On September 26, we welcomed the fellows of @ceudeminst.bsky.social's Democracy Institute Leadership Academy (DILA). Chief Archivist Csaba Szilágyi & Senior Archivist Mark László-Herbert shared insights into our Cold War and human rights collections, and the role of archiving for social justice.

Between September 25 and 27, our colleague, historian András Mink, took part in the International Journalism Forum in Athens, to discuss the relationship between archives and journalism. 📺 Watch the conversation: tinyurl.com/44ddbxxw 🔎 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc324vnv

A new academic year has begun at Blinken OSA Archivum! During CEU Orientation Week, students explored our online platforms, collections, and teaching programs. This fall & winter we’re offering courses on archives, history, law, and social justice. 👉 Full course list: archivum.org/news/ay-2025...

The results are in! 🎉 The July 2025 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA winners have been announced. This year’s theme: Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after). Thanks to all who applied! 👉 archivum.org/news/results...

🎉 We’re Digitizing the Teenager Party Correspondence! Over 5,000 letters & postcards sent to Radio Free Europe’s legendary show will be processed. By 2026, they’ll be searchable, readable & freely available online 📬✨

📣 Final Reminder: Call for Papers! Deadline Soon! ACTIVATE's next hybrid seminar explores Alternative Media Archives and the long-term challenges of preserving media activism. 📅 Oct 23–24 | CEU Vienna + Online 📢 CFP open until Aug 31 📩 [email protected] #MediaActivism #Archives #ACTIVATEproject

Thank you, Director Rév! István Rév, Professor at the Central European University and Founding Director of the Blinken OSA Archivum, retired on August 1, 2025. Our announcement: archivum.org/news/thank-y...

📢 The Research Room will be closed for summer break from August 1–29, 2025. We'll reopen on September 1 at 10:00 AM. Thanks for your understanding and enjoy the rest of the summer! ☀️📚

🗂️ How do we archive dissent? ACTIVATE's next hybrid seminar explores Alternative Media Archives and the long-term challenges of preserving media activism. 📅 Oct 23–24 | CEU Vienna + Online 📢 CFP open until Aug 31 📩 [email protected] #MediaActivism #Archives #ACTIVATEproject

📍 Blinken OSA Archivum colleagues joined the first in-person workshop of Discuss Data – History of Soviet Dissent and Samizdat/Samvydav (2023–2026), held July 14–15 at @fsobremen. The project builds a collaborative platform for researching Soviet-era dissent.

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 🗓️ July 28, 11AM 🎤 Anne Madelain: The Compound Fates of Post-Yugoslav Publishers in the Early 1990s and the Role Played by the Open Society Foundations 🎤 Jasna Jovicevic: Sounding Freedom: Avant-Garde Jazz in Cold War Hungary as Cultural Resistance 💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/yer8765b

📢 Visegrad Lecture Series 🗓️ July 23, 11AM 📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor 🎤 Dr. Uschi Klein (Brighton) on Radio Free Europe’s role in shaping political freedom & belonging in 1980s Romania. Why listening was resistance. 💻 Join on Zoom: shorturl.at/RL4t1

📢 Visegrad Lecture 📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor 🗓️ July 23, 11:00 AM 💬 Maria Galmarini on disability, dissent & freedom in late Soviet years—plus the hidden role of RFE in 1980s Romania. 💻 Join via Zoom: shorturl.at/RL4t1

🕯️ July 11 marks 30 years since the Srebrenica Genocide. Seven newly identified victims were laid to rest this year, while denial and tensions persist. Blinken OSA Archivum joined commemorations, supporting remembrance & truth-seeking. #Srebrenica #NeverForget

The 2025 AHM Annual Conference (July 2–4) explored how emotions shape cultural heritage, collective memory, and material culture. Blinken OSA Chief Archivist Csaba Szilágyi discussed the emotional role archivists play in interpreting records of violent pasts. #AHM2025 #BlinkenOSA

🎬 Join us for the next Visegrad Lecture Series! 🗓️ July 8, 2025 🕚 11:00 a.m. 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room, 2nd Floor 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/s8ZWu Oleksandr Stoianov explores Soviet propaganda’s performative language in films about Solovki prison camp.

🎓 Visegrad Scholarship Lecture at OSA Struggle for Recognition: The Donbas Miners’ Activism in the Long 20th Century 🗓️ July 9, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/8uGgN Dr. Kulikov (UCL) on miners’ fight for dignity, rights & political agency.

