UESA – Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie

Our institute was established over 79 years ago

The international accreditation recognised us as important at the EU level

Our research has direct social impact

We coordinate the national platform DARIAH-SK

News

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Institute is research partner in Speak UP! Girls for Change

IESA SAS is the research partner in Speak UP! Girls for Change (2026–2028), led by Divé maky. Through participatory research, ten young Roma women and girls will map barriers in their communities and produce a White Paper.

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Andrej Gogora Lectured at the 2026 Chroniclers' Symposium in Martin

Our institute was represented at this year’s Chroniclers’ Symposium in Martin. On September 16 and 23, 2026, researcher Andrej Gogora delivered two lectures dedicated to the digital processing and accessibility of Slovakia’s cultural heritage. The lectures, titled “From Fieldwork Collection to Digital Research Infrastructure: Processing and Accessing Ethnographic Collections,” provided attendees with a comprehensive view of contemporary research data management and curation. In...

Slovak Ethnology

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended – Slovak Ethnology 2/2027

The abstract deadline for the special issue of Slovak Ethnology 2/2027, Participatory Approaches in Ethnology, Anthropology: Methods, Ethics and Power Relations, has been extended to 31 October 2026. Details are available on the journal’s website under the 2/2027 call. We look forward to your contributions!

What we do

01 — journal

Slovak Ethnology

02 — publications

Monographs

03 — research

Projects

04 — career

Doctoral Studies

Our Mission

The Institute was founded in 1946 as the Ethnographic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1994 it was renamed to the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and later in 2018 to the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), and, today, it is one of the leading institutions in the field of ethnological and anthropological research in Slovakia.

Our mission

Our research focus is distributed between basic, problem-oriented and applied research. We contribute to the search for scientific answers to current as well as historical social issues and challenges. We conduct the field research in Slovakia and abroad – in Central Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Events

Konferencia Bulharsko

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

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On 6 February 2026, an international conference entitled The Roma Civic Movement in Europe between 1900 and 1945 will take place in Sofia. The event is co-organised by IESA SAS.

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Threat, Identity, and the Invisible Bonds of Cohesion – The Case of Croatian Homeland War Veterans

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The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS invites you to an English-language lecture on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, at 13:00 in the Institute’s meeting room at Klemensova 19, Bratislava. Dr Igor Mikloušić from the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social...

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Integrating MapRom into Research on Roma Slavery and on the Wallachian Rudari, and Ways Forward

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You are invited to a lecture by SAIA visiting scholar Julieta Rotaru (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) on Integrating MapRom into Research on Roma Slavery and on the Wallachian Rudari, and Ways Forward.

Publications

Ethical Dilemmas in Current Ethnology Vol. III.

Beňušková, Z., Voľanská, Ľ., & Blahová, P. (Eds.)

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Roma in Ukraine between Past and a Future

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Photographic Meadow: Visual Archives in the Making of Ecological Memory and Land-Care Knowledge

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KIDS 2.1 - Key Indicators for Demographic Sustainability 2.1

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