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	HU OSA 203-13-1
Fonds 203:	Records of Central European University
Subfonds 13:	External Relations Office
Series 1:	Audio-visual Recordings

Date(s) 1990-2006

Extent and medium

62 Audio cassette, 1 linear meters
107 Beta SP, 3 linear meters
1 CD-ROM, 0.01 linear meters
9 mini DV, 0.01 linear meters
69 VHS, 2 linear meters

Scope and content

The collection consists of video and audio recordings documenting the main events at Central European University (CEU) since its inception. Video recordings of seminars, lectures, press conferences, receptions and public events held at the Central European University, Budapest and an original index to these recordings.

The most significant part of the material comprises CEU's major annual events, such as the opening ceremony of the academic year and the graduation. Other events documented are the CEU rectors' inauguration, the most important international conferences, various symposiums, meetings, public lectures, debates and interviews hosted by CEU.

Highlights of the international conference recordings are: "Global Lecture Hall", "The Capitalist Threat", "Human Dignity Conference", "Rivers of Life or Rivers of Death?", "Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe" and "Transatlantic Dialogues." Other events include: "Soros Meets Students", "Giordano Bruno Statue Unveiling", "TGM Discussions", "CEU Endowment", "On Multi-stories History" or "Belgrade Professors at CEU."

Numerous distinguished personalities held public lectures at CEU, including Aziz Al-Azmeh, Donald M. Blinken, Leon Botstein, Gerhard Casper, the Dalai Lama, Gábor Demszky, Árpád Göncz, António Guterres, Caroline Hernandez, Michał Kulesza, Ira Lieberman, Aryeh Neier, Paul Ricoeur, George Soros, and Iván Szelényi.

Furthermore, a vast collection of interviews are to be found here, most of them with CEU affiliated personalities, particularly with the faculty’s administrative and academic staff. The collection contains also several documentaries and promotional videos, the latter category presenting various universities and institutions. Some tapes are recordings of TV or radio news about CEU, as part of the media monitoring commissioned by CEU.

Accruals Expected

System of arrangement

• Chronological; original CEU order of arrangement has been preserved.

Conditions governing access Open to researchers.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by the producers

Language/scripts of material

Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tibetan

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Video footage on approx. 75% of the material (approx. 7300 hours of video footage), of which Beta Sp NTSC (approx. 44%), VHS NTSC (approx. 27%), Mini-DV (approx. 4%), CD-ROM (approx. 0.5%).

Audio footage on approx. 25% of the material.

Finding aids

• 248 containers

Note

Keywords: Graduation, Opening, Commencement, Inauguration, Conference, Lecture, Panel, Interview, Speech, Media, Rector, Ambassador, Professor, Open Society, CEU, Residence, Master, Doctoral, Degree, George Soros, Alfred Rieber, Yehuda Elkana, Josef Jařab

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Alexandra Lăzău-Ratz in July – August 2010. Description revised by Anikó Kövecsi in September 2010.
Online version updated 19 April 2012