With the construction works on the Goldberger House and the consequent temporary relocation of the Blinken OSA Archivum over, we were delighted to welcome today the new fellows of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA at the first traditional Visegrad Fellow Lunch of the year, now back in the Archivum building!
In 2022, we received 70 applications to the fellowship’s spring and fall calls, from which the jury selected 25 scholars, artists, or journalists to do research at the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest, Hungary. Last year, the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA invited researchers to reflect on the lessons of the Cold War, and re-evaluate past Cold War themes and archival sources in the light of Russia’s present war of aggression against Ukraine.
Tomorrow, on February 16, 2023, at 11:00,
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA fellow Alexander Sussmann and CEU Budapest – OSUN fellow Agnė Rimkutė
will present their findings online; details and link to the live streaming here!
More presentations coming on February 23, February 28, and March 9!
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA brings scholars and artists from all over the world to the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest, Hungary. The program, on the one hand, supports research based on the Archivum’s holdings and, on the other, builds a scholarly community interested in the Cold War and in the trustworthiness of the related archival documents. In 2022, the International Visegrad Fund offered to increase the number of scholarship holders (as well as the amount of the scholarship), allowing the jury—composed of representatives of the IVF and the Archivum—to award 20 full grants each year. The next call of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA will open in May.