Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1980 (8. évfolyam, 23-26. szám)
1980 / 23-24. szám
IREX REPORT 1979-1980 The eleventh report of the International Research and Exchange Board contains interesting information on a score of cooperative efforts between American and Eastern European scientists and scholars. (For earlier reports see the spring issues of HSN.) Established by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, IREX conducts research exchanges which are open to scholars at the advanced graduate student level and above in all fields. Its budget for 1979-1980 was $3.9 million, contributed by the U.S. Government and various private foundations. During the exchange year 330 American, Soviet, and East European scholars participated, while 18 persons held preparatory fellowships, and 15 senior scholars received travel grants in the social sciences and humanities. Thirty-six collaborative project grants provided support for individuals and institutions involved in other East-West contacts that included an estimated 800 persons. Programs with East European countries changed little from the previous year. Though stipends were raised for the first time in ten years, financial problems on both sides of the Atlantic precluded attempts to restore these programs to their quotas of four years ago. However, IREX feels, that were sufficient funds available on the American side, the East European governments would quickly find funds to restore the exchanges to their former levels. The Hungarian program involved 19 participants and was unaffected by delays otherwise characteristic of IREX’s relations with Hungary during the year. The joint commission’s first meeting which had been envisaged for June in New York, was postponed to September in Budapest (see p. 1); and the visit of Rudolf Ro'nai, president of the Institute of Cultural Relations (KKI), was postponed from April to the fal I of 1979. The report gives the following summaries of East European exchanges in 1978-1979: AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS Partici-Post-Not With Months of Participated poned Placed drew pátion Bulgaria 6 0 0 0 24 Czechoslovakia 8 0 0 1 34 GDR 12 0 0 1 41 Hungary 10 0 0 0 55 Poland 10 0 0 4 70 Romania 4 1 0 1 31 Yugoslavia 6 0 1 1 58 — — — — — Total 53* 1 1 8 313 EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS Partici-Post-Not With-Months of Participated poned Placed drew pátion Bulgaria 5 1 0 0 26 Czechoslovakia 12 1 2 0 53 GDR 13 0 0 5 40 Hungary 9 0 0 1 50 Poland 12 1 0 0 68 Romania 7 1 0 1 39 Yugoslavia 9 0 0 0 68 — — — — — Total 67 4 2 7 344 •Fifty-three actual participants in programs; two scholars received grants to more than one East European country. 14 The 10 American participants in the exchange program with Hungary were as follows: Mary B. Boros-Kazai, grad, student, Dept, of Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana U. 5Ví months at the Inst, of History, HAS. Political and cultural aspects of Hungarian emigration, 1890- 1914. Leslie Domonkos, prof., Dept, of History, Youngstown St. U. 5V2 months at the Inst, of History, HAS. From Matthias to Mohács: Hungarian cultural history, 1490-1526. Scott M. Eddie, assoc, prof., Dept, of Political Economy, U. of Toronto. 3 months at the Dept, of Economic History, Karl Marx U. International trade of Austria-Hungary, 1867-1913. Francine M. Führer, grad, student, Dept, of Music, U. of Chicago. 8 months at the Inst, of Musicology, HAS; Hungarian Theater Inst.; and the National Széchenyi Library. The operas of Ferenc Erkel (1910-1893): the genesis and metamorphosis of Hungarian musical culture. Michael Marrese, assist, prof., Dept, of Economics, Northwestern U. 8 months at the Inst, for Economic Marketing Research. The Hungarian economy, 1946-1978. Emil J. Polak, assoc, prof., Dept, of History, Queensborough Community Coll., New York. 2 months at the National Széchenyi Library and the Hungarian National Archives. Census of medieval and Renaissance works in epistolography. Michael K. Silber, grad, student, Dept, of History, Hebrew U., Israel. 3 months at the Inst, for Rabbinical Studies; the Hungarian National Archives; and the Inst, of History, HAS. The conflict over acculturation of the Jews in Hungary, 1840- 1870. Albert A. Simkus, grad, student, Dept, of Sociology, U. of Wisconsin. 9 months at the Central Statistical Office. Social mobility in Hungary. Albert Tezla, prof., Dept, of English, U. of Minnesota, Duluth. 3 months, independent research. Ocean at the window: an anthology of recent Hungarian literature. Ivan Volgyes, prof., Dept, of Political Science, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln. 8 months at Karl Marx U. From peasant to farmer: the great transformation of the Hungarian peasantry. The 9 Hungarian participants in the exchange program were as follows: Magda Adém, sen. researcher, Inst, of History, HAS. 5 months at the Hoover Institution; Inst, on East Central Europe, Columbia U.; and the Library of Congress. The history of the Danube Basin in the interwar period. György Dailos, sen. lecturer, Inst, of Communication Electronics, Technical U., Budapest. 10 months at the Dept, of Electrical Engineering, U. of Hawaii. Information and queuing theory concerning multiaccess channels. Tibor Érsek, researcher, Research Inst, for Plant Protection, Budapest. 5 months at the Dept, of Plant Pathology, U. of California, Riverside. Pathophysiological changes in soybean plant inoculated with plant pathogenic microorganisms. Gyula Gótzy, M.D., Inst, for Vascular Surgery, Semmelweis Medical U. 5 months at the Dept, of Surgery, Baylor Coll, of Medicine, Houston. Examination, follow-up and operative techniques of vascular surgery. Elek Karsai, director, Central Archives, Hungarian National Council of Trade Unions. 5 months at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Truman Library. History of the Hungarian counter-revolutionary movement. NO. 23-24, SPRING, 1980, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
