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Year 2008

RE: VERZIO Documentary Film Series
April-May 2008
The OSA Archivum presents 7 outstanding documentaries in its spring film series. These feature length creative documentary films address a wide range of contemporary social issues: exile, democracy and dictatorship, living under surveillance, prostitution, generation next, old age.
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In conjunction with the exhibition Aby Warburg - The Mnemosyne Atlas, OSA Archivum will present Eric Breibart’s documentary The Archive of Memory, a symbolic interpretation of the provocative ideas of cultural historian Aby Warburg. The screening is on Thursday, April 17, 6:00 PM.
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Inter-media-creative analysis
From autopsy to engram or what Aby Warburg has to do with mobile phones?
Public class by Miklós Peternák at Galeria Centralis (OSA Archivum)
16 April, 2008 at 10:00 am

Document Freedom Day
Joining the global movement to promote and support open standards, the Hungarian Chapter of the Open Document Format Alliance (ODFA Hungary) is organizing a press conference to announce its establishment and to discuss its future plans. The press conference will be hosted by the OSA Archivum, one of ODFA Hungary's founding members, and will be held on March 26, 2008 at 10:00AM. http://www.odfa.hu Venue: 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32. more in Hungarian...

Stalin goes to Spain: New Research on the Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Public seminar by Daniel Kowalsky, Queen's University, Belfast.
March 19 (Wednesday), 2008 at 5.00 pm
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From Samizdat to Blogging: Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression
International Workshop organized by the International Samizdat [Research] Association in cooperation with OSA Archivum, CEU Department of Political Science, CEU Curriculum Research Center and the HESP-ReSET Alternative Culture Beyond Borders Project, to be held in Budapest, Hungary 20-21 February 2008. more...

Archives of the Living and the Dead – Documentary film series presented in conjunction with the exhibition in Galeria Centralis.
Every Thursday from February 14 through March 13, 2008. more... | in Hungarian...

Archives of the Living and the Dead – honoring Carolus Linnaeus

OSA Archivum opens on January 31, 2008, the first exhibition from its series Taxonomies, on the relationship between classification/taxonomy and the archives.

“I look at the geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we posses the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly-changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more or less different in the interrupted succession of chapters, may represent the apparently abruptly changed forms of life, entombed in our consecutive, but widely separated formations. (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species) more... | in Hungarian

Year 2007

International Documentary Film Festival VERZIO 4 with outstanding selection of documentary cinema about human condition starts soon!

37 recent social documentaries from 26 countries in the Main Program, including 5 films in the Hungarian Panorama, and a Nick Broomfield Retrospective in Budapest, 6-11 November 2007. A photo exhibition about Roma in Eastern Europe, and an international workshop "Alternative Images: Documentary as Counter-Culture" accompany the program. For more information visit www.verzio.ceu.hu

OSA Archivum in collaboration with OSI-HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching "Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization" organizes the workshop "Alternative Images: Documentary as Counter-Culture" on 8-9 November 2007 at OSA Archivum (Arany János 32, Budapest, Hungary). more...

OSA joins ODF Alliance
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Roma collection to be established at OSA Archivum. OSA Archivum; as the official archives of the Roma Decade Program; seeks partners, contributors, donors to establish a comprehensive collection on Roma minorities in the region. Contact details.

What is Chachipe?

OSA Archivum and the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the TU Dresden, Germany cordially invite you to the international workshop to be held on October 12-13. more...

OSA Archivum is on Hungarian TV, m1 on October 2 at 00.18 in MédiaMix. For further info, please visit http://www.mtv.hu/magazin/cikk.php?id=233058

noROMA! Racist films in the Roma Pavilion at the time of the Venice Film Festival. August 29 - September 8, 2007. more...

Experimental Short Film about the Archive. Call for entries (deadline: September 17) in Hungarian

Raoul Wallenberg's office in Second Life

Raoul Wallenberg - One Man Can Make a Difference | in Hungarian
Organized by Swedish Institute, Stockholm; Swedish Embassy in Budapest; OSA Archivum. The exhibition was open between March 2 and May 6, 2007

Propaganda Film in the 20th Century. Starting from April 2007 Galeria Centralis presents a series of the most interesting but rarely screened films of the propaganda genre at its Monday spring film show. more... | in Hungarian

Bridging the Divide - methodological seminar for history teachers. OSA Archivum in cooperation with the Embassy of Canada, the Ministry of Education and Culture and ontheglobe.com will organize a methodological seminar for history teachers on 22 March 2007, 2-6 pm. Invitation and program available (both in Hungarian).

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