Ján Podolák and the establishment of international activities at the Department of ethnography and folkloristics

Abstract

Focusing on two events, the aim of this paper is to describe the specific forms of the commencement of intensive international cooperation, which, in spite of the predominant practices of the time, were brought to fruition at the Department of Ethnography and Folkloristics (now the Department of Ethnology and Museology) at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava at the end of the 1960s. The events in question were the Seminarium Ethnologicum international student seminar course and the founding of Ethnologia Slavica (later Ethnologia Slovaca et  Slavica),  which  is  an  international  yearbook  for  Slavic  ethnographers.