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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Lecture by T. Sirbu: Soviet “Gypsy Fantasy” Abroad in the Wake of the Decrees toward Roma in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia after 1945

On 3 November 2026, another international research seminar was held at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Once again, the seminar focused on Roma studies. The lecture, entitled Soviet “Gypsy Fantasy” Abroad in the Wake of the Decrees toward Roma in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia after 1945, was delivered by Tatiana Sirbu of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), who has been undertaking a fellowship stay at our institute from February to November 2026.

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The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is a partner institution of the Roma Spirit Award

Following last year’s nomination for the Roma Spirit Award, our Institute signed a memorandum of cooperation with ACEC and joined the award’s organising committee. Juraj Majo represented the Institute at the presentation of 21 finalists across seven categories. The winners will be announced on 28 November 2026.

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Institute is research partner in Speak UP! Girls for Change

IESA SAS is the research partner in Speak UP! Girls for Change (2026–2028), led by Divé maky. Through participatory research, ten young Roma women and girls will map barriers in their communities and produce a White Paper.

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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DARIAH Day Slovakia 2026

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The DARIAH-SK national consortium invites its members and collaborators to the annual DARIAH Day Slovakia 2026 meeting, which will take place on Monday, November 23, 2026, starting at 9:30 AM. The event will be held at the premises of the Institute of...

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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...

Publications

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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La Shoah en Slovaquie: Destinées des survivants

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