HOVATOVÁBB (Further On)The political and cultural monthly Beszélő is organizing HOVATOVÁBB (Further On) Festival between November 30 and December 14. HOVATOVÁBB is a festival where Roma artists and engaged anti-racist artists cooperate, and the festival's featured guest is the Igazgyöngy Foundational Art School from Berettyóújfalu. The festival wishes to draw attention to the excellent, efficient work foundational schools do in educating disadvantaged children. These schools will be deprived of most of their resources in 2012, and their future is at risk. The festival showcases successful and effective initiatives, whether they are connected to education (such as the Igazgyöngy School and the Dr. Ambedkar School from Sajókaza) or connected to art, literature, social welfare (such Romaversitas ), or culture (such as the book by Pál Závada and Péter Korniss on successful Hungarian Roma, or the New Spectator project of Árpád Schilling and Krétakör Theatre). The program includes music (Ádám Fischer, Akkezdet Phiai, Romano Glaszo etc.), contemporary theater (Krétakör), documentary film (Csaba Szekeres’s Örvény [Vortex], György Pálos’s Ahogy te akarod [As You Wish]), art and photo exhibitions (exhibition of contemporary Roma painters; photos of János Vachter about the region of the Igazgyöngy Art School and exhibition of the drawings by the school’s pupils), evening discussions and a round-table conference (with sociologists Zsuzsa Ferge, Gábor Havas, art historian Tímea Junghaus etc.), a literary evening (with Pál Závada, Péter Esterházy, Lajos Parti Nagy, Krisztina Tóth, Tamás Jónás, Mihály Vajda etc.), and a children’s program. The festival will end with an auction for the benefit of Igazgyöngy Art School. The internationally renowned conductor Ádám Fischer and Gyula Váradi, the young Roma violinist talent, will give a joint charity concert as well. Children from Berettyóújfalu and from Sajókaza are invited with their teachers to spend the first five days of the festival in Budapest. Apart from sightseeing programs, they will be involved in staging a theater production which they will perform during the festival. The venues of the festival are the Open Society Archives (November 30 – December 4), Vízraktér (December 11) and FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture (December 14). Igazgyöngy Foundational Art School gathers 670 children from 23 villages of the Berettyójfalu region (South-East Hungary). Nearly 70% of these children come from poor and disadvantaged, mainly Roma families, and 160 children live in deep poverty. The children's needs for self-expression are at the heart of the alternative pedagogic methods Igazgyöngy School has developed. Each child is supported to develop their own depictive world through individualized exercises. This is meant to maximize the child's interest and motivation. The positive effects of fostering creativity in children assist development across other areas as well. The pupils of Igazgyöngy School have won several prizes with their unique, colorful drawings. Programs in English November 30 OSA, V. ker. Arany János utca 32. 7.30 p.m. Vortex (Örvény) by Csaba Szekeres and John Oates. (With English subtitles.) Filmed over a period of six months, this social documentary feature film shows the lives of Roma families in a small village in Hajdú-Bihar county, North-East Hungary, close to the Romanian border. Unemployment is close to 100% in this community, and the isolation, poverty and discrimination against Roma create a situation in which families find it hard to live decent lives. The film focuses on the experiences of three families, following the various hardships and setbacks they faced over this period. Problems of illness, poor living conditions, lack of basic amenities and even house collapse are combined with fears of children being taken into care, with ever-present challenges of finding enough food, and wood to heat their houses. This creates a situation in which hope is hard to find and in which children suffer just as much as the adults. Solutions are not simple or easy, and the local services struggle to find ways to help these people out of their desperate plights. 8.50 p.m. Round table discussion with the makers of Vortex and with György Pálos, the director of As You Wish (Ahogy te akarod), a documentary presenting the work of the Igazgyöngy Art School, and Nóra L. Ritók, the school’s founder. The discussion is led by Péter Szuhay. (With translation.) December 3 OSA, V. ker., Arany János utca 32. 