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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New Special Issue of Slovak Ethnology 4/2024 published

A special issue of Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology 4/2024, titled Slow Memory: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe, has just been published online. The guest editors for this issue are Violeta Davoliūtė from Vilnius University, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa from Lund University, and Monika Vrzgulová from the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. We wish you an enjoyable New Year reading!

Publikacia Oral History

The monograph by Monika Vrzgulová, Oral History and the Holocaust in Slovakia: Selective and Contradictory Memories, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan

These days, Palgrave Macmillan has published a monograph by our colleague Monika Vrzgulová, Oral History and the Holocaust in Slovakia: Selective and Contradictory Memories. In this work, she presents the results of qualitative research on the Holocaust in Slovakia to an international readership.

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We wish you a beautiful and joyful Christmas filled with happiness and relaxationand a new year full of health, happiness, and success in your personal and professional life!

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

OPEN CALL 01

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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International Online Conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning'

IESA SAS is pleased to invite you on June 6, 2024 to the international online conference 'Quest: How to make digital work for, not against learning', which focuses on the role of digital tools, educational applications, and gamification in shaping the...

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Reflections on Gender Studies at an American Faith-Based Institution in the Age of Trump

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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...

Publications

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Etické dilemy v súčasnej etnológii I.

Kinczer, M., Zachar Podolinská, T. eds.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Stalin vs Gypsies. Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR

Marushiaková, E. & Popov, V.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Annual meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani studies: Book of abstracts

Slavkova, M., Ivanova, V., Erolova, Y., Stoyanova, P. (eds.)

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024

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Ethical Challenges in Ethnology and Anthropology: The Case of Slovakia (Late 20th and 21st Centuries)

Zachar Podolinská, T.

‏‏‎ ‎• 2024