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countries of Central Europe." The workshop took place in November 1994, in Stará Lesná (Slovakia) and lectures were held on themes of national problems. The same year, in cooperation with the Department of Jewish culture at the Slovak National Museum, we organised an international seminar, “Košice and the deportation of Jews in 1994.”

In 1995, in co-operation with Columbia University of New York, the Institute held a workshop in Levoča (Slovakia), under the title “Teaching about nationalism: Issues and resources.” In 1995 and 1996, two seminars in Zlatá Idka (Slovakia), titled “Historical memory and identity,” included participation by Institute members.

In October 1999, an international scientific conference was held in Stará Lesná under the title “Language and education of ethnic minorities in Slovakia and in countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century.” The conference was organised in co-operation with the Foundation of F. Ebert. In 2002, our Institute was responsible for organising the meeting of the Slovak-Czech committee of historians in Košice, on the following theme: “Hungarians in Czechoslovakia and the Czech-Slovak relations.”

As these events illustrate, since the second half of the 1990s, one aspect of our grant projects has been increasingly oriented towards the problems of single ethnic groups.

The Roma research

The only previous independent project that focused on general aspects of the Roma problem was an interdisciplinary project conducted in 1987-1991: “Present tendencies in the development of types of Gypsy families and the problem of their integration into the structures of society.” Results from this unique, and so far never repeated, research, which was based on interdisciplinary empirical field research and other research methods, were collected and published in several articles, research papers from conferences and special materials produced for governmental groups (Bacová 1989,