📢 Summer Hours: In July, the Research Room closes Fridays at 2 PM. Closed Aug 1–29 for summer break. Reopening Sept 1 at 10 AM. More info: archivum.org/collections/... Booking: archivum.org/collections/...

🎬 Visegrad Lecture at OSA Archivum! 📅 Tue, July 8, 11 a.m. Narrating Gender in the Hungarian Democratic Opposition (1969–1994) 🎤 Máté Konkol explores feminism, women’s rights & male dominance in late Kádár-era opposition. 🔗 Zoom: shorturl.at/mTpbV

🎓 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Lecture Join Dmitry Dubrovskiy (PhD, Charles University) on July 9, 11 AM, to explore how the USSR used “scientific expertise” against dissidents. 📍 Archivum, Budapest + Zoom Details: shorturl.at/ukxLz

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗦𝗔! 🎯 Theme: Living in Dystopian Times: Lessons from the Cold War (and After) 📩 Deadline: July 25, 2025 🌍 Location: Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest 🔎 Details: tinyurl.com/2w4e5pr7 Supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

🎉 Snapshots from the Night of Museums at Blinken OSA Archivum! Tours, rare films, hidden Budapest stories & live music filled the night. Thanks to everyone who joined us! 📸 #NightOfMuseums #BlinkenOSA

🎉 The Night of Museums has started at Blinken OSA! Guided tours, rare films, a live string quartet 🎻 and hidden Budapest stories await. Curators in action, secret collections, surprises all night. Come explore! #NightOfMuseums #BlinkenOSA

🎥 Join us on June 25 at 11:00 AM (Zoom) for Family, Memory, and Politics: Personal Films in Eastern Europe with Ileana Gabriela Szasz-Voinea. Explore how personal documentaries shape memory & politics. 👉 Zoom: shorturl.at/uTLCa

By tomorrow, everything will be in place – on the walls and in the display cases. 📸 Lenke Szilágyi captures the behind-the-scenes moments of setting up an exhibition. Join us tomorrow at the opening! 🗓 June 19, 18:00 | Blinken OSA Archivum #art #exhibition

📸 Opening Event The Tactless Photojournalist: Lajos Erdélyi’s Archive from the Ceaușescu Era Explore the raw, rarely seen reality of Romania through Erdélyi’s uncompromising lens. 🗓️ June 19, 2025, 6 PM 📍 Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest Free entry!

Russia’s Environmental Discourse 🌱 Documents on the Post-Communist Transition Online OMRI archives (1995–1997) reveal how Russian media covered environmental issues in a changing post-Soviet society. 🔗 catalog.archivum.org/catalog/OAev... #Russia #Environment #PostSoviet

War & Change in the Balkans 🌍 Documents on the Post-Communist Transition Online From Sarajevo to Srebrenica—OMRI files (1994–1997) cover war, politics, and rebuilding across Southeast Europe. 🔗 catalog.archivum.org/catalog/Oo2e... #Balkans #HistoryMatters #OMRI

Ukrainian State-Building 🇺🇦 Documents on the Post-Communist Transition Online Explore Ukraine’s post-USSR transformation. These OMRI files (1994–1997) trace early statehood, policy, parties & leadership. 🔗 catalog.archivum.org/catalog/x35K... #Ukraine #PostSoviet #OMRI

🧾 Explore Eastern European Constitutional Processes—a rich collection from COLPI supporting the rule of law in post-socialist democracies. Includes constitutions, court rulings, drafts & more from across the region. 📚 catalog.archivum.org/catalog/OoZB... #archives #ruleoflaw #CEE

Information Items 🎙️New Cold War materials online! First-hand insights from behind the Iron Curtain: RFE/RL interviews with refugees & visitors from Socialist states, now digitized. English summaries + intel assessments. 🔗 catalog.archivum.org/catalog/4R5a...

The Institute for Advanced Study, CEU & Blinken OSA Archivum were honored to host a discussion of Benjamin Nathans’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause on 22 May 2025 at CEU. A deep dive into the Soviet dissident movement.

