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Events / Announcements
Related Events
Records Uncovered 2.0 Exhibition: Related Events
Next: January 29, Saturday, curatorial guided tour in Hungarian with Péter Hanzli (Háttér Archive and Library)
Announcement - posted on 19/Jan/2022
Mihály Csákó
What We (Do Not) Know about Political Socialization; Mihály Csákó Memorial Conference
Réka Heszterényi, assistant archivist of Blinken OSA presented at the memorial conference.
Announcement - posted on 19/Jan/2022
Records Uncovered 2.0
Records Uncovered 2.0: LGBTQI+ histories in Central and Southeastern Europe - Exhibition
Presenting LGBTQI+ histories of Central and Southeastern Europe from the post-WWII period to the early 2000s.
Announcement - posted on 18/Jan/2022
HIPS course at Blinken OSA Research Room
History in Public Sphere (HIPS) Internship titled “Fearless Speech and Its Fate in the Archives” Is...
The internship is part of the fearless speech program series launched by the Archives and Freeszfe.
Announcement - posted on 14/Jan/2022
AEHR course participants in the research room, 2017
Archives, Evidence and Human Rights Course Launched for the 20th Time
The oldest seminar Blinken OSA continuously offers to CEU students.
Announcement - posted on 11/Jan/2022
Blog Posts / Podcasts
Soviet Dead End: Solving the Wallenberg Mystery in the Cold War

Seventy-seven years ago today, on January 17, 1945, a Swedish diplomat sent as a special envoy to Nazi-occupied Budapest with a mission...
Blog - posted on 17/Jan/2022
“All the Telephone and Telex Lines are Disconnected” – RFE and the 1981 Martial Law in Poland

“Citizens of the Polish People’s Republic! I turn to you today as a soldier, and as the head of the Polish government. I turn to you in...
Blog - posted on 13/Dec/2021
“It Wouldn’t Hurt to Talk More About Gypsies” – A Pioneering Research on the Roma 50 Years Ago...
Blog - posted on 6/Dec/2021
Education for Democratic Citizenship? On the 80th Birthday of Mihály Csákó

I usually encounter three typical reactions when I mention that I deal with education for democratic citizenship (for the sake of...
Blog - posted on 18/Nov/2021
Alternative History Through the Private Photo and Film Foundation

The first clumsy steps of a child, blowing candles off a birthday cake, a family holiday at the lake Balaton, or cruising along the...
Blog - posted on 29/Oct/2021