7 p.m. A concert with Romano Glaszo, Zsuzsi Ujj and Kristóf Darvas, Khamoro, Akkezdet Phiai Concertmaster: Péter Vallai December 4 OSA, V. ker. Arany János utca 32 5.00 p.m. As You Wish (Ahogy te akarod) by György Pálos. (With English subtitles.) The documentary was shot in Eastern Hungary, one of the poorest regions of the country. The Igazgyöngy Civil Organization operates here and has developed into a chain of art schools. Their mission is to offer afternoon art classes to schoolchildren, where instead of compulsory tasks, all kids can rely on their own experiences and draw whatever they would like. These children are able to participate in drawing contests and even travel to other places. These opportunities offer them highly motivational new experiences which may be of some help in their struggle to deal with their disadvantaged situation, as the biggest handicap in this community is the lack of aims, role models, and wishes, which cannot be remedied with any common labor programs or social aids. The main character of the film is the school founder and leader art pedagogue, Nóra L. Ritók, who undertakes to address those welfare tasks that are not dealt with by the council and other local authorities. Her aim is to help the families achieve a basic structure and a higher standard of living. Entry Deadline Extended: Chachipe Map Photography ContestDue to the level of interest from potential contestants as well as the high quality of photos received so far, the organizers and the chair of the jury have agreed to extend the entry deadline for the Chachipe Map photography contest. Amateur and professional photographers now have until January 15, 2012 to enter photos in the contest through the Chachipe Map website at www.chachipe.org. Other contest conditions remain the same.The contest is open to everybody, but in order to be eligible photos must have been taken since the beginning of 2005 in countries participating in the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. Categories: Local Hero, Common Denominator, and Dream Come True Chachipe Map seeks non-stereotypical photographs that are free of prejudices, that show Roma and non-Roma living together, that approach topics in an open manner and that might even employ radically new perspectives. Prizes The international jury will award three prizes in each contest category—of 1000, 500 and 300 Euro, respectively—and may also award special prizes. Winners will be announced on the Chachipe Map website. More information: Zsófia Horváth, +36 30 250 2635, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ► To receive updates about the contest and Chachipe Map exhibitions to be organized in 2012, "Like" the Chachipe page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChachipePhoto or join the Chachipe group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/239155186149444/. The Chachipe photography contests are organized by the Open Society Foundations and OSA Archivum. Twenty Years Later: The Kónya-Pető DebateArguments pro and con retroactive justice Twenty years ago, on November 16, 1991, the Hungarian Television broadcast the debate between Imre Kónya, parliamentary faction head of the senior ruling party, the Hungarian Democratic Forum, and Iván Pető, his counterpart in the main opposition party, the Alliance of Free Democrats, on the possibility of achieving justice with regard to the crimes committed by the communist dictatorship. The debate attracted much attention and escalated into a political scandal. Without doubt, the event can be considered as a turning point in the barely two-year history of Hungarian democracy, which significantly influenced the dynamics of political processes in the country during the next two decades. Over twenty years since the fall of the one-party dictatorship, the issue of justice has been brought up again: the Hungarian Parliament is currently debating a bill on retroactive legislation. The program of the public event in OSA Archives: - Excerpts from the then TV recording of the Kónya-Pető debate will be screened - Our guests Imre Kónya and Iván Pető will comment on the footage. The moderator will be Krisztina Bombera. - Justice and regime-change. Invited speakers: Ferenc Horkay Hörcher, professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Sándor Révész, journalist for Népszabadság and Krisztián Ungváry historian at the The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. - After the speeches, the audience is invited to raise questions and comments. Venue: OSA Archívum, Budapest, V. ker. Arany János u. 32. Date and time: November 21, 2011, 6 pm The full recording of the debate is available here. Background material (in Hungarian) from a 1990 conference on retroactive justice organized by ELTE BTK is available here. Verzio 8 International Human Rights Documentary Film FestivalNovember 8-13, 2011, Budapest
