Magdalena Bogusławska 

m.boguslawska@uw.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8900-0458

University of Warsaw, Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies Poland

Magdalena Bogusławska is a cultural studies scholar, Slavist, and Polish studies scholar. Her research focuses on the Slavic Balkans, particularly visual culture, cultural performances, and artistic practices. She is interested in the phenomenon of socialist Yugoslavia and the memory of communism in the post-Yugoslav countries. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Teatr u źródła. Teatr i dramat południowosłowiański wobec tradycji widowiskowych regionu (Theatre at the Source: South Slavic Theatre and Drama in the Context of the Region’s Performance Traditions) (2006) and Obraz władzy we władzy obrazu. Artystyczne konceptualizacje wizerunku Josipa Broza Tity (The Image of Power in the Power of the Image: Artistic Conceptualizations of the Image of Josip Broz Tito) (2015). She works at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw.

Angelika Kosieradzka 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1483-6573

University of Warsaw, Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies Poland

Angelika Niewiadomska, PhD, Slavist, Balkanist, and Polish philologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses primarily on the cultures of the Balkans, cultural anthropology, cultural heritage, and contemporary reinterpretations of Slavicness. She is also interested in cultural borderlands, minorities, and the relationships between culture, identity, and politics. She is the author of the monograph Miejsca (nie)istniejące. Krajobraz socjalistycznej Sofii jako przestrzeń bułgarskich praktyk artystycznych po 1989 roku ((Non-)existent Places: The Landscape of Socialist Sofia as a Space of Bulgarian Artistic Practices after 1989) (2024) and of publications devoted to the culture and literature of the Balkan countries.

Maciej Mętrak 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-4580

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies Poland

Maciej Mętrak, scholar of Czech studies and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. In addition to issues related to Czech language and culture, his main research interests include linguistic and ethnic minorities, particularly in the Slavic–German borderlands.