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!
How do archives speak after war?
Bosnian collections shaped by human rights documentation become spaces where trauma, justice, and imagination intersect. From legal evidence to cultural practice, they sustain complex memory work and invite ethical engagement with the past.
Bosnian collections shaped by human rights documentation become spaces where trauma, justice, and imagination intersect. From legal evidence to cultural practice, they sustain complex memory work and invite ethical engagement with the past.
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How do archives speak after war?
Bosnian collections shaped by human rights documentation become spaces where trauma, justice, and imagination intersect. From legal evidence to cultural practice, they sustain complex memory work and invite ethical engagement with the past.
Bosnian collections shaped by human rights documentation become spaces where trauma, justice, and imagination intersect. From legal evidence to cultural practice, they sustain complex memory work and invite ethical engagement with the past.
Rupčić’s talk traces technomanagers from the 1950s–60s rise to the conflicts of the 1970s, showing how their influence clashed with political power. A fresh view on technocracy within socialist systems. Zoom link + details: ultrashort.info/jCgGWK
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Experts in Power: How Technomanagers Shaped—and Challenged—Yugoslav Socialism
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Dr. Tijana Rupčić.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Rupčić’s talk traces technomanagers from the 1950s–60s rise to the conflicts of the 1970s, showing how their influence clashed with political power. A fresh view on technocracy within socialist systems. Zoom link + details: ultrashort.info/jCgGWK
More: archivum.org/events/exper...
More: archivum.org/events/exper...
Public lecture: Documenting from Below — Community Archives in Poland with dr. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak.
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
More about the speaker: www.wisniewska-drewniak.com
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🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
More about the speaker: www.wisniewska-drewniak.com
More about about the lecture: archivum.org/events/docum...
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Public lecture: Documenting from Below — Community Archives in Poland with dr. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak.
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
More about the speaker: www.wisniewska-drewniak.com
More about about the lecture: archivum.org/events/docum...
🗓️ Dec 2, 11 AM | Blinken OSA Archivum
More about the speaker: www.wisniewska-drewniak.com
More about about the lecture: archivum.org/events/docum...
The Blinken OSA Archivum has made excerpts from the influential proto-samizdat Napló available to researchers. Released with an exhibition on Nádas’s Helyszínelés, first published in Napló (1977).
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More: archivum.org/news/hungari...
Hungarian Proto-Samizdat "Napló" Now Available for Research
Also on view at a related exhibition at the Art Department, in Budapest.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The Blinken OSA Archivum has made excerpts from the influential proto-samizdat Napló available to researchers. Released with an exhibition on Nádas’s Helyszínelés, first published in Napló (1977).
More: archivum.org/news/hungari...
More: archivum.org/news/hungari...
“Poverty didn’t exist”—that’s what the regime claimed.
István Kemény proved otherwise, sparking a scandal that reshaped Hungarian sociology and forced him into exile.
On his centenary, we revisit his taboo-breaking 1970 lecture.
Link: archivum.org/entries/blog...
István Kemény proved otherwise, sparking a scandal that reshaped Hungarian sociology and forced him into exile.
On his centenary, we revisit his taboo-breaking 1970 lecture.
Link: archivum.org/entries/blog...
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“Poverty didn’t exist”—that’s what the regime claimed.
István Kemény proved otherwise, sparking a scandal that reshaped Hungarian sociology and forced him into exile.
On his centenary, we revisit his taboo-breaking 1970 lecture.
Link: archivum.org/entries/blog...
István Kemény proved otherwise, sparking a scandal that reshaped Hungarian sociology and forced him into exile.
On his centenary, we revisit his taboo-breaking 1970 lecture.
Link: archivum.org/entries/blog...
What if an archive could reveal its many selves? At CIVICA Café, Mark László-Herbert guided listeners through the layers of the Blinken OSA Archivum—from counter-archives to public engagement and the personal stories behind the work.
Explore: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
Explore: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
The Archivum's presentation at CIVICA Café
Senior Archivist Mark László-Herbert gave a talk at the CIVICA Café titled (Counter)Archives: An introduction to the Blinken OSA Archivum.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What if an archive could reveal its many selves? At CIVICA Café, Mark László-Herbert guided listeners through the layers of the Blinken OSA Archivum—from counter-archives to public engagement and the personal stories behind the work.
Explore: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
Explore: archivum.org/news/the-arc...
Exciting news for researchers! The first series of the FIMITIC (International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability) Records is now available at the Archivum. Dive into decades of documentation on global disability advocacy. More info: 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 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Exciting news for researchers! The first series of the FIMITIC (International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability) Records is now available at the Archivum. Dive into decades of documentation on global disability advocacy. More info: archivum.org/news/executi...
How did dissident moral thinking before 1989 influence foreign policy after communism? Prof. Rick Fawn explores two key hypotheses in his project on values, intervention, and the Visegrad legacy.
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🔗 Read more: archivum.org/events/livin...
Living in dystopian times: Dissident thinking on moral foreign policies before 1989 and its applicability to foreign policy after.
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Rick Fawn (Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews).
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November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
How did dissident moral thinking before 1989 influence foreign policy after communism? Prof. Rick Fawn explores two key hypotheses in his project on values, intervention, and the Visegrad legacy.
🔗 Read more: archivum.org/events/livin...
🔗 Read more: archivum.org/events/livin...
How did words like freedom or truth shape the Cold War—and what happens to them now?
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
More: archivum.org/events/words...
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
More: archivum.org/events/words...
Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz (Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études Françaises, Deputy Director).
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November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
How did words like freedom or truth shape the Cold War—and what happens to them now?
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
More: archivum.org/events/words...
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
More: archivum.org/events/words...
How did words like freedom or truth shape the Cold War—and what happens to them now?
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
🔗 More info: archivum.org/events/words...
#ColdWar #PostTruth #BlinkenOSA
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
🔗 More info: archivum.org/events/words...
#ColdWar #PostTruth #BlinkenOSA
Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series continues with presentation by Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz (Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études Françaises, Deputy Director).
archivum.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
How did words like freedom or truth shape the Cold War—and what happens to them now?
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
🔗 More info: archivum.org/events/words...
#ColdWar #PostTruth #BlinkenOSA
Join Dr. Niv Nissim Schvartz for “Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric.”
🗓 Nov 13 | 11:00 a.m.
🔗 More info: archivum.org/events/words...
#ColdWar #PostTruth #BlinkenOSA
Our colleague Ioana Macrea-Toma presented “Oral History for Intellectual Biographies” at #ASEEES2025, examining how oral history can recover the lives of intellectuals marginalized or forgotten after 1989.
🔗 More: archivum.org/news/659
🔗 More: archivum.org/news/659
Memory and Its Complex Legacies: Ioana Macrea-Toma at the 2025 ASEEES Convention
Ioana Macrea-Toma contributed an online presentation at the 2025 ASEEES Convention, engaging with the conference’s theme of memory and its complex legacies in Eastern Europe.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our colleague Ioana Macrea-Toma presented “Oral History for Intellectual Biographies” at #ASEEES2025, examining how oral history can recover the lives of intellectuals marginalized or forgotten after 1989.
🔗 More: archivum.org/news/659
🔗 More: archivum.org/news/659