Blinken OSA Archivum
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A repository of archival documents related to the history and afterlives of the Cold War, grave international human rights violations, and marginalized communities. | Visit us in Budapest, Hungary, or online at archivum.org!
📢 Call for Participation – ACTIVATE Hybrid Seminar (May 2026)
Archivists, researchers & activists are invited to join a conversation on collaboration, archives, and social movements across history. Photo: Fortepan / 1981 / Attila Jankó
Archivists, researchers & activists are invited to join a conversation on collaboration, archives, and social movements across history. Photo: Fortepan / 1981 / Attila Jankó
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
📢 Call for Participation – ACTIVATE Hybrid Seminar (May 2026)
Archivists, researchers & activists are invited to join a conversation on collaboration, archives, and social movements across history. Photo: Fortepan / 1981 / Attila Jankó
Archivists, researchers & activists are invited to join a conversation on collaboration, archives, and social movements across history. Photo: Fortepan / 1981 / Attila Jankó
How were artistic connections built across the Iron Curtain?
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag explores a West Berlin fellowship program from a Central & Eastern European perspective—where art crossed borders ideology could not.
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag explores a West Berlin fellowship program from a Central & Eastern European perspective—where art crossed borders ideology could not.
January 30, 2026 at 11:39 AM
How were artistic connections built across the Iron Curtain?
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag explores a West Berlin fellowship program from a Central & Eastern European perspective—where art crossed borders ideology could not.
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag explores a West Berlin fellowship program from a Central & Eastern European perspective—where art crossed borders ideology could not.
📂 New Archival Series Now Available
The FIMITIC Country Files are now open in the Archivum Research Room — revealing decades of disability activism, international cooperation, and social change from the 1950s–2006. A rich new source for researchers across disciplines.
The FIMITIC Country Files are now open in the Archivum Research Room — revealing decades of disability activism, international cooperation, and social change from the 1950s–2006. A rich new source for researchers across disciplines.
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
📂 New Archival Series Now Available
The FIMITIC Country Files are now open in the Archivum Research Room — revealing decades of disability activism, international cooperation, and social change from the 1950s–2006. A rich new source for researchers across disciplines.
The FIMITIC Country Files are now open in the Archivum Research Room — revealing decades of disability activism, international cooperation, and social change from the 1950s–2006. A rich new source for researchers across disciplines.
🎨 Exhibition News
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag – The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship at Galeria Centralis will be closed Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 2–6 pm. Afterward, open as usual. Exploring a unique Cold War–era artists’ residency.
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag – The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship at Galeria Centralis will be closed Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 2–6 pm. Afterward, open as usual. Exploring a unique Cold War–era artists’ residency.
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
🎨 Exhibition News
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag – The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship at Galeria Centralis will be closed Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 2–6 pm. Afterward, open as usual. Exploring a unique Cold War–era artists’ residency.
Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag – The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship at Galeria Centralis will be closed Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 2–6 pm. Afterward, open as usual. Exploring a unique Cold War–era artists’ residency.
✨ Season’s Greetings from the staff of the Blinken OSA Archivum! ✨
We wish you peaceful holidays and a happy, inspiring New Year.
📸 Photo: Fortepan
We wish you peaceful holidays and a happy, inspiring New Year.
📸 Photo: Fortepan
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
✨ Season’s Greetings from the staff of the Blinken OSA Archivum! ✨
We wish you peaceful holidays and a happy, inspiring New Year.
📸 Photo: Fortepan
We wish you peaceful holidays and a happy, inspiring New Year.
📸 Photo: Fortepan
A new open-access chapter by Csaba Szilágyi in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict examines archives in postwar Bosnia as spaces of truth-seeking, empathy, and dialogic memory.
Read here: archivum.org/news/book-ch...
Read here: archivum.org/news/book-ch...
Book Chapter on Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Interim Manager Szilágyi's contribution to "The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict" published.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A new open-access chapter by Csaba Szilágyi in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict examines archives in postwar Bosnia as spaces of truth-seeking, empathy, and dialogic memory.
Read here: archivum.org/news/book-ch...
Read here: archivum.org/news/book-ch...
