Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)
1975 / 8. szám
12 NO. 8 1975 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS G.J. Ashworth has been studying trends and prospects in EastEuropeantourism.andcontributedapaper on tourism to the Anglo-Hungarian geographical seminar held in 1974. He is planning to visit Hungary and continue to pursue his study of tourist policies. Dr. Ashworth is Lecturer in Geography at the Dept, of Geography, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth P01 3HE, England. □ Paul Bo'dy has completed a study on “Travel report of early Hungarian settlements in Western Canada, 1905-1925,” and is sharing in the preparation of a study on Hungarians in Canada, with N.F. Dreisziger, Martin Kovács, Bennett Kovrig, and Ivan Beky. The study, sponsored by the Canadian Government, is aimed to describe historical and social aspects of Hungarian immigration to Canada. Dr. Body is also working on a study involving “Social psychology and social determinants of emigration from Hungary to North America, 1880-1930.” Dr. Bo'dy can be reached at 3235 Quitman Street, Denver, CO 80212. □ Géza de Rohan (Csermák) informed us of a research program of some magnitude aimed at a comprehensive ethnological monograph of a typical prairie rural Euro- Canadian community, Bekevar (pop. 1,000) founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1900. Emphasis will be on behavior rather than cultural products, on the totality of the culture rather than any particular aspect of it, and on longitudinal aspects involving at least three phases of Bekevar’s history. Coordinator of the study is Prof, de Rohan. Other participants include Linda Degh (Indiana U.) Jean Gergely The Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, again will offer grants-in-aid and research assistantships during 1976-77. Deadline for grants-in-aid applications is November 15, 1975. These grants up to $3,000 are available to doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s and established scholars. Deadline for research assistantships is February 15, 1976. Contact: Immigration History Research Center, 826 Berry Street, St. Paul, MN 55114. PAST DUE NOTICES FOR RENEWALS OF CURRENT SUBSCRIPTIONS Past due notices for renewals of the current 1975 subscriptions have been mailed. Such delinquent accounts must be paid up by September 30, 1975. Failure to do so necessarily shall mean that such subscriber's names will be dropped from the HSN mailing list until the account is paid. We are confident that our subscribers will appreciate and understand this announcement. Hungarian Research Center (Paris U), Martin Kovács (Regina), Maria Kresz (Ethnographic Museum, Budapest), Robert Manchin (Sociological Research Inst., Budapest), Zita McRobbie (Winnipeg), Denis Szabó (U. of Montreal), Mátyás Szabó'(U. of Uppsala), and Etienne Vintze (U. of Montreal). Dr. de Rohan can be reached at Kings College, U. of Western Ontario, London N6A 3K7, Canada. □ Paul G. Hare is engaged in both, library and field research on the operation of the price mechanism in Hungarian industry. Dr. Hare is Lecturer in Economics, at the U. of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scottland. (See also column on dissertations.) □ Simon Haskell is interested in educational psychologicalmedical work in Hungary and says that the educational treatment program (conductive education) devised by the late Prof. András Pefó'of Budapest is exciting and innovative. It incorporates a number of neurophysiological, psychological and pedagogical principles and its existence is little known in the West. Even Hungarians are not wholly aware of the potentiality of this program over conventional psychotherapeutic methods of treating neurologically impared children. Dr. Haskell is conducting his studies in cooperation with the Institute for Motor Education in Budapest. He is Tutor and Lecturer in the Education of Physically Handicapped Children at the U. of London Institute of Education, Malet Street, London WCIE 7HS, England. □ Jiri Kolaja, Prof, of Sociology at West Virginia U. informed us about his four-year long effort in producing an anthology of East European sociological writings. In cooperation with a distinguished group of scholars (among them Ka'roly Varga from Hungary), the anthology will discuss books, significant research of the field, and describe organizational structure of sociology in each of the respective countries. For further information write to Dr. Kolaja, Dept, of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia U., Morgantown, WV 26506. □ Bela J. Szabó is studying agricultural policies of Hungary between 1945 and 1965, and is planning to have his doctoral dissertation written on the topic. He is presently Lecturer in European Economics at the Postgraduate School of Languages and European Studies, at the U. of Bradford, Bradford, Yorkshire BD7 IDP, England. □ ZoltaVi Zeke, retired librarian, is preparing a comprehensive bibliography on Istva'n Széchenyi. He has so far entries on 400 primary and 4,500 secondary sources, and is seeking to negotiate with an interested publisher. His address is Postfach 62, 1013 Wien, Austria. □ HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Address Correction Requested Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 257
