Rév István

Igazgató

Director
revist@ceu.edu

Rév István a budapesti Közép-európai Egyetem történelem és politológia professzora, a Blinken OSA Archivum igazgatója. Az 1984-ben létrehozott környezetvédelmi szervezet, a Duna Kör egyik alapító tagja, az alternatív Nobel-díjként is ismert svéd Right Livelihood Award díjazottja. A princetoni Haladó Tanulmányok Intézetének oktatója, illetve a Los Angeles-i Getty Központ és a stanfordi Magatartástudományi Haladó Tanulmányok Központja kutató ösztöndíjasa. 1995-ben a New Europe Prize díjazottja. Tudományos érdeklődésének főbb területei: a történelmi amnézia, emlékezet, történelmi antropológia és a múlt dokumentumokban fellelhető nyomai. Számos publikációja elérhető, közöttük a Stanford University Pressnél 2005-ben megjelent Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism.

Archival internship in the History in the Public Sphere Program (2019-2024)

Central European University
A 5-week intensive program at the Blinken OSA Archivum, focusing on public history, archives, and creative projects.

https://hipsma.com/current-courses/

Kádár megafonjától a jugoszláv háborúkig: levéltári források, médiatermékek és propaganda (2022)

Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE)
A kurzus megismerteti a résztvevőket az archiválás és a propagandaelemzés jelenkori kihívásaival; gyűjteményeink felhasználásával történelmi hátteret nyújt a hidegháborúval, a magyarországi demokratikus átmenethez vezető úttal és az 1990-es évek jugoszláv háborúit követő nemzetközi perekkel kapcsolatban; és bevezeti a hallgatókat az archívumi forrásokkal való munka gyakorlati kérdéseibe.

https://media.elte.hu/hallgatoknak/kurzuslistak/

The City and the Archive. Historical Interventions in the Public Record (2022/23)

Central European University
The 5-week internship at the Archivum consisted of lectures, guided walks in Budapest, and archival workshops. The students got acquainted with a critical toolkit that allowed them to deal with historical falsifications in the public sphere, from the urban landscape to archival corpora.

https://hipsma.com/the-city-and-the-archive-historical-interventions-in-the-public-record-2022-23-winter/

Fearless Speech and Its Fate in the Archives (2021/22)

Central European University
Lectures and hands-on archival research work help future public historians to further understand the logic and epistemic assumptions of Cold War data collections and to translate issues having a Central and Eastern European relevance to larger global frameworks.

https://hipsma.com/fearless-speech-and-its-fate-in-the-archives/

Makers of the Past, Manufacturing Stories (2019/20)

Central European University
The course provided a methodological toolkit based on theoretical considerations, for how to deal with different sources and approaches in a time when even entertainment industries seem to competitively engage in investigations about contested issues of the past.

Fields of Vision. Images between Art and Archiving (2015/16)

Central European University

Historiography: Themes in Its History and Approaches to its Theory (2014-16)

Central European University
The course provided an overview of major issues and approaches in historiography from classical antiquity to present times. Methodologically, the thematic module focused on the truth - seeking desiderata of historical inquiries and its related (but distinct) searches and techniques of “the objective”.

“Though This Be Madness, yet There is Method in It.” Cold War Fantasies (2013/14)

Central European University
The course explored, based on unique, up-till-now barely used archival sources, how the social sciences contributed to the emergence of the fantasy of past, present and future that guided both the programs of the sciences and perceptions of the world.

The Archives of the Living and Dead Things (2012/13)

Central European University

Rév, István. “Maya Nadkarni, Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary.” Austrian History Yearbook 53, (May 2022): 274–275, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/austrian-history-yearbook/article/maya-nadkarni-remains-of-socialism-memory-and-the-futures-of-the-past-in-postsocialist-hungary-ithaca-ny-cornell-university-press-2020-pp-234/9580F527AF0DCA06205B8647A2ADD9A3
Rév, István. "The Virtue of Not Inventing Anything" in Piotr H. Kosicki, Kytill Kunakhovich (eds.), The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. CEU Press, 2019.
Rév, István: "A kukacok szerepe a múlt rétegeinek föltárásában. Carlo Ginzburg: Nyomok, bizonyítékok, mikrotörténelem." In Budapesti Könyvszemle, 3 (2011): 215-225.
Rév, István. "The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task." In Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building, edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly. Philadelphia, PA:, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Rév, István. "Ethics and the Limit of History Writing." In Memory, Humanity, and Meaning. Essays in Honor of Andrei Pleşu's Sixtieth Anniversary, edited by Mihail Neamtu and Bogdan Tataru-Cazaban. Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2009. 475-494.
Rév, István. "The Man in the White Raincoat." In Past for the Eyes. East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989 , edited by Oksana Sarkisova and Péter Apor. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press, 2008. 3-56.
Rév, István et. al. Emerging Trends in Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities in Europe. The Metris Report. A report by an expert group set up by the European Commission . Brussels: The European Commission, 2009. PDF
Rév, István. "Remembering the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact." In Europe 70 Years After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact . Conference in the European Parliament, Brussels, October 14, 2009. Vilnius: Magri Rastai, 2009.
Rév, István. "The Terror of the House" In (Re)visualizing National History. Museums and National Identities in Europe in the new Millennium , edited by Robin Ostow. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 47-89.
Rév, István. "Konkrétum." Élet és irodalom , May 30, 2008.
Rév, István. "Mivégre az archívum?" Élet és irodalom , June 13, 2008. HTML
Rév, István. Giustizia retroattiva: Preistoria del postcomunismo . Milano: Feltrinelli, 2007.
Rév, István. "Instant Access to Open Archives" In A folyóirat-kultúra az elektronikus kor szemszögéből [The Culture of Journals in the Electronic Age], edited by Anna Gács. Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2007.
Rév, István. "Ein Monument des Faschismus." Aufbau. Der jüdische Monatsmagazin 71 (July-August 2006): 14-21.
Rév, István. "In Mendacio Veritas - In Lies There Lies the Truth" In After History , edited by Martin Prochazka. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
Rév, István. Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005).
Rév, István. “Auschwitz 1945-1989 (rekonstrukció).” Élet és irodalom , 7 May 2004.
Rév, István. “Just Noise.” Lecture given at “The Impact of Cold War Broadcasting” conference, Hoover University at Stanford, October 2004, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Voices of Hope: The Story of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.” PDF
Rév, István: "Contrarevoluția" [Counterrevolution] in: Istoria recentă în Europa : obiecte de studiu, surse, metode : lucrările simposionului internațional organizat de Colegiul Noua Europă, București, 7-8 aprilie, 2000. București : New Europe College, c2002. pp. 102-140.
Rév, István. “The Suggestion.” Representations 80 (2002): 62–98. PDF