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Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) is a complex archival institution. OSA is both a  repository  of important collections, primarily related to the history of the Cold War and grave international human rights violations, and a  laboratory  of archival experiments on new ways of assessing, contextualizing, presenting, and making use of archival documents.

May
Photo of a Soviet T-54 tank in Budapest in 1956, from Fortepan

May 15, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Gwen Jones, Stanisław Boridczenko
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
May
Guests of the ICOMOS congress arriving at the Budapest History Museum for the opening of the centenary exhibition. Magyar Műemlékvédelem 1971-1972, 7, Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség Kiadványai (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1974), p. 389.

May 11, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Dr. Christine Varga-Harris, Helka Dzsacsovszki
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
May
Petőfi Rock

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - Petőfi-Rock – The Story of the Legendary Performance of the Szeged University Stage.

Árpád Árkosi, theater director, László Béres, theater director, Dorka Porogi, theater director
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
May
Photo of the WIDF Council meeting in Salzburg, 1965, from "Zhenshchiny mira" (Women of the Whole World), Issue 1, 1966

May 4, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Yulia Gradskova , Camelia Runceanu
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
May
How Did They Look for Petőfi? Discussion and music.

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - How Did They Look for Petőfi? Discussion and music.

András Mink, historian, Ildikó Landgraf, Katalin Juhász
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
May
"On the vineyards of Tokaj..."

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - "On the vineyards of Tokaj..." - Lecture 12 - by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Apr
Cipolla Collectiva: The Tree of Truth. - Dance Performance

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - Cipolla Collectiva: The Tree of Truth. - Dance Performance

Cipolla Collectiva
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
Apr
One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Myths and reality about Ukraine - Lecture 11 by Krisztián Ungváry

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Myths and reality about Ukraine - Lecture 11 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Apr
April 25, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentation

April 25, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Tomas Sniegon, PhD in History, Associate Professor in European Studies, Lund University, Naum Trajanovski, Assistant at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Apr
Petőfi Mirages Event Series - The Petőfi Circle and the 1956 Revolution. Discussion.

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - The Petőfi Circle and the 1956 Revolution. Discussion.

János M. Rainer, historian
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
Apr
One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Interpretations of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Interpretations of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight - Lecture 10 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Apr
Photo of the NAM Lusaka Conference of 1970, from the collection of Museum of Yugoslavia

April 17, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentation

Agustín Cosovschi, Researcher, École française d'Athènes
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Apr
Petőfi for All Seasons - Revolutionary Youth Days (FIN) – The Ideological Emptiness of the Kádár Era.

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - Revolutionary Youth Days (FIN) – The Ideological Emptiness of the Kádár Era. Discussion and film screening.

Peter Apor, Orsolya Sudár, András Mink
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
Apr
One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - The "agent affair" as a deficit of Hungarian democracy - Lecture 9 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Apr
The Literary Memory of Sándor Petőfi. Discussion and reading.

Petőfi Mirages Event Series - The Literary Memory of Sándor Petőfi. Discussion and Reading.

András Zoltán Bán, writer, playwright, and critic, József Keresztesi, writer, poet, and critic, András Mink, historian
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centrális
Apr
Hungary's entry into the war – maneuvering without room

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Hungary's entry into the war – maneuvering without room - Lecture 8 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Apr
Monument to Vladimir the Great (photo: Anna Adashinskaya)

April 4, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Anna Adashinskaya, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bucharest, Emma Krasznahorkai, Political scientist and social worker
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Mar
Sándor Petőfi on film. Film screening and discussion.

PETŐFI MIRAGES - EVENT SERIES: Sándor Petőfi on film. Film screening and discussion.

Gábor Gelencsér, film historian, Bernadett Sulyok, museologist
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centrális
Mar
One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Lecture 7 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Mar
CEU’s historical Nádor Street 9 building (Wikimedia Commons)

March 28, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Dr. Elisa Satjukow, Research Fellow, Leipzig University, Adam Németh, Junior Research Fellow, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Mar
Petőfi for All Seasons -

Petőfi Programs at Blinken OSA Archivum - Exhibition - Discussion and reading.

András Mink
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Galeria Centralis
Mar
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4694171 1991 Dismantling of the monument to People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Felix Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square Photo: Sergey Podlesnov, Kommersant

March 20, 2023: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Presentations

Christian Costamagna, PhD, Gleb Golubkov, Journalist, political activist
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Mar
Anti-Jewish and anti-German sentiments in Hungary

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Lecture 6 by Krisztián Ungváry

Ungváry Krisztián, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium
Mar
Photo: Frame from the Fortress of War (2010, dir. by A.Kott)

CEU Budapest – OSUN Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships at the Blinken OSA Archivum Presentation

Egor Isaev, Documentary Filmmaker; PhD student, Institute of media, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Budapest Site | Arany Janos u. 32 | Meeting Room
Mar
One history - many explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian history - lecture series by Krisztián Ungváry

One History – Multiple Explanations. Interpretations of Hungarian History - Lecture 5 by Krisztián Ungváry

Krisztián Ungváry, historian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium