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A French born journalist, she studied Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes politiques in Paris and read history at Cambridge University (UK). In 1990 she moved to Hungary where she became a permanent correspondent until 2003 for the French public radio, dailies La Croix & Libération and weekly l’Express. From Budapest she also covered other countries in the region. She is the author of “Sarajevo, my love” – a biography of General Divjak, one of the commanders of the Bosnian army. Today she still covers Hungary and shares her time between Paris and Budapest.

Marek Brzózka - born in 1983 in Segedynia. From 2002-2003 he studied at the István Tomörkény Art Gymnasium, where he specialized in decorative sculpture. In January 2003, he was on scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 2003 to 2008, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in the figurative sculpture studio. In 2006, as part of the Erasmus program, he had a study stay at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since 2013, he has continued his doctoral studies at Magyar Képzömüvészeti Egyetem in Budapest. He lives and creates in Segedin, works in monumental and chamber sculpture and drawing, and works as a teacher. He has had numerous

solo and group exhibitions and monumental realizations.

Michał M. Bukowski (PhD) works in the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He specializes in political communication with particular emphasis on political economy of local communication in a world-systems perspective. Books he has authored and co-authored several books include “The ruling and the opposition parties in 2014 local elections in Małopolska” (2016), “Keywords in governmental political communication: an international perspective” (2015), “A party or a person?: party-based politics versus personalization in municipal elections” (2011). He is a member of the Polish Political Science Association (PTNP) and the Polish Communication Science Association (PTKS).

Associate professor of social anthropology at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava. He researches on social and political movements. He is collaborator of the Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA), editor-in-chief of the journal OS – Občianska spoločnosť and regular feuilletonist of the Czech bimonthly Listy. He is an author of Nation and Religion: The Politics of Commemoration in South-east Poland (Münster: Lit 2007). Currently he is preparing his monograph on workers and tolerance in Eastern Europe. Among his recent works are ‘Tasting Wine in Slovakia: Post-socialist Elite Consumption of Cultural Particularities’ (in Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass. Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin eds, Bloomsbury Publishing 2013) and a book of essays Slovenská ideológia a kríza. Eseje z antropológie politiky (Slovak Ideology and Crisis. Essays in Anthropology of Politics, Bratislava: Kalligram 2012).