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

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News

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Three Intensive Days on Secularism and Nonreligion

From 8 to 10 September 2025, the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University hosted an international conference of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Group, co-organized by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology as part of the APVV RELIROMA project.

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Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference Coming Soon – Latest Updates

From 8 to 10 September 2025, the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University will host the conference of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. The co-organiser is the IESA SAS (within the APVV RELIROMA project). The Institute will be represented by Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, who will open the event together with Comenius University Vice-Rector Radomír Masaryk, doctoral candidate Iveta Štefanovičová, and Juraj Majo, who, alongside the Network’s president Atko Remmel from the University...

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Introduction to the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research

IESA SAS invites you to a seminar on participatory approaches in ageing research, Introduction to the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research, which will take place on Tuesday, 9 September 2025, at 3:00 p.m. online and in-person at IESA SAS (Klemensova 19, Bratislava). The webinar is part of the broader event ParticipAge! Exploring Participatory Approaches in Ageing Studies, organised by AGENET, the IUAES Commission of Aging and the Life Course, and IESA SAS.

What we do

01 — journal

Slovak Ethnology

02 — publications

Monographs

03 — research

Projects

04 — career

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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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Bridging the Gap: Roma Access to Public Services in Slovakia

Škobla, D., Mušinka, A., Majo, J.

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ПЪРВИТЕ. Гражданска еманципация на циганите/ромите в България (до края на втората световна война)

Marushiakova, E., Popov, V.

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PEOPLE FROM UKRAINE IN SLOVAKIA: From Acceptance to Integration: A Social Survey of Ukrainian Migrants in Slovakia

Bahna, M., Fedáková, D., Kentoš, M., Lášticová, B., Mezihorák, P., Očenášová, Z., Papcunová, J., Petrjánošová, M., Poslon, X. D., Prošek, T., Wilsch, M.

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Nonreligion and Secularity at Cultural Crossroads: Book of Abstracts

Majo, J., Remmel, A. (Eds.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025