UESA – Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie

Our institute was established over 77 years ago

International accreditation rated us with category A/B

Our research has direct social impact

Our scientific collections contain unique documents of cultural heritage

News

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Conference on Secularism and Nonreligion Coming Soon to Bratislava

From September 8 to September 10, 2025, a unique conference on the topic of nonreligion and secularization will be held at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The event is organized under the auspices of the international Nonreligion and Secularism Research Network, where Dr. Juraj Majo serves on the Advisory Board. This marks the first time the conference will take place...

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Peter Maňo conducted anthropological research in Mauritius

Peter Maňo conducted anthropological field research in Mauritius this May. Together with colleagues from Masaryk University and the University of Connecticut, and supported by local research assistants from the University of Mauritius, he studied how people make decisions in moral and health-related dilemmas. The project was funded by a Postdoctoral Grant from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Alongside the research, he also lectured at the Interdisciplinary Ethnographic Fieldschool, held concurrently.

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Ľubica Voľanská delivered a keynote address at a seminar on migration and cultural heritage in Finland

Our colleague Ľubica Voľanská participated in the international seminar Music on the Move in Kaustinen, Finland, on 12 July 2025. She delivered a keynote lecture, prepared together with Martina Wilsch, in which she presented research on the Ukrainian community in Slovakia and highlighted the role of living heritage in the context of migration. In addition, she contributed a paper on intangible cultural heritage and the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural...

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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Lutherans in Slovakia at the Crossroads – (Not Just) Demographic Basis for Currentand Future Church

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Hodnotenie Národného projektu Podpora a zvyšovanie kvality terénnej sociálnej práce „NP TSP II“

Polačková, Z., Dokupilová, D., Škobla, D.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Understanding Slovakia: Contemporary Approaches in Local Anthropology

Gogora, A., Panáková, J. (Eds.).

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Bridging the Gap: Roma Access to Public Services in Slovakia

Škobla, D., Mušinka, A., Majo, J.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025