CFP: Close Encounters: the Socialist East and the Capitalist West in Cold War Interactions and Imagination

International Workshop at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
20.03.2015-21.03.2015, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam
Deadline: 20.01.2015

25 years after 1989, the current international consternation about Russia's conduct in the wake of the Ukrainian crises and annexation of the Crimean peninsula render painstakingly visible that mutual perceptions of East and West are still deeply influenced by Cold War stereotypes.

The Gábor Demszky Personal Papers Are Available for Research

OSA completed the processing of the Gábor Demszky Personal Papers. The first part of the papers, containing one of the largest Hungarian samizdat collections (HU OSA 302-1 Samizdat Publications, 1973-1990) was donated to OSA as early as 1995 and made available since then. This included periodicals, small prints, pamphlets and books, documents on the democratic opposition, and materials and tools used for samizdat production.