Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1973 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1973 / 1. szám

I REX (Continued)

RESEARCH PROGRESS (Continued)

Elizebeth Nagy, a graduate student of history at New York University, for study at the University of Szeged concentrating on "Radical Intellectuals of Hungary, 1900-1918: Huszadik Század Circle."

William Nemser, Director of Foreign Language Program, Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, D.C.), to do research at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences oh "Hungarian-English Contrastive Grammar."

In addition I REX awarded grants for study of Hungarian-related topics in other East European countires:

James Rogerson, a graduate student of history at the University of Chicago, for study at the Comenius University (Bratislava) on "Hlinka Slovak People's Party and Czechoslovak Government Crisis, 1925—1927."

Walter Bacon, a graduate student at the School of International Studies, University of Denver, for study and research at the Romanian Academy of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of History on "Romanian Foreign Policy between the Wars."

Peter Salo, a graduate student of history at Stanford University, for research and study at Belgrade University on the "Assassination of King Alexander and its International Implications."

Nominees rejected by the host country and supported for alternate projects in Austria:

Joseph Held, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, for research on "Mathias Hunyadi (Corvinus) and the Renaissance in Eastern Europe, 1457-1490."

Gabor Vermes, Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of California, Irvine, for research on "Count István Tisza and the Character of Magyar Nationalism, 1867—1918."

FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS

Nominated by

Rejected

Man-Months of

From

Host Country

by IREX

Withdrew

Participation

Bulgaria

4

0

0

11

Czechoslovakia 9

0

3

45

Hungary

12

0

1

113

Poland

10

0

0

79

Romania

14

0

3

98

Yugoslavia

10

0

1

96

Total

59

0

8

442

Hungarian participants in the U.S.:

Tamás Beck, Technical Director, Organization Institute of Light Industry, to study at Princeton Textile Research Center, "Trends in Technical Development and Research of Textile Industry and its Organization."

Csaba Gombár, Scientific Collaborator, Institute of Social Sciences, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, for study at the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, "History of American Political System."

László Gutái, Research Worker, Research Institute for Technical Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to study at Carnegie-Mellon University, "The Effect of Interface States on the Current-Voltage, Capacitance-Voltage and Photo-Response Characteristics of Heterojunctions Composed from II—VI and III—V Compounds, as well as from Silicon and Germanium."

Károly Hamar, Senior Research Engineer, Research Institute for Automation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for study at Purdue University, "Computer Process Control, Especially in Chemical Industry."

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tempt to revise the conditions which resulted from World War I."

Dr. Bela Vardy, Assistant Professor of History, Duquesne U., is close to completing his research on the teaching of Hungarian language and culture at American universities. He is planning to present a complete inventory of Hungarian-related activities, including titles of courses, names of instructors, and textbooks in use.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Institute on East Central Europe

is the only academic center in the United States entirely dedicated to the study of the area encompassing Finland, the Baltic states, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Greece. Students enrolled in the program usually combine their efforts with work for the Ph.D. degree in the Graduate Faculties of the M.I.A. degree in the School of International Affairs.

The Institute, which is part of Columbia University, enjoys support from the Ford Foundation, the Jurzykowski Foundation on behalf of Polish studies, the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric in New York on behalf of modern Greek studies, and some support from the Office of Education. It also maintains the Nicolae N. lorga Chair in Romanian and Southeast European studies funded by the University of Bucharest.

Director of the Institute is István Deák, Associate Professor of History. Staff members include: Conrad Arensberg, Professor of Anthropology; Robert Austerlitz, Professor of Linguistics and Uralic studies; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor of Government; Alexander Dallin, Professor of International Relations; Alexander Erlich, Professor of Economics; Tibor Halasi- Kun, Professor of Turkic studies; Vojtech Mastney, Assistant Professor of History; and Joseph Rothschild, Professor of Political Science.

Hungarian language is offered at graduate and undergraduate levels. Instructors are Francis Juhasz, Curriculum Coordinator for the American Language Program, at the graduate level, and Janos Latin, Associate, at the undergraduate level. In addition to the above, Columbia University also has a Subcom(Continued on pg. 8, col. 2)

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