Tilman KASTEN studied Modern German Literary History, West Slavic Philology and European Ethnology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 2014 with a Czech-German thesis on two Wallenstein novels. For his dissertation, he received the Otokar Fischer Prize of the Institut pro studium literatury in Prague in 2017. From 2013 to 2017 he was a research assistant at the Institut für Volkskunde der Deutschen des östlichen Europa (IVDE), Freiburg, including in a project on the press of the German expellees. During this time he was also managing director of the Kommission für Deutsche und osteuropäische Volkskunde. From April 2017 to the end of 2021, he was research coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1015 „Otium. Boundaries, Chronotopes, Practices” at the University of Freiburg. In January 2022, he returned to the IVDE as research associate and managing director of the institute.

Szilágyi LEVENTE has been a research fellow at the ELKH RCH Institute of Ethnology, Budapest since 2011. He received his PhD from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca in 2014. His research interests are borderlands, cross-border relations, rural transformation, and the post-socialist transformation of agriculture.

Krisztina KALTENECKER was born in Budapest (Hungary). She studied at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (degrees 1993) and Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Germany, degree 2015). By profession, she is a freelance historian and a teacher of history, German and Hungarian at secondary school. She is currently pursuing a PhD in modern Hungarian history at Loránd Eötvös University Budapest on the topic of „Construction and Management of German Communities 1933-1960”. Her latest publication is a socio-historical micro-study on the associations of Hungarian German expellees in Darmstadt (Hesse, Germany) in the 1950s. She is married and lives in Wildberg (Northern Black Forest, Germany).

Bertalan PUSZTAI (PhD, Dr. habil) is Associate Professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His field of interest, besides theoretical and methodological questions of contemporary ethnological and anthropological research, is the relationship between religion and national identity, critical tourism studies, and intercultural communication. In his most recent research he studies the role of local festivals in rural Hungary, Finland and Scotland.

Katalin KOVÁLY is a research fellow at the Geographical Institute Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, ELKH, Budapest, Hungary. She graduated as a Geographer at the Uzhhorod National University, (Ukraine) in 2011. She defended her PhD at the Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest in 2021. She was a visiting fellow in the Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv and Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her current research interests include the ethnic and economic geography of Ukraine and Transcarpathia. She also investigates the Ukrainian – Hungarian border region.

Tymoteusz KRÓL (Wymysorys: Tiöma fum Dökter) born 1993: sociolinguist, ethnologist and folklore researcher, Phd student in Polish Academy of Science, member of Association „Wilamowianie”. Activist and teacher of Wymysorys language in Wilamowice.

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Mgr. Edina BOROVSKÁ, PhD. is a university lecturer of English and German for specific purposes at the Department of Languages at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. Apart from English and German classes, she provides lessons of Slovak as a foreign language. She gained her previous job experience at the Department of German Linguistics at the State University of Humanities and Social Studies in Kolomna, Russia, where she was teaching German as a foreign language and teaching Methodology of foreign languages. Her interest for cultural diversity goes back to her doctoral research topic, Intercultural Literature as a Future Prospect of German Studies Abroad, that focused on the possibilities and challenges of implementing literary texts in lessons of German in Slovak secondary schools.

Mihály SÁRKÁNY (Boldva, 1944) is Senior Honoris Causa at the Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, a successor of the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked as a research fellow in various positions from 1968 to his retirement in 2013. He is also a retired associate professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. His main research fields are economic anthropology, peasant studies, history and theories of sociocultural anthropology, the transformation of contemporary rural economy and society both in Hungary and Africa.

Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Werner Retterath european ethnologist and soziologist 1994 – 2021 scientific assistant of the Johannes-Künzig-Institut / Institut für Volkskunde der Deutschen des östlichen Europa (Institute of cultural anthropology of the Germans of Eastern Europe) in Freiburg/Germany main fields of research: twinships between Germany and states of Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Croatia); monuments of German refugees and expellees; cultural history of the „auslanddeutsche Volkstumsarbeit” (efforts on Germandom of Germans living abroad)

Albert Zsolt JAKAB (1979) graduated in 2002 from Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), specializing in ethnography and Hungarian language and literature. He was awarded his PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Ethnography and Anthropology (Budapest, Hungary). At present, he is a senior research fellow at The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities and chairman of the Kriza János Ethnographic Society (Cluj- Napoca). His current research project focuses on the role and the function of heritage, the representations of cultural memory and narratives about history, the commemorations of the past.

András VAJDA (1979) graduated in 2003 from Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Hungarian Ethnography and Anthropology (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), specializing in ethnography and Hungarian language and literature. This was followed by a graduate course at the same department, after which he was awarded a PhD-degree. Between 2009 and 2016, he was Head of Department at Centre for the Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture of Mureş County (Romania). At present, he is a lecturer at Sapientia, Hungarian University of Transylvania in Târgu Mureş (Romania). Current research projects focus on biographic narratives, cultural heritage, ICT in everyday life, the local use of history and the anthropology of writing.

Patrik TÁTRAI, PhD, is a senior research fellow at the Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary. His research interests concern the macro-level ethnic processes in East and Central Europe and how this picture is shaped by micro-level identification and categorisation phenomena. Besides, he is engaged in exploring how politics and the visualisation of place names interrelate in multiethnic settings. He also focuses on cross-border migration in the context of kin-state policies in Transcarpathia, Ukraine.

Judit Gabriella TÓTH, cultural anthropologist. She graduated at the cultural anthropology faculty of University in Miskolc and communication and media studies at the Univetsity of West-Hungary. Presently she is doctoral candidate at Corvinus Univetsity of Budapest. Her research fields are assimilation, ethnicity and collective memory.

Apl. Prof. Dr. Michael PROSSER-SCHELL, born 1960 Freiburg/Brsg./ Germany, studied European Ethnology (néprajz), History, German Philology and Linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Univerity Würzburg. Promotion 1991 at ALU Freiburg. 1991-1997 Assistent Lecturer at University of Regensburg. 2002 Habilitation and Licence to teach. 2004 Scientific Staff Member (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at IVDE Freiburg (Institut für Volkskunde der Deutschen des östlichen Europa Freiburg). 2008 Extraordinary Professorship at ALU Freiburg. Teaching Activities at Universities of Regensburg, Würzburg, Bamberg, Nürnberg-Erlangen, Szeged and ELTE-Budapest. Member of MTA and Magyar Néprajzi Tarsaság, Görres Society, Kommission kulturelle Kontexte des östlichen Europa, Kommission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in Südosteuropa, a.o.

Born in 1966 in Salánk, Transcarpathia. After graduating from the History Department of Uzhgorod State University, he worked as an archeology laboratory assistant at the university for one year. Between 1990 and 2012, he was a secondary school history teacher in Salánk. From 2012, he has been a lecturer at the Department of History and Social Sciences of the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen. The topic of his dissertation: the reflection of the peasant lifestyle in the material culture of the Hungarians of Ugocsa. His research areas are: the material culture of the Transcarpathian Hungarians, the archaeological findings of the occupying Hungarians in Transcarpathia, military tradition preservation (reconstruction).

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Born in 1971 in the Transcarpathian village of Nevetlenfalu. She graduated from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology of Uzhgorod State University. After that, she taught Hungarian language and literature at the Mikes Kelemen Secondary School in Salánk. She obtained her PhD degree in folk medicine at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen. From 2004, she has been a lecturer of the Department of Philology, Hungarian Departmental Group of the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute. Research topics: folklore, folk medicine, Transcarpathian manuscript folk prayer booklets, folk tales, legends, true stories in Transcarpathia.

