Press Room

Verzió Vienna screenings and events
Posted: 19/April/2023
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.
 
Péter Farkas and his wife in 1982.
Posted: 11/April/2023
April 11 is the Day of Hungarian Poetry. On this occasion, we are pleased to announce that writer and editor Péter Farkas has donated to the Blinken OSA Archivum his collection related to the democratic opposition and thus to the contemporary literary scene of 1980s Hungary.
 
April 25, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations
Posted: 11/April/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 2:00  p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
 
 HU OSA 350 Records of the International Monitor Institute, Death in Sarajevo
Posted: 06/April/2023
Celebrating the Day of the City of Sarajevo, observed in Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 6, the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of BiH presents the film Death in Sarajevo, preserved and digitized at the Blinken OSA Archivum.
 
1970 NAM Lusaka Conference (Museum of Yugoslavia)
Posted: 05/April/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, April 17, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
 
Budapest 100/Edit Blaumann
Posted: 21/March/2023
Browse the Archivum’s Annual Report of 2022, and find out more about our collection development and teaching activities, revisit our research programs and public events from last year, and learn about our Records and Information Management Services, the challenges and achievements of the IT team! The Annual Report also includes visitor statistics on the Research Room, a full list of publications and paper presentations by the Blinken OSA Archivum staff, and more.
 
Monument to Vladimir the Great (photo: Anna Adashinskaya)
Posted: 21/March/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
 
CEU’s historical Nádor Street 9 building (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted: 21/March/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
 
Independent student march on March 15, 1972 (Facebook/ÁBTL)
Posted: 21/March/2023
Fifty years ago today, on March 21, 1973, 19-year old Mária Jassó was arrested and incarcerated for a month because of the “disorderly conduct” she committed on March 15. For the harm suffered then, she claimed compensation once it became possible following the 1989 regime change; her request was rejected. Mária Jassó’s police and post-1989 compensation files are available for research at the Blinken OSA Archivum.
 
HU OSA 308-0-2 Monitoring of Yugoslav Television
Posted: 01/March/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 20, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
 
Fortress of War (2010, dir. by A.Kott)
Posted: 01/March/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentation of the CEU Budapest – OSUN Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships at the Blinken OSA Archivum. Join the event in the Archivum, or online! The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 9, 2023, online.
 
Re:Verzió 2023
Posted: 16/February/2023
From 15 February to 6 April, ten films will be screened ten films from the 2022 Verzió Film Festival's program at the Blinken OSA Archive. The audience can watch again the Audience Award winner of the 19th Verzió, The Killing of a Journalist, about the assassination of the Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciák. Several Hungarian documentaries that were popular at the festival will be screened: It Has Passed, and It's Fine, Howling Like We Do, KIM and Holy Dilemma; after each Hungarian film the filmmakers will be present too.
 
Fortepan/Tamás Féner
Posted: 16/February/2023
On the World Day of Social Justice, the Blinken OSA Archivum is proud and grateful to announce that our online catalogue has been enriched with a thorough description by sociologist Gábor Havas.
 
Virág Bogyó: Playgrounds: Small Battlefields of Big Ideas
Posted: 16/February/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event in the Archivum, or online following the link below! The presentation will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online
 
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA
Posted: 15/February/2023
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! keep track and learn more about the current fellows doing research at the Blinken OSA Archivum!
 
Hoover Archives, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection
Posted: 14/February/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. Join the event online!
 
Book cover - Stalin as Warlord by Prof. Emeritus Alfred J. Rieber
Posted: 09/February/2023
BOOK LAUNCH The Blinken OSA Archivum cordially invites you to the book launch of Stalin as Warlord by Prof. Emeritus Alfred J. Rieber, Central European University (CEU) The event is chaired by Istvan Rév, Director, Blinken OSA  with the participation of Charles Shaw, Assistant Professor, and Karl Hall, Associate Professor - CEU History Department.   Blinken OSA Archivum, 1051 Budapest, Arany J. u. 32. February 20, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.   Publisher: Yale University Press  
 
Fighting Disinformation, ELTE/Lakmusz
Posted: 09/February/2023
Gábor Tóka did a presentation titled “Election Polls in The News: What Is at Stakes, What Is New, and What Is Commendable Good Practice?” at the conference Fighting Disinformation, organized by the ELTE Department of Media and Communication together with the Hungarian fact-checking portal Lakmusz. Researchers and practitioners gathered in Budapest on January 26–27, 2023 at the Central European University to address the content and contours of the disinformation ecosystem, based on empirical research in the field, discuss recent trends, and map the prospective journalistic, academic, and policy-related tracks of inquiry and action.
 
I Used to be the Mayor (Alexander Sussmann)
Posted: 09/February/2023
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA and the CEU Budapest – OSUN Postdoctoral and Doctoral Fellowships. Join the event online!
 
Bobcatsss 2023
Posted: 01/February/2023
Blinken OSA Digital Archivist Márton Németh participated in Bobcatsss 2023, an annual conference on Library and Information Science and Archival Science
 
ANDRII DOSTLIEV: GO WEST! - Exhibition
Posted: 31/January/2023
ANDRII DOSTLIEV: GO WEST! February 8 – March 5, 2023 Opening event: February 8, 2023, Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. On February 8, 2023, the exhibition GO WEST! by Andrii Dostliev, organized by Blinken OSA Archivum together with CEU’s Institute for Advanced Study and Visual Studies Platform, will open at the Galeria Centralis, presenting the Ukrainian artist’s artistic research project on “Ostarbeiter,” the forced laborers from Eastern Europe in Nazi Germany during WW2. The exhibition will be accompanied by a presentation and guided tours given by the artist.    
 
Gáspár Miklós Tamás1948–2023 (Éva Kapitány Photo Archive, Blinken OSA)
Posted: 30/January/2023
Gáspár Miklós Tamás’ funeral takes place today in the Farkasréti Cemetery. With a brief introduction and compilation, we commemorate the philosopher who passed away on January 15, 2023.
 
One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History
Posted: 28/January/2023
Blinken OSA invites the public to a lecture series by historian Krisztián Ungváry, addressing the controversial turning points of Hungarian history. Exploring general themes like the historian as “judge” and case studies, such as the diverse memories of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 or the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the lectures aim to outline historical reality as well as the inner logic of the discourses manipulating, distorting reality. The lecture series will be held in Hungarian at CEU in Budapest, between February 7 and May 2. Registration is free but required, RSVP and more info (only in Hungarian) here!
 
Protection passports in the Júlia Vajda Collection
Posted: 27/January/2023
On January 27, we commemorate the Holocaust and its victims. Blinken OSA preserves a variety of archival documents related to 20th-century Jewish history, including the Holocaust; a list of fonds and their descriptions can be found on the Jewish archival portal Yerusha. One highlight among the collections compiled here is the Júlia Vajda Totalitarianism and Holocaust Interview Collection. While the full recordings and transcripts of the collection are available in the Research Room or online on request, the online catalog’s Finding Aids provides short biographies of survivors and witnesses.
 
EMINE ZIYATDINOVA: CRIMEA - exhibition
Posted: 17/January/2023
EMINE ZIYATDINOVA: CRIMEA January 22–29, 2023 Opening event: January 22, 2023, Sunday, 6:00 p.m. The exhibition Crimea is a visual sequence that reflects on the photographer’s family and larger Crimean Tatar community experience, finding Home in the complicated geopolitical environment preceding and following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
 
HIPS 2023
Posted: 10/January/2023
During the first two months of 2023, Blinken OSA is hosting a 5-week internship within the framework of the interuniversity History in the Public Sphere (HIPS) program. The program organized by the Archives, titled The City and the Archive. Historical Interventions in the Public Record, includes lectures, guided walks in Budapest, and archival workshops.
 
Photo: 6szín -Apostol
Posted: 15/December/2022
Blinken OSA  tunes into the Petőfi Memorial Year with Petőfi on New Year's Eve. We invite the public to a free theatre performance on  December 31 at 7 pm at the Blinken OSA Archivum. The stage adaptation of Sándor Petőfi's The Apostle will be performed by the 6szín Teátrum, and is open to the public on Saturday, December 31, after registration.
 
HU OSA 300-7-9 Subject Files Relating to the World Communist Movement
Posted: 07/December/2022
We are happy to announce the next presentations of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, online. The Zoom link of the meeting is: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92677428048?pwd=UDl5WkNJMHBvM3VtVkN4UlJqeHdvUT09
 
Photo: Dániel Végel, CEU Library, Budapest
Posted: 06/December/2022
Several public collections, higher educational institutions, and research institutes are forced to close their doors in the coming winter months. The Library of Central European University in Budapest, however, remains open for the students and faculty of Hungarian universities and colleges; scholars at the former research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and representatives of the media.
 
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Hungarian Radio Monitoring at Blinken OSA.
Posted: 30/November/2022
According to press reports, research access to the Hungarian Radio’s archives is substantially impeded. Blinken OSA denounces any restriction on research freedom and dealing with the past, and offers its own collections related to Hungarian Radio to researchers on the subject.