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Acknowledgements
This volume is an outcome of a conference held in Sofia in 2015. We are deeply
conceived that the success of the conference was built on the commitment of many
people and institutions. We would like to express our particular gratitude to the
conference organizers—Evgenia Troeva, Petko Hristov, Anelia Kassabova, Violeta
Periklieva, Dessislava Pileva, Ivaylo Markov, and Emil Antonov—thanks to whom
the conference was both a fruitful scientific exploration and a rich social experience.
Special thanks to Ivaylo Markov for creating and managing the conference website.
Working with you all has been an outstanding pleasure. We owe our special
thanks also to the institutions that supported the event: the Bulgarian Ministry of
Education, the Polish Institute in Sofia, the Embassy of Austria in Sofia, and the
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which hosted the conference, and the Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnology of Polish Academy of Sciences. Last but not least we
would like to thank all of the conference participants and the contributors to this
volume. It is owing only to you that the conference and volume preparation have
been bountiful, if sometimes challenging, experiences.
We are especially grateful to the institutions that in various ways contributed to
the publishing of this volume. We owe our thanks, again, to the Bulgarian Ministry
of Education and to the National Programme of Developing Humanistics of the
Polish Ministry of Higher Education and Science (Grant No. 12H 120069 81)
for financing this publication. Finally, we owe our thanks to the institutions who
generously allowed us to publish visual data to which they own the copyrights:
the Museum of Independence (Muzeum Niepodlegtosci) in Warsaw, Filmoteka
Narodowa, the Polska Press Sp. z 0.0., and the Bulgarian National Film Archive.
In the project on the visual representations of the Other from the very beginning
the following institutions have been involved: the Institute of Ethnology, the Czech
Academy of Sciences; the Research Centre for Humanities, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences; the Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences; the Institute
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. We are very grateful
for their contributions to the entire project. Regarding this particular conference
and volume, however, we are especially thankful to our friends from the Institute
of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences. Only thanks to you was the whole event such a success.