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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Professor Hiroki Takakura in Bratislava

The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences invites you to two events with Professor Hiroki Takakura of Tohoku University. On 5 October 2026, he will give a public lecture on human–animal relations in Siberian anthropology, followed on 6 October by a seminar on culture and recovery after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Book Avion Receives Literary Fund Award

Avion, a publication by Ľubica Voľanská and Katarína Haberlandová, has received the Literary Fund’s Award for Scientific and Professional Literature in the Social Sciences category. The book brings together architectural history with ethnological and social-anthropological perspectives and, through the story of the functionalist Avion building, explores the transformation of Bratislava and everyday life in the twentieth century. Warmest congratulations to both authors!

New publication: Ethical Dilemmas in Current Ethnology Vol. III

The third volume of Ethical Dilemmas in Current Ethnology has been published. It explores ethical challenges in ethnological and social anthropological research, focusing particularly on power imbalances, participation, epistemic justice, reciprocity, confidentiality, and the representation of vulnerable groups.

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

Ethical Dilemmas in Current Ethnology Vol. III.

Beňušková, Z., Voľanská, Ľ., & Blahová, P. (Eds.)

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Roma in Ukraine between Past and a Future

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Photographic Meadow: Visual Archives in the Making of Ecological Memory and Land-Care Knowledge

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KIDS 2.1 - Key Indicators for Demographic Sustainability 2.1

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