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Acknowledgements The Budapest Conference was an experiment of sorts, owing to the combined Hungarian and Polish efforts to realize it. We are convinced that the whole enterprise was a success built on the contributions of many, and these contributors all deserve to be named. What is especially worth stressing is the Hungarian-Polish cooperation, which represents the commitment of so many people whose personal dedication, acting jointly across borders, contributed to the final scientific result and the exceptionally friendly atmosphere of the Conference. The event will remain in the participants" grateful memory for a long time. We would like to express our particular gratitude to the Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences for agreeing to host the Conference (Balázs Balogh), for organizing the event, and for participating in the joint decision-making that was necessary at the first stage of the arrangements related to the project (Ágnes Fülemile). Apart from the above mentioned, most of the credit is due to Fruzsina Cseh and Anikó Báti, to Éva Deák for coordinating organizational work, and to Károly Zsolt Nagy for creating the webpage. We would like to thank the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, for their support and cooperation in this project and to the Centre of Contemporary Anthropology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, of the Polish Academy of Sciences for supporting the cooperation between the four participating countries—Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Arkadiusz Bernas, the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Budapest, was the person who most contributed to the excellent atmosphere around the Conference. Please, accept our heartfelt gratitude for so actively supporting the event. The Osterreichisches Kulturforum Budapest should be thanked for taking part in the opening of the conference. The exhibit of Felix Kanitz’s pictures of South Slavs accompanied the conference. Many thanks to all the participants, who turned out in force at the Budapest Conference and who together contributed to creating its wonderful atmosphere. We would also like to thank those participants who, for various reasons, failed to submit their papers. Their input was very significant for the realization of the project. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Visegrad Fund for its financial support in the form of a grant. Without this funding, the organization of the conference and the meeting of the scholars working in the field of visual othering would not have been possible.
