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

1981 / 27-28. szám

GRANTS FOR COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES AND NEW EXCHANGES, 1979-1980

Barry S. Brook, prof, of music and exec, director of the Ph.D. program-in music, City U. of New York. Travel and per diem for Zoltán Falvy, assist, director of the Museum of Music History, Budapest, and Loraljka Kos of the Music Academy of Zagreb, to attend the Eighth Annual International Conference on Musical Iconography (New York). Dennis Campbell, director of European Programs, McGeorge School of Law, Salzburg. Perdiemforthree East European scholars, one each from Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia, to conduct research at the McGeorge School library on topics in American Law. (September 1980) István Deák, prof, of history and director of the Inst., on East Central Europe, Columbia U. Travel funds for six Hungarian historians to attend an international conference on Society and Culture in a Multi-Ethnic Environment: a Symposium on Transylvania. (Conference and grant cancelled.)

Roberta K. Gladowski, exec, director, American Studies Association, U. of Pennsylvania. T ravel funds for five American scholars to participate in an international conference on The Origins and Originality of American Culture (Budapest). The conference was sponsored by Eötvös Loránd U. and the HAS. It included sessions in literature, linguistics, and cultural history. The participants were: Daniel Aaron, Harvard U.; Kent Bales, U. of Minnesota; Horst Frenz, Indiana U.; Daniel Hoffman, U. of Pennsylvania; and Myron Simon, U. of California, Irvine. (April 1980)

Edward A. Hewett, assoc, prof., Dept, of Economics, U. of Texas, Austin. Domestic travel and per diem for nine Hungarian economists who participated in the Fifth US-Hungarian Conference on Economics, at Harvard U. Following the conference, the delegation visited Washington and New York. A large portion of the funding was made available to IREX by a grant from the Soros Fund Management, Inc. Members of the Hungarian delegation were: Mihály Simái, Inst, of World Economy (head of delegation); András Blahó, Marx Károly U.; István Dobozy, Inst, of World Economics; Gábor Földvári, Inst, for Cultural Relations; Béla Kádár, Inst, of World Economics; András Köves, Inst, of Economic and Market Research; Ferenc Molnár, Inst, of Economics; Márton Tardos, Inst, of Economic and Market Research; and György Varga, assist, managing editor of Figyelő. (May 1980) managing editor of Figyelő. (May 1980)

David W. Paul, assist, prof., Dept, of Political Science, U. of Washington. Travel for Boleslaw Michalek, film director, Warsaw, and Gábor Body, Hunnia Film Studios, to attend a symposium in Seattle on Film in Eastern Europe: Its Social and Esthetic Significance. (October 1980)

Willis L. Reese, director, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia U. Travel to Budapest for four American scholars invited by the Inst.for Legal and Administrative Sciences, HAS, to participate in a US-Hungarian law conference. American participants were: Harold J. Berman, Harvard U. Law School; Allan E. Farnsworth, Columbia U. Law School; Ian Roderick MacNeil; Cornell U. Law School; and David M. Trubek, U. of Wisconsin Law School. (June 1980)

Steven B. Vardy, prof, of history and director of the Duquesne U. History Forum. Travel fund for Emil Niederhauser and Jenő Szűcs, Inst, of History, HAS, to participate in the 4th Annual Duquesne U. History Forum in Pittsburgh, on Islam

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and Christianity: the History and Prospects of cooperation and Conflict between Two Civilizations. (October 1980) AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS

Maria Birkas, grad, student, Dept, of Geography, UCLA; 6 months at the Inst, of Geography, HAS. An analysis of cultural access and cultural policies in Hungary since 1948. ‘Alice M. Choyke, grad, student, Dept, of Anthropology, SUNY, Binghamton; 14 months at the István Király Museum, Sze'kesfehérvár. An analysis of subsistence and related micro-economic relationships within and between hill-fortress poluations in the Hungarian Bronze Age.

Andrea Ferenci, grad, student, Dept, of Anthropology, U. of Pittsburgh; 6 months at the Hungarian National Museum. The ground stone tool industry of the mid-Neolithic in eastern Hungary.

‘Alice Freifield, grad, student, Dept, of History, U. of California, Berkeley; 16 months at the Inst, of History, HAS and at Marx K. U. Public festival in liberal Hungary 1885-1896. Vera P. John-Steiner, prof., Dept, of Educational Foundations and Linguistics, Coll, of Education, U. of New Mexico; 3 months at Eötvös L. U. and Kossuth L. U. A study of bilingualism and second language acquisition in Hungary.

Ivan Sanders, assoc, prof., Dept, of English, Suffolk County Comm. Coll., New York; 3 months at the Instit. of Literary Research, HAS. Contemporary Hungarian views of American civilization.

Susan N. Skomal, grad, student in archaeology, Indo- European Studies Program, UCLA: 4 months at the Inst, of Archaeology, HAS. The social structure of the East Carpathian Copper Age cultures, 4000-3000 B.C.

Arpad A. Kadarkay, assoc, prof., Dept of Political Science, U. of California, Santa Barbara; 3 months requested but not yet placed George Lukacs’s thought.

(^Includes extension of original grant period.

HUNGARIAN PARTICIPANTS

Géza Galambos, head, Lab. of Prostaglandin Research, Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works; 5 months at the Dept, of Chemistry, Harvard U. Prostaglandin thromboxane, and prostacyclin.

László Karmazsin, free-lance designer and artist; 5 months at the Inst, of Design, Illinois Inst, of Technology. Theoretical bases of systems design.

György Kokas, assist, manager, Óbuda Mgtsz (agricultural cooperative); 5 months at the Dept, of Horticulture, Colorado St. U. In vitro propagation of chrysanthemums, carnations, and roses.

Ádám Levendel, deputy head, Dept, of Methodology, Mass Communication Research Center, Hungarian Radio and Television; 10 months at Inst, for Social Research, U. of Michigan; and the Annenberg School of Communication, U. of Pennsylvania. Problems of sampling in questionnairebased interviewing.

János Nagy, prof., Kandó Kálmán Inst, of Electrical Engineering; 10 months at the Dept, of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U. of California, Berkeley. Design of large signal amplifiers with EETs in the microwave frequency band.

Sándor Sülé, research worker, Research Inst, for Plant Protection; 5 months at the Dept, of Plant Pathology, U. of California, Davis. Periplasmic membrance proteins of agrocin- resistant and sensitive strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

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