Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1981 (9. évfolyam, 27-30. szám)

1981 / 27-28. szám

THE AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1980, presented the Abraham Lincoln Award to five persons who were either of Hungarian extraction or contributed generously to American public and academic life, or were Americans who enhanced the appreciation of Hungarian culture in America. August J. Molnár, president of the foundation presented the award at receptions in Chicago and Washington D.C., to the following persons: Mortimer Adler, philosopher and educator; Stephen D. Kertesz, political scientist, Bela C. Maday, anthropologist; Sir Georg Solti, conductor; and George B. Udvarhelyi, neurosurgeon.

In New York City on March 26,1981, the eighteenth annual George Washington Awards dinner of the foundation was also a tribute to the centenary of Bela Bartók. Yehudi Menuhin and Nicholas L. Deak were honored with the George Washington Award. □

THE CAN AD I AN-AMERICAN REVIEW OF HUNGARIAN STUDIES, as we noted in HSN no. 25, has undergone administrative changes. The journal’s editorial office is at the U. of Toronto. Interested persons may write to George Bisztray, Prof, of Hungarian Studies, Dept, of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 21 Sussex Avenue, U. of Toronto, Canada, MS5 1A1. Meanwhile the distribution of the journal was taken over by the Journals Department, U. of Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin Street, Downsview, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T8. Nándor F. Dreisziger remains associated with the journal as a co-editor. He is planning a special issue for 1982, on the subject of collaboration and resistance in Hungary during World War II. Persons interested in making contributions to the issue may write to him at the dept, of History, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 2W3. □

Astrik L. Gabriel, a corresponding member of the French and Bavarian academies of sciences, as well as prof, emeritus at the U. of Notre Dame, gave the opening address at the Midwest Medieval Conference held in Toronto at the Pontificial Institute of Medieval Studies in October 1980. The topic of his address covered the literary friendship of Josse Clichtove (died 1543), a noted theologian at the U. of Paris, and János Gosztonyi, Bishop of Gyor (died 1523), a former student in Paris. Gabriel discovered an hither to unknown autograph manuscript of the Paris theologian dated 1517, dedicated to Gosztonyi, and containing 102 answers to questions previously addressed to the Paris theologian by the Hungarian bishop. The manuscript sheds light on the intellectual curiosity, learned formation, and high culture of an Hungarian bishop in the years preceding the tragic battle of Mohács (1526). □

THE PEASANTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE: SOCIAL RELATIONS is a collection of over 1600 periodical articles at the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston U. “Social Relations” is broadly interpreted. It includes factors which influence social relations (settlement patterns, demographic trends, such as migration, cultural values, etc.), relations within the family, community, classes institutions, and it also has essays on the processes of change, urbanization, industrialization, and collectivization. A bibliography of the holdings was published in 1976 (see HSN no. 12, p. 2) and a second volume appeared in the spring of 1981. We will return to this important research source in our next issue. Meanwhile, interested persons may contact I. T. Sanders, prof, emeritus, Dept, of Sociology, Boston University, 96-100 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215.

NO. 27-28, SPRING, 1981, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER

PROGRESS REPORT ON ACLS - HAS COOPERATION

The American Council of Learned Societies and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences formed a joint commission to promote studies in the social sciences and in the humanities. HSN gave a report on the various programs included (see HSN no. 23/24, p. 1.) and now can report the following progress.

(a) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. Commission member Henry H.H. Remak, Indiana U. met with Béla Köpeczi, HAS, in Munich last December to plan three projects scheduled for comparative literature. Kent Bales, U. of Minnesota, was named the American project director for The Reception of American Literature in Hungary since 1945. Currently a Fulbright lecturer in Budapest, Bales will plan the project before returning to the U.S. It was also agreed that a conference on New Methodologies in Comparative Literature be held in Budapest in December 1981, and to schedule a conference on Interdisciplinary Aspects of Comparative Literature for Bloomington in 1983.

(b) ETHNOGRAPHY AND FOLKLORE. The chief American investigator for the project on Ethnography and Folklore of a Hungarian Community in North America, Linda Degh of Indiana U., visited a number of potential sites in Hungary, and consulted with Tibor Bodrogi, Mihály Hoppál, Tamás Hofer, and Tekla Dömötör.

(c) HISTORY. István Deak of Columbia U., member of the American subcommittee on history, took part in a planning meeting on the project Ethnicity, Social Class, and Culture Change in Hungary and the U.S.: A Study in Comparative History. Hungarian historians taking part in the meeting were György Ránki, Tibor Hajdú, Zsuzsa L. Nagy, and Marton Saghy. They agreed that a project’s conference should take place in August 1982 with 10 U.S. and 20 Hungarian participants.

(d) LINGUISTICS, G. Richard Tucker, director of the Center for Applies Linguistics, and Péter Hajdú, director of the Linguistics Inst, of HAS, arranged for Jean Berko- Gleason of Yale U., to visit Hungary and begin a project on the The Acquisition of Hungarian by Gypsy children.

(e) SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. The first meeting on The Decision-Making Process took place in Eugene, Oregon without the presence of the Hungarian delegation. Present were Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Don McGregor of Decision Research, Inc.; Irvin Janis of Yale U., and two observers from the U. of Oregon. A second planning conference took place in the spring of 1981 with the participation of three Hungarians: Tibor Englander, Zoltán Kovács, and Klára Faragó.

IREX REPORT 1980-81

The twelfth report of the International Research and Exchange Board contains interesting details on a good number of individual and institutional efforts toward cooperation between American and East European scientists and scholars. (For earlier reports see the spring issues of HSN.) During the exchange year 1979-19801 REX has extended 8 grants for collaborative activities and exchanges between the U.S. and Hungary. These involved some 29 individuals. In the regular exchange program with Hungary, 8 American and 10 Hungarian scholars and scientists were awarded.

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