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

Konferencia Bulharsko

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

On 6 February 2026, an international conference, The Roma Civic Movement in Europe between 1900 and 1945, will take place in Sofia. The event is co-organised by IESA SAS within the research cluster Ethnic and Minority Studies, core topic Romani Studies. The conference constitutes an output of the project eHistory of Roma Emancipation (09I01-03-V08-00001), funded by EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the SR. The conference will also be accessible online.

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A new issue of Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2025 has been published

The thematic English-language issue is devoted to Marian Devotion in Europe: Historical Traces, Current Forms, Interdisciplinary Perspectives and presents five thematic studies. The guest editors of the issue are Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, Agáta Šústová Drelová, and Kinga Povedák. The issue is freely available online. We wish you an enjoyable read.

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Call for Papers for Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2026

The editorial board has announced a new call for abstracts for a thematic English-language issue entitled Between the Living and the Dead: Ethnological Perspectives on Communication with the Dead (vol. 75, no. 4). The call focuses on ethnological and anthropological perspectives on communication with the dead. The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2026, and final manuscripts are due by 30 June 2026. The issue will be published in December 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

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

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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

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Haberlandová, K., & Voľanská, Ľ.

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Neviditeľná stigma: "Nie sme len antivaxeri"

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025