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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.