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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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.

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

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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.

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Conference Suburbanisation: Community, Identity, and Everydayness

‏‏‎ ‎- 29.4.2025

The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the conference Suburbanisation: Community, Identity, and Everydayness, which will take place from April 28-29, 2025 in Bratislava.

Publications

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Waste as a Social Problem in Excluded Roma Settlements

Richard Filčák - Daniel Škobla

‏‏‎ ‎• 2022

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Život v suburbiách Bratislavy: vybrané etnologické aspekty

Beňušková, Z., Vrzgulová, M.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Židia na Slovensku: povojnové generácie

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Haberlandová, K., & Voľanská, Ľ.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025