Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)

1978 / 16. szám

ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS ON HUNGARY

The Canadian-American

REVIEW

of Hungarian Studies

VOL. IV, SPRING 1977. Partial content:

Eva S. Balogh, Power Struggle in Hungary: Analysis of Postwar Domestic Politics, August-November 1919;

Ivan Sanders, Symbolist and Decadent Elements in Early Twentieth Century Hungarian Drama;

Anna Katona, The Hungarian Image of Benjamin Franklin;

S. B. Vardy, A Traditional Historian’s View of Hungarian History;

Veronika Gerves-Molnár, The Folk Traditions of Rural Hungary: A Photographic Record.

VOL. IV, FALL 1977.

Issue devoted to the memory of Watson Kirkconnell. Nándor Dreisziger, Watson Kirkconnell: Translator of Hungarian Poetry and Friend of Hungarian-Canadians;

Thomas R. Mark, Madách Revisited: Toward a New Translation of the “Tragedy of Man;"

Enikő7 Molnár Basa, The Image of Hungarian Poetry in the English-Speaking World;

Timothy Kachinske, Hungarian Poetry in English Translation: Two Recent Anthologies (a review article);

Zoltán Mate, Hungarian Religious Poetry and Verse Translations (a review article);

Watson Kirkconnell, János Arany’s Toldi (a verse translation).

The New HungarianQuarterly

VOL. XVIII, NO. 67, AUTUMN 1977. Partial content:

The Process of Detente and East-West Trade (József Bognár); Freedom and Equality around a Paris-Round-Table (Iván Boldizsár); Open Gates (Msgr. József Cserháti); The Transformation of the Hungarian Village (György Enyedi); Swimming in the Iowa River (Vilmos Csapiár); Where does the Poet Come From? (Ottó Orbán); The Flag - Mischievous Text (Péter Esterházy); Steinbeck and Zelk (Ferenc Karinthy); Anatomy of a Supper (Gábor Görgey); A Conversation with György Aczél on the Post-Helsinki Period (Otto Schulmeister). SURVEYS: The Literary Revolution in Hungary around 1900 (Péter Nagy); UNESCO and the Social Sciences (Kálmán Kulcsár); Household Budgets 9 (Magda Hoffmann); The Regrets of Progress (Júlia Juhász). Book reviews, arts and archeology, theater and family. Biographies of contributors.

Nemzetközi Magyar Filológiai Társaság (Hungarian International Philological Society) established on August 25, 1977, at Nyíregyháza with the purpose of promoting Hungarian studies around the world, has sent us a copy of its bylaws, officers, and programs. We received this material just as we were going to press, and will return to it in our next issue. □

IREX REPORT 1977-1978

The International Research and Exchange Board, now entering into its tenth year of operation, has supported the exchange of 327 American, Soviet, and East European scholars during 1976-1977. In addition, 21 persons were appointed Preparatory Fellows and Third Country Dissertation Fellows. Fifty-six Ad Hoc and Collaborative Project grants provided support for individuals and institutions related to other forms of East-West contact involving an estimated 1,100 persons. A special meeting marking the decennial is planned for 1978-1979 with a critical assessment of Irex activities and future opportunities.

The report gives the following summaries on East European

exchanges:

AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS Partici- Not With-Post-Months of Partipated

Placed

drew

poned

cipation

Bulgaria

4

0

0

0

20

Czechoslovakia

5

0

0

1

40

GDR

6

1

0

0

20

Hungary

10

0

1

0

52

Poland

11

1

1

0

60

Romania

8

0

3

0

47

Yugoslavia

10

1

3

0

58

Total

54

3

8

1

297

EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS Partici- Not With-Post-Months of Partipated

Placed

drew

poned

cipation

Bulgaria

4

0

0

3

31

Czechoslovakia

11

1

0

0

53

GDR

5

0

1

0

13

Hungary

7

0

0

0

50

Poland

12

0

0

0

60

Romania

10

0

0

2

35.5

Yugoslavia

8

0

0

1

56

Total

57

1

1

6

298.5

The 10 American participants in the exchange program with Hungary were as follows:

Karl Aschenbrenner, Prof., Department of Philosophy, U. of California, Berkeley. Three and a half months at Eötvös Loránd U. Evaluative concepts used in Hungarian musical criticism.

Gustav Bayerle, Assoc. Prof., Department of Uralic & Altaic Studies, Indiana U. Two months at the Hungarian National Archives. The road to Mohács: the fall of Belgrade, 1521.

Patricia Brewer, Instructor, Yale School of Music. Three months at the Folk Music Research Division, Academy of Sciences. Music pedagogy in Hungary.

Susan Csaky, Librarian, Adjunct Instructor of Law, U. of Kentucky. Three months at the Library of the Hungarian Parliament. A study of the documentation of Hungarian legislative action.

István Csicsery-Ronay, Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton U. Ten months at the Academy of Sciences. The historical novel in Hungary.

George Deak, Graduate Student, Department of History, Columbia U. Nine monthsat the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences. The National Association of Industrialists in Hungary, 1902-1918.

Mario Fenyő, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, U. of Khartoum, the Sudan. Nine months at the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences. The political function of literature: the case of the Nyugat.

Charles Gati, Prof., Department of Political Science, Union Coll. Five and a half months at the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences. Populism and revolutionary transformation in Hungary, 1935-1938. Barbara Kaplan, Prof., Department of Music, Saint Leo Coll. Five months at the Liszt Academy of Music. A study of three aspects of the Kodály concept of music education.

Victor Szebehely, Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering, U. of Texas, Austin. Two months at the Technical University of Budapest. The problem of three bodies with application to stellar dynamics. Joe Spencer, Assoc. Prof. Department of Mathematics, State U. of New York, Stony Brook. Combinatorial analysis. (Withdrew)

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