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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Book Series Roma History and Culture Published by Brill

The book series Roma History and Culture, founded and edited by our colleagues Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov and published by Brill, now comprises eight volumes. These publications challenge prevailing academic and popular narratives that portray Roma as a marginalised community and passive objects of state policies.

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New Issue of Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 1/2026 Published

We are pleased to draw your attention to the latest issue of Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 1/2026, published in Slovak and devoted to the topic of popular piety. This thematic issue opens up space for reflection on one of the key, yet still insufficiently explored, phenomena in Slovakia’s cultural history. It includes four academic studies. We wish you an enjoyable read.

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Call for Papers for Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 1/2027

Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology invites submissions (in Slovak) for its forthcoming issue 1/2027, devoted to oral tradition, genre criteria, terminology, and historical research in an interdisciplinary context. The guest editors are Anna Zelenková and Katarína Balleková. Abstracts should be submitted by 30 May 2026, and full papers by 30 October 2026.

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

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Život v suburbiách Bratislavy: vybrané etnologické aspekty

Beňušková, Z., Vrzgulová, M.

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Židia na Slovensku: povojnové generácie

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Haberlandová, K., & Voľanská, Ľ.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025

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Neviditeľná stigma: "Nie sme len antivaxeri"

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025