Tünde CSAPÓNÉ RISKÓ, PhD is an associate Professor at the University of Debrecen Faculty of Economics and Business Institute of Economics and World Economy Main research areas are intercultural issues in international business; corporate social responsibility, sustainability – responsible business practices; sustainability – responsible consumption; gluten-free consumption habits; consumer perception of goat milk products; present and future of Hungarian folk crafts from the perspective of a Folk Art Association of Debrecen Subjects taught (in Hungarian and English): Global Corporate Strategies (BSc and MSc); Foreign Trade (BSc); CSR in practice (MSc); Intercultural Communication (BSC and MSc); International Management (MSc); Regional Differences of Business Practices (MSc); International Business (BSc)

Ádám MIKULICS is a former student of the Secondary School of Arts’ the Faculty of Dance in Nyíregyháza and he has been teaching in this prestigious institution of secondary education since 2014. He studied in the BA and MA programmes of the Hungarian Dance University where he obtained a dance teacher Master’s degree with distinction in 2013. Between 2007 and 2011 he was a professional dancer of the “Duna Művészegyüttes” where he worked together with the best Hungarian folkdance artists. Since 2016 he has been a tutor in the academic programme of the Hungarian Dance University in Nyíregyháza. He was admitted to the History and Ethnography PhD programme of the University of Debrecen. His main fields of research are: the possibilities of folkdance-centred, complex skill and talent development in secondary and higher art education; the prospects of Hungarian folkdance on stage; the history of Hungarian folkdance on stage; the charismatic figures of Hungarian folkdance and their performances.

Melinda MARINKA (PhD) is a senior researcher fellow at the ELKH-DE Ethnology Research Group and lecturer at the University Debrecen; Ethnographer and Teacher of Ethnography. Her research field: identity of the German community in Hungary, settlement of German people in the Upper Tisza Region, cultural elements and heritigisation within the German community and the hungarian folkdance in North-Eastern Hungary.

Born in 1997 in Salánk, Transcarpathia. She graduated from the University of Debrecen with a degree in ethnography and museology. In her university thesis, she examined the specifics of the employment of Transcarpathian women who care for the elderly abroad. She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen. In her upcoming dissertation, she analyzes the micro-level effects of the 1991 regime change in Ukraine. In addition, she turns with great interest to the traditions and ethnographic values of her homeland: for several years she has been researching the decorative treasures of the traditional waxed easter eggs in Salánk and the Ruthenian-Hungarian nativity traditions in Transcarpathia.

Eszter ZOLTÁN-BORZOVÁN was born on 7 March 1983 in Mátészalka and she spent her childhood in Nagyecsed. She graduated from the High School of the Reformed College of Debrecen in 2001, then she graduated from the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Hungarian and Ethnography. In 2011, she obtained a pre-degree certificate at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen (Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology programme). Currently she works at the Berey József Local History Collection in Nagyecsed. Her main field of research is the history and ethnography of Nagyecsed.

Henriett SZABÓ (PhD) is a cultural and visual anthropologist, a research fellow at the ELKH-DE Ethnology Research Group. Her main research areas are the study of contemporary community processes and ethnic coexistence situations, and studying the community-shaping role of tradition in a multi-ethnic environment. Documentary film directors, the themes of her films include the presentation of the contemporary cultural and social-living conditions of rural local communities, as well as the life of young Roma people’s intellectual career.

Klára Vincze was born in 1975. In 1997 she graduated as a teacher and kindergarten teacher. In 2002, she graduated from the University of Debrecen in Debrecen as an ethnographer. Since 2007 she has been working as an ethnographer-museologist. She started her scientific career at the Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged, continued her work at József Attila Museum in Makó. Since 2013, she has been working at the Tari László Museum in Csongrád to this day. Her major research topics were published in Szeged, Makó and Csongrád: Holiday changes in Csongrád around the 19th-20th century, the cultivation of roses in Szőreg, wedding traditions in the Southern Great Plain, stylistic changes in the content of emcee poems. In 2015 she organised an exhibition about wedding culture, then in 2017 with the help of her colleagues from Makó: Gábor Nagy and Atilla Börcsök, they presented an exhibition with a theme of livestock management.

