Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1982 (10. évfolyam, 31-34. szám)

1982 / 31-32. szám

IREX (Continued)

Musicology, HAS, for continuation of a collaborative research project on the Hebrew tradition in Hungarian music. (January 1981).

John E. Roemer, U. of California, Davis. Travel to Yugoslavia, Poland, and Hungary for consultations with East European economists on revision of his book, A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. (September 1981).

Denis Sinor, Indiana U. Per diem support for 23 American and Hungarian delegates to an international symposium, “World History --Hungarian History,” at Indiana U. Delegates receiving support were: George Bárány, U. of Denver; Ivan Berend, HAS; István Deák, Columbia U.; László Deme, U. of South Florida; Leslie Domonkos, Youngstown St. U.; Scott M. Eddie, U. of Toronto; Mario Fenyő, Peter Hana'k, HAS; Joseph Held, Rutgers U.; Gyula Juhasz, HAS; Stephen Kertész, U. of Notre Dame; Bela K. Király, Brooklyn Coll.; John Komlos, Aurora Coll.’ Béla Köpeczi HAS; Domokos Kosáry, HAS; Zsuzsa L. Nagy, HAS; Peter Pastor, Montclair St. Coll.; John Rath, U. of Minnesota; Peter Sugar, U. of Washington; Rudolf Tokes, U. of Connecticut; Aladár Urban, Eötvös L.U.; Agnes Vardy, Robert Morris Coll.; and Steven B. Vardy, Duquesne U. (April 1981).

Michael Sozan, Slippery Rock St. Coll. Travel support for Tamas Hofer HAS, to participate in the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (December 1980).

Hungarian Delegation. György Nádor, director general of NKI, visited the U.S. for the purpose of signing a new twoyear agreement between IREX and the NKI, as well as visit several U.S. institutions of higher education.

SPECIAL TRAVEL GRANTS

Americans who received special IREX travel grants to visit Hungary and/or sponsor Hungarian scholars to come to the U.S. (List incomplete).

Richard E. Quandt, Princeton U. Visited Budapest at the invitation of the Inst, for Applied Computer Sciences to attend the 6th International Conference on Econometric Modelling of Social Economics (March-April 1982).

Barbara N. Aziz, Columbia U. Has invited three Tibetologists to participate in an international conference on “New Directions in Tibetan Studies,” to be held at Columbia U. between July 25 and 31, 1982., The three scholars are: Janos Szerb, Fellow, HAS; Ge'za Uray, Inst, of Linguistics, HAS; and András Rona-Tas, Inner Asiatic Studies, József A.U. Szeged.

Zdenek Suda, U. of Pittsburgh. He met with Lajos Héthy, Sociological Research Inst., HAS, in December 1981 to collaborate on an ongoing project dealing with “Work Satisfaction and Authority Relations West and East.” AMERICAN NOMINATIONS TO HUNGARY 1981-1982

George Bárány, U. of Denver, to study reform, revolution, and reaction; Szechenyi’s Noonday, Twilight, and Night. (5 months)

Jarka Marsano Burian, SUNY, Albany, to visit the national branch of the Inti. Theatre Inst, in Poland and Hungary. (2 months)

Keith Crane, Indiana U., to study export performances of enterprises in Poland and Hungary. (5 months)

Scott Eddie, U. of Toronto, to study agriculture and economic developoment in Hungary between 1867 and 1913. (3 months)

Terry Eder, Indiana U., for the preparation of two recital programs of 29th century Hungarian solo piano music. (8

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months)

Rebecca Gates, Stanford U., to study landlord-peasant relations and rural society between 1760 and 1790. (Esterházy estates.) (4 months)

Emery George, U. of Michigan, to study Miklo's Radnóti and the Western tradition in poetry. (4 months)

Marta Ghezzo, Queens Coll., to study the style characteristics of 16th century historic songs in Hungary. (3 months)

Martha Lampland, U. of Chicago, to study social planning and change: i.e., an anthropological study of an agricultural cooperative. (10 months)

Nancy Lisagor, Columbia U., to study the impact of sociological research on the 1979 revision of the Hungarian criminal code. (6 months)

James Robinson, McGill U., to study hegemony and reification; the politics and culture in the work of Gramsci and Lukács, 1917-1937. (5 months)

Farrell Ackerman, U. of California, Berkeley, to study the theory of spect. (2 months)

ACADEMIES EXCHANGE AWARDS

The National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council awarded the following scholars and scientists in the framework of an exchange program with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

AMERICANS TO HUNGARY

Scott M. Eddie (U. of Toronto): for study of economic history.

George J. Halasi-Kun (Columbia U.): for study of geohydrology.

Mitsuru J. Nakamura (U. of Montana): for study of medical microbiology.

Stanley W. Newcomer (Oklahoma St. U., Stillwater): for study of endoctrinology.

Alden F. Pixley (Harvey Mudd Coll., Calif.): for the study of mathematics.

Victoria Chan-Palay (Harvard Medical School): to study the structure and function of the brain.

Stephen Molnár (Washington U.): to study physical anthropology.

HUNGARIANS TO THE U.S.

Zoltán Dinya (Research Group for Antibiotics) to study spectroscopic properties of antibiotics.

Emil Páldi (Agricult. Research Inst.) to study ribosomal RNA synthesis at low temperatures.

Gábor Makara (Inst, of Experiemental Medicine) to study regulation of hypothalamo-hypophysical system.

Hungarians who recently have completed visits to the U.S. in the framework of the NAS-HAS program and whose name has not been mentioned in earlier HSN reports:

György Eppeldauer (Research Inst. forTechnical Physics): 6 months at the National Bureau of Standards to study radio metric physics.

AndorFrenkel (Ctr. Research Inst, for Physics): 12V4 months at Boston U. to study particles, quantum mechanics.

Paul Friedrich (Inst, of Enzymology): 6 months, to survey; enzyme structure and function.

Mihály Karteszi (Inst, of Experimental Medicine): 5 months at the U. of California, San Francisco, to study pituitary hormone secretion.

NO. 31-32, SPRING-SUMMER. 1982 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER