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Szubjektív Budapest Tér-képekA pályázatokat elbíráló zsűri meghozta döntését: a 40 beérkezett pályaműből 13 alkotás kerül be az OSA Archívum Centrális Galériájában október 20-án nyíló kiállításba. Subjective Budapest Map Competition ClosedAltogether 40 works have been received. The jury met on May 27th to select finalists and winners. Competitors will be notified of the results by May 31st.Artwork received includes interactive online and touch-screen works, video installations, Javascript code distorted SVG maps with sticker printer, maps to be worn, voice maps, digital and mental maps, plans for paintings, data visualization experiments and performance documentation. Artists include: cartographers, photographers, mechanical engineers, information technology specialists, visual artists, designers, sculptors, media artists, communications and media students, painters, and sociologists. Srebrenica - Exhumation
"In a criminal investigation it is the forensic stuff that tells the story so compellingly... the science in it is frankly quite spectacular." (Louise Arbour, former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) In the period of July 11-18, 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army massacred over 7,000 Muslim men and boys in and around the small Eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a “safe area” under UN protection. The bodies were first dumped into mass graves; these were later reopened and the commingled remains reburied in secondary mass graves to make their identification more difficult. During the nearly 15 years of investigation, however, more than six thousand victims from 80 mass graves have been identified. The massacre was condemned as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in a precedent trial, but many still refuse to recognize it as such despite the collected evidence. Visegrad Scholarship at OSA ArchivumFor a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of) Europe, the International Visegrad Fund offers 10 research fellowship grants annually in the OSA Archivum at Central European University, Budapest on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the holdings of OSA, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and the Archivum. HOPEOSA will participate as a research partner and content provider in a three-year EU Digital Libraries project entitled "Heritage of the People's Europe" (HOPE) starting on May 1, 2010. HOPE is a Best Practice Network of archives, libraries, and museums which will work closely with the Europeana digital library to improve and integrate access to significant but scattered digital collections on social history across Europe.HOPE is supported through the EU Competitiveness and Innovation Framework ICT Policy Support Programme on Digital Libraries. Access to Shoah ArchivesOSA Archivum provides access to online database of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History which has been working since 1994 to collect and preserve the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute's Visual History Archive (VHA) contains nearly 52,000 visual history testimonies from 56 countries and in 32 languages. These testimonies are collected and made available to the researchers through an interface which allows users to search and view the fully indexed visual history testimonies and any additional corresponding data. Each testimony consists of one survivor or witness speaking about his or her life before, during and after the Holocaust. During the videotaped interview sessions, survivors are guided by questions from the Shoah Foundation interviewer. The testimonies average 2 hours in length. Use of the Archive requires a one-time registration, allowing you to save searches and projects.Laguages of the interviews: Bulgarian • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Flemish • French • German • Greek • Hebrew • Hungarian • Italian • Japanese • Ladino • Latvian • Lithuanian • Macedonian • Norwegian • Polish • Portuguese • Romani • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Sign • Slovak • Slovenian • Spanish • Swedish • Ukrainian • Yiddish KatyńTo express our solidarity with the Polish people, OSA Archivum at CEU screens Andrzej Wajda's Katyń on April 16, Friday, 5 pm. katyń "Katyń" is the name of the forest where the Soviet NKVD forces murdered 15,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals over a 3-day period in 1940 (during which a 14-year-old Wajda lost his own father). Stalin's purpose was to destroy those elements of the population who would be most resistant to Soviet control following WWII. For decades the truth was obfuscated, with the Nazis often blamed for the atrocity. Half a century later, in 1990, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev admitted his nation's responsibility. In this film Andrzej Wajda recreates wartorn Poland and the stories of both the perpetrators and their victims. OSA Archivum at CEU Generation'89The successful project Generation'89 (www.generation89.eu) candidates to represent Hungary in Brussels, Bucharest, Prague and Warsaw areJanikovszky Dóra - Technical University, Budapest, Management Studies Kovács Viktor Sándor - University of Szeged, Media Studies Kapcsos Ádám - CECOS London College, Budapest-London, Diploma in Hotel Management Studies Livits Réka - Eötvös Lóránd University , Budapest, Communication and Media Studies, Dutch Studies Molnár Zoltán - University of Debrecen, Management Studies Tóth Enikő - Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Communication Studies Tóth István Dávid, University of Leeds , Leeds, UK, International Relations and Russian Studies Szöllösi Zsófia - II. Rákóczi Ferenc Secondary Grammar School, Budapest OSA receives the Joseph Pulitzer Memorial Prize