📣 New Digitized Collections Online! Explore 9 archival series — 1,700 items & 150,000 pages now accessible. 🔍 Fully text-searchable 🆓 No registration required Start browsing: archivum.org/news/1-700-i... #archives #digitization #opendata #history

🎥 Join us June 2–3 for the ACTIVATE Workshop: Comparative Archival Ecologies! Hosted at La Contemporaine (Nanterre) + online, we’ll explore how alternative media archives shape memory, activism & heritage. 📩 Register by June 1: [email protected] #ACTIVATEproject

🕰️ A Livable Past? Today at the CEU Budapest Festival, we welcomed visitors to Blinken OSA Archivum for a guided tour led by Gábor Klaniczay. The exhibition Past as You Order? explores how medieval history is reshaped to serve present-day political goals in Hungary & Russia. #BlinkenOSA

🌿 Mother-in-law’s tongue, spider plant, purple heart... This weekend’s #Budapest100, Nóra Bertalan and Katalin Dobó led a tour through the Goldberger House, exploring the history of iconic office plants that once filled socialist-era interiors. 🌱 #BlinkenOSA #urbanjungle #GoldbergerHáz #archivum

Explore the Ádám Modor Collection—articles, documentaries, and research materials from a fierce critic of the democratic opposition. A unique voice in Hungary's transition history. Essential for understanding the era. more: shorturl.at/IR2Nq #archives #Hungary

🧠 What if we could decipher, together, our reality? Join artist Ioana Păun for 20 Minutes of Clarity – an interactive online session exploring memory, media, and instinct. 📅 May 27, 2:30pm CET 📩 RSVP: [email protected] 🔗 Zoom: shorturl.at/iIbbw

A book discussion in the company of its author: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton University Press, 2024) by Benjamin Nathans Register today! RSVP: shorturl.at/xuZ2T More: shorturl.at/nl8C6

🇦🇹 70 years ago today, the Austrian State Treaty restored Austria’s sovereignty, shaping postwar Europe. But how was it seen from the East? András Mink explores the hopes and anxieties it sparked in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. 📖 Read more: archivum.org/entries/blog...

🧱 Can buildings rewrite the past? Join us May 23 at Blinken OSA Archivum for a colloquium on historicist reconstruction as political time travel. With experts from CEU, Kassel & OSA. 🕕 Starts 6 PM (guided tour at 5). 🎟 Free entry 🌍 In English #urbanhistory #colloquium

📍International guests at Blinken OSA Archivum! From May 12–14, Budapest hosts the 34th ICARUS conference, organized by the Hungarian National Archives — with our colleagues proudly participating. A warm welcome to the international archival community!

🎓 Wrapping up an inspiring week at Blinken OSA Archivum! Students in the Archival Practice (HISU5011) course explored archives hands-on, blending theory with practice as part of CEU’s Specialization in Archives and Evidentiary Practices. #BlinkenOSAArchivum #CEU

📅 29–30 April 2025 | NIOD, Amsterdam & Online The symposium "Yugoslav Wars and Post-Yugoslav Space Thirty Years After" brought scholars together to reflect on three decades since the Bosnian War and explore new directions in post-Yugoslav and conflict studies. 🔗 www.niod.nl/en/activitie...

Zsuzsa Ferge, a towering figure in Hungarian sociology, passed a year ago on April 4, 2024. She would’ve turned 94 this month. In 2021, she donated her library to the Blinken OSA Archivum—now, her digital records have joined. 📚🕊️ More info: shorturl.at/OsfMg

📌 POSTPONED – New Date Coming Soon!

Join our next "Visegrad Scholarship at OSA" presentation facilitated by performance artist Ioana Păun. 🗓 Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 11:00 AM CET 📍 Join us on Zoom: shorturl.at/4ynyg 🔎 Learn more: archivum.org/events/20-mi...

Don’t miss "Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge" — a lecture by Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine @ Internet Archive. 📍 In-person (registration required): forms.office.com/e/5rDutmyCfV 💻 Or join online: ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9600690811...

Past as You Order? — A new exhibition at Blinken OSA Archivum explores how medieval history is weaponized in modern politics. Hungarian & Russian examples show how the past is rewritten to serve power. Open until May 25. Free entry. 📍 Arany János u. 32. 🌐 Bilingual exhibition Photos: Dániel Végel

📢 Call for Papers: ACTIVATE Workshop – "Comparative Archival Ecologies" 📍 Hybrid @ La Contemporaine (France) 📅 Deadline: May 5, 2025 We're exploring how media activism reshapes archival practice! Scholars, archivists & activists—submit your abstracts! 👉 shorturl.at/1zPXS