Imre KUTASI has graduated as a historian at the University of Debrecen and continued his studies for a master’s degree in ethnography and museology in 2020.Currently he is a doctoral student in the ethnography program of the Doctoral School of History and Ethnology. His research area is the use of lands in the 19th and the 20th century on the example of Hajdúnánás including the formation and disappearance process of the farmstead system and changes in the settlement structure. Now he is researching the development of the part of Hajdúnánás called Újházhely, formed during the 1945 land reform.

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Márton VADÁSZ graduated from the University of Debrecen, at the Department of Ethnology, as an ethnologist and folklorist, with a specialization of museum studies. Now he is a first year PhD student at the University of Debrecen, Doctoral School of History and Ethnology. His main research field is connected to the changing society of the historical Bihar County, but he also began a research in the questions of the changing architectural heritage in the same county.

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Anita BARNA is a second year student at the University of Debrecen Ethnography Program of History and Ethnography Doctoral School. The goal of her doctoral research is to analyze the changes on the settlement image of Hajdúnánás during the socialism. Anita researches that how changed the habits of house building and the house types there. She also examines that people how thought of the traditional longhouses, how happened the appearing of the cubehouse and behind these processes what changes were in the lifestlye and mentality.

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Eszter LUPFER-JUHÁSZ was born in Nyíregyháza (Hungary). She graduated from the University of Debrecen as a Teacher of History and Civics and Teacher of Ethnography and Ethnology. She works as an assistant research fellow at the ELKH-DE Ethnology Research Group. She is a PhD-student at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen. In her dissertation, she analyzes the study of the relationship between education and ethnography. The research topic is the examination of the educational possibilities of topographical content in Ethnography. Her research also includes an assessment of the current Ethnography educational situation in primary school.

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Trime HALILI PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography in the University of Debrecen in Hungary; finished my MA in Cultural Anthropology at ELTE, Budapest and my Ba studies in Political Science in South-east European University in Tetovë, North Macedonia. As a social activist and volunteer in a community space, I am interested in applied anthropology, in order to research intentional community making as new forms of sociality, social movements and identity politics through self-determination, and the impact ethnicity and the East-West dichotomy have in this endeavor.

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Zsombor KALMÁR completed his secondary school studies at the DRK Dóczy High School. During his high school years, his interest in history, historical anthropology, and ethnography already have appeared. In 2020 and 2021, he participated in the conference of the Hungarian Research Students Association with his research materials from that time. He started his university studies at the University of Debrecen History BA in 2021. Zsombor current research topic led him through the theories and methodology of history, historical anthropology, historical ethnography, historical psychology, and social psychology. The focus of his research is the investigation of the mentality of an 18th-century community through a witch trial.

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Alymbaev MIRLAN is originally from the Kyrgyz Republic. He has been a consultant since 2019 and recently specialized in community development projects. Before becoming a consultant, Mirlan worked as a procurement specialist for the public sector and as a coordinator in projects funded by the World Bank. His educational background includes a MA in Urban and Regional Development from the University of Seoul, and an MA in Public Policy from Meiji University in Tokyo. In addition, Mirlan has a diploma in Oriental studies from Bishkek Humanities University.

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Efilina KISSIYA, S.Pd., M.Hum. Born in Ambon on March 21, 1978. Completed the undergraduate in 2001 at the German Language Education Study Program, Faculty Teacher Training and Education-Pattimura University. In 2002, continued the master degree at the History Departement at the University of Indonesia, Depok and graduated in 2004. Permanent lecturer in the History Education Study Program, Pattimura University, Ambon-Maluku Province-Indonesia on January 1, 2005 until now. Associate professor since 2015 in the field of History. Since 2021 have been a P.hD student in Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Debrecen. Apart from teaching, also active in writing books, articles, and participating in local, national and international congresses. Participate in national and international level training in the Netherlands as well as Australian government programs. Previously served as secretary of quality assurance at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education for two periode, Secretary of the Oral Tradition Association, Maluku branch for two terms, and secretary of the department of Social Science Education. Obtained a research grant from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia from 2009-2019.

