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Call for Abstracts for Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology, Issue 3/2026: “Otherness in the (Un)Making: Media Representations of Marginalised People and Communities”
Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology announces a call for abstracts for the thematic issue Otherness in the (Un)Making: Media Representations of Marginalised People and Communities, guest-edited by Jaroslava Panáková (IESA SAS) and Stephan Dudeck (University of Tartu/Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ). The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 January 2026, and the deadline for full manuscripts is 15 May 2026. The issue will be published in September 2026.
Lecture on Social Cohesion in the Context of Croatian War Veterans of the 1990s
On December 2, 2025, the IESA SAS hosted a lecture by Dr. Igor Mikloušić as part of its professional seminar series. Dr. Mikloušić, currently on a short-term research stay with us, is a psychologist working at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. His research focuses on personality psychology, morality, and social cohesion, particularly among veteran populations, and on how misinformation and conspiracy narratives influence trust and cohesion.
Monika Vrzgulová delivered a presentation at a conference in Stockholm
Monika Vrzgulová attended the interdisciplinary conference 'Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory and Materiality', held in Stockholm from 25 to 27 November. There, she presented a paper entitled 'After the Communist Regime: Memory Institutions and the Holocaust in Slovakia'.
Ľubica Voľanská and Paulína Blahová at the International Conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice
The international conference Living Heritage: Knowledge, Identity, Practice was held in Trnava on 27–28 November 2025. Ľubica Voľanská delivered a keynote lecture entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Missing Definitions in the UNESCO 2003 Convention. Doctoral researcher Paulína Blahová also participated, presenting—together with Daniel Drápal and Eva Kuminková—the paper Pastoral Heritage in Motion: Voices and Power in the UNESCO Inscription Process.
DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025: Strengthening the National Digital Humanities Community
The DARIAH-SK National Consortium successfully organized the biennial scientific event, DARIAH Day Slovakia 2025. The meeting was held on November 19, 2025, under the auspices of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS, the consortium’s coordinating institution. Andrej Gogora, a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS and the National Coordinator of DARIAH-SK, opened the event by outlining the strategic goals and roadmap for this national...
Panel on Marian Devotion among the Roma at the World Anthropological Union Congress 2025 (Guatemala)
At the World Anthropological Union Congress (3–8 November 2025, Antigua, Guatemala), the panel Veneration of the Virgin Mary among the Roma – Global Challenges and Local Diversities, organised by Tatiana Zachar Podolinská and Elena Marushiakova, was presented. The panel showcased new research on Marian devotion among Roma communities across different countries and its transformations in the context of migration, identity, and post-modern religiosities. The discussion concluded with an agreement to...
Lecture Polarization and Anti-System in Slovakia 2025
On November 13, 2025, a public science lecture and discussion titled Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia took place at the Albrecht House on Kapitulská Street. The event explored how societal polarization shapes everyday life and how many people feel unsupported or harmed by the current system. Colleagues Pavol Kosnáč and Hugo Gloss presented key insights from their new book Polarization and Anti-System 2025: Slovakia, published by the DEKK Institute in cooperation with IESA SAS.
International Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies
The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Uppsala University, Sweden) and the Rroma Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) are organizing a Monthly Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies with researchers and Romani communities’ activists. The upcoming event on 26 November 2025 will host our colleague Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov, with the presentation of the book Stalin vs Gypsies and the Brill series Roma History and Culture. The seminar will take place online at 18:00 CET.
Discussion on the Forthcoming Book Avion with Ľubica Voľanská at the “Cez prah” Housing Festival 2025
Our colleague Ľubica Voľanská took part on Saturday, 15 November 2025, in a discussion about the forthcoming book Avion, which is to be published in the coming days by Čierne diery (in cooperation with the IESA SAS and the Institute of History SAS). The discussion was moderated by Radoslav Passia of the Institute of Slovak Literature SAS, and featured both authors of the book – Ľubica Voľanská and Katarína Haberlandnová – together with the photographer Anton Sládek.
Intensive Working Meeting of the APVV Project Team Contemporary Images of Socialism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – Family Memory
On 10–11 November 2025, an intensive working meeting of the APVV project team Contemporary Images of Socialism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – Family Memory took place under the leadership of Monika Vrzgulová. The team discussed ongoing and planned project activities. The programme was enriched by an invited lecture with discussion by memory studies and trauma scholar Erzsébet Fanni Tóth, as well as a hybrid discussion with the international author collective of the forthcoming publication Contested...
Cultural Regions of Slovakia: The Result of Cooperation between IESA SAS and the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
The first result of the mutual and very constructive cooperation between our institute and the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic is out! The statistical publication Cultural Regions of Slovakia has been freely available for several days, which summarizes demographic data from the 2021 Census of Population, Housing and Dwellings of the Slovak Republic at the level of cultural regions. Thanks and we are looking forward to further cooperation!
A new issue of Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 3/2025 has been published
This English-language issue is devoted to the theme Suburbanisation: Community, Identity and Everydayness, with Pavel Šuška and Marcela Káčerová as guest editors. The new issue features six scholarly articles exploring various aspects of post-socialist suburbanisation, community, and everyday life.
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