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

1983 / 35-36. szám

ARTICLES & PAPERS (Continued) is the producing unit, relying on its own resources, there is little need for cooperative activity, however, “when circumstances favor collective undertakings, peasants do not hesitate to enter into cooperative relations that show a higher degree of permanence and organization than occasional mutual help work-groups.” This is convincingly illustrated by economies which combine grain farming with livestock raising. Grain farming may involve casual cooperation, but not permanentorganizations, while livestock raising is greatly aided by collective action, such as provision of capital, distribution of labor and fodder. The latter system provides “better care for the pasture and animals, and offers an efficient adaptive strategy for enlarging the sphere of economic exploitation into harsh and productively marginal environments.” The author is prof, of anthropology at Bowling Green U. □

Williams, Richard C., and Peter M. Keller, “Eastern Europe and the I nternational Banks.” Finance and Development 19:4 (December 1982) 39-41.

This brief study of financing to East Central Europe provides an overview of bank landing to and the external debt situation of countries in the region, thus enabling the reader to conduct comparative investigations based on data generated by the World Bank by the International Monetary Fund. □

MISCELLANEOUS

Astrik L. Gabriel, director and professor emeritus of the Medieval Institute, Notre Dame U., corresponding member of the French and Bavarian Academies of Sciences, delivered an illustrated lecture on “Unknown Hungarian Students at the University of Paris: 1495-1525,” upon the invitation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on October 1, 1982. Following the lecture the French ambassador honored Gabriel as the former head of the French College in Hungary (1938-1948) with a dinner. □

The No. 25 (December 1982) HIS Press Service release is devoted to the official visit of Hungary’s bishops to Pope John Paul II. Five years after their first visit since the end of the war, Hungary’s entire epicopacy (22 bishops) made their visit prescribed forevery fifth year. The 10-page long release discusses the following areas of concern expressed by the Pope and the bishops: pastoral difficulties; church-state relations in terms of religious education of youth; relationship tocatechetics; crisis of the traditional family; pastoral role of bishops; the role of religious orders in cultural life; relationship between bishops and priests; the fate of aged members of the clergy; and shortage in clergy. □

The Volkswagen Foundation reminds Hungarianists that grants under the Research on Contemporary Problems in Eastern Europe program are available to foreign and German scholars. The program supports projects primarily in contemporary history, political science, sociology, and economics relating to post - 1917 Russia and post - 1945 East Central Europe. For further information write to Dr. N. Marakrens, Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, Postfach 81 05 09,8000 Hannover 81, West Germany. (AASSC Newsletter) □

Inter Documentation Company A.G. announces a new subject catalogue of microfiche editions: Russia, USSR, Eastern Europe ed. by Jozef Trypucko. This catalogue is available free on request. The I DC collection of Slavic research literature offers more than 8,000 titles representing rare and

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otherwise unobtainable material in all fields of Slavic and Eastern European studies. Brought together over a period of some 20 years in collaboration with a large number of research librarians, this is the largest collection of its kind in existence. The editions are all on microfiche except a few large newspapers, which are reproduced on 35 mm microfilm. For further information write to Inter Documentation A.G., Poststrasse 14, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. (Inti. Newsletter). □

Resources for Soviet, East European and Slavonic Studies in British Libraries, edited by Gregory Walker, has now been published by the U. of Birmingham. Copies are available (about $8.00) from Mrs. J.J. Brine, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT, England. (Inti. Newsletter) □ The American-Hungarian Cultural Center (P.O. Box 3772 Georgetown Sta., Washington, DC 20007) reports on its activities during the past 18 months. It made possible the visit of a good number of intellectuals from Hungary and other Carpathian countries, arranged their lectures in the U.S., and sponsored cultural events in places other than Washington I n 1981 it sponsored the visit of Sándor Kányádi, a poet from Transylvania; awarded the Bela Barto'k prize to Erickson Clipper at the International Piano Festival (Maryland U.); and contributed to the publication cost of an anthology of Hungarian literature forthcoming by Oxford U.P. In 1982 the Center sponsored the presentations and lectures of Erzsébet Ádám, actress of the Hungarian theater at Targu-Mures (Marosvásárhely); the lecture tour of Ádám Göncz writer, dramaturg and translator; the lecture of historian Sándor Csoóri; the participation of Maria Eckhardt at the Liszt Festival in Boston. It also sponsored the lecture of Domokos Varga, a demographer and historian, and a presentation by Péter Püspöki Nagy, a historian from Bratislava (Pozsony). □

Twenty-two members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to NSF director Dr. John B. Slaughter, urging NSF to allocate funds for fiscal year 1983 in accordance with the House authorization for NSF. This authorization provides that the social and behavioral sciences research programs be restored to their 1980 level, adding $17.6 million to their budget for this purpose. The letter was signed by Don Fuqua (D-FL), chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, Doug Walgren (D-PA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Science Research and Technology, and Margaret M. Heckler (R-MA), ranking minority member of the Subcommittee. (COSSA) □

The American Hungarian Educators’ Association elected the following officers for 1982/83: Janos Horvath, president; Ruth Biro, vice president; Mary Boros-Kazai, secretary; and Charles Wojatsek, treasurer. Members of the Advisory Board are: Gustav Bayerle, Marianna Birnbaum, George Bisztray, Clara Gyorgyey, Anna Katona, Andrew Ludanyi, and Steven B. Vardy. The AHEA also decided to hold every third of its annual meetings at the U. of Toronto. (AHEA Newsletter)!!!

Elizabeth E. Kiss (Davidson Coll., North Carolina) is among the 32 U.S. winners of Rhodes Scholarhips. The award provides for a two-year study at Oxford U. Kiss is a philosophy major who studied one year at Sorbonne, and plans on continuing her studies at Oxford in the same discipline. □

The February 1983 issue of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine (Vol. 163, no. 2) contains a 37-page article on

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