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

IMISCOE

Martina Wilsch presented at the international IMISCOE conference in Girona

Our colleague Martina Wilsch participated in the 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference, held in Girona from 29 June to 2 July 2026. As part of the panel (Con)figurational Approaches to Transnational Families in Forced Migration Contexts, she presented, together with Prof. Ute Karl (Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigsburg), the paper Care and Social Support in Dynamic Figurations of Displaced Ukrainian Families: Reflections from Germany and Slovakia. The paper was prepared as part of the APVV...

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Presentation of the Results of the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Participation of Roma by 2030

On Wednesday, 1 July 2026, a meeting of the thematic working group of the Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities took place at the Bôrik Government Hotel. The programme included the presentation of new findings from the 2025 Sociographic Mapping of Roma Communities, while Juraj Majo presented the key findings of an external evaluation of the implementation of the Strategy’s action plans for 2022–2024. Researchers from IESA SAS contributed to the evaluation within the research area...

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Roundtable of National Coordinators of SSH Research Infrastructures: Joining Forces for Enhanced Collaboration

IESA SAS, as the coordinating institution of the DARIAH-SK platform, initiated a roundtable of national coordinators of research infrastructures (RIs) in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Representatives from prominent platforms in Slovakia accepted the invitation to participate in the hybrid meeting: DARIAH-SK (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) – A. Gogora (ÚESA SAV, v. v. i.) CLARIN-SK (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) – J. Levická...

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

‏‏‎ ‎о 13:00

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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Židia na Slovensku: povojnové generácie

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Haberlandová, K., & Voľanská, Ľ.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Neviditeľná stigma: "Nie sme len antivaxeri"

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Politiky bez drene: Externé hodnotenie implementácie Stratégie Slovenskej republiky pre rovnosť, inklúziu a participáciu Rómov do roku 2030. Obdobie 2022-2024

Zachar Podolinská, T., & Belák, A. (Eds.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2026