Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)

1983 / 38. szám

ARTICLES & PAPERS (Continued)

Nemzetközi Magyar Filolo'giai Társaság (International Association of Hungarian Studies) founded in 1977, (see HSN no. 16, p.14; no.17, p.6; and no.25, p.6) published the fourth volume (1982) of its HUNGAROLÓGIAI ÉRTESÍTŐ (in Hungarian). The impressive volume of 675 pages comprises Hungarian studies related book reviews and bibliographies in the fields of literary history, classic literary records, history of music, linguistics, and ethnography, as well as Hungarian studies news, lists of the officers and members of the association, and an index. For review copy, write to Dr. József Jankovics, Budapest, Orszaghaz-u. 30, Hungary 1014. □

MEETINGS

The CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES WORKSHOPS sponsored by the Central and East European Studies Association of Canada in cooperation of the Learned Societies Conference, held its 1983 meetings at Vancouver,

B. C. Workshops were held on Emancipation Movements,

chaired by J. Bak; German Canadians, chaired by A. Anderson; Polish Studies, chaired by M. L. Kovács; Doukhobor Studies, chaired by C. Wojatsek; Western Canadians, chaired by R. Kyserlingk and including M. L. Kovacs's paper on A Szekely Historian of Saskatchewan; and two sessions on Hungarian Studies. The first was chaired by A. Balawyder (St. Francis Xavier U.) and included papers by I. Varga (Queen’s U.) on The ‘New Course’in Historical Perspective; J. Bak (U. of British Columbia) on Imre Nagy: A Precursor of Eurocommunism? and E. Samery (Ryerson Polytechnical Inst.) on Planning for a Settlement Network in Hungary. The second session was chaired by G. Adrianow (U. of Regina) and contained papers by J. Bak on European Models and Magyar Traditions in Early Hungarian Laws; C. Wojatsek (Bishop’s U.) on The Extripation and Forcible Removal of Hungarians to Bohemia, 1945-1947; and I. Varga on Religion and Social Autonomy in Eastern Europe. □

IMAGES OF PEASANTS was a topic of the 5th Interdisciplinary Workshop for Peasant Studies at the U. of British Columbia, in August 1983. The conference took place in conjunction with the 11th International Congress of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences and was organized and chaired by Janos M. Bak (U. of British Columbia). Participants in the five sessions were as follows: Session I. Ch: J. M. Bak; Peasant and Jew: Fears of Pollution and German Collective Perceptions. L. Rothkrug (Concordia U.); Session II. Ch: I. Bard (U. of Hawaii); Perceptions and Data on Peasant Families and Households in Hungarian Ethnographic Writings 1845-1982. Tamás Faragó (Hungarian Statistical Office, Budapest); The Changing Image of the Hungarian Agriculturalist. Bela C. Maday (American U.). Session III. Ch: J. M. Bak; The Paradox of Pallas Athene: A Cross-cultural study of Images and Experiences of Women in War. L. May (U. of British Columbia). Session IV. Ch: Lyman H. Legters (U. of Washington); Historical Folklore, Folklorism, Living Folklore: Comments on Present-day Relations of “Peasants” and “Folklore.” Zoltán Fejős (Ethnographic Museum, Budapest); The “Hungarian Spirit,” Folklore and the Development of a Hungarian Ethnic Culture in Cananda. Carmela K. Patrias (U. of Toronto). Session V. Ch:

C. LeGrand (U. of British Columbia); Images of the Peruvian

Indian Peasant in the Work of Jose' Carlos Mariategui. W. W. Stem (U. of New York. Buffalo). □

HUNGARY IN THE 1980s was the title of a conference arranged by and at the Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia U. and co-sponsored by the Hungarian Chair, Indiana U. in October 1983. A session on DOMESTIC ECONOMIC REFORMS: HOW FAR, HOW FAST? was chaired by Deborah Milenkovitch (Barnard Coll.) and discussed by György Ránki (Indiana U.) and Iván Völgyes (U. of Nebraska). Papers were: The Hungarian Foreign Sector: External Shocks and Responses by Edward Hewett (Brookings Inst.); and The New Economic System by Paul Marer (Indiana U.). A symposium on SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REFORM: ARE THEY AT A STANDSTILL? was chaired by Joseph Rothschild (Columbia U.) and discussed by Miklós Vásárhelyi (HAS). Papers presented were: by Eieme'r Hankiss,(Sociological Inst., HAS); Prospects and Limits of theSecond Economy: Implicationsforthe Reform Movement by Iván Szele'nyi (U. of Wisconsin); Problems of Nationalism and National Identity by George Schöpflin; and Reform or Movement: Issues and Prognosis by Rudolf Tokes (U. of Connecticut). A roundtable on COULD THE HUNGARIAN MODEL BE APPLIED ELSEWHERE? was chaired by Charles Gati (Union Coll.). Participants were Walter Connor (FSI); Vernon Aspaturian (Pennsylvania St. U), Sarah Terry (Tufts U.), and Michael J. Sodaro (George Washington U.). HUNGARIAN CULTURE: TURNING TO THE PAST TO SHAPE THE FUTURE was the title of the concluding session, chaired by Robert B. Silvers (New York Review of Books); and discussed by László' Katus (Inst, of History, HAS) and István Deák (Columbia U.). Papers presented were: Thinking in Film by Yvette Biro (New York U.); Rethinking the Recent Past in Hungarian Historiography by Domokos Kosáry (Inst, of History, HAS); and Doing Away with Taboos: “Sensitive” Topics in Hungarian Contemporary Literature by Ivan Sanders (Suffolk County Comm. Coll ). A guest speaker of a formal luncheon was Tamás Bácskai (Hungarian National Bank)on International Financingof the Hungarian Economy: The Price of Credit. □

THE AMERICAN HUNGARIAN EDUCATORS’ ASSOCIATION held its 8th annual meeting at the U. of Toronto in May 1983, jointly sponsored by the AHEA and the Chair of Hungarian Studies at the U. of Toronto. The meeting started with a roundtable on Cultural Retention and the Hungarian Experience in North America, moderated by G. Bisztray, holder of the Hungarian Chair and host of the meeting. Sessions and participants were as follows:

CHANGING IMAGES OF THE PAST. Ch: N. F. Dreisziger (Royal Military Coll.); The Rehabilitation of István Bethlen in Recent Hungarian Historiography. G. Kuun (U. of New Brunswick); The Rehabilitation of Béla Kun. P. Pásztor (Montclair St. Coll.); Changing Images of Communist Leaders in Recent Hungarian Historiography. P. Hidas (Dawson Coll.).

LITERATURE. Ch: D. Hunyadi (Clarkson Coll.) Budapest as Setting in Turn-of-Century Hungarian Prose. A. Boros- Kazai (Indiana U.); Literature and Ideology: Young Hungarian Poetry. K. McRobbie (U. of Manitoba); Hungarian-Canadian Prose. J. Miska (Agriculture Canada).

CULTURE AND SOCIETY BEFORE 1526. Ch: A. B. Gollner (Concordia U.); Buda Through the Ages. M. D. Birnbaum (UCLA); The Greatest Corvinian Library. C. Hollosi (Brock U.).

MINORITIES: Ch: C. Wojatsek (Bishop’s U.); Prehistory of the Canadian Hutterites in the 18th Century Hungary. M. H.

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