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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Miroslava Hlinčíková presented at the ENHR Conference in Paris

Our colleague Miroslava Hlinčíková presented her research findings, “A Vicious Cycle of Change: The Housing Crisis from the Perspective of Families in Need of Housing in the Slovak Context,” at the conference Affordable Housing in Greening Cities, organised by the European Network for Housing Research. The conference took place from 30 June to 4 July in Paris and brought together over 500 housing experts for an interdisciplinary discussion on housing accessibility and sustainability.

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Soňa G. Lutherová presented at the RAI Film Conference

Soňa G. Lutherová presented at the RAI Film Conference, part of the biennial RAI Film Festival organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. She spoke on the panel For a Collaborative Visual Ethnography: The Feminist Ethos as a Turning Point? with her contribution A Meaning-Centered Approach to Ethnographic Filmmaking, highlighting the importance of collaboration and feminist approaches in audiovisual ethnography. The event connects anthropology, multimodal methods, and ethnographic film, fostering...

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Peter Maňo, together with international colleagues, has been awarded the SPARRC grant

Our colleague Peter Maňo, together with collaborators from the USA, the Czech Republic, and Mauritius, has been successful in securing the SPARRC grant (The SCORE Project for Advancing Research on Religion and Cooperation) for the project “Building a Mobile Toolkit to Assess the Religion–Cooperation Link.” The grant is supported by the Templeton Religion Trust. Receiving support in the initial “Seed Project Stage” also entails a commitment to submit a larger proposal in the next phase — the so-called...

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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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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Lutherans in Slovakia at the Crossroads – (Not Just) Demographic Basis for Currentand Future Church

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Hodnotenie Národného projektu Podpora a zvyšovanie kvality terénnej sociálnej práce „NP TSP II“

Polačková, Z., Dokupilová, D., Škobla, D.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Understanding Slovakia: Contemporary Approaches in Local Anthropology

Gogora, A., Panáková, J. (Eds.).

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Bridging the Gap: Roma Access to Public Services in Slovakia

Škobla, D., Mušinka, A., Majo, J.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2025