Evenings on Peace Square

An autumn conversation series accompanying On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue, an exhibition by the Blinken OSA Archivum and the Historical Archives of the State Security (ÁBTL).

Part 1. – September 27, 2026 (Thursday)

6:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion: Peace, Propaganda, and the Cold War

Part 2. – September 25, 2026 (Friday)

Researcher's Night 2026

5:00 p.m. Curatorial guided tour with Zoltán Viszket and Miklós Zsámboki.

6:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion: Is the Peace Movement a Political Movement? Political Socialization in the 1980s

Part 3. – October 8, 2026 (Thursday)

6:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion: Is Peace a Human Right? The Democratic Opposition and Peace in the 1980s

Part 4. – October 15, 2026 (Thursday)

4:30 p.m. Guided tour with Zoltán Viszket and Péter István Pap

5:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion: Peace? – Fighting, Movements, Loans, Clergy, Propaganda. Launch of the 2016 no.3 issue of Betekintő

Part 5. – October 22, 2026 (Thursday)

6:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion: State Security Interventions, the State Security Record as a Construction of Reality

The events will be held in Hungarian.

The exhibition On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue is open free of charge through October 25, 2026 at the Blinken OSA Archivum’s Centrális Gallery.

The series is organized in cooperation with the Blinken OSA Archivum, the Historical Archives of the State Security, and CEU’s Department of Political Science.