Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1976 (4. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1976 / 11. szám
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 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS (Continued) prose, autobiographical notes, comments and short aesthetic essays. The prose texts are accompanied by the poet’s lesser known poems concerning his ars poetica. A multilingual anthology of Hungarian poetry of the last ten years is added. Other items in the volume include a recently discovered Latin Pamphlet of Mihaly Csokonai Vitéz in which he presents a program fortheorganization of an international conference of poets. ÁRION is an almanach of poetry published annually since 1969, which contains the most recent experiments in Hungarian literature, as well as essays on poetry by poets, writers, and critics. □ The 1976 Meeting of the Modern Language Association (December, New York City) will include in its program a seminar on Hungarian literature. The title of the seminar is Cross-Cultural Relations: Hungary, Western Europe and America; Enikő MolnaV Basa (Hood College) is the discussion leader. The participants include: Tamas Aczel (U. of Massachusetts); Anna Katona, panelist (Coll, of Charleston); Dieter P. Lotze, panelist (Allegheny Coll.); Moses Nagy (U. of Dallas); Steven C. Scheer, panelist (St. Meinrad Sem.); Albert Tezla, (U. of Minnesota). Others are invited to “sit-in” or to contribute to the discussion. □ The Second Conference of the American Hungarian Educators' Association will be held at Indiana U., Bloomington, March 25-27, 1977. Papers dealing with the humanities, the social and natural sciences, and centered on the following themes will be considered: 1. Hungarians outside of Hungary (e.g. Hungarian-English speech patterns); 2. Studies on any aspect of the Hungarian past (broadly, “civilization” as well as history); 3. Contemporary Hungary. Papers should be sent to Dr. Enikő" Mólnak Basa, 707 Snider Lane, Silver Spring, Md. 20904, no later than by October 1. Persons interested in reading the papers and chairing sections should also contact Dr. Basa. An open symposium centered on the role of Hungarian women and youth in society and the sources of magyarságtudat will be featured at the first evening. □ Middlesex County College offers two credit-courses of interest to Hungarian-oriented students. In the Fall Semester of 1976 Hungarian Culture and Society will survey social, cultural, economic, and political developments in modern Hungary; in the Spring Semester of 1977 Modern Hungarian Literature will discuss and analyze works of major 19th and 20th century writers and poets. For information regarding course content write to Dr. Karoly Nagy; in regard to registration, etc. write to the Division of Continuing Education, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ 08817. □ MATCHING GIFTS FOR VASVARY FUND; SECOND VOLUME IN REFERENCE SERIES The inauguration of the Vasvary Publication Fund and the completion of the microfilming of the Vasvary Collection was celebrated at a dinner in Washington, D C. on May 21,1976. Rev. Edmund Vasvary was toasted by his admirers and by friends of the Hungarian Research Center. Recognition was made of the charter members of the Fund, who donated matching funds to theACLS grant .Clara E.B. Kellner, Louis I. Szathmary, William Sólyom-Fekete, István Deák, Julius Rezler, James S. Pacy, Michael Sozan, Isabel G. Finck, Herbert Shapiro, Michael Hogye, Paul Azary, Lorand Szalay, and Bela C. Maday. The fund will support the publications of the HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF, the first volume of which is already in print. The second volume, that of Gabor Horschler’s A Bibliography of the New Hungarian Economic Mechanism, is being printed. The microfilm of the Vasvary Collection is available to researchers at the library of the American Hungarian Foundation, in New Brunswick, N.J. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Edward Spira (U. of Prince Edward Island, Canada) has just about completed his research on German-Hungarian relations and the Swabian problem between 1818 and 1936, to be published by East European Quarterly Monographs.□ Joseph StClair (Defense Language Inst. Monterey, California), is about to complete his manuscript on American- Hungarian relations with emphasis on Hungarian immigration to the U.S. □ Albert Tezla (U. of Minnesota, Duluth) has completed a translation of Ferenc Santa's representative writings which include ten short stories, the novel Az ötödik pecsét (The Fifth Seal), and the drama Éjszaka (Night). He is also working on a book, The Development of Hungarian Literature from 1772 to 1849 for Harvard U P., as well as two collections that he is editing, Since the Holocaust; An Anthology of Short Works by Hungarian Authors since 1945, and Hungarian Emigration to the U.S.: A Selection of Documents, co-edited with József Kovács of HAS. □ Iván Hala'sz de Be'ky (U. of Toronto) received a research grant from his university to work at the National Széchényi Library (Budapest) on his second, enlarged edition of the Bibliography of Hungarian Dictionaries, which will be published by Kraus-Thomson of New York. □ 16 NO. 11. 1976. HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
