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

Miroslava Hlinčíková at a Conference on Homelessness in Lisbon

On 24–25 September 2026, Miroslava Hlinčíková attended the 20th European Research Conference on Homelessness in Lisbon. She also co-organised the hybrid EOH Early Career Research Club Session for early-career researchers working in the fields of housing and homelessness.

Cancellation of Events with Professor Hiroki Takakura

IESA SAS announces that, due to Professor Hiroki Takakura’s sudden illness, the events scheduled to take place in Bratislava on 5 and 6 October 2026 have been cancelled. We will provide information about rescheduled dates in due course. We wish Professor Takakura a swift recovery.

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Soňa G. Lutherová’s film SLÁVA at the dok.incubator workshop

Our colleague Soňa G. Lutherová took part in a workshop of the prestigious international dok.incubator programme in Banská Štiavnica with her forthcoming documentary SLÁVA. The film explores the life and work of director and performer Sláva Daubnerová. Its premiere is planned for autumn 2027.

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

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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.

Publications

Ethical Dilemmas in Current Ethnology Vol. III.

Beňušková, Z., Voľanská, Ľ., & Blahová, P. (Eds.)

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Roma in Ukraine between Past and a Future

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Photographic Meadow: Visual Archives in the Making of Ecological Memory and Land-Care Knowledge

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KIDS 2.1 - Key Indicators for Demographic Sustainability 2.1

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