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The exhibition and book project introduces completely forgotten yet exceptional works of art exhibited at the first Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz in 1960 as well as a monumental fine arts collection commissioned for the 1965 permanent exhibition at the same venue. With the addition of the earliest Hungarian artworks dealing with the Roma Holocaust, the current exhibition highlights the absence of the issue from the 1960s shows.

The exhibition Cuban Architectures: The Third Space explores, through the lens of architecture, the antagonistic context that has characterized Cuba from the decades before the Cuban Revolution to the present day. The exhibition aims to create a Third Space where conflicting ideological narratives can meet and engage in dialogue. By walking through the presented materials, visitors can construct their own interpretations of the complexities of Cuban history and its present.  

The second IUFU Summer School, taking place in Budapest, July 2–10, 2023, provides Ukrainian students with the opportunity to discuss, with globally renowned scholars, issues like national canon-building, and develop strategies to valorize Ukrainian culture. The summer school also includes the exhibition Unissued Diplomas open to the public at CEU, and a panel discussion at the Blinken OSA Archivum on archival Cold War records on Ukraine.

The workshop brings together film scholars and professionals from heritage institutions to critically review research directions and course curricula on film heritage. Embracing the concept of “epistemic disobedience” (Walter D. Mignolo), Blinken OSA Archivum and Visual Studies Platform at CEU offer a platform to collaboratively explore the heuristic value of new methodological paradigms in film history and visual studies.

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event online by following the link below! The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 26, 2023, online. The Zoom link of the meeting is:https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99369362814?pwd=ZXgrbG05RFh3NDZYVGU3dkF1V1NzZz09

The call for applications for the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA is now open! Submission deadline for the 2022/2023 academic year: July 25, 2023

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online by following the link below! The presentations will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, June 19, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum and online. The Zoom link of the meeting is: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99887469080?pwd=aWFIb0ZrZ1JjbU5Jekd5K0w0REpKdz09

This week, the Blinken OSA Archivum hosts the Archival Summer School for Ukraine, supported by the ICA-PCOM, the Galt Museum & Archives, and the Blinken OSA Archivum. At presentations, workshops, and discussion, emerging archivists from Ukraine will engage with and get insight from the Blinken OSA Archivum staff and an international team of fellow instructors.

Led by Dr. Victoria Phillips (London School of Economics) and Dr. Charles Kraus (Wilson Center), a group of twelve fellows of the Cold War Archives Research Institute Fellowship begin their week-long research at the Blinken OSA Archivum.

On March 22, 2023, the exhibition PETŐFI FOR ALL SEASONS: Political Changes in the Petőfi Cult between 1942 and 1956, organized to mark the 200th anniversary of the poet’s birth, will open at the Blinken OSA Archivum, with a discussion entitled Petőfi’s Political Memory from Dualism to the Present Day, which is the first event in a series of programs, PETŐFI MIRAGES, related to the exhibition. From mid-March to the end of May, the Archivum’s program series entitled PETŐFI MIRAGES is not about Petőfi’s life and art, but about the history of Petőfi’s memory and its various aspects. We have been chasing Petőfi’s mirage for 176 years. A series of events, including film screenings, theater performances, readings, and talks, will offer insights into this history. During the event, an exhibition entitled PETŐFI FOR ALL SEASONS in the Archivum’s Galeria Centralis will show the roller-coaster of Petőfi’s political memory from World War II to 1956. The exhibition curators, András Mink, historian, and Katalin Székely, art historian, will give guided tours for groups of students.

Examining the memory of the 2001 armed conflict in Macedonia, the volume Conflicting Remembrance includes a chapter by Blinken OSA Archivum Chief Archivist Csaba Szilágyi and former Assistant Archivist Perica Jovchevski.

William Newton-Smith, a Canadian philosopher of science, was one of the founding members and the first Chair of the Senate at the Central European University (CEU), and the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) International Higher Education Support Program. The Blinken OSA Archivum preserves the Records of the Office of Bill Newton-Smith, comprising documents related to his activities within both CEU and OSF.

From April 20-22, 2023, Verzió, in cooperation with Belvedere 21, Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Central European University, will present highlights from the latest Verzió Film Festival in Budapest in Vienna. Verzió Vienna features seven powerful documentaries and several masterclasses. An additional outreach event, the “alternative posters” exhibition, will highlight creative works by graphic design students from Budapest Metropolitan University.