Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)
1983 / 37. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J 08903 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Non-Profit Org U.S. POSTAGE New Brunswick, N.J. PAID Permit No. 257-2 ACLS - HAS EXTEND PROGRAMS The Commission of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences held its second meeting at Princeton, N.J. on April 5-7,1983. The Commission agreed to continue the cooperative programs of the two parties and developed guidelines and details for cooperation in the years 1983- 1985. (For details of the first agreement see HSN no. 23/24, p.1; no. 27/28, p.13; and no. 30, p.8.) The agreement includes programs in comparative literature, ethnography, folklore, history, linguistics, social psychology, and sociology. The agreement was signed by John William Ward, president of ACLS, and Kálmán Kulcsár, deputy secretary-general of HAS. The six US members on the Commission will continue in theiroffice. Fourof the Hungarian members were replaced. The new members, in addition to Kálmán Kulcsár, are György Bodnar, deputy director, Institute of Literature, HAS; Ferenc Rottler, head, department of social sciences, HAS; and Tamás Hofer, head, Cultural Anthropology Workgroup, HAS. Seven US and six Hungarian observers participated in the meeting, in addition to ACLS/IREX staff. The disciplinary affiliation of Commission members was as follows: U.S. Hungarian Total Administration 1 1 2 Ethnography 0 1 1 Folklore 1 0 1 History 1 1 2 Linguistics 1 1 2 Literature 1 1 2 Physchology 1 0 1 Social Sciences 0 1 1 MISCELLANEOUS (Continued) These lectures were delivered in addition to a panel discussion on a “Historical Perspective of the Nazi Seizure of Power” moderated by Todd Edelman with the participation of James Diehl and György Ranki. The Chair co-sponsored with the Renaissance Society of America, two panels at its annual meeting. It also arranged a discussion of the Hungarian economy with the participation of Paul Marer, Indiana U., and Tamás Toth, Budapest. □ The History Makers Give Witness iectures of 1982-1983 included one by Zoltán Nyeste on the detention camp at Recsk, one by István Szent-Miklósy on Hungarian independence movements during and after World War II, and two lectures by the late Sándor Kiss on Hungarian reform movements prior to 1948. The latter lectures were published on behalf of the Hungarian Alumni Association of New Brunswick, N.J. and Rutgers U. as a small volume; Kiss Sándor, A MAGYAR DEMOKRÁCIÁÉRT (For Hungarian Democracy) by the Püski-Corvin Bookstore, 1590 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10028 in 1983; 88 pages, $6.00. It is no. 5 in the History Makers Give Witness series. General editor Karoly Nagy. For description of the lecture series and some transcripts, see HSN no. 19/20, p. 13, and no. 26, p. 5. The volume deserves translation into English □ The Salgo-Noren Foundation has announced that Dr. Manfred Jonas was selected for a one year appointment beginning September, 1983, as the first Otto Salgo Visiting Professor in American Studies at the Eötvös L.U., Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Jonas is Washington Irving professor in modern literary and historical studies at Union College. □ EDITOR'S CORNER The following persons assisted in bringing about this issue. Many thanks for your contribution and your sentiments. George Bisztray, Paul Body, Nándor F. Dreisziger, Elemer Illyés, András Boros-Kazai, John H. Komlos, Nicholas Korponay, PaulR. Magocsl, Barnabas Racz, Attila Simontsits, Lajos Szathmary, and Leslie C. Tihany. The Editor HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarian related research for the English speaking scholar. Please request complete list. 1 HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries, 24 pages. $1.80 plus 300 handling, $2.10 3 HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977. 1,620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $9.95 cloth, plus postage and handling. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University), 1978. $2.75 plus 75<t handling, $3.50. SPECIAL OFFER INDEX FOR HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER, Nos. 1-30: Name index of 2,000 entries, 80 periodicals, 150 organizations listed in 30 issues of HSN. $6.00 includes postage. Order: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 8 NO. 37, AUTUMN 1983, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
