Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1973 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1973 / 1. szám
I R E X RESEARCH IN PROGRESS The International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)was established in 1968 by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. It derives its principal support from the Ford Foundation, but is subsidized also by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by participating universities, which waive tuition and other fees for foreign students and scholars under I REX programs. IREX is the principal source of support to U.S. scholars interested in research and training in Eastern Europe, and to East European scholars desireous to receive training or conduct research in the United States. IREX exchanges are conducted in Hungary under the auspicies of the Institute for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and provide for access to all institutions of higher learning including the Institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. An annual quota of 50 man-month is available for American participants. Participation is normally for a semester or an academic year, but shorter or longer arrangements may be considered. Hungary provides cost of instruction, research expenses, language training, housing, medical and dental care, and a monthly stipend in forints, and book and microfilm allowances. IREX provides transportation for the participant, one-half of transportation costs for accompanying family members for stays of at least one semester (full transportation for stays of an academic year), family allowance for married graduate students, and other benefits depending on the participant's income. Application deadline for academic year 1974-75 is November 15, 1973. Of special interest may be the new program of prepatory fellowships. Awarded for the first time for 1972—73, this program is to attract promising doctoral candidates, whose work would not normally involve an East European component, into this field by offering them two intensive summers as well as an academic year of language and area training in conjunction with their regular studies, to be followed by a year's participation in the appropriate exchange. For free booklet on these and other IREX programs write to International Research and Exchange Board, 110 East 59th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Annual Report. According to the latest IREX report on academic year 1971—72, the East European exchange program (excluding the USSR) shows the following results: AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS In Nominated by IREX Rejected by Host Country Withdrew Man-months of participation Bulgaria 8 0 1 29 Czechoslovakia 5 2 0 36 Hungary 5 2 2 39 Poland 8 0 1 55 Romania 6 0 1 38 Yugoslavia 10 0 1 60 Total 42 4 6 257 American participants in Hungary: Richard Allen, a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University, for work at the Hungarian National Archives on "Oscar Jászi and Radicalism in Hungary, 1900-1919." Andrew Gross, Assistant Professor of Economics, Cleveland State University, for work at the National Marketing Institute (Budapest) on "Market Research and Business Forecasting in Hungary." Robert Lee, Lecturer of Musicology, University of Washington, for research at the Liszt Museum and Ferenc Liszt Academy on an "Inventory of Franz Liszt Source Materials in Hungarian Collections." (Continued on pg. 7, col. 1) Dr. Richard E. Allen, Assistant Professor of History, U. of Denver, is currently translating two books from Hungarian: A Century of Hungarian Economic Delvelopment by György Ránki and Iván Berend; and The Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller. He is also planning a study of the secession of the nationality areas from the old Hungarian Kingdom in 1918—1919. Dr. William M. Batkay. Assistant Professor, Montclair State College, Montclair, N.J., is preparing a study on "Some considerations on the role of a ruling party in a semi-traditional society - the United Party in Hungary, 1922—1926." He is also preparing a study on recruitment to the political elite in Bethlen Hungary, and is planning to study variations in support for the Government Party in inter-war Hungary as measured by percentages of the popular vote. Janos Decsy, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History at Greater Hartford Community College, Hartford, CT, is preparing a dissertation for the Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, on "Count Julius Andrássy and the Franco- Prussian War." Dr. Alfred A. Reisch, Lecturer in Political Science, Manhattan College, Bronx, N.Y., is currently working on a book on the image of American democracy in the Hungarian age of reform. Edward A. Tuleya, Associate Professor of History at Millersville State College in Pennsylvania, is working on his doctoral dissertation for American University, on "Federation: Past and Present Aspirations of the Slovaks," which has implications on Hungarian-Slovak relations throughout history. Dr. Halsey Stevens, Professor of Music and Composer-in-residence, U. of Southern California, who authored the book, The Life and Music of Béla Bartók (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1953 and 1964), is working on another book tentatively entitled Studies in Hungarian Music. Barna Szabó, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Long Beach State University, California, is doing research for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Notre Dame on "Count Paul Teleki's concepts concerning Hungary's place in Europe and his at(Continued on pg. 7, col. 2) 6
