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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Monika Vrzgulová delivered a presentation at a conference in Stockholm

Monika Vrzgulová attended the interdisciplinary conference 'Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory and Materiality', held in Stockholm from 25 to 27 November. There, she presented a paper entitled 'After the Communist Regime: Memory Institutions and the Holocaust in Slovakia'.

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Ľubica Voľanská and Paulína Blahová at the International Conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice

The international conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice was held in Trnava on 27–28 November 2025. Ľubica Voľanská delivered a keynote lecture entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Missing Definitions in the UNESCO 2003 Convention. Doctoral researcher Paulína Blahová also participated, presenting—together with Daniel Drápal and Eva Kuminková—the paper Pastoral Heritage in Motion: Voices and Power in the UNESCO Inscription Process.

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DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025: Strengthening the National Digital Humanities Community

The DARIAH-SK National Consortium successfully organized the biennial scientific event, DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025. The meeting was held on November 19, 2025, under the auspices of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS, the consortium’s coordinating institution. Andrej Gogora, a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS and the National Coordinator of DARIAH-SK, opened the event by outlining the strategic goals and roadmap for this national...

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

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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

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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.

Publications

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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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Waste as a Social Problem in Excluded Roma Settlements

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‏‏‎ ‎• 2022

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Život v suburbiách Bratislavy: vybrané etnologické aspekty

Beňušková, Z., Vrzgulová, M.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Židia na Slovensku: povojnové generácie

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025