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

IESA SAS and the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb have signed a memorandum of cooperation.

On 23 February, the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS and the Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar) in Zagreb signed a memorandum of cooperation in science and research, joint events, and projects. The initiative followed the visit and lecture of Dr Igor Mikloušić at the institute in December 2025. Current collaboration focuses on the PERSON project (Perception of Threats, Identity, and Social Cohesion) and the APVV-23-0641 project – Digital...

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Slovakia Joins the European Elite of Digital Research in the Humanities: The DARIAH-SK National Consortium Becomes a Member of DARIAH ERIC

The domestic community has achieved a significant milestone in the field of digital humanities. Represented by DARIAH-SK, Slovakia officially became a member of the DARIAH ERIC European research infrastructure in February 2026. The integration process and the consortium’s activities are coordinated by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. “Joining the European infrastructure will bring systematic support for cutting-edge research and the...

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Kristína Cichová’s Study Published in the International Journal for Equity in Health

Doctoral researcher Kristína Cichová has published a study, co-authored with her supervisor Andrej Belák, in the prestigious British journal International Journal for Equity in Health. The article, entitled Caring, Pragmatic and Discriminatory: How Private Paediatric Outpatient Providers Normalise Unequal Care for Roma—Ethnographic Findings from Affluent Slovakia, presents the principal findings of her doctoral research on inequalities in healthcare.

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

‏‏‎ ‎о 13:00

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

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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

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Neviditeľná stigma: "Nie sme len antivaxeri"

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025