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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 29/09/2026

🌙 Researchers’ Night at Blinken OSA Archivum! A curatorial tour, a lively panel discussion, and a unique workshop exploring “flawed” photographs from the Főfotó collection. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an inspiring evening! 📷

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 23/09/2026

🎬 Great news for Verzió! The National Film Institute has awarded HUF 50 million to support the 23rd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, taking place Nov 16–25, 2026. More: www.verzio.org/en

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/09/2026

🎓 AY 2026/27 begins at the Archivum! During Orientation Week, incoming CEU students met our staff, explored archival materials, learned about research opportunities, and discovered the Archivum’s postgraduate courses and specializations. Photos: Dániel Végel

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 10/09/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series How did electoral rules shape the final years of the Soviet Union? Join Dima Kortukov for a lecture on the 1990 parliamentary elections and the political struggles that helped shape the USSR’s collapse. 📅 Sept 14, 3:00 p.m. 📍 Blinken OSA Archivum

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 04/09/2026

🎓 Results are in! The July 2026 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA selection is complete. Congratulations to all researchers who received full or partial support, and thank you to everyone who applied! See the results & projects: archivum.org/hu/news/resu... Photo: Fortepan, RFE/RL transmitting station

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 31/08/2026

📚 Our Research Room reopens on September 2! We return to our regular opening hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m. Explore newly available collections and learn about recent improvements to our research services. archivum.org/news/researc...

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Research Room Reopens on September 2

We begin the 2026–27 AY with new collections and improved services.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/08/2026

📚 Now accessible: the Erzsébet Kajári Collection. From records on Hungary’s Ministry of the Interior (1945–1986) to Holocaust research materials, the collection includes state security documents, anti-Jewish laws, witness testimonies, and more.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 10/08/2026

📚 György Litván’s Oscar Jászi research materials are now accessible at the Blinken OSA Archivum. The first cataloged series reflects Litván’s decades-long engagement with Jászi’s life, work, and political thought. 🔎 archivum.org/news/gyoergy...

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György Litván's Oscar Jászi Research Materials Accessible

An intersection of a researcher's subject and own experience.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 03/08/2026

Notice to Our Visitors Due to the extraordinary weather conditions and related energy considerations, the Galeria Centralis will remain closed throughout this week. We will inform our visitors about the reopening date in due course. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/07/2026

📷 A family photo album is more than a collection of memories—it is also a historical source. The Blinken OSA Archivum has expanded the records of the Privát Fotó és Film Foundation (PFFA) with newly processed textual documents.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

Late Soviet Higher Education and Mechanisms of Its Loyalty: A Comparative Context during the Cold War (1965–1985) by Alexander Dmitriev. Visegrad Lecture Series 📅 July 22, 2026, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room 💻 Online: shorturl.at/AVefo

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

Visegrad Lecture Series July 22, 2026, 11:00 AM Archivum, Meeting Room Online: shorturl.at/AVefo The Intellectual and Literary Heritage of Ukrainian Émigrés in Post-World War II Europe by Iryna Yakovenko,

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, István Rév discusses the vision behind the @archivum.org, and also reflects on how it defended democratic culture by opening to researchers, students, artists, and the wider public. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4fsczuby

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/07/2026

Now Available for Research: The László Karvalics Papers Confidential reports, media policy proposals, documents related to János Kádár’s speeches, and the Party leadership’s confidential telephone directories offer a rare insight into Hungary’s state-socialist regime. archivum.org/news/laszlo-...

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László Karvalics Personal Papers: Agitprop from Within

The papers of the Deputy Head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) are open to researchers.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/07/2026

📢 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP AT OSA – NEW CALL! How do we name and understand reality in a rapidly changing world? Join the 2026/27 Visegrad Scholarship and explore "Naming Reality" through archives, media, documentary practices, and culture. 📅 Deadline: 25 July 2026

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 07/07/2026

📚 Summer opening hours at the Blinken OSA Archivum Research Room Please note our revised summer schedule. The Research Room closes early on Fridays in July and will be closed from August 3 to September 1. Galeria Centralis remains open throughout the summer.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

📸 Super 8 and Its Archives: Archival Mediation and Amateur Media Research with Julieta Keldjian Etcheessarry explores how amateur films from Hungary and Uruguay offer new perspectives on Cold War history, memory, and everyday life through home movies.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

📸 The Politics of Restitution and the Making of the Liberal Order with Joshua Leifer (Yale University) explores how Holocaust restitution became a cornerstone of democratic transition after 1989, linking historical justice with the rule of law, democracy, and European integration.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

