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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Slovakia in the World Values Survey – Wave 8

Slovakia has successfully participated in Wave 8 of the World Values Survey (WVS), one of the world’s leading international comparative research projects on human values and beliefs. The survey in Slovakia was implemented by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS and the DEKK Institute, with principal investigators Pavol Kosnáč, Tatiana Zachar Podolinská and Hugo Gloss.

Jaroslava Panáková at the UArctic Congress in the Faroe Islands

From 25 to 28 May 2026, Jaroslava Panáková from the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences participated in the UArctic Congress in Tórshavn. As a member of the FutureMed Action, she presented the poster and paper ‘Affective Images, Arctic Lives: Indigenous Yupik Visual Knowledge as a Decolonising Force’ and took part in discussions on climate issues, ocean sustainability, northern communities, and Indigenous knowledge systems.

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An episode of the podcast Baltic Ways

We invite you to listen to an episode of the podcast Baltic Ways, featuring contributors to a special issue of the journal Slovenský národopis dedicated to the theme of Slow Memory. The host, Dr Indra Ekmanis, speaks with Professor Violeta Davoliūtė, Professor Ene Kõresaar, and Dr Kristi Jõesalu about the concepts of Slow Memory and Slow Conflict in relation to representations of Russian-speaking minorities in Baltic museums.

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

‏‏‎ ‎о 13:00

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