Missing HeroMissing Hero is the second exhibition of activist and graphic artist László Rajk’s series “Missing…”. A single sentence in the Preamble to the new Hungarian Constitution, which comes into force in January 2012, erases 46 years of Hungarian history, including the struggle for freedom, democracy, human rights and the ideal of the republic. The nearly 46 frottage portraits constitute a kind of personal homage to politicians, dissident thinkers and artists, who embodied courage and the spiritual freedom during those “missing years”. The exhibition will be opened by music historian András Wilheim on November 4, 2011 at 6 pm in Galeria Centralis (OSA Archivum), 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32. The exhibition runs from November 4 to 27, 2011. Free entry. 2011 Cultural Heritage DaysFollowing the tradition of previous years, OSA Archivum participates in the 2011 Cultural Heritage Days. September 17-18, 2011, 14:00-20:00 p.m. Surveillance PhotoBudapest and Prague through the Eyes of the State Security Services The exhibition is based on photographs covertly taken by the former Czechoslovak and Hungarian communist security services, of people under surveillance in the streets of Prague and Budapest. They provide a unique insight into contemporary techniques of covert investigation, and the everyday practices of oppression and intimidation. The Hungarian photos are being made available to the wider public for the first time. Galeria Centralis, OSA Archivum The exhibit runs from 20 September until October 30, 2011. Partners: Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security Services, Budapest
Other documents of the Hungarian state security services at OSA can be found here. Voices of FreedomRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War Exhibition on the history of the Munich-based American radio station. NyilatkozatDöbbent felháborodással – ám meglepetés nélkül – értesültünk arról, hogy az állam tulajdonában és irányítása alatt működő rádióknál és televízióknál zajló tisztogatásnak áldozatául estek azok az újságírók is, akik egyre nehezebb körülmények között próbáltak a közelmúlt történetéről értelmes, tisztességes és tudományosan megalapozott információt közvetíteni. Az állami médiumokban folyó, többnyire politikai érdekekeket szolgáló történelemhamisítás közepette, – aminek egyik jellemző terméke az MTV-ben vetített, Koltay Gábor rendezte Horthy-film – néhány magára, és a tényeken alapuló történelmi igazságra adó újságíró igyekezett a tényszerűség és a kiegyensúlyozott józanság hangját megőrizni. Külön köszönettel tartozunk Bánhidi Emesének, Bödő Anitának, Erdős Gábornak, Fekete Norbertnek, Galambos Péternek, Győri Lászlónak, Márkus Katának, Mészáros Antóniának, Pais Juditnak, Rózsa Péternek, Sándor Erzsinek, Szénási Sándornak, Várkonyi Benedeknek és Winkler Nórának, akik az elmúlt években együttműködtek az OSA Archívummal a történelmi és nemzeti önismeretet segítő programok bemutatásában. Értetlenül állunk a tény előtt, hogy az eddig kultúremberként ismert Rockenbauer Zoltán nevét adta az állami médiumokban folyó politikai indíttatású tisztogatásokhoz. Night of MuseumsOSA Archivum – Night of Museums, June 24, 2011
Exhibition in Galeria Centralis, from 4pm to 12:55 am
Exhibition hall and archive in a museum space. The industrial monument that is the Goldberger building is opened to public view once a year. The basement of the building holds records of the fieldwork that underpinned Radio Free Europe's broadcasts during the Cold War, as well as the collection of Human Rights documents. Ratko Mladić ArrestedOn the fifteenth anniversary of the mass killing of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, OSA organized an exhibit on the forensic reconstruction of the genocide titled Srebrenica-Exhumation. At the same time, it released in the local and international media a communiqué calling for the main architect of the genocide to be brought face to face with his judges. On May 26, 2011, Ratko Mladić was finally arrested in Northern Serbia. With his extradition to the ICTY in The Hague justice, at least in the legal sense of the word will be done. 32nd Meeting of ECCHRDOSA hosts the 32nd Meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD) on May 30-31, 2011. The event is co-organized with The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund). The meeting brings together documentalists, archivists, librarians, and information managers working on human rights documentation in various European NGOs, IGOs and academic institutions, among them HURIDOCS, ODIHR/OSCE, Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Amnesty International, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture Victims, and the Norwegian Centre For Human Rights. The topics discussed generally concentrate on how the development of information technology and the emergence of new information management tools can be used to better the work of human rights information specialists. Agenda Monday, May 30, 2011 09.30-09.40 - Opening of the meeting Open Floor (15 minutes for presenting projects and activities) 19:00 - Dinner at a local restaurant (TBA) Tuesday, May 31, 2011 09.30-11.00 - Reducing Enthropy: Information and Documentation Practices in the Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo – Saša Madacki (Human Rights Centre, University of Sarajevo) GENERATION ZRUSSIAN PIONEERS OF SOUND ART AND MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY IN 1910-1930
The exhibition runs from June 9 till July 20.
