Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1977 (5. évfolyam, 13-15. szám)
1977 / 15. szám
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS A new exchange agreement between IREX and the Kulturális Kapcsolatok Intezete (Institute for Cultural Relations) was negotiated and initialed in April 1977 at the IREX offices in New York during the visit of Endre Polgár and Mária Korösy to the U.S. as guests of IREX. The new two-year agreement is similar to the old one in that it calls for an exchange of fiftyfive man-months in the first year and a number still to be decided in the second. The agreement includes a paragraph concerning support for joint research in the social sciences. While the Hungarian side was willing to increase the size of the exchange to seventy man months, IREX’s budgetary situation prevented it from going above fifty-five. (Adapted from IREX Bulletin 3:1.) □ War and Society in East Central Europe During the 18th and 19th Centuries is the title of a three-year project arranged by the Eastern European Section of the Center for European Studies at the City University of New York. The first conference on the topic will take place on March 13 and 14, 1978 with the participation of scholars from Eastern Europe together with leading experts of the field in the U.S. Among the papers tentatively projected for the conference are Thomas M. Barker (SUNY, Albany) “The Military Nobility of Upper Hungary: Archival Opportunities and Problems;" István Deák (Columbia) “The Hungarian Army of 1848- 1849;” János Décsy (Greater Hartford Community College) “The Foundation of the Hungarian (honved) Army after 1867;” László Deme (S. Florida) “The First Soldiers of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848;” Joseph Held (Rutgers) “The Influence of the Turkish War of Joseph II on the Habsburg Reform Efforts in Hungary;” Allen Z. Hertz (Canada Council) “Warfare and Ethnic Transformation; The Ottoman Withdrawal from Temesvár, 1716;” Zoltán Kramár (Washington State College) “The Military Ethos of the Hungarian Nobility;” Béla K. Király (CUNY) “Warfare in East Central Europe and the West;” Gunther E. Rothenberg (Purdue) “The Habsburg Military Border in Hungary and Transylvania;" Peter Sugar (Washington) “The Influence of Hungarian Military Doctors on Public Health, 1867-1914;” Gábor Vermes (Rutgers) "State and Society and the Common Army in Late Nineteenth Century Hungary;” Gustav Bayerle (Indiana) “Ferenc II. Rakoczi’s Army;" László Peter (London) “The Army Question in Hungarian Politics, 1889- 1906;” Aladár Urbán (Eötvös Lorant Univ., Budapest) “The Hungarian Army (honvéd) 1848-1849.” All those who read papers at the first conference will present papers at the second meeting in 1979 also. For further information write to the Program Director, Bela K. Király, Graduate School, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. □ European tour for Kodály method fans: April 9-23,1978. The Kodály Center for America is planning a trip to Hungary with a three-day stopover in Zürich. Kodály classes will be observed in Budapest and Kecskemet, as well as graduate classes with students from various countries of the world. Kodály-interested musicians, teachers, administrators and laymen are welcome. For a brochure write to Kodály Center for America, 525 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA 02181. □ The Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia U. had a busy and successful year in 1977. The Director, István Deák, who recently returned from a study trip to Romania and Hungary has offered lectures to academic and lay audiences in the U.S. and abroad on such topics as the Polish role in the Hungarian revolution of 1848; war, revolutions, and nationality conflict in Hungary, 1914-1920; nationalism against socialism in the Central European revolutions of 1918-1919; and fascism in East Central Europe. Several exchange scholars supported by IREX have done outstanding work. György Szoboszlai gathered material for his forthcoming book on American public administration; George Deakspent a year as an IREX Fellow in Budapest; two Ph.D. dissertations had Hungarian topics: Andre' Kaldi’s The Search for an Advocate: Horthy Hungary's Relations with the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933; and Mary Gluck’s Endre Ady: the East European Response to the Cultural Crisis of the Fin de Siede. The HSN will report on these dissertations as soon as the abstracts become available. □ We have no information on the thousands of visitors coming from Hungary and of Americans going to Hungary, and we believe it is not the purpose of the HSN to report on them except if they promote cultural exchange and knowledge of Hungary and Hungarians. We regularly do so in reporting on the activities of ACLS, IREX, the academies, NSF. But many exchange persons come and go on their own or with the assistance of small and local groups. Thus Rt. Rev. Dezső' Abraha'm, Bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America informed us that Rev. István Finta, Prof, at the Reformed Seminary in Budapest visited churches in the U.S. during the months of September and October in 1976. Bertalan Tamás, leader of the ecumenical movement in Hungary visited universities and southern Presbyterian churches in November 1976. Dr. Ferenc Kenéz, pastor of the Calvin Square church in Budapest and Prof, of the Reformed Seminary is presently a visiting fellow at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education at Richmond, Virginia. □ On the True Laws of Social Science is a witty, humorous article written by an anonymous professor (Victor Le Vine, Washington U.?) and reprinted in the Spring 1977 issue of FAR Horizons, published by the Dept, of State. The entire article may interest social scientists, but a stanza under a section on “The Rule of the Invariable Exception,” may interest Hungarianists: For everything there is a season, For all things human, a sure reason. What’s true for me, must be for the rest, Except, of course, in Budapest. □ ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS ON HUNGARY The New Hungarian Quarterly Vol. XVIII. No. 66, Summer 1977. Partial content: Ady, E. Poems Ferenczi, László The Timeliness of Ady Pulya, Frigyes The National Interest and International Policy Aczel, György The Socialist State and the Churches in Hungary Pozsgay, Imre The Scope and Limits of Legislating on Culture Illyés, Gyula Intellect and Violence (Continued on page 7) 6 NO. 15, 1977-78, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
