Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
at Central European University (CEU)
Budapest, Hungary
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome | István Rév, Director, Blinken OSA
9:45 Keynote, Problem Statement | Anne Gilliland, Professor, UCLA
10:00 Session 1 | Documenting Refugees’ Identities, Archives as Sources
Chair: Tamara Štefanac, Independent Researcher
Iván Székely, Senior Research Fellow, Blinken OSA
Csaba Szilágyi, Head of the Human Rights Program, Blinken OSA
11:00 Coffee Break
11:10 Session 2 | Refugee Perspectives? Or Geopolitical Trends?
Chair: Csaba Szilágyi
Yolande Ditewig, Senior Regional Policy Officer, UNHCR Regional Representation for Central Europe (Budapest)
Boldizsár Nagy, Associate Professor, CEU
Anikó Bakonyi, Advocacy and Project Officer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 3 | Problems of Documentation and Technology in Migration
Chair: James Lowry, Lecturer, Liverpool University
Cameran Ashraf, Assistant Professor, CEU
Patricia Sleeman, Digital Archivist, UNHCR Records and Archives (Geneva)
Hadi Al-Khatib, Founder and Director, Syrian Archive
14:45 Film Screening
15:45 Session 4 | Refugee Rights in Records Project and next steps
Anne Gilliland and James Lowry
17:00 Closing remarks | Anne Gilliland
17:30 Guided Tour of the Archives | Robert Parnica, Senior Reference Archivist, Blinken OSA
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