C. (Csaba) Szilágyi
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1090 GN Amsterdam
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Profile
As an external PhD candidate at AHM, Csaba works on a research project that focuses, from a human rights and social in/justice perspective, on the roles, responsibilities, and limitations of archives in managing the heritage of, creating knowledge on, and transforming memory politics relating to mass atrocities of the recent wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Csaba is the Chief Archivist and Head of Human Rights Program at the Blinken OSA Archivum at Central European University in Budapest. He was the first curator of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University (2005-2006), and served as an archival consultant for the Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive (2019-2022), and Human Rights Watch (1999-2000).
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Exhibitions & creative projects
Yugoslavia Archive Project, Curator & team leader (2024)
Refugee DocsMap, Curator (2019)
Room Without a View, Producer & creator (2016)
Srebrenica-Exhumation (Intro), Curator (2010)
Raoul Wallenberg in Second Life (Online), Curator (2007)
Havel at Columbia: Human Rights Archive, Curator (2006)
Smallest Witnesses: The Crisis in Darfur through Children’s Eyes, Curator (2006)
Srebrenica Commemoration, Curator (2005)
The Divide (Online), Curator (2004)
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Publications
2018
- Szilagyi, C. (2018). Re-archiving Mass Atrocity Records by Involving Affected Communities in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice (pp. 131-152). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75987-6_8
2014
- Szilagyi, C. (2014). Representation of Mass Atrocities in Imagined 'Commemorative Arenas'. In Traces of Terror, Signs of Trauma. Practices of (Re)Presentation of Collective Memory in Space in Contemporary Europe (pp. 71). Bompiani.
2023
- Szilágyi, C., & Jovčevski, P. (2023). Critical Re-Archiving for Social Justice and Inclusive Memories of the Yugoslav Wars. In N. Trajanovski, & L. Georgieva (Eds.), Conflicting Remembrance: The Memory of the Macedonian 2001 in Context (pp. 148-167). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/skopje/20152.pdf#page=150 [details]
2019
- Szilagyi, C. (2019). Records of Forced Displacement and Refugee Narratives: A Case Study from the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest. In Archive und Museen des Exils (pp. 149). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110542103-009
Talk / presentation
- van der Laarse, R. (speaker), Szilagyi, C. (speaker) & Jeurgens, C. (speaker) (8-12-2022). Glocal Memory and the Archive of Terror, The Contribution of Archives to Transitional Justice and Beyond, Srebrenica. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=845770066627217
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