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

1983 / 38. szám

Krisztinkovich. (U. of British Columbia); Hungarian Minorities in the Successor States During the 1920s. T. Barcsay (Ryerson Polytech. Inst.).

SCIENCE: Ch: B. G. Liptak (Stamford); The Impact of Hungarian Scientists on the Development of Biochemistry. G. Feuer (U. of Toronto); Science and Ideology; The Case of Modern Hungarian Psychology. J. Füredy (U. of Toronto); The Beginnings of Hungarian Geography. O. BotaV (U. of Toronto).

IMMIGRATION AS A HISTORICAL PROCESS. Ch: R. Blumstock (McMaster U.). Documentary and Studies of Hungarian Immigrant Life P. Body (Pittsburgh); The Formation of Hungarian Associations in Eastern Canada. C. Patrias (U. of Toronto); The Emerging Potential of Hungarian- Canadian Women. G. Vörös (McMaster U.)

SETTLEMENTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: Ch: F. J. Mozsi (Chicago); Székelyföld in Saskatchewan. M. L. Kovács (U. of Regina); Hungarian Tobacco Farmers in Western Quebec. F. Andai (Shawville); Professionals and Community: The American-Hungarian Engineering Society of New York. R. Stein (Columbia U.).

EDUCATION: Ch: K. Nagy (Middlesex County Coll.); Teaching the Natural Sciences in Hungary. N. Nemethy (Toronto); Physical Education and Socialist Ideology. A. Varpalotai (Queen’s U.); Issues and Concerns Related to Teaching Hungarian in Canada. M. Csapó" (U. of British Columbia). A discussion on Hungarian communities in North America, chaired by L. Kürti (U. of Massachusetts) involved several members. Speaker at the closing banquet was N. F. Dreisziger. Support for the meeting came from the Rákóczi Foundation, Sze'chenyi Society, and from various parts of the U. of Toronto. □

AWARDS

The American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council jointly sponsor an East European studies program. The program awards postdoctoral grants providing free time, cost of domestic and foreign travel, clerical and research assistance, and purchase or reproduction of research materials. Awards pertaining to Hungarian topics were issued to Ivo Banac, Yale U.: East Central Europe since 1939.

Jack Bielasiak, Indiana U.: Crises and crisis-management in the Socialist bloc.

Donka F. Farkas, Pennsylvania St. U.: The phonological process of vowel harmony in Hungarian.

Andrew C. Janos, U. of California, Berkeley: Eastern Europe in the modern world.

Albert S. Simkus, U. of Michigan: Comparative social stratification in Eastern Europe.

For further information contact: ACLS, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017. (New address!) □

The University of Toronto announced the names of recipients of the Rákóczi Foundation Scholarship Fund for 1983, as follows: Perry T. Mansfield (biology); Beata B. Nemeth

(psychology); and Nora L. Nemethy (French and Spanish). For information regarding future competitions write to Dean W. V. Foulds, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada. □

The Hungarian Scout Association (in exile) announced the names of the winners of its 1983 studies awards. Stipends are made to assist young potential leaders to study and live

ANNOUNCING

the publication of Ka'roly Nagy /

MAGYAR SZIGETVILÁGBAN MA ÉS HOLNAP

[Hungarian Archipelago Today and Tomorrow] Essays, studies, reports, interviews on the meaning and practice of Hungarian language and cultural maintenance outside of Hungary. 1984, 152 pages, $10.00.

Order from:

PÜSKI

251 East 82nd Street New York, NY 10028

for at least six months in a society other than their own and contribute to the local Hungarian scout movements and other Hungarian ethnic institutions. Awardees were: Eva Harkay, U.S. sociologist, who has already left for Australia; Tamas Zombory, Argentine architect will study in Canada; and László Globits, college student in Australia plans to study law in the U.S. For more information write to Gyula Pap, Hungarian Scout Association, P.O. Box68, Garfield, NJ 07026. □

MISCELLANEOUS

The CARPATHO-RUSYN AMERICAN, a quarterly newsletter devoted to Rusyn culture, has begun its sixth year of publication. It features articles on Rusyn heritage and it reports on recent publications and cultural activity. The Spring 1983 issue features a description of the devastated state of Carpatho Rusyn public monuments in Cleveland by Paul R. Magocsi. A twelve-part cycle of articles on Rusyn traditions and rites, written by Mykola Musinka (Czechoslovakia) commenced in the Summer 1983 issue. Editor is Patricia A. Krafcik. For subscription ($5.00) write to 5485 Forest Glen Road, North Madison, OH 44057. □

VISITORS FROM HUNGARY. Some of the visitors who came to the U.S. by various arrangements were:

Mihály Czine, prof, of literature at the Eötvös L.U., to study in and lecture on Hungarian world literature, in October 1983. Katalin Kulcsár, head of the literary section of the Hungarian Radio, traveled in the U.S. and lectured on The Greats of Hungarian Literature, in September 1983.

Both Czine and Kulcsár were in part sponsored by the Hungarian Alumni Association of New Brunswick, N.J. Richard Hirschler, columnist for the international Economic Weekly, spent four weeks in the U.S. studying domestic and foreign economic policy.

László Kapoly, secretary of state, visited the U.S. for 30 days studying energy issues. August 1983.

László7 Szabó, director of the National Marketing Institute, spent 30 days in the U.S. studying marketing.

György Vajda, general manager of the Institute for Electric Power Research in Budapest, visited the U.S. to study problems related to the production and use of energy. □

The University of California Press announced its new address: 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. □

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