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Vivien Melani KOPASZ a researcher from Kárpátalja, pedagogue and PhD student. She is a student of the University of Debrecen Faculty of Humanities, the Doctoral School of History and Ethnology third-year ethnology major PhD student. Her research areas: settlement research, hungarian reformed (calvinistic) denomination identity, examination of nationality and minority situations. The focus of the research is her native village, Dercen whose religious life, ethnographic characteristics, folk life, tradion preservation and education she is testing, researching and note down. From 2021, Vivien is functioning in the Momentum Doctorandus Transcarpathian hungarian doctorandus organisation as a member of the board. From 2022, she is working as a History and Ethnography teacher at the Kossuth Lajos Liceum in Beregszasz, and also as the Tulipan Tanoda Hungarian Folk Art School’s organizer teacher and coordinator.

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She graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning in Brazil. In 2021 she finished her Master’s Degree in Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Debrecen, with a final work covering cultural routes and their significance. Since 2021 she is a student at the Doctorate School of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Debrecen working on Hungarian architecture in Brazil and architecture paths in Veszprém.

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Meng LIU is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnology, University of Debrecen. Her research project focus on studying the multiple aspects of educational anthropology, migration studies, and cultural memory. As a research project leader, Liu Meng has led an academic research project and received a national academic project grant. She has also participated in several academic research projects and has published articles in related ethnographic fields. Her academic interests include, but are not limited to, educational anthropology, cultural memory, migration studies, and cultural trauma.

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University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnography; deputy head of department, senior lecturer, Ethnographer – Teacher of Ethnography and Pedagogy
Research field: Education of tradition, the role of ethnography in school, examination of inheritance processes. Since 2000 National education, the teaching of tradition, the role of ethnography in the school printed literature. (Ethnography school teaching in school reading books, polite literature) and since 1998 ethnographic study of Bihar micro-region. In this 1. Life strategies – survival of traditional elements of nutrition; 2. Change analysis.

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Former senior lecturer in Astana Medical university; DOSZ ambassador of Kazakhstan in Hungary; Graduated Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay in the Institute of History and Law. On Specialty-History; Master degree of Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilev on specialty 6M020300-History. Currently PhD candidate at University of Debrecen, Department of Ethnography.
Research field: Explore multiethnic coexistence of various nationalities through interethnic marriages by focusing of the following aspects: the level of integration of various ethnic groups living in research spot together with the Kazakh people; their relationship with each other in everyday life; all cultural aspects including traditions, customs, celebrating of national holidays etc.

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Babakhumar KHINAYAT – Kazakh ethnographer, born in Mongolia. He worked in the research institutes of the Academy of Sciences in Mongolia and Kazakhstan as well as in the museum area in Almaty. He made many scientific expeditions not only to different regions of Kazakhstan, but also to the countries where the Kazakh diaspora lives: in Mongolia, China, Russia and Uzbekistan. In addition to ethnographic fieldwork, he also conducted archival research in Kazakh and Russian archives. He is the author of three monographs and hundreds of articles on the topics of Kazakh ethnography, folk knowledge, local beliefs, animal husbandry and material culture. Also, he participated in compiling the catalogs of numerous scientific collections and museums.His main area of research focuses on the traditional culture of the Kazakhs, the parallels and common features between the Mongolian and Turkic-speaking peoples living on the great Eurasian steppe and the Hungarians. He is now engaged in research into folk medicine. He is currently a PhD student in History and Ethnography at Debrecen University.

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Eszter ZOLTÁN-BORZOVÁN was born on 7 March 1983 in Mátészalka and she spent her childhood in Nagyecsed. She graduated from the High School of the Reformed College of Debrecen in 2001, then she graduated from the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Hungarian and Ethnography. In 2011, she obtained a pre-degree certificate at the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen (Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology programme). Currently she works at the Berey József Local History Collection in Nagyecsed. Her main field of research is the history and ethnography of Nagyecsed.

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