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Zuzana Beňušková will be giving a lecture on Shrovetide at the "Scientific Confectionery"
Our colleague Prof. Zuzana Beňušková will appear on March 12, 2024, at 9:00 at CVTI at an event dedicated to Shrovetide - Scientific Confectionery: Shrovetide - A World Upside Down or How the Happiest Time of the Year Changes. In the lecture, she will...
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Peter Salner was a guest on the History podcast of the SME newspaper
Our colleague Peter Salner was a guest on the latest podcast of the History section of the SME newspaper titled: "Like the loyal customers, so the era. Bratislava's cafes could tell stories." The editor-in-chief of the Historical Review magazine, Jaro...
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Andrej Belák will be a guest in the discussion Quarantine and Segregation
Our colleague Andrej Belák, along with Stano Daniel, will be guests in the discussion Quarantine and Segregation, which will take place on Monday, February 19, 2024, at 18:30 at tranzit.sk in Bratislava. Quarantine as a protective mechanism against the...

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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Reflections on Gender Studies at an American Faith-Based Institution in the Age of Trump
In the name of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS, we invite you to a guest lecture by a foreign guest, Cheri Larsen Hoeckley (Westmont College, USA). The lecture, titled “Reflections on Gender Studies...
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DARIAH Day Slovakia 2023
The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS invites you to the scientific event DARIAH Day Slovakia 2023, which will take place on Friday 6 October 2023 at 9:00 a.m. in the attic meeting room on the 5th floor at Klemensová 19 in Bratislava....
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The 16th congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023)
The 16th congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023) with the theme Living Uncertainty will take place in Brno from 7th to 10th June 2023.   Our colleagues from the IESA SAS will convene three panels at the conference: ...

Publications

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Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
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Chatam Sofer: Veľký zázrak sa stal
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Príbehy mesta: Bratislava 20. storočia