Press Room - 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

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.

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (at CEU) is now a partner institution in the Yerusha project, a comprehensive international database linking archival holdings on Jewish life, history, and culture. Ranging from radio broadcasts and audio interviews to Socialist state media and Jewish political samizdat, and also including feature films and home movies, the 23 fonds and sub-fonds from the Blinken OSA holdings now added to the database record Jewish experiences in pre-war Romania, during the Holocaust in Hungary, and in Soviet Bloc countries from the 1950s until the 1990s.

The industry programs of the 19th Verzió will feature nine events over four days, for film professionals, for students and teachers, as well as for those interested in the practical and theoretical aspects of documentary film education and filmmaking.

The 19th Verzió festival will take place 8–20 November 2022, in Budapest and five towns in the countryside, as well as online nationwide. This year's selection covers many burning human rights issues: poignant stories of courageous journalists, women dealing with the trauma of violence, young people confronting complex family histories and identities, activists defying dictatorships and international corporations - all fighting for a more inclusive, peaceful future. The screenings will be accompanied by a series of talks, concerts, exhibitions and a professional programs.

The call for applications for the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA is now open! Submission deadline for the 2022/2023 academic year: November 15, 2022

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS CEU), together with Blinken OSA and the Democracy Institute (DI) at the Budapest Campus of CEU are pleased to launch their joint call for applications for its inaugural fellowship program Revisionism and Falsification, Evidence and Proof for the academic year 2023/2024.

Blinken OSA seeks to broaden its teaching portfolio each year. We are happy to announce that along with the courses offered to CEU students a new teaching cooperation with the ELTE University began recently. With the pandemic years hopefully behind us, this year Blinken OSA colleagues were able to participate in the annual Orientation Sessions at CEU Vienna, presenting the latest information about the Archives and the new courses launched this year. Since the mother institution relocated to Vienna, lecturers from Blinken OSA now have to commute in order to maintain professional links with the various departments and students.

Pandemics and wars create unfavorable environments for the prevalence of freedom of information, however, its importance is manifest during such periods the most. The approach and active contribution of archives dealing with the recent past play an important role here, and Blinken OSA has its share in this.

In the Fall 2022 semester for the first time, our staff members teach a course offering theoretical ideas, historical knowledge, and hands-on practical guidance relevant to journalistic and scholarly work with the rich and diverse collections of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), in the most prestigious and largest Media and Communication program in Hungary.

We are happy to announce that the evaluation of the July 2022 Visegrad call has finished, and the final list of winners has been approved by the Council of Ambassadors!

Within the framework of CIVICA Research, the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) at the European University Institute (EUI) approached archives-hosting academic institutions with a survey exploring their archival collections and policies. On behalf of CEU, Blinken OSA answered the open-ended questions concerning the activities, workflows, and services at the Archives.

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has been raging for more than five months by now. In these circumstances, expressing solidarity as well as professional and academic support to Ukrainian students, scholars, and researchers threatened by the military invasion remains to be an important objective at CEU and Blinken OSA. One such initiative the Archives has joined and worked on since it was launched by CEU in May 2022 is the certificate program for junior and senior undergraduate students from Ukraine, the Invisible University for Ukraine. Colleagues from the Archives were actively teaching and mentoring in the program that was designed as a pilot for students and scholars at risk. In July, the CEU IUFU program continued with the summer school program titled Making Ukraine Visible – Images, Narratives, Institutions, which took place from July 10–19, 2022, in the CEU complex in Budapest and in Lviv.

NEW CALL - VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP! Research theme within the Visegrad Scholarship at the Blinken OSA in 2022/23 Lessons of the Cold War? We are happy to announce the next call for the Visegrad Scholarship at the Blinken OSA 2022/23 Submission deadline for the 2022/23 academic year: July 25, 2022