Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1980 (8. évfolyam, 23-26. szám)

1980 / 23-24. szám

Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave the keynote address. The program also included major addresses by McGeorge Bundy, president of Ford Found., Joseph Duffey, chairman of NEH, and John Reinhardt, director of the US International Communication Agency.

IREX plans to publish the conference papers. Details will be announced later. Persons interested in journalistic accounts of the conference may consult the May 21,1979 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education and the J une 1979 issue of Humanities Report. (IREX Bulletin) D

A SYMPOSIUM OF HUNGARIAN FOLK CULTURES was

held at Duquesne U. in April 1980. Organized by the Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts at the university, the symposium was part of a Hungarian cultural week in Pittsburgh, and was co-sponsored by the William Penn Association, the Subcommittee on Folklore and Ethnography of the Joint Commission of the A.C.L.S., and the HAS. The program included presentation by Tekla Dömötör (L. Eötvös U.) on “Folk Customs in Hungary” Linda Degh (Indiana U.) on “Magic World of Hungarian Story Tellers;" Ildikó Kriza (IFE, HAS) on “Historical Strata of Hungarian Folk Art;” Michael Sozan (Slippery Rock State Coll.) on “Social Transformation of Hungarian Rural Society;’’ Steven Bela Vardy (Dusquene U.) and Agnes H. Vardy (Robert Morris Coll.) on “Research in Hungarian- American History and Culture: Achievements and prospects;” August J. Molnár (American Hungarian Foundation) on “Hungarian-American Archives and other Research Resources;” Marida Hollos (Brown U.) on “The Effect of Collectivization on Village Social Organizations;” Benjamin Suchoff (Bela Bartdk Estate) on “Béla Bartdk and Hungarian Folk Song;” Bela C. Maday (American U.) on “Hungarian Ethnography-American Anthropology;” Kalman and Judith Magyar (American Hungarian Folklore Centrum) on “Hungarian Folk Dances in Hungary and in America.” A general discussion and review was lead by Walter W. Kolar, Director of the Tamburitzans Institute (Duquesne U.). D

Inflation through the Ages: Economic, Social Psychological

and Historical Aspects was the title of the eighth Brooklyn Coll, conferences on SOCIETY IN CHANGE. Sponsored by IREX and various components of the CUNY, the conference was a joint effort of the School of Social Science, Brooklyn Coll. (Nathan Schmukler), the Program on Society in Change (Bela K. Király), and the Graduate School and U. Center’s Center for European Studies, CUNY (Henry Wasser). Chaired by Edward Marcus, the three-day conference included a score of Hungarian-related topics and participants. In the plenary session on Marxian Theory of Inflation and Socialist Practices, chaired by Paul Jonas (U. of New Mexico), Roslyn W. Bologh (St. John ’s U., of New Rochelle, N.Y.) spoke on Economic Problems and Proposed Solutions in the Mid-19th Century: Marx's Analysis and Critique. György Ranki (Institute of History, HAS) chaired a session on Inflation in Post World War I East Central Europe, and offered two papers. One on The Role of Inflation in the 1920s East Central Europe, and one on Hungary. Janos Horvath (Butler U.) chaired a session on Institutional Rigidities at the Root of Inflation, and offered a paper on From Capacity Restraint to Supply Drag to Price Rise. Forfurther information write to Dr. Bela K. Király, Department of History, Brooklyn Coll., Brooklyn, NY 11210. □

MEETINGS (Continued)

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War and Society in East Central Europe during the 18th and 19th Centuries is the title of a three-year program of Brooklyn Coll., School of Social Science with the East European Section, the Center of European Studies, and the Graduate School of the CUNY. The director of the prog ram is Bela K. Király, CUNY; assoc, director is Gunther E. Rothenberg, Purdue U. The first conference was held in March 1978. It discussed special subjects of both centuries (see HSN no. 15, p. 6). The second conference took place in December 1979, and further conferences are planned for 1980 and 1981. Though many sessions and papers had references to Hungarian history, one plenary session was fully devoted to The Hungarian War for Liberation of Ferenc II Rakéczi (1703-1711). The papers presented in this session were:

Politics, Strategy and Tactics in the War of Independence of Rákóczi, by Géza Perjés, Central Office of Statistics, Budapest; Society in Rákóczi’s Insurrection, by Agnes Varkonyi,, Inst, of History, HAS; Economy in Rákóczi’s War of Independence, by Gusztáv Heckenast, Inst, of History, HAS; The Invasion of Rákóczi’s Forces into Lower Austria and Styria and the Imperial Court’s Counter Measures, by Peter Broucek, Kriegsarchive, Vienna; Rákóczi and the Maritime Powers: Uncertain Friendship, by Linda and Marsha Frey, U. of Montana and Kansas S.U.; In Search of Peace: The Diplomatic Relations of Rákóczi and Peter the Great, by Peter Pastor, Montclair State Coll.; Peasant Movements of Discontent Prior to the Rákóczi Insurrection, by Janos Bak, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Other Hungarian-centered papers presented in various sessions were:

The Concept of War in 18th Century Hungarian Thought, by Arpad Kadarkay, U. of Puget Sound, Tacoma; The Austro- Hungarian Decision for War in July 1914, by William Jannen, CUNY; Hungarian Prisoners of War in Russia During the War and Revolution, by Peter Pastor, Montclair State Coll.

For further information write to Prof. B.K. Király, Programon Society in Change, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, 11210. □

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization annually sponsors a three-day colloquium on economic developments in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Recent themes have been: COMECON; the USSR in the 1980s; and regional development. The most recent colloquium was held at Brussels in April of 1980. It focused on economic reforms in Eastern Europe and prospects for the 1980s. Some 18 papers were presented, and the proceedings will be published later this year. Reforms in Hungary were discussed by Xavier Richet, (U. of Paris), and prospects of the Hungarian economy were the topic of Michael Marrese’s (Northwestern U.) paper. For further details and information in regard to future meetings, write to Mr.J-N. Gibault, Economics Directorate, NATO, 1110 Brussels, Belgium. □

The Central and East European Community in Canada: Roots, Aspirations, Progress, and Realities was the title of a conference sponsored by the Central and East European Studies Association of Canada, the Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta, and the Division of East European Studies of the U. of Alberta, at Edmonton, Alberta, on March 13-15, 1980. One session of the conference was devoted entirely to Hungary. In it George Bisztray, U. of Toronto, spoke on Why 1956? Recent Cultural Changes in the Canadian Hungarian Community, S. Papp-Zubrits,

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