ing «Pycckuü medeedb» 6 ucmopuu namwtuckoú kapukamypbı (“Russian” bear in Latvian caricatures),
Przeglgd Rusycystyczny (2012); «Pycckuü medsedv» 8 kapukamype cospemennoü Jameuu (“Russian bear”
in the contemporary Latvian caricature), [in:] Hayuno-uccnedosamenveruü anexmponnoiii HcypHan
(2012) Latviesu karikatura XIX gs. beigäs XX gs. säkumä kä nacionaläs identitätes veidosanäs un attistibas
faktors (Latvian caricature at the end of the 19” century and the beginning of the 20” century as a factor
of the formation and development of national identity) (2012); Cmex u cnesvı: 06pas Poccuu u pycexux 8
Aambuuckoli Kapuxamype (ackus npo6aemvt) (Laughter and tears: the image of Russia and Russian in
Latvian cartoon [sketch of problem] in: Europe-Russia: Contexts, Discourses, Images, 1. Novikova (ed.)
(2011). Fields of interest: caricatures, Baltic studies, nationalism studies.
Anssi Halmesvirta anssi.halmesvirta@jyu.fi
Professor of general history, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Research areas/interests: history of ideas and ideologies, British Edwardian era, Hungarian modern
history. Main publications: Monographs (11 total) include British Conception ofthe Finnish “Race,” Na¬
tion and Culture 1780-1918 (1990); Turanilaisia ja herrasneekereitä (Turanians and Negro Gentlemen)
(1993); Vaivojensa vangit (History of Public Health Debate in Finland) (1996); Co-operation Across the
Iron Curtain: Hungarian-Finnish Scientific Relations, c. 1960-1990 (2005); Unkarin kansannousu 1956
(The Hungarian Uprising 1956) (2006); Ideology and Argument (2006); Rakkaat heimoveljet: Unkari ja
Suomi 1920-1945 (Dear Kinship Brothers: Hungary and Finland 1920-1945) (2010); The Practice of
History of Ideas (2012).
Karla Huebner karla.huebner@wright.edu
PhD in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and MA from
American University, Washington, DC, USA. She is currently an assistant professor of art history and
women’s studies at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, USA. Dr. Huebner’s research areas include
the history of gender and sexuality, surrealism, women artists, and Czech modernism 1890-1950.
Recent publications include In Pursuit of Toyen: Feminist Biography in an Art-Historical Context,
Journal of Women’s History, 25 (2013); Girl, Trampka, or Zdba? The Czechoslovak New Woman in
The New Woman International (2011); Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen’s Queer Desire and Its Roots in
Prague Surrealism, Papers of Surrealism (2010); and The Whole World Revolves Around It: Sex Educa¬
tion and Sex Reform in First Republic Czech Print Media, Aspasia 4 (2010).
Petr Karliéek kpt.karlicek@gmail.com
Historian, archives inspector at the State Regional Archives of Litomerice—State District Archives
Decin (Czech Republic), PhD candidate in the department of philosophy of the J. E. Purkyné Uni¬
versity in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, with a dissertation titled Politickd karikatura na tizemi
Ceskoslovenska v letech 1933-1948 (Political caricature in the Czechoslovakian territory in the years
1938-1948). He is a cultural-historical guide to the Sudetenland. His research fields include the his¬
tory of Nazism and Communism in central Europe and their administration, Czech and German
relationships, the history of the Czech borderlands, caricatures, humor and satire in central Europe,
oral history of the contemporary witnesses of the Nazi and Communist regimes. Coauthor (with Jan
Némec) of Dé¢in 1989 (2009). Author of numerous scientific articles. Creator of the website www.
vernyzustanu.cz (www.faithfuliremain.com).
Anelia Kassabova anelia.kasabova@abv.bg
Assoc. Professor at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Studied history and ethnology at the Sofia University “St. Kliment
Ohridski,” and social and economic history and European ethnology at the University of Vienna. She
completed her studies with a PhD dissertation on magic beliefs in Bulgaria at the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences (BAS) in 1994 and with a second dissertation titled Family and Migration: Migration
Studies and Politics at the University of Vienna in 2001. From August 2010 to August 2013 she is
working in the FWF Project, Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body: The Balkans, approx.
1860-1950, at the University of Graz/Center for Southeast European History and Anthropology. She
has been teaching and doing research on the history of ethnology, gender, migration, and family and