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Contributors
Agnes Tamas tagnes83@yahoo.com
PhD. Research interests: national stereotypes and identities in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; the
representation of the conflicts of Hungarians with non-Hungarian national groups and those of Aus¬
trians with national groups of the monarchy; national conflicts in the press; comic papers. She has
published articles on national stereotypes and on the “nationality question,” e.g., Serbs, Croatians
and Rumanians from Hungarian and Austrian Perspectives. Analysis of Caricatures from Hungarian
and Austrian Comic Papers, [in:] D. Demski, K. Baraniecka-Olszewska (eds.), /mages of the Other in
Ethnic Caricatures of Central and Eastern Europe (2010); Changing Stereotypes of National Minority
Groups, [in:] T. Litovkina et al. (eds.), Hungarian Humour. Humor and Culture 3 (2012); Die ungarische
Tausendjahrfeier in Karikaturen (1896), {in:] K. Brigova, J. Knejp (eds.), Changes of Central Europe Since
the Middle of the 18” Century to Present (2012).
Vilmos Voigt voigtbudapest@gmail.com
Born January 17, 1940, Szeged. Prof. dr. habil. and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loränd University,
Faculty of Philosophy, Budapest. Studied Hungarian philology and ethnography (folklore) in Bu¬
dapest at the same university. Chair of the department of folklore of the Institute of Ethnography
from 1963 to 2010. Doctor sub auspiciis at the same university. Doctor at the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences; Honorary Professor of Bucharest University; Doctor honoris causa of Tartu University; and
Honorary Member of the Finnish Literary Society, International Society of Folk Narrative Research,
and Estonian Society of Semiotics. Studied comparative philology, comparative religion, Finno-Ugric
and Baltic studies, semiotics. Earned several awards, teaching at several universities in Europe and in
the United States. Board member or chairman of several scholarly associations. For his bibliography,
see the book Voigt Vilmos könyveszete (2010).
Magdalena Zakowska magdazakowska@hotmail.com
PhD and assistant professor in the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University
of Lodz. She obtained her doctoral degree in the field of history and works as a specialist in the field
of international relations. She participated in the projects Poles and Russians’ Mutual Prejudices, Ideas
in Russia, Russian-Polish-English Lexicon, The Image of Russia-the-Bear in European Cultures, and
The Russian Bear Metaphor in 19% Century Swiss Press Discourse. She coauthored Russland i Polen¬
deutsche. Zaprogramowanie kulturowe niemieckich “pôénych przesiedlencéw” z Rosji i z Polski (Russia and
Polish German. Cultural Programming of the German “Late Out-Settlers” from Russia and Poland) (2011)
and coedited (with Andrzej de Lazari and Olga Nadskakuta) Zaprogramowanie kulturowe narodéw
Europy (European Nations’ Cultural Programming) (2007).