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

Our scientific collections contain unique documents of cultural heritage

News

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Evaluation of the Year 2024 at the Institutional Meeting at Inklucentrum in Bratislava

The beginning of the year is traditionally a time for reflection and reviewing the past year. At our institute, we continued this tradition by evaluating the publication successes of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., through brief presentations of monographs, edited books, and other significant outputs from the past year.

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Call for Papers – Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 4/2025

The journal Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology invites submissions for its English-language issue (vol. 73, no. 4/2025) on the theme "Marian Devotion in Europe: Historical Traces, Current Forms, Interdisciplinary Perspectives." The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2025. For more information, please visit the journal's website.

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IESA SAS participated in the preparation and submission of a COST Innovators Grant application

T. Zachar Podolinská, together with 14 experts from around the world, has submitted a COST Innovators Grant application titled Negotiating Religious Diversity and Migration in Practice Locally and Globally (RELMIG). The application builds on previous experiences from the COST Action CA20107 Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity (COREnet) and the APVV RELIROMA project Research on Religiosity, Spirituality, and Non-Religiosity among Roma in Slovakia.

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

OPEN CALL 01

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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Mapping Carpathian intangibles. From vampires to traditional agroecological knowledge of Romanian pastoral communities

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As part of the academic seminar series of our institute, we cordially invite you to a lecture by Ioana Baskerville titled "Mapping Carpathian Intangibles: From Vampires to Traditional Agroecological Knowledge of Romanian Pastoral Communities", which will...

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Institute Seminar: Sonic Healing in Christian Roma Communities

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On behalf of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, we invite you to a seminar featuring Dr. habil. Kinga Povedák from the University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural...

Publications

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Etické dilemy v súčasnej etnológii I.

Kinczer, M., Zachar Podolinská, T. eds.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Stalin vs Gypsies. Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR

Marushiaková, E. & Popov, V.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Annual meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani studies: Book of abstracts

Slavkova, M., Ivanova, V., Erolova, Y., Stoyanova, P. (eds.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Ethical Challenges in Ethnology and Anthropology: The Case of Slovakia (Late 20th and 21st Centuries)

Zachar Podolinská, T.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024