Events / Announcements
Fortepan, photo by Tamás Urbán
Visegrad Call! Research theme within the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA in 2022/23
Apply now for the new call! New theme: Lessons of the Cold War?
Announcement - posted on 12/May/2022
CEU Library, Budapest
Research Room Temporarily Relocated from May 16, 2022
Due to construction works in the building of Blinken OSA, all staff and the Research Room will relocate to CEU's campus.
Announcement - posted on 11/May/2022
The Budapest Week
The Budapest Week then and now - Public talk by the former editors
Participants: Michael Kovrig, Pablo Gorondi, and Tom Popper. Moderator: Esther Holbrook. May 12, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.
Announcement - posted on 5/May/2022
We stand with Ukraine
Blinken OSA Supports Scholars and Students Affected by War in Ukraine
Besides its own initiatives, the Archives also joined CEU’s Invisible University for Ukraine.
Announcement - posted on 4/May/2022
Blinken OSA repository by Edit Blaumann
New CEU Budapest – OSUN Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Launched
Meet the first grantees doing research at Blinken OSA!
Announcement - posted on 27/Apr/2022
Blog Posts / Podcasts
A “Sudden Transition“: Images of Independent Ukraine

In two chapters, we revisit the milestones of the Ukrainian democratic transition following 1989. The first...
Blog - posted on 2/May/2022
A “Sudden Transition“: Images of Sovereign Ukraine

In two chapters, we revisit the milestones of the Ukrainian democratic transition following 1989. The first...
Blog - posted on 19/Apr/2022
“Sarajevo, the biggest concentration camp in the world"

“Sarajevo, the biggest concentration camp in the world,” wrote Arma Tanović at the age of 15. Arma was one of the Sarajevan kids...
Blog - posted on 7/Apr/2022
“We Do Not Want to Make that Mistake Again” – When the West Did Not Trust the Soviet Union

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher traveled to the Soviet Union in March 1987; it was her first official visit to Moscow since in...
Blog - posted on 30/Mar/2022
Governor of Unfulfillable Hopes? Miklós Horthy’s Death in the Foreign Press

Miklós Horthy passed away in Portugal on February 9, 1957, 65 years ago today. We revisit contemporary press reactions through his...
Blog - posted on 9/Feb/2022