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Presentation, Dec 11, 2025, 11:00 (Archivum, 2nd floor + Zoom). Dr. Tijana Rupčić (Polish Academy of Sciences) will discuss how Yugoslavia’s technomanagers shaped socialist modernization, balancing expertise, ideology, and authority.
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Presentation, Dec 11, 2025, 11:00 (Archivum, 2nd floor + Zoom). Dr. Tijana Rupčić (Polish Academy of Sciences) will discuss how Yugoslavia’s technomanagers shaped socialist modernization, balancing expertise, ideology, and authority.
❄️ Winter Break in the Research Room ❄️
Our Research Room closes Dec 15, 2025 and reopens Jan 7, 2026. Online services (except Digitization on Demand) run until Dec 19, so digital document requests are available through Dec 19.
More: archivum.org/news/winter-...
Our Research Room closes Dec 15, 2025 and reopens Jan 7, 2026. Online services (except Digitization on Demand) run until Dec 19, so digital document requests are available through Dec 19.
More: archivum.org/news/winter-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
❄️ Winter Break in the Research Room ❄️
Our Research Room closes Dec 15, 2025 and reopens Jan 7, 2026. Online services (except Digitization on Demand) run until Dec 19, so digital document requests are available through Dec 19.
More: archivum.org/news/winter-...
Our Research Room closes Dec 15, 2025 and reopens Jan 7, 2026. Online services (except Digitization on Demand) run until Dec 19, so digital document requests are available through Dec 19.
More: archivum.org/news/winter-...
Reposted by Blinken OSA Archivum
Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Executive Board Records of FIMITIC Now Open for Research
The first series of the Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC) is now open for research.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Explore how grassroots archives shape memory and community in Poland. Join dr. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak for a deep look at documenting from below.
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
🔗 ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9129909703...
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
🔗 ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9129909703...
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Explore how grassroots archives shape memory and community in Poland. Join dr. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak for a deep look at documenting from below.
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
🔗 ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9129909703...
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
🔗 ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9129909703...
Hungarian proto-samizdat Napló is now accessible for research at the Blinken OSA Archivum! The collection features excerpts from this groundbreaking 1977 publication and opens alongside an exhibition inspired by Péter Nádas’s Helyszínelés.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hungarian proto-samizdat Napló is now accessible for research at the Blinken OSA Archivum! The collection features excerpts from this groundbreaking 1977 publication and opens alongside an exhibition inspired by Péter Nádas’s Helyszínelés.
There was “no poverty” in autocracies — at least officially.
Miklós Zsámboki’s new post revisits sociologist István Kemény, whose 1970 research exposed the reality of poverty in Hungary and cost him his career.
Read more: archivum.org/entries/blog...
Miklós Zsámboki’s new post revisits sociologist István Kemény, whose 1970 research exposed the reality of poverty in Hungary and cost him his career.
Read more: archivum.org/entries/blog...
There Was and Is No Poverty (in Autocracies)
Poverty statistics have become a political issue in today's Hungary; its Social past brings telling parallels.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
There was “no poverty” in autocracies — at least officially.
Miklós Zsámboki’s new post revisits sociologist István Kemény, whose 1970 research exposed the reality of poverty in Hungary and cost him his career.
Read more: archivum.org/entries/blog...
Miklós Zsámboki’s new post revisits sociologist István Kemény, whose 1970 research exposed the reality of poverty in Hungary and cost him his career.
Read more: archivum.org/entries/blog...
Senior Archivist Mark László-Herbert presented (Counter)Archives: An introduction to the Blinken OSA Archivum) at CIVICA Café on Nov 17, 2025. He explored the Archivum’s archival work, public programs, teaching, and his own role in shaping its mission.
More: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
More: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Senior Archivist Mark László-Herbert presented (Counter)Archives: An introduction to the Blinken OSA Archivum) at CIVICA Café on Nov 17, 2025. He explored the Archivum’s archival work, public programs, teaching, and his own role in shaping its mission.