Snapshots from the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (#ECCHRD), hosted by the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest. Archivists, librarians, and information managers from across Europe are meeting to discuss the future of human rights documentation.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @archivum.org, Bethan Winter shares the fascinating story from 1978, when philosophers traveled to Czechoslovakia to teach philosophy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sycf4p9j

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🆕 Challenging Archives is our new podcast series co-produced with the @archivum.org, featuring the Visegrad Fellows. 🎙️ In the first episode, Eszter Szabó-Reznek discusses Hungarian-language theater in socialist Romania. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/muymswkb

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 24/06/2026

Older adults were not just passive recipients of state policies. Join Maren Hachmeister as she explores senior activism in socialist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR through letters, petitions, self-organized groups, and strikes. July 1, 11:15 AM. archivum.org/events/senio...

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Senior Activism in State Socialist East-Central Europe

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by by Maren Hachmeister, Postdoctoral researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dre...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 19/06/2026

Yesterday, Galeria Centralis opened its new exhibition, On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue. The exhibition explores the story of one of Hungary’s most remarkable grassroots peace initiatives of the 1980s and the enduring relevance of dialogue and civic action.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 16/06/2026

📷 How did Poland’s Solidarność movement inspire readers in Japan? Join Anna Nakai (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) for a Visegrad Lecture on translation, activism, and the global circulation of ideas across Cold War borders. 📅 June 24, 11:00 AM

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 12/06/2026

🎬 Visegrad Lecture Series How did Soviet and Ukrainian cinema represent nuclear modernity before and after Chornobyl? Stanislav Menzelevsky (Indiana University) explores film, ecology, and political change from 1972–1996. 📅 June 17, 11:00 🔗 shorturl.at/AVefo

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 11/06/2026

📸🏳️‍🌈 Records Uncovered opens at CEU Vienna on June 16. Developed by Blinken OSA Archivum and the Háttér Archive & Library, the exhibition traces LGBTQIA+ activism in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1945–1999. Our colleague Csaba Szilágyi joins the opening roundtable.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/06/2026

On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue opens on June 18 at 6 PM at Galeria Centralis. Discover how young peace activists in 1980s Hungary sought an independent path beyond both state structures and the democratic opposition. Free entry until Oct 25. #archives

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 08/06/2026

How can archives work with social movements while preserving their histories? At the ACTIVATE seminar in Milan, researchers and archivists explored the challenges of documenting activism, marginalized communities, and social change from the 19th century to today. 📸

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 04/06/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series Why are some voices remembered while others are overlooked? Dr Tereza Hendl examines how the experiences and ideas of East European and Central Asian dissidents have often been marginalized in debates about the region. 📅 June 10, 11:00 📍 Archivum

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 04/06/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series How did people imagine the future during the upheavals of the 1980s and 1990s? Dorine Schellens explores how writers and thinkers in the GDR and Soviet Russia envisioned new possibilities in times of profound change. 📅 June 10, 11:00 📍 Archivum

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/06/2026

📚 Work-in-Transition How do historians navigate a rapidly changing academic and technological landscape? Scholars from Budapest, Vienna, and New York come together to discuss new research and reflect on archives, writing, and historical practice today.

Image: Keleti pályaudvar, csarnok, Fortepan/Hegyi Zsolt, Balla Demeter felvétele, 1970, Photo ID 148151

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 01/06/2026

🔗 Visegrad Lecture Series 📅 June 3, 2026, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room 💻 Online: shorturl.at/AVefo John W. Bessai: Helsinki’s Monitory Infrastructure: Public Evidence and the Reconstruction of Common Security in Dystopian Times More: archivum.org/events/helsi...

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Helsinki’s Monitory Infrastructure: Public Evidence and the Reconstruction of Common Security in Dystopian Times

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by John W. Bessai, PhD.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 01/06/2026

🔗 Visegrad Lecture Series 📅 June 3, 2026, 11:30 AM 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room 💻 Online: shorturl.at/AVefo “Framing Political Graffiti During Socialism” by Júlia Székely. More: archivum.org/events/frami...