June 24, 2011, on the Night of Museums, 10:00 p.m.:
Black Box materials at OSAHistorical archival footage has been deposited at OSA by the Black Box Foundation. The material will soon be open for researchers. In conjunction with the event, OSA TV will broadcast on a weekly basis 90 documentary shorts of Black Box, as well as 6 to 8 minute excerpts from the recordings of the Opposition Roundtable negotiations in 1989. Filmstrip Projection for Grown-upsAs part of the Virtual Filmstrip Museum series, OSA organizes a projection for adults. The program: World News 2. (1955) The original filmstrips will be shown using a contemporary projector. Time and Date: April 28, 2011, 6 p.m. Venue: OSA, 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32. Please note that this is a Hungarian language event. How Did We Get to This Point?The current state of the Hungarian constitutionalism restored two decades ago and (Viktor) Orbán's supreme law The last event of OSA's series on the constitution-making process in Hungary is a public lecture by Péter Tölgyessy, a constitutional legal scholar and political analyst, and a prominent figure of the 1989 Opposition Roundtable Negotiations. Time: April 18, 2011 at 18.00 p.m. Venue: OSA, 1051 Budapest, Arany János utca 32. (Please note that this event is in Hungarian.) Virtual Filmstrip MuseumNot all of us may know that filmstrips are not necessarily just stories for children. Educational filmstrips were first made in the early 20th century, and after World War II in Hungarian collector Ferenc Bíró has put together a unique and still growing filmstrip and projection equipment collection. In cooperation with several contributors, in an internationally unprecedented effort, a digitized version of the collection has been put online on the webpage of the Virtual Filmstrip Museum (Virtuális Diafilmmúzeum.) To introduce Virtual Filmstrip Museum to the public, OSA is organizing a series of events: Time: April 14, 2011 at Press conference combined with a small exhibition of vintage equipment, and graphics by Ernő Zórád, a renowned illustrator of filmstrips. A contemporary projector will be used to screen a filmstrip made in 1964 about the growing variety of bijoux that had become available thanks to the measures intended by the oppressive dictatorship to improve the general mood. Time: April 28, 2011 at 6 p.m. Filmstrip screening for adults Time: May 29, 2011 (Children's Day) at 10 a.m. Filmstrip screening for children Venue: OSA, 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32. New challenges to freedom of expressionThe Center for Media and Communication Studies and the OSA Archivum at CEU cordially invite you to a public lecture by Two Constitutions (1989 – 2011) Continuity and DiscontinuitySuccessful constitution-making takes place at pivotal moments in the lives of societies and nations, when an experience is shared by the whole society. The constitution of 1989, which introduced the rule of law in Hungary, is one such constitution. The constitution of the revolutionary regime change which set public law, social life and even the economy on the path to democracy is worth protecting. Constitution‑making in Hungary - Its Aims and Where It Will Lead UsLecture by János Kis 100 Year-Old Buildings of BudapestWithin the framework of our joint 100 Year-Old Buildings of Budapest project, on April 9 and 10, the 100th day of the year, OSA Archivum and the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre will open to the public several dozen buildings which were erected in Budapest in 1911, including the Goldberger House, the headquarters of OSA. RE-VERZIO Documentary Film SeriesFebruary -March 2011
Hoover Archives Research Assistance ScholarshipFor a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (Central and Eastern Europe, the Freedom Broadcasting Foundation (formerly the RFE/RL Fund) and the Open Society Archives at Central European University (OSA) offer a grant which covers altogether 108 distant research hours in the Hoover Institution on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty holdings of the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, and whose current research projects are relevant to these holdings. Read more... Law and Disorder - Public LectureWikileaks and the Future of Information Freedom The Center for Media and Communication Studies and the Open Society Archives at CEU invite you to a public lecture by David McCraw Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Company February 16, 2011, 5:00 p.m. OSA Archivum 1051 Budapest, Arany J. u. 32.
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