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Lecture Polarization and Anti-System in Slovakia 2025
On November 13, 2025, a public science lecture and discussion titled Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia took place at the Albrecht House on Kapitulská Street. The event explored how societal polarization shapes everyday life and how many people feel unsupported or harmed by the current system. Colleagues Pavol Kosnáč and Hugo Gloss presented key insights from their new book Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia, published by the DEKK Institute in cooperation with IESA SAS.
International Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies
The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Uppsala University, Sweden) and the Rroma Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) are organizing a Monthly Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies with researchers and Romani communities’ activists. The upcoming event on 26 November 2025 will host our colleague Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov, with the presentation of the book Stalin vs Gypsies and the Brill series Roma History and Culture. The seminar will take place online at 18:00 CET.
Discussion on the Forthcoming Book Avion with Ľubica Voľanská at the “Cez prah” Housing Festival 2025
Our colleague Ľubica Voľanská took part on Saturday, 15 November 2025, in a discussion about the forthcoming book Avion, which is to be published in the coming days by Čierne diery (in cooperation with the IESA SAS and the Institute of History SAS). The discussion was moderated by Radoslav Passia of the Institute of Slovak Literature SAS, and featured both authors of the book – Ľubica Voľanská and Katarína Haberlandnová – together with the photographer Anton Sládek.
Intensive Working Meeting of the APVV Project Team Contemporary Images of Socialism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – Family Memory
On 10–11 November 2025, an intensive working meeting of the APVV project team Contemporary Images of Socialism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – Family Memory took place under the leadership of Monika Vrzgulová. The team discussed ongoing and planned project activities. The programme was enriched by an invited lecture with discussion by memory studies and trauma scholar Erzsébet Fanni Tóth, as well as a hybrid discussion with the international author collective of the forthcoming publication Contested...
Cultural Regions of Slovakia: The Result of Cooperation between IESA SAS and the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
The first result of the mutual and very constructive cooperation between our institute and the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic is out! The statistical publication Cultural Regions of Slovakia has been freely available for several days, which summarizes demographic data from the 2021 Census of Population, Housing and Dwellings of the Slovak Republic at the level of cultural regions. Thanks and we are looking forward to further cooperation!
A new issue of Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 3/2025 has been published
This English-language issue is devoted to the theme Suburbanisation: Community, Identity and Everydayness, with Pavel Šuška and Marcela Káčerová as guest editors. The new issue features six scholarly articles exploring various aspects of post-socialist suburbanisation, community, and everyday life.
Polarisation and the Anti-System 2025: Slovakia.How does polarisation affect us, and how many people believe that our system does not support them — or even deliberately harms them?
IESA SAS in cooperation with the DEKK Institute, cordially invites you to a lecture by Pavol Kosnáč and Hugo Gloss entitled “Polarisation and the Anti-System 2025: Slovakia.” The discussion will explore how polarisation shapes society and how many people perceive the system as hostile. The event will take place on 13 November 2025 at 4:00 p.m. at Dom Albrechtovcov, Kapitulská 1. Please register by 12 November at 6:00 p.m. due to limited capacity.
DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025: Digital Methods and Research Infrastructures in the Humanities
DARIAH-SK and the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., invite you to the DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025 scientific seminar, which will take place on 19 November 2025 at 10:00 a.m. at Hotel Tatra in Bratislava. The event will present current activities and plans of DARIAH-SK, as well as initiatives of partner institutions focused on the development of digital humanities and research infrastructures.
Our institute is a finalist of the Roma Spirit 2025 award in the category "Company and Employer"
The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences has been selected as one of the 21 finalists of the 17th Roma Spirit Awards in the category Society and Employer. This year, a total of 163 nominations were submitted across seven categories. Roma Spirit honours individuals, organisations, and initiatives that contribute to improving the position of Roma people and to building a fairer and more cohesive society.
Martina Wilsch will Participate at the International Workshop Ukrainian Forced Migration, Transnational Family Processes and Co-Agency
Our colleague Martina Wilsch will participate in the international workshop Ukrainian Forced Migration, Transnational Family Processes and Co-Agency, to be held on 4–5 November 2025 at CASTLE, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Together with Prof. Ute Karl from the Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigsburg, Germany, she will present a paper entitled Care and Social Support Dynamics among Displaced Ukrainian Refugees: Reflections from Germany and Slovakia.
Expert assessment of the fulfilment of the Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Participation of Roma until 2023
A team of experts in Romani Studies from the IESA SAS, is participating in the national project Monitoring and Evaluation of Inclusive Policies Aimed at the Roma Population. The team’s task is to conduct an external evaluation of the Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Participation of Roma up to 2030 through the Action Plans for 2022–2024 in the areas of education, housing, employment, health, combating anti-Roma racism, and promoting participation.
International 'Best Book in Romani Studies' Award for 2024 goes to E. Marushiakova and V. Popov
The International Committee of the Gypsy Lore Society (founded 1888), as part of its annual conference in Paris, awarded the Best Book in Romani Studies prize to authors E. Marushiakova and V. Popov for their book Stalin vs. Gypsies. Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR (Brill, 2024). Following the SAS (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Award for Scientific Research Results in June 2025, this represents another significant recognition of their long-term and detailed research, this time at an international...
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