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News

Panel on Marian Devotion among the Roma at the World Anthropological Union Congress 2025 (Guatemala)

At the World Anthropological Union Congress (3–8 November 2025, Antigua, Guatemala), the panel Veneration of the Virgin Mary among the Roma – Global Challenges and Local Diversities, organised by Tatiana Zachar Podolinská and Elena Marushiakova, was presented. The panel showcased new research on Marian devotion among Roma communities across different countries and its transformations in the context of migration, identity, and post-modern religiosities. The discussion concluded with an agreement to...

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Lecture Polarization and Anti-System in Slovakia 2025

On November 13, 2025, a public science lecture and discussion titled Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia took place at the Albrecht House on Kapitulská Street. The event explored how societal polarization shapes everyday life and how many people feel unsupported or harmed by the current system. Colleagues Pavol Kosnáč and Hugo Gloss presented key insights from their new book Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia, published by the DEKK Institute in cooperation with IESA SAS.

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International Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies

The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Uppsala University, Sweden) and the Rroma Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) are organizing a Monthly Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies with researchers and Romani communities’ activists. The upcoming event on 26 November 2025 will host our colleague Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov, with the presentation of the book Stalin vs Gypsies and the Brill series Roma History and Culture. The seminar will take place online at 18:00 CET.

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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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.

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“The Lost Generation”: Memory of the Soviet Past through the Lens of the Present

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We kindly invite you to a seminar where Nina Natroshvili, Erasmus+ Fellow at IESA SAS, will present her talk: “The Lost Generation”: Memory of the Soviet Past through the Lens of the Present. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at...

Publications

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Nonreligion and Secularity at Cultural Crossroads: Book of Abstracts

Majo, J., Remmel, A. (Eds.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies: Book of abstracts

Tirard, A. (Ed.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Waste as a Social Problem in Excluded Roma Settlements

Richard Filčák - Daniel Škobla

‏‏‎ ‎• 2022

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Polarization and Antisystem 2025: Slovakia

Kosnáč, P., Gloss, H., & Cigáneková, V.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025