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The new issue of Slovak Ethnology 1/2025 has been published
The guest editors of the Slovak issue are Peter Salner and Ján Hlavinka. The theme of the issue is Slovakia 1944: Deportations, Jews, Resistance, Majority, and it features six scholarly studies. The issue is available online.
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Monika Vrzgulová will deliver a lecture titled "Engerau – The Forgotten Story of Petržalka" as part of the Petržalka Academy of Education
This Monday, April 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM, our colleague Monika Vrzgulová will give a lecture titled "Engerau – The Forgotten Story of Petržalka" as part of the Petržalka Academy of Education at the Petržalka Library. She will shed light on the fates of prisoners from the Engerau labor camp and the tragic events surrounding its dissolution 80 years ago. Please note that the lecture will be held in Slovak. Admission is free – we warmly invite you to attend!
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Soňa G. Lutherová participated in the prestigious international training program Ex Oriente Film
Our colleague Soňa G. Lutherová participated in the prestigious Ex Oriente Film program from June 2024 to April 2025 with her documentary film project Sláva. Organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, the program supports the development of documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. Throughout a series of workshops, she worked under the guidance of international mentors. The program culminated in a project pitching session at the East Doc Forum in March 2025 in Prague, part of the region’s...
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Memorandum of cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
On April 2, 2025, the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS, signed a memorandum of mutual cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
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We have published the topics for PhD study!
In the academic year 2025/26, we are offering three PhD positions and have announced 11 dissertation topics. Detailed information about the application process, open from May 1 to May 31, 2025, is available on our website. The doctoral programme is carried out in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, within the study programme “Cultures and Religions of the World.” If you are interested in any of the topics, we recommend contacting the respective supervisor.
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Monika Vrzgulová will give a lecture titled Oral History and Holocaust Memory Research in Slovakia at Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna
On April 22, 2025, from 16:00 to 18:00, our colleague Monika Vrzgulová will give an invited lecture on Holocaust research using the oral history method at Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna. The lecture will be held online, but prior registration is required. You are all warmly invited!
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Seminar: “The Lost Generation”: Memory of the Soviet Past through the Lens of the Present
We kindly invite you to a scholarly seminar featuring Nina Natroshvili, who will present a lecture titled “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 1:00 PM in the conference room of IESA SAS at Klemensova 19, Bratislava.
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Hackathon on Romani Chords: Interdisciplinary Collaboration on New Ethnomusicological Methods
On February 13–14, 2025, a Hackathon focusing on the phenomenon of Romani chords took place as part of the Petr Nuska’s MSCA project. The event brought together ten scientists from various fields, including linguistics, musicology, and computer science.
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The registration deadline for the conference Suburbanisation: Community, Identity, and Everydayness has been extended until the end of February 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, at the Salvator Center in Bratislava. The registration deadline has been extended until the end of February 2025.
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Evaluation of the Year 2024 at the Institutional Meeting at Inklucentrum in Bratislava
The beginning of the year is traditionally a time for reflection and reviewing the past year. At our institute, we continued this tradition by evaluating the publication successes of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., through brief presentations of monographs, edited books, and other significant outputs from the past year.
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Call for Papers – Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 4/2025
The journal Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology invites submissions for its English-language issue (vol. 73, no. 4/2025) on the theme "Marian Devotion in Europe: Historical Traces, Current Forms, Interdisciplinary Perspectives." The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2025. For more information, please visit the journal's website.
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IESA SAS participated in the preparation and submission of a COST Innovators Grant application
T. Zachar Podolinská, together with 14 experts from around the world, has submitted a COST Innovators Grant application titled Negotiating Religious Diversity and Migration in Practice Locally and Globally (RELMIG). The application builds on previous experiences from the COST Action CA20107 Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity (COREnet) and the APVV RELIROMA project Research on Religiosity, Spirituality, and Non-Religiosity among Roma in Slovakia.