Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1986 (14. évfolyam, 47-50. szám)
1986 / 47-48. szám
1 their chosen languages. The program includes four hours daily of classroom instruction in small classes, lab work, free textbooks and cassette recorder use, and a program of cultural and social events. Tuition for the eight-week institute will be $2,200, with room and board for $800 additional. A substantial number of fellowships will be available. For additional information write to Dean S. Worth, EESLI Director, Dept, of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. □ A NEW HUNGARIAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOR 1987. Indiana University of Pennsylvania announced a new exchange program with Janus Pannonius U. in Pecs, Hungary. American students will be enrolled in a six-week program beginning July 1, 1987. An optional tour and additional two weeks in Budapest can be arranged. The fee of $1,800 includes tuition for regular U.S. credits (graduate and undergraduate), room, board, and airfare. Scholarships will be available to qualified students. For further information write to Dr. Robert L. Morris, director, Center for International Studies, 103E Keith Annex, Indiana University of Pennslvania, Indiana, PA 15705. □ AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP (ACIL) is an organization which fosters leadership development by country-to-country exchanges, by building a community-by-community network of young leaders, and by training personnel of corporations and non-profit organizations preparing to enterthe international arena. ACIL national headquarters is situated in Columbus, Indiana. In its first year, ACIL conducted leadership dialogues with Soviet, Finnish, West German, and Hungarian delegations. A longrange planning committee is preparing guidelines for leadership development programs worldwide. By 1992 ACIL should have brought together emerging leaders of major communities in the U.S. with their counterparts throughout the world. ACIL is among the first privately funded organizations in the U.S. to develop international experience specifically for emerging young leadership, ages 23-40, from a variety of professions and geographic locations. For further information write to American Center for International Leadership, 522 Franklin Street, Columbus, IN 47201, or call 812-376-3456. □ The Kodály Center of America will hold its annual monthlong Summer Session (usually held in the U.S.) at the Zolta'n Koda'ly Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemet, Hungary, from July 6 — August2, 1986. The idea was conceived in the summer of 1985 when Pete'r Erdei, Director of the Kecskeme't Institute, and several other Hungarian master teachers, came to the U.S. to teach in the KCA course. The Center will offer all 4 levels of its Certificate program, plus a post-Certificate course in cooperation with the Kecskemet Institute’s biennial international seminar. Over 30 teachers are already enrolled in the course, which will earn 6 credits from The Catholic University of America. Persons interested in attending should write to KCA, 295 Adams Street, Newton, MA 02158. □ HIS PRESS SERVICE (Vienna, Austria) no. 29 (February 1986). Special Topic: Religion in Hungary. 6 pages. N. p. The Roman Catholic Church in Hungary has again taken two “small steps” forward. An agreement has been reached between the church and the state in respect to the possibility of institutional employment of lay persons in pastoral ministries, and the founding of a women's religious community for the care of the sick, charitable work, and church ministries. In regard to acceptance of a new order the HIS says that “the NO. 47-48, SPRING-SUMMER 1986 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER party itself does not reject in principle the possibility of a readmission of the religious orders, although there are still many in its ranks who even today consider the suppression of the orders as a ‘political accomplishment’ to which one must hold fast.” □ The WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL One wonders of what happened to the thousands of Hungarian priests and members of religious orders afterthe destruction of organized religion during the Stalinist era. The U.S. certainly welcomed many of them, and they continue to teach in private and public schools. Later, they founded schools of their own and became integral parts of American society. The HSN’s attention was called to one such undertaking, the Woodside Priory School (302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 94205- 7897). It was founded in 1957 by a group of Benedictine monks from Saint Martin’s Archabby at Pannonhalma in Hungary. The latter monastery, begun in 996, was and remains a center for Christian teaching. The work of teaching has been a part of the Benedictine life since Monte Cassino was founded by Saint Benedict in 529. Fr. Christopher (Hites) O.S.B. has been one of the founders of the school and is now celebrating, together with Fr. Benignus O.S.B., the fiftieth anniversary of his monastic profession. Both monks hold degrees from Pa'zmány U. (Predecessor of Eötvös L. U.) and are active in Hungarian related academic affairs. Fr. Christopher writes: “I am active in the publications of Hungarian concern: The Hungarian Quarterly recently initiated by the representatives of Hungarian minority organizations; also I am the editor of the Kettős Járom Alatt, an informative publication of the National Committee of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia." □ Government Books Catalog comprising some 1,000 books and subscriptions is available without charge from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. It lists books on research, census information, business, medicine, law and regulations, etc. The 64-page catalog also includes a section of new publications, a listing of the locations and phone numbers of the 25 U.S. government bookstores situated throughout the country. O Folk dance and music The American-Hungarian Folklore Centrum is offering the fifth Hungarian Folk Dance and Music symposium at Buffalo Gap, West Virginia, between July 6 and 13, 1986. Workshops and lectures will be conducted in folk dance, singing, material folk art. Instructors will be invited from Hungary, aided by some of the best known teachers of Hungarian dance in America. The location for staging the symposium at Buffalo Gap, away from the usual university setting into a rustic camp environment, was made as an effort to provide participants with a more informal atmosphere. For further information write to American- Hungarian Folklore Centrum, P.O. Box 262, Bogota, NJ 07603 or call 201-836-4869. □ The Wilson Center’s European Institute (see: HSN no. 45, p. 6) publishes meeting reports and occasional papers related to East Central European affairs. The following Meeting Reports and Occasional Papers are available free of charge by written request: Ivan Volgyes, “Guns or Butter: The Impact of Military Expenditures on the Civilian Sector in Eastern Europe." Peter Sugar, Iván Berend, Charles Gati, and Josef Brada, “Eastern Europe: A Question of Identity.” Peter Hanak, “Is there a Central East European Identity?” For (Continued on Back Cover) 15