More: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
More: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
📜 New at the Archivum! The Executive Board Records of FIMITIC — the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability — are now open for research. Explore the stories of advocacy and resilience preserved in these archives. #Archivum #FIMITIC #DisabilityHistory
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📜 New at the Archivum! The Executive Board Records of FIMITIC — the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability — are now open for research. Explore the stories of advocacy and resilience preserved in these archives. #Archivum #FIMITIC #DisabilityHistory
📚 “Living in dystopian times: Dissident thinking on moral foreign policies before 1989 and its applicability after” with Prof. Rick Fawn.
Join us Nov 20, 2025, 11:00 at OSA for a talk on how dissident moral ideas shaped post-1989 foreign policy.
💻 Zoom in: shorturl.at/JPjwr
Join us Nov 20, 2025, 11:00 at OSA for a talk on how dissident moral ideas shaped post-1989 foreign policy.
💻 Zoom in: shorturl.at/JPjwr
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📚 “Living in dystopian times: Dissident thinking on moral foreign policies before 1989 and its applicability after” with Prof. Rick Fawn.
Join us Nov 20, 2025, 11:00 at OSA for a talk on how dissident moral ideas shaped post-1989 foreign policy.
💻 Zoom in: shorturl.at/JPjwr
Join us Nov 20, 2025, 11:00 at OSA for a talk on how dissident moral ideas shaped post-1989 foreign policy.
💻 Zoom in: shorturl.at/JPjwr
📰 Breaking News!
Today, the research room will open at 2:00 p.m.
We apologize for the inconvenience. 🙇♀️
Today, the research room will open at 2:00 p.m.
We apologize for the inconvenience. 🙇♀️
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📰 Breaking News!
Today, the research room will open at 2:00 p.m.
We apologize for the inconvenience. 🙇♀️
Today, the research room will open at 2:00 p.m.
We apologize for the inconvenience. 🙇♀️
Join us for the next Visegrad Scholarship at OSA talk!
🗓 Nov 13, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor
💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/HAYl9
Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz on “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
#BlinkenOSA #VisegradScholarship
🗓 Nov 13, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor
💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/HAYl9
Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz on “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
#BlinkenOSA #VisegradScholarship
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Join us for the next Visegrad Scholarship at OSA talk!
🗓 Nov 13, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor
💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/HAYl9
Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz on “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
#BlinkenOSA #VisegradScholarship
🗓 Nov 13, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor
💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/HAYl9
Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz on “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
#BlinkenOSA #VisegradScholarship
Today, on World Digital Preservation Day, the USAGM terminated the funding of Szabad Európa, the Hungarian-language service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
As the keeper of the RFE/RL Research Institute's historical archives, we highlight the role of digital preservation: tinyurl.com/bdd9pudu
As the keeper of the RFE/RL Research Institute's historical archives, we highlight the role of digital preservation: tinyurl.com/bdd9pudu
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today, on World Digital Preservation Day, the USAGM terminated the funding of Szabad Európa, the Hungarian-language service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
As the keeper of the RFE/RL Research Institute's historical archives, we highlight the role of digital preservation: tinyurl.com/bdd9pudu
As the keeper of the RFE/RL Research Institute's historical archives, we highlight the role of digital preservation: tinyurl.com/bdd9pudu
📚 Memory and Its Complex Legacies — At the 2025 ASEEES Convention, scholars explored how personal, collective, and institutional memories shape the past and influence what societies remember or forget.
#ASEEES2025 #MemoryStudies #Humanities
#ASEEES2025 #MemoryStudies #Humanities
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📚 Memory and Its Complex Legacies — At the 2025 ASEEES Convention, scholars explored how personal, collective, and institutional memories shape the past and influence what societies remember or forget.