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Framing Political Graffiti During Socialism: The Visual Narratives of Forensic, Amateur and Press Photographs

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Júlia Székely, ELTE TÁTK, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 22/05/2026

📚 From the archives to an exhibition in Sarajevo A few years ago, Blinken OSA Archivum shared digital copies of journalist David Rohde’s notebooks with @birneucom. Rohde was the first Western journalist to report on Srebrenica mass graves. birn.eu.com

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 22/05/2026

📢 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP AT OSA – NEW CALL! How do we name reality amid censorship, propaganda, and contested truths? The 2026/2027 call invites scholars & artists to explore archives, dissidence, media, and human rights. 🎓 MA degree required 🗓️ Deadline: 25 July 2026 Supported by the Visegrad Fund

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/05/2026

📚🏛️ Last week, students from CEU Gender Studies visited the Archivum. From collections to unexpected objects, archives sparked lively conversations throughout the day. Thanks for joining us—we’re excited this annual program may expand next year! ✨ Photos: Lilit Hakobyan

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 15/05/2026

Visegrad Lecture Series Join Michał Gęsiarz for "Networking Through the Iron Fences: Transnational Solidarities in Central Europe from 1956 to 1989" 🗓 May 20, 11:00 AM 💻 Online: shorturl.at/w31D1

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 15/05/2026

🎨 Could exhibitions become sites of transnational contact across the Cold War divide? Join Jana Farská Hájková for Gallery as an Outstretched Hand: Czechoslovak Exhibitions Abroad in the 1960s 🗓 May 20, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room 💻 Online: shorturl.at/w31D1

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 07/05/2026

📚 Archival practice in action @OSA Archivum Students in the Archives & Evidentiary Practices specialization work hands-on with archival materials and collection metadata—exploring how archives shape evidence, justice & memory in a changing world. #archives #CEU

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/04/2026

Unrolling decades-old photo strips from the 1980s Főfotó collection—fragile, unpredictable, almost performative. 🎞️ Unclaimed images of everyday life: holidays, homes, quiet moments. Archives don’t just preserve data—they hold memory. 🗂️

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 22/04/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series 🗓 Apr 29, 11:00 📍 Archivum / online 💻 Online: shorturl.at/XQtCr The 1990–91 energy crisis in Central Europe was more than transition—it was a cumulative shock shaped by Soviet supply instability, CMEA collapse & the Gulf War. 🔗 archivum.org/events/the-1...

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The 1990–1991 Energy Crisis in Central Europe: Cumulative Crisis and Path Dependency

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Karolina Gawron-Tabor, Assistant Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Political Science and Se...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 22/04/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series 🗓 Apr 29, 11:00 📍 Archivum / 💻 Online How did architecture become political language in the early Cold War? Richard Anderson explores “formalism,” “cosmopolitanism,” and “socialist realism” as ideological tools. 🔗 archivum.org/events/sovie...

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Soviet Models: The Language of Architecture in the Early Cold War

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Richard Anderson, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, University of Edinburgh.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 20/04/2026

What can free play teach us about democracy? 🎲 From East Germany to today—explore children’s agency, public space & participation in this hands-on workshop. Learn from lived experience + interactive dialogue. 🗓 May 9, 10:00–13:00 Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8DFP2VbfFn

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 17/04/2026

⚠️ Visitor Cards at the Archivum From April 20, 2026, a new security system will be introduced at the Blinken OSA Archivum. Access beyond reception (incl. Research Room) requires a visitor card. Please collect it on arrival and return it before leaving.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/04/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series 🗓 Apr 22, 11:00 | 📍 Archivum + 💻 Online ⚖️ With the Law but in Our Own Way Katie Sartania explores how 1970s Soviet Georgian intellectuals rethought legality through samizdat, literature & court cases. 🔗 archivum.org/events/with-...

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With the Law but in Our Own Way: Rearticulating Legality through Cultural Foundations in 1970s Soviet Georgia

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Katie Sartania - Researcher at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, Germany and PhD Student at the Humboldt-Universität...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/04/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series 🗓 Apr 22, 11:00 | 📍 Archivum + 💻 Online 🎭 Theatre as a “factory” of socialist culture? Eszter Szabó-Reznek explores Hungarian theatre in socialist Romania—between planning, bureaucracy & art. 🔗 archivum.org/events/betwe...

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Between Planned Economy and Artistic Creation. Hungarian Theatre in Romania in the Early Years of Socialism

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Eszter Szabó-Reznek, Associate Lecturer, University of Bucharest.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 31/03/2026

📚 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Presentation On April 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM, Dr Bethan Winter will speak at Blinken OSA Archivum on Building Détente from Below: Underground Philosophy Seminars and East–West Co-Operation from Oxford to Prague, 1979–1993. 🔗 archivum.org/hu/events/bu...

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Building Détente from Below

The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Dr Bethan Winter.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 30/03/2026

The Black Box Foundation’s textual records are now accessible at the Blinken OSA Archivum, offering new insight into Hungary’s transition and independent media history. More: archivum.org/news/black-b...

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Black Box Foundation Textual Records Accessible

The documents provide insight into the history, aims, and editorial principles of the group.

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