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Call for Papers for Slovak Ethnology Issue 3/2025
The editorial board has just announced a call for papers for the English issue 3/2025, dedicated to the theme "Suburbanisation: Community, Identity, and Everydayness." This issue will be guest-edited by Pavol Šuška from the Institute of Geography, SAS, and Marcela Káčerová from the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography, and Territorial Development, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2024.
Side Event Unesco
Ľubica Voľanská is co-organizing a side event at the 10th UNESCO General Assembly in Paris.
The event "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Education" will take place on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. It is the result of a collaboration between the Permanent Delegation of the Slovak Republic to UNESCO, the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Ethnographic Society of Slovakia. Contributions from colleagues from the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, and Slovakia will be presented.
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The journal Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology has advanced to the second quartile (Q2) of the SJR database
Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology has advanced to the second quartile (Q2) in the field of anthropology in the SJR (Scimago Journal & Country Rank) database, which derives bibliometric data from the SCOPUS. Being classified in Q2 means that our journal is ranked among the top 26-50% of journals in the given field. Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology publishes four issues per year, three of which are in English. If you are interested in publishing with us, please do not hesitate to contact us!

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 6_6
International Online Conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning'
IESA SAS is pleased to invite you on June 6, 2024 to the international online conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning', which focuses on the role of digital tools, educational applications, and gamification in shaping the...
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Reflections on Gender Studies at an American Faith-Based Institution in the Age of Trump
In the name of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS, we invite you to a guest lecture by a foreign guest, Cheri Larsen Hoeckley (Westmont College, USA). The lecture, titled “Reflections on Gender Studies...
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DARIAH Day Slovakia 2023
The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS invites you to the scientific event DARIAH Day Slovakia 2023, which will take place on Friday 6 October 2023 at 9:00 a.m. in the attic meeting room on the 5th floor at Klemensová 19 in Bratislava....

Publications

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