July 16, 2020
Don't miss out! The application deadline for the 2020/21 Visegrad Scholarships is coming up soon!
July 3, 2020
On a hot summer night when visitors would have flocked to the Goldberger House, we could only host audiences online.
June 4, 2020
Due to the pandemic, the Galeria Centralis was forced to close its doors until further notice, but our colleagues are happy to announce that the exhibition Faith-Trust-Secrecy, which opened in February, is now available online!
April 23, 2020
For more insightful content on the pandemic, Blinken OSA staff are curating recommended articles, books and podcasts.
March 13, 2020
Blinken OSA provides access to even more digital collections through its Research Cloud available to the entire CEU community.
December 13, 2016
"Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia" (I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2017), by Blinken OSA Research Fellow and CEU alumna (HIST) explores how filmmakers sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen i
December 13, 2016
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives has released its 2015 Annual Report in a new digital format, with an in-depth view of the archives' diverse activities. Year 2015 was marked with significant changes in the life of OSA as the institution was renamed following the pledge of generous donation by Vera and Donald Blinken.
November 5, 2015
CEU's Open Society Archives (OSA) was renamed the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at a Nov. 3 dedication event in honor of the couple, who have provided a major bequest to sustain the institution. Their gift will create a permanent endowed fund, which will allow the Archives to expand its critical work in preserving one of the world's most valuable archival collections related to the Cold War, human rights movements and grave international human rights violations.
November 5, 2015
Former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres, called for a common European Union policy to accept and help refugees, in a keynote address at a Nov. 3 event to officially name CEU's Open Society Archives (OSA) in honor of Ambassador Donald and Vera Blinken.
August 5, 2015
CEU historian Istvan Rev, director of the Open Society Archives, is quoted in The New Yorker regarding monuments in Budapest and the history and the controversy surrounding many of them.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ronald-reagan-and-other-hungaria...









