202 Tigran Simyan and Ilze Kačāne strangeness, culture contact, the emergence of modern nations in Siberia (e.g. Buryats), and the situation of the Polish minority in the areas of the former Soviet Union and minority groups in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe (particularly Roma and Vlach). Alīna Romanovska, PhD, is a researcher at the Center of Cultural Research of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Daugavpils University, Latvia. Her research interests are identity, contemporary Latvian culture, and comparative literature. She has more than 60 publications and is the author of a monograph. She has managed or participated in several international and national research projects, for example, The Seventh Framework Programme, Interreg, The National Research Programme “Letonika.” E-mail: alina.romanovska@du.lv Monika Salzbrunn, Full Professor of Religions, Migration, Diasporas at the University of Lausanne, is principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project on ARTIVISM—Art and Activism. Creativity and performance as subversive means of political expression in super-diverse cities. She has published numerous articles about festive events and participated in the MUCEM Marseille exhibition on Euro-Mediterranean carnivals. She is member of the research group POPADIVCIT, Popular Arts, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings of the European Excellence Network IMISCOE, and associated researcher at CéSOR/EHESS Paris. Tigran Simyan, Dr. habil. in Philology, is a professor at Yerevan State University, Department of Foreign Literature. He is a member of the German Society for Semiotics (“Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik”). He has been a visiting scholar in the framework of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD). He is a member of the editorial boards of a range of scholarly journals, such as Critique and Semiotics (Russia), Critique and Semiotics (Georgia), Journal of Visual Semiotics (Russia), Comparative Studies (Latvia), as well as a member of the editorial council of ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. His main scientific expertise lies in the semiotic problems of literature and culture, the history of German literature, and the history of methodology for the human sciences. E-mail: tsimyan@ysu.am
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