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IESA SAS just published the topics for doctoral studies in the academic year 2024/2025
In the year 2024/2025 two doctoral positions will be opened and potential applicants may choose from 17 topics in various areas of ethnological and socio-anthropological research.
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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 introduce Shrovetide in Slovakia through words, images, and film. You are cordially welcome!
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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 Valent, discussed the Bratislava cafe scene with Peter Salner and Valéria Schulczová, the director of DPOH and co-author of the Pozsony Dance Club production.
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We are extending the deadline for abstract submissions to SN3/24!
The autumn issue of Slovak Ethnology, dedicated to social practices in families and narratives about the family during times of crisis, has an extended deadline. You can send your abstracts until the end of February 2024. The guest editors are Adriana Zaharijević and Soňa G. Lutherová. We look forward to your contributions!
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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 spread of infectious diseases will be reflected from artistic, scientific, and experiential positions and simultaneously positioned within the current anthropological discourses of activist approaches. The discussion is part of the accompanying program...
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IESA SAS has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Icelandic Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding
The aim of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the institutions is to support the development of science and research, application of new scientific knowledge in practice, presentation, popularization, and dissemination of scientific knowledge, as well as coordination of procedures in securing common interests in the scientific research, organizational, legislative, editorial, presentation-promotional, and educational fields.
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IESA SAS signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities in the Slovak Republic
IESA SAS formally solidified a long-term partnership with the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities in the Slovak Republic. On December 21, 2023, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed, in which we declare a common interest in strengthening the utilization of available rigorous socio-scientific procedures and knowledge in defining and fulfilling the goals of public policies for equality and the inclusion of Roma.
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The new issue of Slovak Ethnology 4/2023 has been released
The new issue of Slovak Ethnology 4/2023 has been released in the English language. The guest editor for this issue is our colleague Katarína Popelková, and thematically, the issue focuses on Contemporary Holidays and Their Transformations.
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We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, filled with prosperity and success! IESA SAS
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Tatiana Zachar Podolinská was a guest on Night Pyramid
Our director Tatiana Zachar Podolinská was a guest of Radio Slovakia Night Pyramid show on December 5, 2023. In the broadcast, she shared her field research experiences in the rainforest in Guatemala and Mexico, as well as the theme of supernatural stories from people who have experienced peculiar and unexplained phenomena. You can listen to the broadcast from the archive.
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UESA SAS hosted an event during the 18th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Botswana
On December 5, 2023, UESA SAS hosted a side event titled "Living heritage in emergencies – good practices in Eastern Europe" in Kasane, Botswana. The speakers at the event included Martin Andrade, Ioana Baskerville, Oleksandr Butsenko, Mariusz Lewicki, Eszter Csonka Takács, and Ľubica Voľanská.
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Memorandum of cooperation in an interational project PARI
The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS has been invited to the international project PARI, where academic institutions from Romania and Norway collaborate. The project is funded under the Norway Grants SEE/EEA scheme.