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Dear Alumni and Researchers of the OSA Archivum!
The OSA Archivum (OSA, www.osaarchivum.org ) launches this new electronic Update to inform our former researchers on recent acquisitions and newly processed material as well as about projects, programs or events that we feel could help further your academic work.
As most of you know, OSA is an archives and a center for research and education. Its collections and activities relate to the history of communism and Cold War, especially in the former Eastern Bloc, to historical and contemporary human rights violations and to the history of human rights movements. OSA is also the official repository of the worldwide Soros Foundation Network.
Besides other formats, OSA has large audiovisual collections, as well as a non-circulating Film Library that features classic and rare fiction and nonfiction works, among them documentary, propaganda, and educational films.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/filmlibrary/latest
A unique collection of periodicals from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) is also available for research. It includes journals and newspapers from and about Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union , as well as from Western countries about the history, culture, and politics of the region.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/guide/library/
New location: In the fall of 2005, OSA moved to the newly restored and redesigned Goldberger House, just five minutes away from the Central European University (CEU).
Our new address is: 1051 Budapest , Arany János utca 32.
New services: For the past few years, OSA has been providing and encouraging the use of scanners and digital cameras for reproduction of our collections. We continue to explore new means of circulating our materials.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/research/regulations.shtml
Recent acquisitions and newly processed material:
Photos of Gabriel Bodnar – 38 furtively taken B&W photos featuring the first Soviet and Bulgarian troops entering Kosice in Eastern Czechoslovakia in August 1968, and the consternation and rage of the local population.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/guide/onlinegallery/collections/8.html
Fully searchable, digitized Background Reports (BR) – Prepared for the use of RFE/RL staffers, the BR generally covered a single subject in some breadth and depth and attempted to provide perspective, context, framework, and synthesis.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/digitalarchive/rferl_br/
Balkan Archive (“Genocide Archive”) – A unique collection of over 3.000 hours of videos, television programs, and raw footage relating to ethnic conflicts and grave human rights violations in the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/db/fa/350-1-1.htm
Recent events:
Raoul Wallenberg in Second Life – An interactive multimedia exhibit in a 3D virtual world, that involves the reconstruction of Wallenberg's Office in the virtual Embassy of Sweden and the reenactment of him dictating his last, semi-fictional diplomatic report on January 16, 1945, the day before he went missing.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/secondlife/
What is chachipe? – An open, international photography contest about the new image of the Roma people. Submission deadline is July 31, public voting closes August 30. The best of the submitted photos will be displayed in an exhibition that will open at OSA's Galeria Centralis on October 25, 2007.
http://photo.romadecade.org/index.php?content=3
VERZIO 4 - International Documentary Film Festival that will take place in Budapest , between November 6-11, 2007. There is currently an open call for entries; the submission deadline is August 31, 2007.
Call for papers! The Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching "Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization" announces the workshop "Alternative Images: Documentary as Counter-Culture" to be held 8-9 November 2007 at OSA; the submission deadline is September 15, 2007.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/updates/2007/2007-11-08.shtml
Used books for free! Used books from the collection of the RFE/RL and OMRI Library (several thousand volumes) will be given out free of charge to the general public September 10-16, 2007, at OSA.
Summer break! The Research Room will be closed between July 16 and August 26, 2007.
Organized tours of the archives and exhibition space are offered to interested students and academic groups; for more information please contact us at: archives@ceu.hu
We look forward to further fruitful cooperation with our research community!
Sincerely,
OSA Archivum
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