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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.
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The Institute has established cooperation with the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic on defining the cultural regions of Slovakia
The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., has established cooperation with the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic on defining the cultural regions of Slovakia.
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Monika Vrzgulová spoke on the History podcast on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Our colleague Monika Vrzgulová appeared in the History podcast with an interview about Hilda Hrabovecká – a girl from the first transport to Auschwitz who survived the Holocaust – on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. Listen (and watch) to this interview, where she talks about the fate of Hilda Hrabovecká, her perception of the Holocaust, and her conviction that it is essential to speak about it, to recall its causes, and above all, to remember its consequence...
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Monika Vrzgulová appeared on the SME History podcast
Our colleague Monika Vrzgulová participated in the SME History podcast on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (January 27). In the podcast, she spoke with Agáta Šústová Drelová about the stories and memories of those who managed to survive and return to the territory of the disappearing Slovak State and the emerging post-war Czechoslovakia.
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Invitation to a seminar ‘Sonic healing in Christian Roma communities’
We invite you to a seminar featuring Dr. habil. Kinga Povedák from the University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, with a presentation titled “Sonic Healing in Christian Roma Communities.” The event will be held in English on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the meeting room of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at Klemensova 19, Bratislava. The seminar will also be accessible online. We look forward to your participation!
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Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov are part of the conference 'Collective memory, memory politics and contemporary identities in the context of local, regional and global conflicts and alliances'
Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov are part of the program committee for the international conference 'Collective memory, memory politics and contemporary identities in the context of local, regional and global conflicts and alliances', which is taking place from January 16 to 19, 2025, in Ohrid, Macedonia. Tomorrow, they will present a paper titled Hungarian-speaking Roma in Transcarpathia and their Identities, which is part of the VEGA project Identity of Roma in Transcarpathia: Past and Pre...
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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!
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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!