Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)

1975 / 7. szám

IREX - ANNUAL REPORT

The International Research and Exchange Board (see HSN no. 1 for

program description) published its annual report for 1973-74. During the academic year more than 300 American and foreign scholars participated in the exchange programs involving the Soviet Union and East Central European countries, while some 250 persons participated in collaborative projects. IREX is financed by the Ford Foundation, the Department of State, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and its funds seem to assure its operation forthe next two years. Over the long run, however, the financial support of IREX programs seem to be dependent on the success of further fund raising.

In regard to its Hungarian program, IREX experienced a setback when a senior US scholar was expelled from Hungary without official explanation. The report says: “The case of Hungary illustrates all too well the political sensitivities which are inherent in East-West scholarly relations even under the best of circumstances - for our relations with Hungary had been very good indeed - as well as the unrelenting dilemmas of having to cope with these realities while protecting professional and personal rights of our scholars. That such an episode should have taken place in Hungary is particularly ironic, since the intellectual level of their scholars is exceptional and the possibilities for meaningful collaboration potentially the greatest among all our exchange partners."

The report contains the following exchange program statistics:

FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Bulgaria

7

0

0

0

31

Czechoslovakia

13

0

1

0

68

Hungary

18

4

1

0

80

Poland

14

1

0

0

95

Romania

25

0

4

0

108

Yugoslavia

U

0.

0

2

90

Total

88

5

6

2

472

(a) Nominated by host country; (b) Rejected by IREX; (c) Withdrawn; (d) Pending; (e) Number of man-months of participation.

Hungarian Participants in the US:

Bela Barna, Docent, Dept, of Genetics and Breeding of Horticultural Plants, U. of Horti- and Viticulture, to study “American varieties of watermelon,” U. of Florida.

Antal Bohm, Lecturer, Dept, of Philosophy, L. Eötvös U., to study “Changes in the economic-social structure of contemporary capitalism,” at the U. of California, Berkeley, and Rutgers U.

Janos De'nes, Head, Dept, of Industrial Economics, Institute for Construction Economy and Organization, to study “Economic problems of industrial branches and firms," at the U. of California, Berkeley, and Mathematica, Princeton, N.J.

László Ga'spa'r, Res. Engineer, Asphalt Lab. Highway Transportation Res. Inst., to study “Evaluation of road pavement,” at the U. of California, Berkeley, and at the U. of Michigan.

KaVoly Kaffka, Scientific Head, Dept, for Measurement and Control, Central Food Res. Inst., to study “Methods of qualification of agricultural and food-stuffs by using instruments,” at the Agricultural Marketing Res. Inst., Instrumentation Res. Lab, Regional Centers of ARS.

István Lakatos, Res. Assoc., Res. Lab. for Reservoir Engineering, HAS, to study “Physical-chemical polymer flooding,” at the U. of Texas.

Mayyas Matolcsy, Head, Dept, of Bus Development, Res. Inst, of Automotive Industry, to study “Initiation and propagation of fatigue crack,” at the U. of Illinois and Columbia U.

Peter Molna'r, Senior Res. Fellow, Inst, of Physiology, HAS, to study “Hippocampal and septal influences upon ergotropic and trophotropic systems,” at the U. of Florida.

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Peler Sipos, Res. Fellow, Inst, for Party/Labor Movement History, to study the “History of international trade union movements and relations with the AFL-CIO," at Stanford U., and Library of Congress.

Bela Szucs, Sen. Res. Engineer, Dept, of Automation, Technical U., to study “Application of computer work and control theory in biomedical research,” at the U. of Pennsylvania.

Tama's Terestyéni, Scientific Co-Worker, Mass Communication Res. Center, Hungarian Radio and Television, to study “Verbal understanding of communication messages from semantic point of view,” at the U. of Pennsylvania.

Erzse'bet VezeV, Res. Worker, Literary Museum of Budapest, to study “Relations of life and poetic influence of Endre Ady,” at Columbia U.

László Zombory, Assist. Prof., Dept, of Theoretical Electricity, Technical U.,to study “Interaction between the electromagnetic field and charged particles of semiconductors,” at the Polytechnic Inst, of Brooklyn, and Stanford U.

AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS

Nominated

Rejected by No. of Man-Months

by IREX

Host Country

of Participation

Bulgaria

3

0

18

Czechoslovakia

7

1

55

Hungary

10

2

63

Poland

9

1

51

Romania

9

0

80

Yugoslavia

12

0

71

Total

50

4

338

American Participants in Hungary:

Paul Body, Lecturer, Dept, of Human Studies, St. Lawrence Coll., to study “Hungarian migration movements, 1848-1930” at the U. of Budapest.

Charles Carlson, Asst. Prof, of Linguistics, East Texas State Coll., to study “Semantic analysis of modern Zyrien” at the Linguistic Institute of the HAS.

István Deák, Prof, of History, Columbia U., to study “Louis Kossuth and the Hungarian revolution of 1848.” at the Institute of History of the HAS.

Leslie Domonkos, Assoc. Prof, of History, Youngstown State U., to study "Hungary in the age of Matthias Corvinus, 1458-1490,” at the Institute of History of the HAS.

Sándor Drosik, Grad. Stud, of History, Columbia U., to study “The Kulturkampf in Hungary, 1890-1895: a social-political inquiry,” at the Institute of History of the HAS.

Samuel Goldberger, Grad. Stud, of History, Columbia U., to study "Ervin Szabó and his circle: a study in Hungarian left radicalism, 1899-1918,” at the Institute of History of the HAS.

Thomas Mark, Prof, of English, Colorado State U., to study "Imre Madach and the idea of progress, 1850-1860," at the Institute of Literary Scholarship of the HAS.

Jan Triska, Prof, of Political Science, Stanford U., to study “Citizen participation in community decisions on local level, " at the Institute of Sociology of the HAS.

Rejected by Hungary were Irene Farley, a Grad, Stud, in Education at the U. of Pennsylvania, and Michael Sozan, Assist. Prof, of Sociology-Anthropology at Slippery Rock State Coll.

Grants to promote new exchanges were extended to:

David Buttloph, Dept, of Music, State U. of New York, Binghamton, to support the visiting lectures of László Vikar of HAS.

Robert F. Byrnes, Russian and East European Inst., Indiana U., to provide travel support to Andrew Turchyn, Slavic Bibilographer of Indiana U. to visit several countries including Hungary and expand book exchanges with the Indiana U. Library.

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