AY 2025/26 Begins at the Archivum
The new academic year kicked off at the Archivum with orientation of incoming students, course presentations and planning of group visits from various units across CEU.
Orientation Day
CEU’s introductory Orientation Week took place between September 1 and 5 at the Vienna Campus. The Archivum’s team guided the students through its online platforms and showed and explained collection items—including text documents, photographs, audio cassettes, film reels, books and objects. The students also had the opportunity to participate in a quiz on the history of CEU and the Archivum, in which they could win high-quality branded merchandise.
Course Offerings, Class Presentations
Similarly to previous years, faculty and staff of the Archivum offer diverse, multidisciplinary courses focusing on the intersection of archives, law, history and evidentiary practices, human rights and social justice in the archives, the history and methodologies of dealing with “facts,” and representations of contested historical events in documentary cinema. Our courses are taught across various graduate departments and programs, such as Historical and Legal Studies, as well as BA.
See our teaching site: https://archivum.org/academics/teaching
Fall Term courses:
- Archives, Evidence and Human Rights
- History in the Visual Mode: Methods and Practices of Documentary Storytelling
Winter and Srping Term courses:
- Encountering Facts in the Archive: Historical method, Theory, and Archival Work
- History in the Public Sphere: (Re)construction - City in the Archive, Archive in the City
Academic visits
The fall semester will also include visits from several CEU units, offering students and faculty the chance to gain first-hand experience in the Archivum, including visits by the Democracy Institute's Leadership Academy (DILA) program in September, by IAS Fellows, and by the Department of Historical Studies in October.