#ASEEES2025 #MemoryStudies #Humanities
#ASEEES2025 #MemoryStudies #Humanities
📢 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Nov 6, 11AM 📍Archivum (2nd Floor) 💻Zoom: shorturl.at/OsM1S
Immanuel R. Harisch (Univ. Vienna) on the Communist-dominated WFTU (1953–1978) and Cold War labor debates. #LaborHistory #WFTU #BlinkenOSA #ColdWar
Immanuel R. Harisch (Univ. Vienna) on the Communist-dominated WFTU (1953–1978) and Cold War labor debates. #LaborHistory #WFTU #BlinkenOSA #ColdWar
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📢 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Nov 6, 11AM 📍Archivum (2nd Floor) 💻Zoom: shorturl.at/OsM1S
Immanuel R. Harisch (Univ. Vienna) on the Communist-dominated WFTU (1953–1978) and Cold War labor debates. #LaborHistory #WFTU #BlinkenOSA #ColdWar
Immanuel R. Harisch (Univ. Vienna) on the Communist-dominated WFTU (1953–1978) and Cold War labor debates. #LaborHistory #WFTU #BlinkenOSA #ColdWar
🌍 Helsinki at 50: Human Rights, Peace & Security
Our colleagues András Mink and Ioana Macrea-Toma represented Blinken OSA Archivum at an international conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords — a milestone in Cold War diplomacy & human rights.
#BlinkenOSA #HelsinkiAt50
Our colleagues András Mink and Ioana Macrea-Toma represented Blinken OSA Archivum at an international conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords — a milestone in Cold War diplomacy & human rights.
#BlinkenOSA #HelsinkiAt50
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌍 Helsinki at 50: Human Rights, Peace & Security
Our colleagues András Mink and Ioana Macrea-Toma represented Blinken OSA Archivum at an international conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords — a milestone in Cold War diplomacy & human rights.
#BlinkenOSA #HelsinkiAt50
Our colleagues András Mink and Ioana Macrea-Toma represented Blinken OSA Archivum at an international conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords — a milestone in Cold War diplomacy & human rights.
#BlinkenOSA #HelsinkiAt50
🧠 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Presentation
Join us on Oct 29, 2025 (11:00 a.m.) for Elene Nabakhteveli’s talk:
“Building Science Across Borders: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Soviet Era.”
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor | 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/xcXUC
Join us on Oct 29, 2025 (11:00 a.m.) for Elene Nabakhteveli’s talk:
“Building Science Across Borders: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Soviet Era.”
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor | 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/xcXUC
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🧠 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Presentation
Join us on Oct 29, 2025 (11:00 a.m.) for Elene Nabakhteveli’s talk:
“Building Science Across Borders: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Soviet Era.”
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor | 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/xcXUC
Join us on Oct 29, 2025 (11:00 a.m.) for Elene Nabakhteveli’s talk:
“Building Science Across Borders: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Soviet Era.”
📍 Archivum, 2nd Floor | 💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/xcXUC
📢 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗦𝗔! 🎓
🧭 Research Theme (2025/2026): Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after)
🗓️ Deadline: November 15, 2025
📍 Location: Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest 🇭🇺
🔗 Details: shorturl.at/51gfL
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund
🧭 Research Theme (2025/2026): Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after)
🗓️ Deadline: November 15, 2025
📍 Location: Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest 🇭🇺
🔗 Details: shorturl.at/51gfL
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗦𝗔! 🎓
🧭 Research Theme (2025/2026): Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after)
🗓️ Deadline: November 15, 2025
📍 Location: Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest 🇭🇺
🔗 Details: shorturl.at/51gfL
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund
🧭 Research Theme (2025/2026): Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after)
🗓️ Deadline: November 15, 2025
📍 Location: Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest 🇭🇺
🔗 Details: shorturl.at/51gfL
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund
📘 The Former “Yugoslavia Tribunal” as Monument of Justice is out!
A deep dive into the ICTY’s legacy, archives & Srebrenica history. Proud to have Csaba Szilágyi, Chief Archivist and Head of Human Rights Program at Blinken OSA Archivum as external advisor.
🔗 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
A deep dive into the ICTY’s legacy, archives & Srebrenica history. Proud to have Csaba Szilágyi, Chief Archivist and Head of Human Rights Program at Blinken OSA Archivum as external advisor.
🔗 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
📘 The Former “Yugoslavia Tribunal” as Monument of Justice is out!
A deep dive into the ICTY’s legacy, archives & Srebrenica history. Proud to have Csaba Szilágyi, Chief Archivist and Head of Human Rights Program at Blinken OSA Archivum as external advisor.
🔗 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
A deep dive into the ICTY’s legacy, archives & Srebrenica history. Proud to have Csaba Szilágyi, Chief Archivist and Head of Human Rights Program at Blinken OSA Archivum as external advisor.
🔗 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...