📚 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...

Research Room Reopens on September 2

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

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📚 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.

📚 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...

György Litván's Oscar Jászi Research Materials Accessible

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

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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.

📷 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.

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

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,

🎙️ 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

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-...

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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📢 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

📚 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.

📸 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.

📸 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.

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.

🎙️ 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

🆕 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

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...

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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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.

📷 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

🎬 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

📸🏳️‍🌈 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.

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

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. 📸

📚 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

📚 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

📚 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.

🔗 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...

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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🔗 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...

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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📚 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

📢 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