Jordi Arrufat-Agramunt
is a Public Affairs professional currently working as a Project Manager for the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia, a public-private partnership set up by the Catalan Government whose mission is to promote Catalonia internationally through public diplomacy tools. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a Msc in International Business Management by ICEX-CECO Madrid, a MSc in International Relations from IBEI Barcelona and an MSc in Teaching from URV University in Tarragona.
Nevena Škrbić Alempijević
professor, was, from 2008 until 2010, the head of the postgraduate studies of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, and from 2013 to 2015 the head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. She was a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Studia ethnologica Croatica from 2007 to 2015. She is the president of the Governing board of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. She actively participates in the work of national and international professional associations. Currently she is the member of the executive board of the Croatian Ethnological Society. She is the president of SIEF (since 2017). Main areas of her scientific interest are: anthropology of social memory, anthropology of place and space, the construction of cultural regions, island studies, performance studies, studies of carnivals, festivals and other public events.
Rūta Bagdanavičiūtė
is a doctor of philosophy. Her doctoral dissertation is on the topic of hermeneutics, titled The Way of Interpretative Dynamics and its Change in Hermeneutics. She teaches philosophy courses at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Her research embraces hermeneutics, ethics, media ontology, art philosophy. Email: rutavec@gmail.com
Ladislav Cabada
is affiliated with Metropolitan University Prague where he teaches, serves as Vice-Rector for Research and Creative Activities, and is the Editor in Chief of the journal Politics in Central Europe. He is also affiliated with University of West Bohemia and the Central European Political Science Association where he served as the President (2012–2018).
holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (Bulgaria, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski). She is an assistant professor at the Department of History and Theory of Culture, Sofia University. Galina Goncharova has held two fellowships research at the Centre for Advanced Studies – Sofia and has taken part in big international projects. Her major academic interests are in the fields of Bulgarian contemporary history, oral history, sociology of youth cultures and sociology of religion. Goncharova has publications on death and dying under (post)socialism, generational discourses, and religious practices in Bulgaria, among others. She is the author of the book Politics of “Generation”. Generational divisions in Bulgaria in the Second Half of the 19th to Early 20th Century. Recently she is working on a national project on the generational models of informal care in Bulgaria.
Valentina Gueorguieva
is an associate professor at the Department of cultural Studies of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), and has specialized at the Center for the Studies of Social Movements at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the Central European University in Budapest. She was a visiting professor at the Doctoral School for Social Sciences at CEREFREA (Bucharest, Romania) and the Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies in Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal). Her research interests are in anthropology of democracy, social movement studies, political mobilizations and civil society organizations. She has authored two monographs and more than thirty academic articles in English, French and Bulgarian, as well as popular readings in the online reviews Seminar_BG (http://seminar–bg.eu/) and dVersia (dversia.net). Her recent book Multitudes of Discontent: An Anthropology of the Protest Movements in Bulgaria (2009–2013), published in Bulgarian in 2017, studies the recent social movements in post-socialist context.
Deniss Hanovs
(1977), cultural historian, professor at Riga Stradins unibersity, Faculty of Communication. His fields of research are interdisciplinary and include nationalism studies, history of communication (18th century opera studies) and ethnic minorities. Dr. Deniss Hanovs: Hanovs@inbox.lv 0037129148780
Nicolas Hayoz
is professor of political science and the director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Slavka Karakusheva
is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and a BA in Cultural Studies from the same university. She has recently been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz; at the Cultural Politics and Management Research Centre, Istanbul Bilgi University and at the Department of New Media, Kadir Has University, Istanbul. Her research interests focus on population policies in nation-building processes with emphasis on migrations and displacements of minorities, on the role of social media in changing migratory experiences and reinforcing transnational connectedness and on the construction, negotiation and redefinition of cultural heritage boundaries in Bulgaria.
Tomas Kavaliauskas
PhD, is a Lithuanian senior researcher at the Philosophy department as well as at the Centre of Social and Political Critique at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the author of the book Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts (Lexington Books, 2012). He is a member of Lithuania's Writers Union as an author of fiction literature books. He is a member of Lithuanian PEN centre as an author of political essays (English version available at eurozine.com).
Maria Mälksoo
is senior lecturer in International Security at the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies. She is the author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries (Routledge, 2010), and a co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012). Her work on European security politics, transitional justice, liminality, memory wars and memory laws has appeared in International Studies Review, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, European Security, Contemporary Security Policy, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, and in various edited volumes. Her
Gintautas Mažeikis
is a Lithuanian philosopher, anthropologist, theoretician of culture and a professor in philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. He is the head of the Centre of Social and Political Critique. MA in Philosophy (1986–1991), Sankt-Petersburg State University, Russia. He holds Ph.D. in Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania. The title of the doctoral dissertation Symbolical Thinking of Renaissance. Today he is a visiting professor at various European universities.
Almantas Samalavičius
is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and simultaneously at Vilnius University. Educated as an English philologist, he obtained a Ph.D. in architectural history and theory and has been a visiting professor in American, South Korean, and Indonesian universities. He is the author of some dozen scholarly books including Visionaries of the Twentieth Century (1997), Change and Continuity (2008), Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism (2019) as well as editor of numerous anthologies and collections of essays, including Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature (2013), Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education (2018). A prolific cultural critic and essayist analyzing issues ranging from post-Communist transition and memory to higher education, he served as president of Lithuanian PEN and is a regular contributor to Kultūros barai and Eurozine – Europe’s leading network of cultural journals. His writings have been translated into some 15 languages and won 8 prizes in his home country.
Magdalena Solska
is lecturer in political science at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research focuses on post-Communist democratization in Central and Eastern Europe, and in particular on the development of political parties, party systems and political opposition in post-Communist democracies.
Vladislav Volkov
(1963) Jelgava/Latvia. Acadimic qualifications: PhD in philosophy (1989), Dr.sc.soc. (sociology (1998)). Post-graduate Course of Urals State University (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation); Urals State University (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), Faculty of Philosophy. Scientific areas: sociology of nations and nationalism; sociological and historic analysis of Russian minority in Latvia. Publications: the author of 150 scientific publications, including 5 monographies.
graduated from the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1994 (class of Professor Miroslav Šutej) with a thesis entitled “Mysticism in the Artistic Practice of J. Beuys” and an experimental series of etchings New Machines, a remake of the research conducted by the Croatian renaissance scientist Faust Vrančić. In 2016 he completed his Postgraduate Doctoral Studies in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He received his PhD with a thesis entitled “Anthropological Conceptualisation of the Space in Thangka Painting and Contemporary Art Practices“ (supervisors Suzana Marjanić, and Leonida Kovač) on 11th February 2016. Since 1986 he has been working on the field of graphic media, film, video, installations, performances, and cultural anthropology. He has received numerous prizes for his artistic work. He has realized numerous exhibitions and projects in Croatia and abroad. He taught at the University of Zadar 2009 to 2017 and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas 2016 and 2017. Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2018 he has been vice president of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists, oldest and largest institution of its kind in Croatia and the entire region, established in 1868. He has been a member of the European Cultural Parliament since 2011.