Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)
1983 / 37. szám
MEETINGS The 12th European Congress of Rural Sociology has taken place in Budapest on July 24 to 29, 1983. The topic of the congress was Rural Development: Comparative Perspectives. Official languages of the congress were English, French, and German. Scholars from various European countries took part, among them quite a good number of Hungarians. Principal themes were: Characteristics and social outcomes of different agricultural policies; Social benefits and costs of rural development in differing rural contexts: the interplay of local and national levels; Theoretical advances in the study of peasantry; Farming people as participants: their points of view; Activities of women in changing rural life; Two-way migration in rural areas and its social implications; Bureaucratic implementation problems and rural development; and Policies and social outcomes of land settlement programs. For further information write to Dr. J. Toth, Cooperative Research Institute, HAS, Budapest. □ The biennial conference on Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries was held at the Hamilton Center, New College, University of South Florida at Sarasota, on March 28-29, 1983. Participants came from both, East and West, and panels dwelled on such topics as the relationship of the U.S. and East Central Europe; Hungarian Jews in modern times; the varieties of modern Hungarian history; Romania in the 1930s; political socialization; and other topics related to East Central Europe. The next meeting is scheduled for 1985. For more detailed information write to Dr. László Deme, University of South Florida at Sarasota, FL 33580. □ The Hungarian Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association held its regular session on December 27,1982 at the Los Angeles meeting of the MLA. The program, devoted to Hungarian-American literature, was chaired by Enikő Molnár Basa. Steven Kovács (Los Angeles) gave a reading of a brief sketch he had written. László K. Gefin (Concordia U.) spoke on several poets living in North America and writing in Hungarian. József Bakucz, András Sándor, György Vite^ and Eleme'r Horvath were said belong to the “American School;” all are experimental poets in what can loosely be termed the avant-garde movement associated with the Párizsi Műhely. Katherine M. Gatto (John Carroll U.) spoke on the poetry of György Gyeke'nyesi who died tragically at an early age. His poetry, one of the finest examples of ethnic literature, reflects the poet’s reactions to the war and its aftermath, but more importantly to life in the U.S. The confrontation of the Old World and the New, is expressed in poetry that is powerful and lyrical at the same time. Agnes H. Vardy (Robert Morris Coll.) spoke on inter-war poetry, particularly of László Polya’s. Ruth Biro (Duquesne U.) gave an account of the life and work of the children’s literature writer, Kate Seredy, who is perhaps one of the best-known and most recognized American-Hungarian writers in the United States. Also Enikő Molnár Basa gave a paper on “Censorship in Hungary” as part of a series of presentations in connection with the Forum on Censorship and Society. The workshop on Censorship in Eastern Europe and South Africa was sponsored by the Council of National Literatures, which will publish the papers in its Reports. Katherine Gatto was chosen as a new member of the Group’s Executive Board. The 1983 meeting in New York (Dec. 27-30) will be chaired by Dieter Lotze (Allegheny Coll.) on “Presenting Hungarian Literature to the English-speaking World.” (E.M. Basa) □ JOURNALS HUNGARIAN STUDIES REVIEW (Formerly: The Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies) Vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 1982). Special themes: The Hungarian Folk Ballad; and Film Studies. Marianna D. Birnbaum, Rights and Restrictions of Women as Recorded in the ‘Classical’ Hungarian Ballad Marlene Kadar, The Tragic Motif in the Ballad of ‘Kadar Kata’ Graham Petrie, Reconstructing Reality: The Hungarian Documentary and ‘Pseudo-Documentary’ Film Activities of the Hungarian Film Institute and Archives (G. Bisztray) Hungarian Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto (G. Bisztray) Document: Mark Twain and Hungary Anna B. Katona, An Interview with Mark Twain • Vol. 9, no. 2 (Fall 1982). Special themes: Hungary’s Economy, and Noteworthy Immigrants. Part I N.F. Dreisziger, Introduction Scott Eddie, Limits on the Fiscal Independence of Sovereign States in Custom Unions: “Tax Union” Aspects of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1868-1911. John Komlos, Hungary’s Economy, 1849-1867: ACritiqueof Recent Hungarian Assessments Rezsó' Nyers interviewed by John Komlos: A Conversation with a Communist Economic Reformer. Part II Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto Introduction and From Somogy to Cleveland: A Hungarian Emigrant’s Heroic Odyssey A selection from the Poetry of György István Gyákenyesi Maria Kresz, The Life and Work of My Father: Géza de Kresz NOTE: The Hungarian Reader’s Service, Inc. of Ottawa is establishing a prize in memory of Ferenc G. Harcsar, founder of the organization and co-founder of the journal. The prize will be awarded to young scholars who publish outstanding work in the Reivew. For further information write to M. Böröczki, 1730 Gage Crescent, Ottawa, Canada K2C 0Z9. MISCELLANEOUS Ferenc Kunszabd, journalist, locksmith, and writer lectured in the U.S. during May, 1983. A lecture on contemporary Hungarian youth was delivered at the American-Hungarian Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. □ The Hungarian Chair at Indina U. concluded its fourth year of scholarship. During the spring semester of 1983 it offered the following lectures by visiting lecturers: “American- Hungarian Relations Through the Cultural Prism: 1977- 1980” by G. Michael Eisenstadt, U.S. Information Agency; “Silence and Madness: The Holocaust in Hungary,” by Randolph L. Braham, CUNY; “British and Hungarian Studies at Hungarian Universities,” “Shakespeare on the Hungarian Stage,” and “Modern British Drama Through Hungarian Eyes,” all three by István Pálffy, Kossuth L.U.; “Literature and Music,” by Mihály Szegedy Maszak, Inst, of Literary History, HAS; “The Interrelationship of the Uralic Languages” by Pete'r Hajdú, Inst, of Linguistics, HAS; “All the World is a Stage: Hungarian and Foreign Playson the Hungarian Stage at the Turn of the Century” by Peter Szafko, Kossuth L.U. (Continued on Page 8) NO. 37, AUTUMN 1963, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 7
