Research Opportunities for CEU Students
The Open Society Archives (OSA) is launching a new project for CEU students intended to enrich its Reference Information Papers (RIP) series. The RIP are thematic finding aids meant to guide researchers to all the relevant archival materials at OSA that relate to a certain topic.
Suggested topics:
- Stalin
- Stalingrads in Central and Eastern Europe
- Sex and communism
- Literary awards
- Literary exile
- Jews
- Socialist economic planning
- Socialist residential districts (prefab blocks of flats)
- The reception of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- RFE as seen by communist regimes
Apart from those suggested by OSA, students are invited to suggest interesting topics related to any aspect of the history and afterlife of Communism and the Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe. Students participating in the project either individually or in groups must conduct research in the Archives holdings and catalogues, write a short presentation of the materials pertaining to the chosen topic and compile comprehensive finding aids to them. The research is guided and supervised by staff archivists. The final products of the project will be published both in printed and electronic versions (posted on the OSA web site). Students will be acknowledged as authors and the RIP will count as a reference on their list of publications. OSA is also looking for further ways of providing some academic recompense.
Archival Research Papers (ARP)
CEU students and external researchers regularly produce valuable research papers which do not conform to any of OSA's mainstream research publications, for example the RIPs. However, OSA encourages the production of such papers on the grounds that these papers are not only important contributions to the work of the research community in general, but are also valuable representations of the research done by their writers. Consequently, the Open Society Archives offers to publish these papers on its website.
These research papers are all required to include a textual study, an abstract and an extensive bibliography, which follows the OSA standards of describing and quoting its archival documents.
Please send informal applications to archives@ceu.hu or call 327-3250.
Revised June 2004
