Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1976 (4. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)

1976 / 9. szám

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS (Continued)

another session, “Ethnic Problems in Eastern Europe.” For further information write to Prof. George W. Simmonds, Dept, of History, U. of Detroit, Detroit, Ml 48221. □

Papers are invited for the Ethnic Studies and Research

Conference sponsored by the Faculties of Education, Arts, Social Work and other agencies to be held October 1-2,1976, at the University of Regina Campus, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The theme of the conference is “Culture, Education, and Ethnic Canadians.” Contributors should not regard the theme as restrictive but use it as a starting point for their own creative thoughts. More explicitly, “Culture” and “Education” should be interpreted widely, and we hope that papers will be submitted also from fields such as social welfare, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the like. The

HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES PROGRAM SUMMER 1976

Open to Everyone

June 21-August 19 3 full years of Hungarian language in 9 weeks, 12 credits each

June 21-August 12

History and Government of Hungary, 3 credits

Special Added Feature Hungarian Cooking - Hungarian Woodworking

Portland State University

Summer Session P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207 (503) 2294081

Committee plans to accept papers on a wide variety of subjects, including aspects of immigration history.

Papers of approximately 3,000 words in length should be received in Regina not later than June 15, 1976, for consideration by a board of referees. For details contact: Dr. Martin L. Kovács, President, Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2. □

ACLS - SSRC AWARDS

The American Council of Learned Societies announced the results of a program on East European Studies, which it sponsored jointly with the Social Science Reserach Council.

The program had been made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

The ACLS (345 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) is a private non-profit federation of 41 national scholarly associations devoted to the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning. The SSRC (605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016) is a private non-profit corporation which has as its purpose the advancement of research in the social sciences.

Of the twelve post-doctoral grants one was awarded to Thomas L. Sakmyster, Assist. Prof, of History, U. of Cincinnati, who is conducting research for a political biography of Miklós Horthy.

The ACLS-SSRC Joint Committee on Eastern Europe also awarded twenty-six grants to scholars and graduate students for study of East European languages, among them two awards for the study of Hungarian to Brenda Bonine, Grad. Student of Geography, Indiana U., and Wilmer H. Paine, Jr. Assist. Prof, of History, Tarkio Coll.

In addition, the following conference grants were made:

To the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) for a Slavic Librarians’ Conference held at the Ü. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 1975;

To the Pennsylvania State U. for a Conference on the Impact of Communist Modernization on National Identity and State Integration in Eastern Europe, held in October 1975;

To Stanford U. for a Conference on Political Development in Eastern Europe, held at Stanford, December 1975; and

To the U. of California, Los Angeles, for a Conference on Demography and Urbanization in Eastern Europe, to be held at UCLA, February 5-9, 1976.

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NO. 9 1976 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER