Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Press Room
Posted: 07/November/2018
The application deadline for submissions in the 2018/19 academic year is November 15, 2018.
Posted: 05/November/2018
With over 20 full house screenings and two extra screenings added to the already busy schedules, the Budapest part of Verzió Human Rights Film Festival has now finished.
The festival continues this week in Pécs, Szeged, and Kecskemét. Please find the program of the respective cities on the links below.
Screenings in Pécs
Screenings in Kecskemét
Szeged
The full list of awarded films is available here.
Posted: 30/October/2018
Festival sites
This festival sites include: Toldi Cinema, Művész Cinema, Kino Café Cinema, the Blinken OSA Archives, the Central European University and Trafó House of Contemporary Arts—which will also host the opening ceremony. The films will be accompanied by talks with directors, human rights activists, and experts.
A compilation of Verzió films will also be shown outside of Budapest, on 15–25 November at the Apolló Cinema in Pécs, the Grand Café Cinema and Megálló in Szeged, and for the first time, in Kecskemét at the Otthon Cinema.
The 15th Verzió Film Festival is supported by the Creative Europe Media program of the European Union.
Posted: 29/October/2018
SUICIDE – Hungary 1956–1986
September 28 – November 4, 2018
Opening Ceremony: September 28, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by Krisztina Tóth
Posted: 28/October/2018
A guided tour (in Hungarian) of Blinken OSA's current exhibition Suicide – Hungary 1956-1986, by Dr Dóra Perczel-Forintos, on October 30, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
This exhibition is open until November 4, 2018.
For more details on the event, please visit the Hungarian version of our website.
Posted: 24/October/2018
A Blinken OSA Archívum meghívja Önt a Centrális Galéria „Öngyilkosság – Magyarország 1956-1986” című kiállításához kapcsolódó előadásra, melyet Barakonyi Szabolcs, az Index az index fotórovatának vezetője tart „Bűnügyi fotográfia a fényképezőgépen túlról” címmel.
Posted: 18/October/2018
This unique collection of overwhelmingly cold war historical resources were explored and produced by the donor, Béla Nóvé – a Hungarian historian and documentary film maker residing in Budapest – as a result of his extended oral history and archival research carried out in France and Hungary during the period of 2011-2017.
Posted: 20/September/2018
The tour will be held by Miklós Tamási, editor of FORTEPAN, an online photo archive.
Posted: 19/September/2018
The successful candidate will work on the processing of textual documents collected by 1956 émigré Péter Pallai, journalist at the Hungarian service of BBC.
Posted: 17/September/2018
A grant is offered jointly by the Freedom Broadcasting Foundation and the Open Society Archives at Central European University to fund the hiring of a research assistant to help distant research in the Hoover Institution Archives RFE/RL, inc. Collections.
Posted: 16/September/2018
This year, for the first time, the Central European University and the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University participate in the event.
Posted: 14/September/2018
What you get to glimpse into here is a collective, hidden family photo album. Almost everyone has a relative who decided to leave this world voluntarily. Almost everyone has a close family member or distant relation who left us this way: Even if they might not know about it. What is presented here is an accelerated history course for intermediate students. Exam question: How could one get through the period between the Sixties and Eighties in Hungary? Give extreme examples for adaptation and rebellion from the history of your family. The photos exhibited here show various forms of total adaptation and all-out rebellion.
Posted: 13/September/2018
September 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Galeria Centralis
Blinken OSA Archives
1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
The Confrontation ‘68
A talk on the film which looks at the National Association of People's Colleges from a 1968 perspective.
Posted: 12/September/2018
European Heritage Days in the building of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at CEU
Blinken OSA participates in the European Heritage Days, and its building, the Goldberger House (built in 1911) will be open to the public on September 15 and 16, 2018.
Posted: 12/September/2018
September 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Želimir Žilnik: EARLY WORKS (1969)
Film screening and public talk, moderated by Oksana Sarkisova
Galeria Centralis
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
Posted: 10/August/2018
Blinken OSA is seeking a new colleague as full time receptionist from September 17, 2018 for six months.
Posted: 10/August/2018
FAREWELL TO SPRING
Revolutionary Youth Magazines 1968. Nr. 2
June 21 – September 16, 2018
Opening: June 21, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by József Mélyi
The year 1968 started with great hopes in some Central and Eastern European countries: for a brief moment it seemed that strict ideology was being replaced by political pragmatism. Elements of consumer culture, and even a private sector appeared; cultural censorship was loosened – or lifted. The whirlwind of the Western protest movements reached the region, while counter culture also left its mark on
Artists
ALTORJAY Gábor, Jerzy BEREŚ, Eugen BRIKCIUS, Stano FILKO, Tomislav GOTOVAC, GULYÁS Gyula, Matjaž HANŽEK, Tadeusz KANTOR, KEMÉNY György, Milan KNÍŽÁK, KONKOLY Gyula, Július KOLLER, Marko POGAČNIK, Red Peristyle, SZENTJÓBY Tamás, Želimir ŽILNIK, et.al.
Curated by SZÉKELY Katalin
Concept by MÉLYI József, SZÉKELY Katalin
Assistant curator SZÖRÉNYI Péter
Exhibition design by KRISTÓF Krisztián
Posted: 09/August/2018
A Verzió Film Alapítvány az európai uniós pályázat keretében 27 000 euró támogatásban részesül.
Posted: 09/August/2018
“Live” coverage of the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Starting on August 20, 2018, Blinken OSA covers the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia “live” with close to 4,000 news items issued by the Central News Room of Radio Free Europe (RFE), between August 20 and September 10, 1968. The documents are published online exactly 50 years after their initial release to RFE’s national broadcast desks for dissemination. The public will be able to follow the unfolding of the invasion as the Central News Room issued incoming information sometimes by the minute.
Blinken OSA’s new website dedicated to the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 also features a compilation of photographs documenting the operation of the Central News Room, a collection of photographs on the occupying forces entering the town of Košice, as well as a rare set of original leaflets protesting against the Soviet-led invasion from across Czechoslovakia.
The attached three documents are samples of the close to 4,000 documents to be published online starting August 20, 2018.
Posted: 08/August/2018
Discussion and film screening with English subtitles on September 11, 2018, 6 p.m.
Posted: 20/July/2018
Paul Fábry, founder of the Joseph Pulitzer Memorial Prize, head of the Hungarian Office of the Radio Free Europe in New York between 1950 and 1953, politician, diplomat and businessman passed away at the age of 99. The prize which has become the most prestigious professional recognition in the Hungarian media, was awarded to Blinken OSA in the category of press history in 2010. Blinken OSA preserves and makes publicly available documents, audio and film recordings of the recent past; the prize was awarded for our thematic online collection of the regime change, giving insight into the events of every single day in 1989.
Posted: 19/July/2018
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has announced plans to launch news services in Bulgaria and Romania in a bid to strengthen the media landscape in both countries - announced the organization on its website.
Posted: 18/July/2018
Blinken OSA celebrates the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), the most prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and fighter, human rights defender, and head of state.
Posted: 17/July/2018
On this day twenty years ago, the Rome Statute was adopted, giving way to the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002. As of today, 123 countries have ratified the Rome Statute and thus became members of the ICC. Complementing national judicial systems, the ICC launched investigations in cases of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression.
Posted: 11/July/2018
July 11 marks the 1995 genocide in the UN Safe Area Srebrenica, when over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians, mostly men and boys were killed and their bodies dumped in primary, secondary and tertiary mass graves by units of the Bosnian Serb Army. To create a solid documentary evidence and illustrate the organization and military architecture of the genocide, as well as to preserve the memory of the victims, raise awareness and fight oblivion, Blinken OSA, which has substantial and unique collections on the 1992-1995 Yugoslav Wars, organized a public exhibition entitled Srebrenica–Exhumation in 2010.
Posted: 28/June/2018
Researchers, scholars, journalists and artists are invited to apply for the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA in the 2018/19 academic year. The submission dates are: July 25 and November 15, 2018. We offer 15 awards each year for applicants from the fields of history, the arts, philosophy and sociology to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during and after the Cold War. More information about the grant scheme.
Posted: 27/June/2018
Claude Lanzmann (November 27, 1925 – July 5, 2018) was the director of the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
Posted: 27/June/2018
Many of Blinken OSA's documents, photos, films deal with poverty and with socially excluded groups. This time we chose to share a film about homeless people because this poroblem is still as painfully around as it was in the 1990s when the film was made by the Fekete Doboz (Black Box) Foundation.
Posted: 17/June/2018
World Refugee Day (June 20)
On World Refugee Day, Blinken OSA evokes two cases from the not so distant past, in which members of ethnic minorities, a Turk from Kardzhali, Bulgaria (1989) and a Bosniak from Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), had to forcibly flee their homes. Their stories are recorded and preserved in the records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.
Posted: 14/June/2018
Protestation
Blinken OSA Archives, one of the leading archives in the world, holding human rights documents and materials from the time of the Cold War, the organizer of the Yellow Star Houses project in 2014, wishes to express its deep outrage over the appalling act by some members of the Hungarian Christian Democratic People's Party.