CONSORTIUM

Central European University (CEU)��Vienna, Austria

Central European University (CEU) was founded in 1991 by investor George Soros. Located in Vienna, CEU offers graduate programs in English and is accredited in both Austria and the United States. Students from over 100 countries study across 15 departments. The Department of History provides an excellent academic gateway to the history of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twenty-first century, putting these in conversation with other European and world regions. It also actively engages in comparative historical perspectives. The whole university and the Department of History, in particular, has a civic commitment to analyzing, producing, and disseminating historical knowledge as a way of social and political emancipation and empowerment. Within the HIPS program, CEU plays a coordination role for the entire consortium.

Blinken OSA Archivum (Archivum)��Budapest, Hungary

The Blinken OSA Archivum is a complex archival institution at CEU. It serves as an archive that preserves documents and other historical materials and as a research institution that utilizes and interprets them to conduct research. The Archivum is a?repository?of important collections and historical documents primarily related to the history and afterlives of the Cold War, grave international human rights violations, and marginalized communities, including the Roma, LGBTQI+ individuals, and people with disabilities. The research results based on these historical materials are made public and stored as further materials. The Archivum seeks to work in a self-reflective way by problematizing its tasks and its changing practices. In an age of disinformation, the misuse of sources, and the distortion of facts, it is committed to rebuilding the trust and integrity of its holdings and methods.