News

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Invitation to a seminar ‘Sonic healing in Christian Roma communities’
We invite you to a seminar featuring Dr. habil. Kinga Povedák from the University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, with a presentation titled “Sonic Healing in Christian Roma Communities.” The event will be held in English on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the meeting room of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at Klemensova 19, Bratislava. The seminar will also be accessible online. We look forward to your participation!
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Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov are part of the conference 'Collective memory, memory politics and contemporary identities in the context of local, regional and global conflicts and alliances'
Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov are part of the program committee for the international conference 'Collective memory, memory politics and contemporary identities in the context of local, regional and global conflicts and alliances', which is taking place from January 16 to 19, 2025, in Ohrid, Macedonia. Tomorrow, they will present a paper titled Hungarian-speaking Roma in Transcarpathia and their Identities, which is part of the VEGA project Identity of Roma in Transcarpathia: Past and Present.
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New Special Issue of Slovak Ethnology 4/2024 published
A special issue of Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2024, titled Slow Memory: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe, has just been published online. The guest editors for this issue are Violeta Davoliūtė from Vilnius University, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa from Lund University, and Monika Vrzgulová from the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. We wish you an enjoyable New Year reading!

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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Conference Suburbanisation: Community, Identity, and Everydayness
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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Institute Seminar: Sonic Healing in Christian Roma Communities
On behalf of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, we invite you to a seminar featuring Dr. habil. Kinga Povedák from the University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural...
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International Online Conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning'
IESA SAS is pleased to invite you on June 6, 2024 to the international online conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning', which focuses on the role of digital tools, educational applications, and gamification in shaping the...

Publications

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Etické dilemy v súčasnej etnológii I.
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Stalin vs Gypsies. Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR
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Annual meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani studies: Book of abstracts
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Ethical Challenges in Ethnology and Anthropology: The Case of Slovakia (Late 20th and 21st Centuries)