We are pleased to announce a workshop dedicated to the study of rituals and its social functions with a special but not exclusive focus on cognitive and evolutionary approaches. We encourage empirical and theoretical papers from anthropology, psychology, religious studies, and other humanities, social, and natural sciences.
Interdisciplinary short talks about ageism, its impact, etiology, consequences and possible ways to prevent it COST Action IS1402 Ageism from a Multi-National, Interdisciplinary Perspective
Date: June 29, 2018 Venue: Štúdio L+S, Námestie 1. Mája 5, Bratislava Host: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
International Conference is organised on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Ethnology SAS under the auspices of the European Commission Representation to the Slovak Republic (19–21 October 2016, SAS Congress Centre, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia).
Institute of Ethnology in cooperation with Södertörn University (Huddinge, Sweden) organize international workshop in June 15–16, 2015, at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING of the Gypsy Lore Society and CONFERENCE ON ROMANI STUDIES was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 11 to 13, 2014 at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Mlynské Luhy 4, Bratislava. The meeting and the conference was organized on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by The Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, in cooperation with Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava; Representation of European Commission in Slovakia; Roma Institute, Bratislava and Slovak Association for the Study of Religions, Bratislava.
Please find the Programme of the Conference on Gypsy-Romani Studies HERE.
International conference organized in regard to the VEGA research project Folk knowledge and its socio-cultural setting. Key speaches were lectured by professor Anthony Good (Folk Knowledge and the Law), professor John Eade (Contested Knowledges: The Politics of Pilgrimage in a Changing Europe) and Dr. William (Lee) W. McCorkle (From Compulsion to Script: The Evolution of Ritual and the Rise of Religions). Place: Pálffy's palace, Zámocká Street no.47, Bratislava
International conference organized by the Institute of Ethnology SAS and the Documentation centre for the Holocaust. The event was supported by the Government office of the Slovak republic and the Ministry of education. 17 participant attend the conference.
Place: Crowne Plaza, Bratislava
International conference organized by the Institute of Ethnology SAS. Event was part of the Science and Technology Week in the Slovak Republic. 30 social scientists from Slovakia and from abroad participated in the conference.
Place: Budova spoločenskovedných ústavov SAV, Klemensova 19, Bratislava