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Erëmirë Krasniqi is a young scholar from Pristina who graduated from Bard College Berlin in Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Literature, and earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, she worked as a teaching assistant for several courses (Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Krieger’s Virtual Girlfriend: Japanese Anime and the Idea of Post-human, Introduction to Film Studies and Film Noir), and as a research assistant for The Media Ecology Project, a digital resource that introduced new forms of scholarly production in order to further support and advocate the essential service performed by media archives. Erëmirë is a founder of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative, and collector of the interviews in the Women’s Activism in Kosovo collection.

Krassó, György (1932–1991) was a Hungarian politician and member of the democratic opposition under the Kádár regime. He joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1946. In 1951, he began his studies at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences. In 1952, he was expelled from the Communist Party for his “destructive habit,” and he lost his fellowship. In 1955, just before his state examinations, he was expelled from the university. He graduated only in 1976, and complicated a doctorate in economics the following year. He fought in the Revolution of 1956, after which he was sentenced to ten years in prison, but he was released under an amnesty in 1963. He was under police surveillance until 1985. He participated in opposition movements, including the “free universities” in the 1980s. Krassó cherished and worked to preserve the memory of 1956, and the first public commemorations of the Revolution were held in 1981 at his initiative and in his home.. He came into conflict with some of the members of the democratic opposition because of the opposition’s strategy and assessment of 1956. (Krassó considered the Revolution of 1956 not merely a political programme, but a living, revolutionary tradition. This was a radical viewpoint than differed from the stances adopted by most of the members of the democratic opposition.) Krassó founded the “Hungarian October” samizdat press in 1982. He emigrated to London in 1985, where he worked at Radio Free Europe and the BBC. He never thought himself as a political dissident, but he worked as 'posted representative' of Hungarian opposition. From 1986 to 1989, he published reports on the Hungarian opposition with the help of his Hungarian October Free Press Information Bureau. Krassó returned to Hungary in 1989 and founded the Hungarian October Party, but he could not take part as a candidate in the first free elections because the authorities passed legal restrictions against him for reasons that remain unknown.

Miklós Krassó (1930-1986) was a Hungarian philosophist, political scientist. He joined the Hungarian Communist Party when he was 15. He didn't graduate, but thanks to the well-known communist philosopher, György Lukács he could start his studies at the science university of Budapest. He learned philosophy and joined the circle of György Lukács. In November 1956 he emigrated to Vienna because he took part in the organization of the Worker's Council of Greater Budapest in the days of the Hungarian Revolution. He settled in England and studied at the University of Oxford. Krassó was a co-worker of the periodical 'New Left Review', he propagated the philosophy of English new-left thinkers. He wrote several studies about Marx, Trotsky and Marxist ideology. He died after his home burned out by an accident.