Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1985 (13. évfolyam, 43-46. szám)

1985 / 43-44. szám

AWARDS

I REX

The 16th year of the International Research and Exchange Board exchanges with Hungary have been successful from the perspective of scholarly access and the ease and efficiency of communication between exchange partners, i.e., between IREX, the International Cultural Institute, and the HAS. The eighth Hungarian-American Economics Roundtable held in Budapest in December 1983 was marked by highly professional and scholarly discussions; participants in the roundtable considered it the finest meeting thus far in the series. A further positive development was the signing of an agreement with the HAS to produce a guide to scholarship in Hungary. On the incoming side the Hungarians maintained their tradition of sending first-rate scholars. (Adapted from IREX, annual report.)

For further information on individual research support contact Project Officer Charlotte Brown; for details on cooperative projects with the HAS and short term travel grants, contact Vivian Abbott, Director East European Programs, or her assistant Margit Serényi, IREX, 655 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Telephone: 212-490-2002.

COLLABORATIVE GRANTS

These are given for collaborative activities and the promotion of new exchange projects in the social sciences during 1983-1984.

Daniel Abondolo, Columbia U. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of the Kossuth L.U. and the Eötvös L.U. for collaboration in the field of Hungarian vowel harmony, sentence prosody, and morphology.

Randolph L. Braham, City College of CUNY. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of the World Federation of Hungarians (Budapest), to consult with colleagues on the archival materials pertaining to the Horthy and Arrow Cross eras.

Walter Gleason, Rutgers U. Travel to Hungary to complete arrangements for a faculty exchange with the Marx K.U. of Economic Sciences (Budapest).

E. A. Hewett, Brookings Inst, for Márton Tardos, Inst, of Economics, HAS, and Urszula Plowiec, Foreign Trade Research Inst., Warsaw, to participate in a conference on “The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the World Economy,” held in Washington, D.C.

Indiana University Foundation. Travel for American scholars to attend a conference at Indiana U. on research opportunities in Hungary for American scholars.

Gail Kligman, U. of California, Berkeley, for several East European scholars to participate in a conference on “Folklore and the State: Contemporary Eastern Europe” at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.

Frank J. Landy, Pennsylvania St. U. Travel to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia to lecture at several institutions of higher learning on industrial and organizational psychology.

Robert Manley, Seton Hall U., for Mihály Simái, Inst, of World Economics (Budapest) to participate in the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, in Atlanta.

Thomas G. Palaima, U. of Wisconsin, Madison for Imre Tegyey, Kossuth L.U., to participate in an international conference on Mycenaean studies in New York.

David A. Richardson, Cleveland St.U., for György Szó'nyi,

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József A.U. to visit several American institutions of higher learning to coordinate international Renaissance scholarship between these institutions and his own.

SENIOR SCHOLAR TRAVEL GRANTS

Thomas G. Bever, Dept, of Psychology, Columbia U. Visit to Hungary at the invitation of the Eötvös L.U., to (1) lecture on the comparative psychological and linguistic investigations of Hungarian and English; and (2) plan with colleagues a collaborative program on such comparative research. (July 1984)

Judith Magyar, manager, Hungarian Folk Museum, Passaic, N.J. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of the Historical Institute of the HAS, the National Széchényi Library and the World Federation of Hungarians to participate in a symposium on Hungarian diaspora research. (August 1984)

Zoltán Tar, Dept, of Sociology, New School for Social Research. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of the HAS to participate in a conference dealing with “The impact of philosophy on Hungarian social science in the 20th century.” (June 1984)

ACLS-HAS COMMISSION ON THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Comparative literature: “The Reception of American Literature in Hungary Since 1945.” Kent Bales, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Bálint Rozsnyai, József A.U. (November 1983)

Folklore: Field work on “The Preservation of Identity through Traditionalizing in Modern Hungary and the U.S.,”, Zoltán Fejős, Museum of Ethnography, and Mihály Hoppál and Peter Niedermueller, Ethnographic Research Group, HAS. (January-December 1984, in U.S.)

Joint conference: “Culture, Tradition, and Identity,” Linda Degh, Indiana U., and Tamás Hofer, Ethnographic Research Group, HAS. (March 1984, Bloomington, Indiana)

History: Planning meeting for American organizers to complete plans for the April 1985 conference on “Ethnicity, Social Class, and Cultural Change in Hungary and the U.S. A study in comparative history.” (October 1983, New York)

Linguistics: Joint conference: “Colloquium on Bilingualism”, Robert Austerlitz, Columbia U., and József Herman, Inst, of Linguistics, HAS. (April 1984, New York)

Research visits: Jane Berko-Gleason, Boston U., and Zita Reger, Linguistic Inst., HAS collaborated in a project on the Hungarian language and gypsy children. (July 1983, Budapest) Reger also lectured in the U.S. in the spring of 1984.

Research visit: Vera John-Steiner, U. of New Mexico, and Miklós Kontra, Kossuth L.U. colaborated in a project on Hungarian/English bilingualism among U.S. youth. (June 1984, Budapest)

Social psychology: Joint conference on “Social Perception and Understanding of Interaction in Literature." Collin Martindale, U. of Maine, Orono, and László' Halász, Inst, of Psychology, HAS. (September 1983, Budapest)

Sociology: Joint conference on “A Comparative Study of the Role and Function of Kinship in Industrial Society,” László Cseh-Szombathy, Inst, of Sociology, HAS, and John Mogey, prof, emeritus, Boston U. (November 1983, Budapest) A second conference was held in June 1984 in Minneapolis.

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