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462 Contributors Liudmila Limanskaya, lydmila55 omail.ru Head of the Department of the Iheory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Russian State University of the Humanities. Her primary research interest lies in the psychology of comic images in the history of art. She is the author of several books and articles on the theory and psychology of art (including Optical Worlds: The Aesthetics of the Language of Art, Moscow: RSUH, 2008). Ewa Manikowska, emanikowska@hotmail.com PhD, serves as an assistant Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on the history of collecting, survey photography, cultural heritage and art restitution at the time of the WWI. Currently, she is working on her new book entitled Photography and the Making of Eastern Europe: Conflicting Identities. Cultural Heritage (1859-1945) to be published by the Bloomsbury Publishing (London) in 2016. Zuzana Panczova, galiova@yahoo.co.uk Works as a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Her interest is in discourse that reflects inter-group conflict, and images of the enemy (conspiracy theories, contemporary legends and humour). Her PhD thesis (Conspiracy Theories as a Narrative Phenomenon: Genre Analysis, 2009) was based on observations of Slovak Internet discussions. She continues analysis of manifestations of ‘conspiracy thinking’ in Slovakia, although her recent work also focuses on the poetics of contemporary legends and images of Roma and Jews in Slovak humorous magazines at the turn of the 19" and 20" centuries. Oleg Riabov, riabovl@inbox.ru A Professor in the Philosophy Department at Ivanovo State University, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Nationalism Studies. His interests have focused on nationalism studies, gender studies, Cold War studies, and the history of Russian philosophy. He is the author of Europe and the Bear (Warsaw: 2013, in Polish, with Andrzej de Lazari and Magdalena Zakowska); Mother Russia’: Nationalism, Gender, and War in 20” Century Russia (Stuttgart: 2007, in Russian); Russians and Poles Look at One Another: Satirical Graphics (Ivanovo: 2007, in Russian, with Andrzej de Lazari); and Russian Philosophy of the Feminine (11°-20" cc.) (Ivanovo: 1999, in Russian). Anna M. Rosner, annarosner@wp.pl Currently works at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. She defended her PhD (Socio-economic Changes among the Jewish Inhabitants of London in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century) in 2014. Her major research fields are Jewish history and culture, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She specialises in Jewish—British relations and the history of the Jewish minority in Great Britain. She is also conducting research with Holocaust survivors and databases created by Jewish organisations in post-war Poland. Magdalena Sztandara, msztandara@uni.opole.pl An ethnologist and anthropologist of culture, working at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. She deals with visual anthropology, photography, the anthropology of spectacle and art, and also performance studies. She conducts her research in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the author of many articles published in academic journals, various collective monographs, and the book Ethnographic Photography and its Ethnographicness’: A Study of the History of the Ethnographic Idea and Photography from the Second Half of the 19” Century to the First Half of the 20” Century (‘Fotografia etnograficzna i etnograficznosé fotografi. Studium z historii mysli etnologiczne i fotografi II pot. XIX iI pol. XX wieku’, Opole 2006).
