The list of international projects SAS
Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS
COST Action CA20105 - Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
COST Action CA20105 - Pomalá pamäť: Transformačné praktiky v časoch nerovnomerných a zrýchľujúcich sa zmien
| Duration: |
14.10.2021 - 13.10.2025 |
| Program: |
COST |
| Project leader: |
PhDr. Vrzgulová Monika CSc. |
| Annotation: | We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities. We face viral pandemics, rapid species extinction, increased automation of work, quick fixes for mental health, political upheavals and displacements of old certainties. Adaptation and resilience to these challenges must draw on past experiences and cultural resources – this can only happen if we slow down and take time to remember well. This Action addresses the need for increased interdisciplinarity in our understanding of how societies confront their past to contend with environmental, economic and social changes brought on by sudden events and by slow and creeping transformations. The future of peace, prosperity, politics, work and climate will depend upon how we remember socio-cultural and political changes. Transformative practices of remembrance – as objects of study and as critical interventions – will be shared collaboratively across Arts and Sciences in order to reveal the ways in which humans confront large-scale processes of change. This Action will uniquely focus the attention of scholars, policymakers and cultural professionals on alternative paths to build resilience in the face of contemporary rapid-response culture. Through transnational and interdisciplinary discussions, we will address urgency, emergency, crisis and acceleration by drawing together the ‘multi-sited’, ‘eventless’ and slow-moving phenomena that can best be studied by ‘slowing down’ our research methods, to afford capacity building, knowledge generation and impact activities. Inspired by ‘slow science’ (Stengers 2018), we seek an alternative kind of social remembering. |
COST Action CA20107 - Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity
COST Action CA20107 - Teória prepojenia a praktické otázky migrácie a náboženskej diverzity
| Duration: |
21.10.2021 - 20.10.2025 |
| Program: |
COST |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Zachar Podolinská Tatiana PhD. |
| Annotation: | “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet) is an interdisciplinary network that aims at knowledge production, knowledge exchange and capacity building across Europe in the intersection of migration and religious diversity with a particular emphasis on bottom-up research. The background of the network is the pressing social situation that is characterised by the fact that migrants and Syrian war refugees coming to Europe, have become one of the major political issues and social challenges during the past years. Research, capacity building and exchange are important tools to analyse what lies behind these challenges and possible solutions. The network aims thus to contribute to overcoming divisions within and across European countries with the help of innovative approach that would add to existing social scientific knowledge on migration and religious diversity the study of religions and theological insights explaining the narratives of migrants and refugees. Drawing in researchers from all stages of their careers, and across different European countries, training a new generation of interdisciplinary action researchers capable of connecting study of religions and theology and the social sciences, and working that into action through processes of co-production. This network brings the bridging of knowledge with stakeholders – governmental, non-governmental and media organizations working in the field of diversity management on the local and national levels. |
European Website on Integration
Európska webová stránka o integrácii
Romani Chords: Uncovering Romani Practice for Harmonic Accompaniment with Sonic, Visual and Ethnographic Analysis
Rómske akordy: odhaľovanie rómskej praxe pre harmonický sprievod so zvukovou, vizuálnou a etnografickou analýzou
| Duration: |
2.10.2023 - 1.4.2026 |
| Program: |
Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Bahna Vladimír PhD. |
| Annotation: | The phrase “Romani chords” (RC) encapsulates the distinctively lush harmonic language of Romani musicians in Slovakia. This musical feature is key to impressing non-Roma audiences and something Roma consider a root of their entire musical culture. RC are not merely a sonic phenomenon, though. They reflect long-established economic practices in Romani professional music-making, skills in creatively re-interpreting music of the surrounding non-Romani majorities, and a particular form of musical learning whereby folk knowledge passes from generation to generation. RomChords is the first project that tackles this phenomenon in its anthropological and ethnomusicological complexity. The project is an interdisciplinary investigation approaching RC as three types of data: a) sonic, b) visual, and c) ethnographic. The main ambition is to challenge the primacy of Western theories of harmony and to reconsider RC from the Romani perspective, unearthing how Roma themselves perceive, conceptualise and theorise their chords. The project aims to answer the following key questions: What role do RC play in the performance of Romani ethnicity? What is the significance of RC for Romani professional musicianship? How do Roma learn RC, and how do they innovate them? And what is the role of vision in learning and teaching RC? Action to address these questions is shaped by three specific objectives, which will be pursued through international and intersectoral cooperation between three participating institutions: I) Data collection concerning RC among Romani musicians in Slovakia (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences); II) Trans-disciplinary analysis of the data, employing methods of qualitative social sciences and computational (ethno-)musicology (Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance, Portugal); III) Integration of knowledge about RC into a museum exhibition (The Museum of Romani Culture, Czech Republic). |
Social survey of Ukrainian migrants in Slovakia
Spoločenská sonda ukrajinských migrantov a migrantiek na Slovensku
To get together – Enhancement of the capacities of displaced communities from Ukraine living in Slovakia through living heritage
To get together – Zvyšovanie kapacít komunít vysídlených z Ukrajiny žijúcich na Slovensku prostredníctvom živého dedičstva
| Duration: |
1.6.2023 - 30.5.2025 |
| Program: |
UNESCO |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Wilsch Martina PhD. |
| Annotation: | Project To get together – Enhancement of the capacities of displaced communities from Ukraine living in Slovakia through living heritage focuses on the role of living heritage for communities displaced from Ukraine due to the war and its protection. The project is based on the outcomes of the UNESCO project “Assessing the needs of living heritage safeguarding among displaced communities from Ukraine in five countries: Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia,” which was carried out in the period from April 2022 to December 2023 also in Slovakia. |
Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe
Transnacionálna dynamika rodiny v Európe
| Duration: |
3.10.2022 - 2.10.2026 |
| Program: |
COST |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Wilsch Martina PhD. |
| Annotation: | This Action aims to deepen the knowledge of the growing, rapidly changing phenomenon and dynamics of transnational families by bringing together researchers and stakeholders from different disciplines and countries to address the need for transnational insights and to formulate policy and practice-oriented recommendations with an impact on international, national, sub-local and local practices. This Action will closely monitor current trends in migration, technology and politics, and engage in an intensive dialogue with policy and practitioners, and, thus, address the need to deepen and broaden scientific and policy understanding of transnational family. |
The total number of projects: 7
