Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)
1975 / 7. szám
__________MISCELLANEOUS__________ Dr. Miklós Palkovits from the First Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis Medical U. of Budapestwasvisitingscientistfor three months at the Laboratory of Clinical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. Dr. Palkovits is a neuoroanatomist who is specializing on the functions of parts of the hypothalamus and worked closely with Drs. Irwin J. Kopin and Michael Brownstein. Brownsteinspentanequal length of time at Palkovits’ laboratory in Budapest in 1974. □ Hungary will host the Fourth International Finno-Ugric Congress, September 9-15, 1975. The tentative program of the congress is as follows: Plenary Sessions: (1) Ways and means in the Finno-Ugric sciences; (2) Language, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. Section meetings. I. Linguistics. (1) the proto-language as a model for research; (2) Affinity and interference in the languages of Northern Eurasia; (3)The verband its syntax. (4) Discussion on the methodology of dialectology; (5) The development of the pre-Hungarian language; (6) The application of data processing methods to F-U linguistics. II. Ethnography. (1) Structure of the F-U societies; (2) Traditional art of the F-U peoples; (3) The history and results of comparative F-U folk music research; (4) The sturcture of IREX REPORT (Continued from page 6) István Deák. Prof, of History, Columbia U., to enable Domonkos Kosary, of HAS to lecture at the Inst, on East Central Europe of Columbia U. Philip Dyer, Dept, of Political Science, U. of Nebraska, to visit Hungary and discuss a faculty exchange program between the U. of Nebraska and Hungary. Horst Frenz, Dept, of Comparative Literature, Indiana U., to travel to Hungary and discuss faculty and student exchanges in comparative literature. George Macesich, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State U., to enable Janos Follinus, editor of Figyelő and The Hungarian Economy to accept a visiting research position at Florida State U. Anya Peterson Royce, Dept, of Anthropology, Indiana U., to enable György Martin of the Inst, for Folk Music and Folk Dance Research, to visit Indiana U. Irwin Sanders, Prof, of Sociology, Boston U., to enable Robert Manchin of the Institute of Sociology, to visit various universities and participate in the Seminar on the Peasant-Worker at Boston U. Thomas Sebeok, Prof. Research Center for Language Sciences, Indiana U., to enable Katalin Radies, Research Institute of Linguistics of the HAS, to accept a visiting research appointment at the Center. Grants for collaborative projects were extended to: Justin Davidson, Grad. School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell U., in support of a conference at Cornell U. involving Hungarian scholars and focusing on the role and nature of consulting firms in a socialist economy, computer auditing, and management education. George Wilson, Assoc. Dean for International Programs, Indiana U., to enable one Hungarian and two American grad, students to participate in the exchange program between Indiana U. and Szeged U. For further information or copies of the annual report write to International Research and Exchange Board, 110 East 59th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. NO. 7, 1975 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER the literary genres in F-U folk poetry; (5) The social function of folk customs among the F-U peoples; (6) Differentiation and integration in the civilization of the F-U peoples. III. Archaeology, History, Anthropology. (1) The southern contacts of the cultures situated in the Ural region during the later stone ages; (2) The development of agriculture and the F-U peoples; (3)The original settlement of the Hungarians and its antecedents; (4) Historical science in F-U research; (5) The history of the growth of the F-U peoples; (6) The physical anthropological differentiation and formation of the F-U peoples. IV. Literature. (1) Literary scholarship in F-U research; (2) The role of folklore in the literature of the F-U peoples; (3) Characteristics in the development of the literature of F-U peoples in the 20th century; (4) The versification of the F-U peoples; (5) The development of the F-U literary languages; (6) F-U and world literature. For further information write to; Nemzetközi Finnugor Kongresszus, Szervező Iroda, 1250 Budapest. Ország házutca 30. Hungary. □ The Faculty Exchange Center aims to make it possible for faculty members to exchange positions with colleagues from institutions in the U.S. and abroad, where the language of instruction is English. The Center was established and is operated by faculty members to provide for travel, teaching, and study in different cultural settings. The Center serves as a clearing house for such efforts and publishes an annual catalogue of opportunities. The 1974 catalogue lists 350 members, i.e. potential exchange faculty. The 1975 catalogue is now in preparation. Interested persons should write to Faculty Exchange Center, P.O. Box 1866, Lancaster, PA 17604. □ The American Hungarian Educators’ Association was organized in November 1974 to enable teachers and researchers of Hungarian origin, orteachers and researchers of Hungarian and Eastern European studies regardless of origins, to contact each other, meet and discuss common interests. The organization is not affiliated with any other group. The charter and by-laws, as well as the slate of officers, will be submitted to the membership for approval at the Hungarian Congress in Cleveland, November 1975, following their circulation by mail among the members. Those unable to attend the meeting may submit their comments and votes in writing. Inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Enikő M. Basa, 707 Snider Lane, Silver Spring, MD. 20904. □ Peasant Society and Culture in the 18th to 20th Centuries, was the topic of a conference arranged by the Hungarian Ethnographic Society with the cooperation of the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum, the Szolnok County Museums, and the Szolnok County Council at Szolnok, September 13-15, 1974. The conference focused on the development of Hungarian peasant culture. Though principal concern was with Hungarian peasantry, more specifically with that of the Great Plain (Nagy Alföld), there were several comparative papers which put the Hungarian case into crosscultural perspective. The majority of the papers were presented by Hungarian ethnographers in Hungarian, but a handful of foreign scholars who have done field research among Hungarians either submitted papers by mail or attended the conference 7 T
