Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1976 (4. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1976 / 11. szám
Edward Hewitt, (U. of Texas, Austin) received an 1REX grant for collaborative projects, in support for the second Hungarian-American conference on joint research in Economics scheduled for June 1976, in Budapest. □ Joseph Held (Rutgers U.) received travel funds from IREX to bring Peter Hanák (Inst, of History, HAS) to teach a course in Hungarian history at Rutgers and Columbia universities during the spring semester of 1976. □ MELUS, or the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (founded in 1973) is an organization for persons who have professional interest in expanding the definition of American literature to include literature in languages other than English, and used by Americans of every culture, from pre-Columbian times to the present. MELUS is co-chaired by Robert Di Pietro (Georgetown U.) and Edward Ifkovic (Tunxis Community Coll.). Secretary is Edith Blicksilver (Georgia Tech. U.), and Treasurer is Richard Tuerk (East Texas State U.). Editor of the quarterly newsletter is Katherine D. Newman (West Chester State Coll.). For further information write to Richard Tuerk, Dept, of Lit. and Languages, East Texas State U., Commerce, TX 75428. □ The American Assoc, for the Study of Hungarian History will sponsor a panel discussion on The Battle of Mohácsi 526 - 450 Years After, at the Eights Annual Meeting of the AAASS, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., October 6-9,1976. Participants of the panel include L. Alföldi (US Army Historical Research Collection), J. Bak (U. of British Columbia), A.C. Hess (Temple U.), and L.S. Domonkos (Youngstown State U.). The meeting will be chaired by I. Boba (U. of Washington). Some additional 18 Hungarian scholars are to participate in other sessions of the annual meeting. □ A score of guest lecturers enhanced the Hungarian MISCELLANEOUS NEWS (Continued) program at the Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia U. this year. Iván Szelenyi, prof, of sociology, U. of Adelaide, S. Australia lectured on “Social Inequalities in the East European Housing System;” Kálmán Rupp, Ford Foundation Fellow at Columbia U. spoke on “Sociology in Hungary;” László Kery, Secretary General of the Hungarian Pen Club (Continued on page 15) Editor: Hillel Ticktin Advisory Editorial Board: Ernest Mandel, Mihailo Markovié, Pierre Naville, Peter Sedgwick Annual Subscriptions (2 Issues): Inland £1.20 Overseas S3.50 (Back Issues S2.00) Contents of No. 3 includes: Ernest Mandel: On the Transitional Economy and Reply to Ticktin R. Selucky: Marxism and Self-Management C. Goodey: Factory Committees in 1918 A. Dyer: Milyukov's Foreign Policy M. Cox: Detente D. Law: Corruption in Georgia Contents of No. 4 includes: M. Holubenko:TheSoviet Working Class Opposition J-L. Dallemagne: Justice for Bukharin G. A. E. Smith: The Political Economy of The Reforms D.-H. Ruben: Materialism and Professor Colletti M. Brinton: Factory Committees in 1918—A Reply Contents of Nos. 5, 6, 7 will include: M. Cox: The Politics of the Dissenting I ntellectual B. Koski: The Situation of Women in Poland Adam 8uick: The Myth of the Transitional Society Left Communist Theses of 1918 A.Z.: Hungary - the Myth of the Reforms Gorev: Russian Literature and the Jews-Á Translation R. B.: Anti-Semitism and the Soviet Union G. Kay: On the Falling Rate of Profit S. Meikle: The State and the Transitional Period D. Filtzer: Preobrazhensky's Theory of Consciousness in the Transitional Period Igniatovic: Culture in Yugoslavia H. H. Ticktin: Soviet Society and Prof. Bettelheim ARTICLES (Continued) THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN REVIEW OF HUNGARIAN STUDIES, Fall 1975, contains two original articles and three long reviews. The first article is Lee Congdon’s Polanyi and the Treason of the Intellectuals (see also above) shows how he formulated his ideas. At first, he urged that intellectuals remain aloof from politics, an attitude that led to a break both with the Galileo Circle, with György Lukacs and Bela Balazs when these men espoused Marxism. Later, he seemed to have come to a discovery “of the origin of political faith in man’s moral nature.” He developed a theory of "moral inversion” according to which “men have converted their moral passions into acts of manifest immorality in the search for perfection in society." He was ciritical of intellectuals who have been seduced by the "magic of Marxism." Congdon says that the turning point in the intellectuals’ departure from nihilism was made with the Uprising of 1956, though intellectuals must still be made to “recognize that men are not machines whose task is to reject all truth claims and moral postulates because they are incapable of objective verification, but moral agents who cannot set aside the burden and responsibility of personal commitment.” In the second article Stephen Bela Vardy surveys the state of Hungarian studies in America and Canada in Hungarian Studies at American and Canadian Universities. A summary of the pioneer programs, which were chiefly concerned with training men for the ministry and were supported by the Hungarian Protestant churches and the programs at Columbia U. and Harvard U. in the 1920s and 1930s, which were supported by the Hungarian government, comes to the conclusion that these programs were limited and often of “modest quality.” Between 1945 and 1970, an upsurge in Hungarian studies occurred. At Columbia U. and Indiana U. comprehensive programs were established. The military and diplomatic schools are still actively training Hungarian linguists, as do numerous smaller programs, such as those at Rutgers U., U. of Washington, U. of Calif. (Los Angeles), and Portland State U. The unique situation at Cleveland (Western Reserve U., Cleveland State U.) and the offerings at Pittsburgh U. are discussed in some detail. Other programs offering courses irregularly, are also mentioned, as are the programs in Canada (chiefly the work of the Sze'chenyi Society and those within Central and East European studies programs), and the increasing popularity of the “Kodály Method.” In a separate section, potential programs are listed mainly in terms of availability of Hungarian professors at specific institutions. A summary of foundations and associations, as well as a discussion of special problems of publication, are useful parts of the article. (For Paul Body’s article on a related topic, see above.) 14 NO. 11. 1976. HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
