Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)
1975 / 6. szám
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS The Association of American Geographers and geographic institutions of East-Central Europe and of the Soviet Union are planning several seminars on mutually agreed topics, according to the report of Sociology and Eastern Europe (March-April 1974). Each seminar will alternate between the United States and Eastern Europe. The seminar on Problems of Urbanization will have its first session in Budapest in June 1975. Steering committee consists of Dr. George Kish, Chairman, U. of Michigan; Dr. Leslie Dienes, U. of Kansas; Dr. John S. Adams, U. of Minnesota, and Dr. Jack C. Fisher, Johns Hopkins U. Czechoslovakia is cooperating in a seminar on Regional Planning and Development; Romania in one on The Quality of Environment; and the Soviet Union in a seminar of yet undetermined topic. The host countries assume the cost of holding the seminar, and the other countries the cost of travel. Funding for American participation is sought from the National Science Foundation. At the request of the Ford Foundation, IREX has begun administration of the Foundation’s management education exchange programs with Poland and Romania. Five Polish and five Romanian scholars will spend the 1974-1975 academic year in the U.S. on the program, having been selected by IREX in the final competition last spring. Frederick Burkhardt retired as president of the ACLS on June 30, 1974. His successor, Robert Lumiansky, formerly chairman of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, assumed office on July 1. The president of the ACLS is simultaneously chairman of the IREX Board. Of the nearly 18,000 former U.S. federal employees who live abroad, 34 U.S. pensioners live in Hungary, according to the Civil Service Commission. Sociology & Eastern Europe reports on an Atlas of the Danubian Countries which is being published in yearly installments, and which will ultimately consist of 50 full color maps with information for scholars interested in the societies of the Danube region. Legends, texts and the table of contents will be provided in four languages: English, French, German and Russian. The atlas is the result of cooperation between leading geographers of Eastern Europe. Yearly installments of at least five maps and text sheets have been available since 1970. For information write to Franz Deuticke, publisher, 1011 Wien, Helferstorferstrasse 4/a, Austria. We welcome the Romanian Studies Group as a new (1973) interdisciplinary organization concerned with East-Central Europe. Major objectives, as stated in their May 1974 newsletter, are “the encouragement of scholarship on Romanian topics in America, especially through the establishment and improvement of intellectual contacts with our Romanian colleagues; the promotion of Romanian studies in American DISSERTATIONS (Continued from page 6) tion came during the Communist leadership of Alexander Dubcek in the late 1960’s. Slovak demands for national equality helped set forces in motion in Czechoslovakia, resulting in the liberalization program and Dubcek’s brand of scialism with a human face. While the present Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is ostensibly a federation of two nations, the Czech and Slovak, it is a far cry from the definition and application prescribed by scholars in the western world. universities by making ourselves and our works available; and, creating a fertile ground for interdisciplinary and interregional studies.” President Dr. Michael H. Impey, U. of Kentucky; Secretary-Treasurer is Dr. James A. Augerot, U. of Washington. Board members are Dr. Robert Austerlitz, Columbia U.; Dr. Jan Harold Branvand, U. of Utah; Dr. Charles M. Carlton, U. of Rochester; Dr. Stephen Fischer- Galati, U. of Colorado; Dr. Keith Hitchins, U. of Illinois; Dr. Barbara Jelavich, Indiana U.; and Dr. Eric Hamp, U. of Chicago. Address inquiries to Dr. J.A. Augerot, Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies, DR-05, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. It may be worth noting that this Group is not identical with the Romanian Study Association of America, an affiliate of the Modern Language Association, which publishes the Journal of Romanian Studies. A West German publisher received exclusive distribution rights for a book jointly published with Akadémiai Kiadd in behalf of the Magyar Tudoma'nyos Akadémia. We refer to the volume by Eva H. Haraszti, TREATY-BREAKERS OR "REALPOLITIKER”? The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of June 1935. Boppard am Rhine: Harald Boldt Verlag, and Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadd, 1974. 276 pages, biblio., DM 36 cloth. Dr. Gabriella Zsilla from the Department of Pharmacology, Semmelweis Medical U. of Budapest is a visiting scientist at the St. Elizabeths Hospital of the National Institute of Mental Health at Washington, D.C. Dr. Zsilla is a biochemist who will study immunochemistry under the sponsorship of Dr. Erminio Costa while in the United States. She plans to stay for one year. EDITOR’S CORNER This issue brings you an unusual bonus. With the permission of The Population Council we reprinted their Country Profile on Hungary prepared by Egon Szabady and Pe'ter Ja'nos. The expenses related to the reprint and to the additional postage were covered by a contribution from Mrs. Isabel G. Fink. Please accept our sincere appreciation. You may have noticed another innovation. Beginning with this issue each book review will provide the mailing address of the publisher, so that you may order your book directly from the publisher if you do not happen to have an enterprising bookstore in your neighborhood. Books printed in Hungary may be obtained through your local bookstore or directly from KULTÚRA, P.O. Box 149, H-1389, Budapest62, Hungary. Many thanks for substantive correspondence to Robert Austerlitz, George Bárány, Nándor Dreisziger, Robert F. Hull, Stephen Kertész, Andor C. Klay, John P.C. Matthews, Anton N. Nyerges, Julius Rezler, Agnes H. Vardy, Edmund Vasvary, Lajos Vincze, and Suzi Weissman. And more thanks to Enikő Molna'r-Basa for a good number of journal reviews (marked EMB) and for assuming full responsibility of the periodicals column beginning with the next issue. Please note that our sponsoring institution changed its name from American Hungarian Studies Foundation to American Hungarian Foundation, as of November 1, 1974. 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