
Alexander Kozintsev, agkozintsev@gmail.com
A senior researcher at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg, and a Professor
at Saint Petersburg University. He specialises in physical and cultural anthropology, and has authored
over 250 publications including six monographs. Kozintsev’s theory of humour and laughter is outlined
in The Mirror of Laughter (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2010).
Margus Lääne, margus.laane@ra.ce
Works as a junior official at the research and publishing bureau of the National Archives of Estonia. He
is a specialist in Estonian history from the 20" century and has published several articles in this field.
Liisi Laineste, liisi@folklore.ee
Currently working at the Estonian Literary Museum, Department of Folkloristics, as a senior researcher.
She is interested in expressions of folk humour, including those that can be encountered on the Internet.
She defended her PhD (Continuity and Change in Post-Socialist Jokelore) in 2009 and has since then
widened her scope of study to the globalisation of humour, leisure and pleasure studies, caricatures, and
food and identity. She is the editor of several volumes on culture, folklore and humour, most recently
Creativity and Tradition in Cultural Communication Vols 1 and 2 (2012 and 2013, with Dorota
Brzozowska and Wiadystaw Chlopicki).
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