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Andrej Belák has been awarded the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship under the Horizon Europe programme

Our colleague Andrej Belák has been awarded the prestigious individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship under the Horizon Europe programme. With his project Making the Good Matter (MAGMA): An Ethnography of Decency in Power for Inclusive Governance in Central and Eastern Europe, he succeeded in strong competition among a record number of more than 17,000 applications from around the world.

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New Book Chapter on Romani Nomadism and Modernity

Our colleagues Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov have published the chapter Service Nomadism and Transition to Modernity of Roma in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe in the edited volume Nomad Properties: Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today. The publication is available in both print and Open Access formats. The chapter was produced within the framework of VEGA project No. 2/0057/24 and forms part of the research cluster Ethnic and Minority Studies...

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International Conference: The Roma Civic Movement in Europe between 1900 and 1945

On 6 February 2026, an international conference, The Roma Civic Movement in Europe between 1900 and 1945, will take place in Sofia. The event is co-organised by IESA SAS within the research cluster Ethnic and Minority Studies, core topic Romani Studies. The conference constitutes an output of the project eHistory of Roma Emancipation (09I01-03-V08-00001), funded by EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the SR. The conference will also be accessible online.

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A new issue of Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2025 has been published

The thematic English-language issue is devoted to Marian Devotion in Europe: Historical Traces, Current Forms, Interdisciplinary Perspectives and presents five thematic studies. The guest editors of the issue are Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, Agáta Šústová Drelová, and Kinga Povedák. The issue is freely available online. We wish you an enjoyable read.

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Call for Papers for Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2026

The editorial board has announced a new call for abstracts for a thematic English-language issue entitled Between the Living and the Dead: Ethnological Perspectives on Communication with the Dead (vol. 75, no. 4). The call focuses on ethnological and anthropological perspectives on communication with the dead. The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2026, and final manuscripts are due by 30 June 2026. The issue will be published in December 2026.

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We wish you a beautiful and peaceful Christmas, and a healthy, happy, and joyful New Year!

We would like to thank you for both your professional commitment and your personal dedication to building the IESA SAS brand and its good reputation. We also thank you for following, commenting on, and sharing our news and posts. We wish you a wonderful and peaceful holiday season, and a happy and healthy New Year. IESA SAS

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Andrej Belák in an interview for Denník N

Our colleague Andrej Belák gave an interview to Denník N about the broader societal causes of recurring tragic fires in marginalised Roma settlements. The interview was published on 8 December 2025 and is also publicly available in video format.

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Ľudovít Štúr Honorary Plaque of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Merit in the Humanities and Social Sciences for our colleague Dr. Monika Vrzgulová

On December 4, 2025, on the occasion of her life anniversary, our colleague, Dr. Monika Vrzgulová, was awarded the Ľudovít Štúr Honorary Plaque of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Merit in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Call for Abstracts for Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology, Issue 3/2026: “Otherness in the (Un)Making: Media Representations of Marginalised People and Communities”

Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology announces a call for abstracts for the thematic issue Otherness in the (Un)Making: Media Representations of Marginalised People and Communities, guest-edited by Jaroslava Panáková (IESA SAS) and Stephan Dudeck (University of Tartu/Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ). The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 January 2026, and the deadline for full manuscripts is 15 May 2026. The issue will be published in September 2026.

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Lecture on Social Cohesion in the Context of Croatian War Veterans of the 1990s

On December 2, 2025, the IESA SAS hosted a lecture by Dr. Igor Mikloušić as part of its professional seminar series. Dr. Mikloušić, currently on a short-term research stay with us, is a psychologist working at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. His research focuses on personality psychology, morality, and social cohesion, particularly among veteran populations, and on how misinformation and conspiracy narratives influence trust and cohesion.

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Monika Vrzgulová delivered a presentation at a conference in Stockholm

Monika Vrzgulová attended the interdisciplinary conference 'Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory and Materiality', held in Stockholm from 25 to 27 November. There, she presented a paper entitled 'After the Communist Regime: Memory Institutions and the Holocaust in Slovakia'.

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Ľubica Voľanská and Paulína Blahová at the International Conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice

The international conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice was held in Trnava on 27–28 November 2025. Ľubica Voľanská delivered a keynote lecture entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Missing Definitions in the UNESCO 2003 Convention. Doctoral researcher Paulína Blahová also participated, presenting—together with Daniel Drápal and Eva Kuminková—the paper Pastoral Heritage in Motion: Voices and Power in the UNESCO Inscription Process.

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