Zuzana Panczova zuzana.panczova@savba.sk
PhD research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovak Re¬
public). Research area: study of traditional and contemporary narratives (legends, rumors, conspiracy
theories). Her main publications: Sucasné povesti a fémy vo svetle folkloristickÿch vyskumov (Contempo¬
rary Legends and Rumors in Light of Folklore Research), {in:] E. Krekovitova (ed.) Folklér a komunikdcia
v procesoch globalizdcie (2005); Difficulties With the Genre Classification of “New Genres”: Contem¬
porary Legends and Rumour in Slovak Folk Prose, [in:] Z. Profantova (ed.), Traditional Culture as a
Part of the Cultural Heritage of Europe. The Presence and Perspective of Folklore and Folkloristics (2003);
A Man at Risk and the Internet: Political Conflicts in “Online” Rumour and Conspiracies, [in:] Z.
Profantovä (ed.), The Small History of Great Events in Czechoslovakia After 1948, 1968 and 1989 (2006).
Dobrinka Parusheva clio_dp@yahoo.co.uk
PhD, associate professor in the theory and history of culture at the University of Plovdiv, Department
of Ethnology, and a senior research associate at the Institute of Balkan Studies in Sofia. Her research
interests center on the social history and history of everyday life in the Balkans, 19‘ and 20" centuries,
and on the relationship between politics and culture during the 20% century.
Anna M. Rosner annarosner@wp.pl
MA (2007) in history from the Warsaw University history department, MA (2008) in Jewish studies
from the University of Southampton Parkes Institute. Currently a PhD student in the history depart¬
ment at Warsaw University. Affiliated with the Mordechai Anielewicz Center for the Study and Teach¬
ing of the History and Culture of Jews in Poland. Main interests: Jewish history and culture, history
and culture of Great Britain, Jewish-non-Jewish relations. She published Urracona toësamosé? Zydzi
praybywajacy do Wielkiej Brytanii w latach 1933-1939 (Lost Identity: Jews Coming to Great Britain in
1933-1939), Studia Judaica 15 (2012).
Katarina Srimpf katarina.strimpf@zrc-sazu.si
Born in 1985 in Celje. In 2010 she graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural An¬
thropology at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. Since November 2010 she has been working as a research
assistant at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of
Slovenian Ethnology. She is preparing a doctoral dissertation on oral tradition, folk stories, and urban
legends in Obsotelje and Croatian Zagorje. Research interests: ethnology, folk narrative, contempo¬
rary legends, folk tales, incantations, folk beliefs.
Miloslav Szabé miloslav.szabo@gmail.com
Born in 1974 in Zvolen, Slovak Republic. Research fellow of the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech
Republic. Topic of his research: nationalism and antisemitism, intellectual history. Among his re¬
cent publications are „Von Worten zu Taten“. Die slowakische Nationalbewegung und der Antisemitismus
1875-1922 (forthcoming); Vertraute Feindbilder. Die transnationalen Bezüge des slowakischen Anti¬
semitismus um 1900, Bohemia 51/2 (2011); National Conflict and Anti-Semitism at the Beginning of
the Twentieth Century. The Case of the Czech Slovakophiles Karel Kälal and Eduard Lederer, Judaica
Bohemiae 44/1 (2009).
Miklös Szekely szekely.miklos@gmail.com
Worked from 2008 to 2012 as a member of the collections department in the Ludwig Museum, Mu¬
seum of Contemporary Art, Budapest. Besides his position as collection manager, he is curator of the
Archives of Tibor Hajas (1946-1980), poet, and performance artist. Since 2012 he has been working
as a research fellow in the Institute of Art History, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences. His main areas of interest are 19th century Hungarian art and museum studies.
Between 2005 and 2008 he was enrolled as a PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of
Art History, studying the cultural representation of Hungary; his dissertation was entitled Hungarian
Art and Architecture at Universal Exhibitions Between 1896-1918. Author of The Mirrors ofthe Country:
Hungarian Art and Architecture in the Service of National Representation at World Fairs in the Time of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in Hungarian, 2012).