Call for SubmissionsOSA Archivum “Subjective Maps of Budapest” CompetitionAs an international research institute and archive, OSA Archivum is known for its innovative ways of making public and using documents about the history of the recent past and human rights violations. OSA Archivum was founded by George Soros in 1995 as one of the research, educational and cultural centers of Central European University. Exposing TERROR
Exposing TERROR Highlights of the Soros Documentary Fund/Sundance Documentary Film Fund, 1996-2009 A shocking terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the mysterious murder of hundreds of women in a small Mexican town, the firsthand accounts of gay bashers from US prisons, stories of children born into brothels in the slums of Calcutta, an Argentinean cameraman recording his own death during the 1973 Chilean military coup – merely a few of the intriguing stories presented in the documentary panorama “Exposing Terror.” Strong, at times overwhelming, feelings of pain, fear, hope, and compassion saturate these works. The world is changing fast, and the notion of terror has acquired new layers of meaning strongly influenced by oppressive political ideologies, religious fundamentalism, and individual intolerance. Exposing terror and recovering its roots is the only way to learn how to overcome today’s fears in order to face future challenges. Book LaunchA public lecture by the author, journalist, and scholar KATI MARTON on insights from her new book ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE "You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police files in Budapest. But her family history—during both the Nazi and the Communist periods—was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love affairs, betrayals inside the family circle, torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage, and, above all, deep family love. In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton, an accomplished journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of communist state terror, using the secret police files on her journalist parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends and colleagues, and even the children's babysitter. OSA ScholarshipUntil further notice please contact Katalin Gadoros, Head of OSA Administration ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) directly.PUBLIC HEARINGOSA Archivum organizes a public hearing to discuss the selection and appointment of the new Chief Director of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security Services and on the issue of open access to files.Time: February 23, 2010, 4 pm Venue: OSA Archivum, Bp., 5th district Arany János u. 32. The hearing will provide a forum for historians, advocates of free public access to files and the one-time victims of the security services to raise and discuss issues concerning the Historical Archives and the files. Moderator: József Gulyás MP Copyright
The Dunagate Dossier To close its thematic webpage dedicated to the historic documents of 1989, OSA Archivum opened the Dunagate Dossier, which attempts to recollect the most important events of the political scandal involving wiretapping and systematic shredding of state security documents by the help of transcripts of radio broadcasts, press survey, news agency reports and excerpts from documentary films.A larger part of the dossier consists of newly discovered state security documents pertaining to the evolution and the restructuring of the Hungarian secret services in the period of 1988-1991. These documents are posted on the Parallel Archive, a digital repository and research tool developed by OSA in the past several months, where the documents can be searched in full text, tagged and commented on. Researchers can conduct professional debates on the documents in the related discussion forums. http://www.parallelarchive.org/forum/9/144 New interesting Russian language documentson the Parallel Archive from the State Archives of the Russian Federation: letters and notes of the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Budapest on the Hungarian – Soviet cultural relations after the 1956 revolution and on the Soviet propaganda machine.For instance: www.parallelarchive.org/document/1857 Clues; a Hypothesis revisiteda Workshop with Carlo Ginzburg at OSA Archivum (32 Arany Janos str. Budapest 1051) Magnetic Tapes - File LawOver the past few weeks, over one thousand people have signed the open letters published on Facebook and on the Nyílt titok (Open secret) internet forum, demanding to be informed about what is on the magnetic tapes held by the National Security Office as well as what a reasonable File Law should include. The signatories are determined to express their opinion on the constitutional rights of the freedom of research and information concerning this specific issue.Carrier Bags and SacksThe 20th century of wrapping and carryingA retrospective chamber exhibition of bags and sacks from the history of commerce in Hungary. A unique collection of 80 important pieces including tinfoil, silk paper, cardboard, wrapping paper, disposable PVC and nylon carrier bags on show for the first time. Unforgettable brands, long-gone manufacturers and shops: shopping bags with the logos of large department stores Szivárvány, Corvin and Lottó as well as of small shop-owners Ignácz Frisch, Victor Kovács and György Fleischer! The exhibition runs from 20 January till 28 February Closed between 26 January till 2 February. Free entry Open from 10 am to 6 am Monday through Friday Galeria Centralis (OSA) - 1051 Arany J. utca 32. RE-VERZIO Documentary Film Series
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On March 21, 2010, OSA Archivum was awarded the Joseph Pulitzer Memorial Prize in the “History of the Press” category. The prize, established in 1989, in the memory of the Hungarian-born Joseph Pulitzer, recognizes outstanding achievement among Hungarian journalists working in either the print or online press.
March 17-21, 2010
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February -March 2010