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Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 10:00

 

SLOVAKS’ RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN HUNGARY

      Following the initiation of Mátyás Sipiczki, geneticist and Slovakian intellectual in Békéscsaba, Hungarian Association of Slovaks in Hungary (MSZSZ) founded the the Slovaks’ Research Institute of MSZSZ, with Békéscsaba as its seat. The research institute has been functioning as an institute, under the name of Research Institute of Slovaks in Hungary (MSZKI), of the National Slovakian Self-Government (OSZÖ). From 2012 to 2015 the name of the institution was: Research Institute of the National Slovakian Self-Government. At the beginning, the intitution was maintained by the founder. Later on – to this present day – the institution has been financed from central budget funds, while additional support comes from both Hungarian and Slovakian tenders and foundations. MSZKI was an independent budgetary institution of OSZÖ between 2006 and 2009. Since 2010 MSZKI has been a partly independent budgetary institution of OSZÖ again.
      The aim of the Research Institute of the Slovaks in Hungary is, in order to preserve Slovakian language, culture and traditions, to analyze with scientific need the social processes related to the the past and the present of the Slovaks living in Hungary. 
      The institute was established as an interdisciplinary social science institute and it has conducted historical, ethnographic, cultural anthropological, linguistic, mainly sociolinguistic and sociological research and publishing activities.
      In addition to the research work and the publication of the research results, the scientific workshop offers various science and science educational programmes both to the Slovakian intelligentsia, including primarily researchers, teachers and students living in Hungary as well as the wider public. The institute provides professional help on demand and transmits the results of its scientific research activities.

 

Scientific research projects:

Historical - cultural history programme 

  • Research and processing of the cultural history, the community life and the history of the Slovaks in Hungary and famous Slovak personalities in Hungary
  • Genealogy research - in the context of the migration and the 18th to 19th century settling of the Slovaks in the Great Plain, including Slovaks resettled in Slovakia between 1946 and 1948.
  • Situation and analysis of the Slovak language in today's Hungary.

 

Linguistic programme 

  • The sociolinguistic examination of the Slovakian language use in Hungary, Slovakian-Hungarian bilingualism, linguistic attitudes, linguistic autobiographies, and interference phenomena
  • Dialectological research
  • Onomastics research covers different domains of onomastics: research into the family names and nicknames of Slovaks in Hungary, geographic names and geographic appellatives of Slovakian settlements.

 

Ethnographic programme

  • Researching folk culture, material and spiritual, as well as folklore, customs and traditions, their changes, their transformation and their survival in the present

 

Scientific and scientific educational programmes 

  • Collective ethnographic and interdisciplinary research in the Slovak-populated settlements of our country
  • Interdisciplinary and scientific conferences and symposia
  • Book presentations
  • A series of scientific lectures entitled „From the viewpoint of science”
  • Science student research programmes and quizzes

 

Professional co-operation, partner institutions

SLOVAKIA: 

  • Slovenská akadémia vied (SAV) - Slovakian Academy of Sciences SAS
  • Etnologický ústav SAV - Institute of Ethnography of SAS
  • Spoločenskovedný ústav SAV - Institute of Social Sciences of SAS
  • Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra SAV - Institute of Linguisticsof SAS
  • Historický ústav SAV - Institute of Historyof SAS
  • Literárnovedný ústav SAV - Institute of Literary Studiesof SAS
  • Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave - Faculty of Arts,  Comenius University, Bratislava
  • Philosophical Faculty of Univerzity Philosophy Konštantína v Nitre - Faculty of Arts, Philosopher Konstantin University, Nitra
  • Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici - Faculty of Social Sciences, Bél Mátyás University, Banská Bystrica
  • University of St. Cyrila at Metoda v Trnave – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Trnava
  • Teacher Training Faculty, Selye János University, Komárno
  • Úr pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí – Office of Slovaks beyond the border
  • Matica slovenská – Slovakian Matica
  • Slovenská národná knižnica - Slovakian National Library
  • Slovenské Národné Museum - Slovakian National Museum
  • Inštitute Fórum - Kalligram Forum Institute - Kalligram Publishing House
  • Dotyk ľudskosti, o.z., Komárno - Organizácia podujatí na prezentáciu aktivit Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí. - Humanitarian Civil Society for presentations by Slovaks living abroad

  

CZECH REPUBLIC:

  • Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovej - Charles University of Prague

 

ROMANIA: 

  • Culture at vedecká spoločnosť Ivana Krasku - Cultural and Scientific Society ’Ivan Krasko’
  • Filozofická fakulta Univerzity v Bucharest - Faculty of Humanities of the Bucharest University

 

SERBIA:

  • Department of Slavology of the Faculty of Arts, University of Novi Sad
  • Slovenské vydavateľské centrum v Báčskom Petrovci - Slovakian Publishing Centre, Petrőc

 

HUNGARY:

  • Institute for Minority Research of the Hungarian Academy of Social Sciences
  • Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • History Institute of Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Department of Slavonic Philology of the Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology of Faculty of Arts, ELTE University
  • Department of Slovakian Language and Literature, Juhász Gyula Teacher Training Faculty
  • University of Szeged
  • National Foreign Language Library
  • Békés County Library
  • Munkácsy Mihály Museum
  • House of Slovakian Culture
  • Archives of the Evangelical Church in Békéscsaba
  • Slovakian grammar schools and primary schools
  • Institutes of the National Slovak Self-Government
  • Slovakian NGOs
  • Slovakian media

 

Data bank

Our library and archives being continuously enlarged and available for those interested, is a valuable collection of publications and periodicals and manuscripts on Slovaks in Hungary and other nationalities.
Our library contains approximately 4000 bibliographic units, more than 25 professional journals and periodicals, as well as DVDs and CDs. The audio archives of conference lectures, folk songs and discussions collected in ethnographic camps have been digitized.
The birth certificates of the Lutheran Church in Nagybánhegyes, Pitvaros, Csanádalberti and
Békéscsaba (1728 – 1752) have also been digitized.

 


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