Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1986 (14. évfolyam, 47-50. szám)
1986 / 49. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P O. Box 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08903 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID New Brunswick, N.J. Permit No. 257 Advanced research in a field freely selected by the applicant and requiring residence in Pariseitherforthecontinuation or the completion of a research project, are prerequisits. The grant is $4,000 which should cover board, lodging, and travel to and from Paris from the applicant’s residence. Threemonth long grant periods are as follows: November 1, 1986 -January 31,1987; March 1 - May 31, 1987, October 15, 1987 -January 15, 1988; and March 1 - May 30, 1988. Fellowships are granted for one grant period only. For further information or application forms contact either Prof. Bela K. Király, ARP, P.O. Box 568, Highland Lakes, NJ 07422, USA; or to Prof. Georges Castellan, INALCO, Centre d'etude des Civilisations de L'Europe Centrale et du Sud-Est, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France. □ The first volume of a projected eleven volumes of Yugoslav general encyclopedia in Hungarian, just left the press. Prepared and published by the lexicographic institute at Zagreb, the encyclopedia when completed in 1995 (?) will provide a highly valuable reference book not only for the 'h million Hungarian speaking minority in the Vojvodina but also to other Hungarian speakers in the world. Könyvvilág 31 (1986)5. □ The AAASS informs us that its contact address for the 19th National Convention at New Orleans should be that of its national office: 128Encina Commons, Stanford U., Stanford, CA 94305. The new telephone number is 415-723-9668. In fact, after the Call of Papers has closed, all convention business is always handled by the AAASS national office. VISITOR FROM HUNGARY. Arranged by the Educational and Cultural Affairs, USIA: Géza Herczegh, professor and dean of Faculty of Law, Janus Pannonius U. (Pecs) will visit for 10 days for consultation at American universities. □ The Hungarian Research Institute of Canada announces a grant-in-aid program in the fields of history and the social sciences relating to Hungary. In addition to a resume, the application may include a concise description and rationale of the project; letters of reference from two university-based schoalrs familiar with the proposal; and if possible a letter of intent from a publisher. Grants will not exceed $2,500. Deadlines are set for October 1 and March 1. The Institute is considering the feasibility of collecting archival material of potential utility to scholars. It is envisaged that the collection will encompass documentary and oral history material relating to modern Hungary, particularly the pre-1948 period. Proposals and general advice regarding this program and the grant-in-aid program should be directed to Prof. Bennett Kovrig, exec, director, Hungarian Research Institute of Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S1A4. □ New officers of the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History were named at the annual meeting: Bennett Kovrig (U. of Toronto) was named president, and Susan Glanz (St. John’s U.) was appointed secretarytreasurer. The latter’s home address is: 1550 East 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230. Telephone: 718-645-3257. □ New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean signed legislation on July 28,1986, establishing the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professorship in Human Rights at Rutgers — The State Univ. The legislation, sponsored by State Senator Laurence S. Weiss, a member of the Development Council of the American Hungarian Foundation, and Assemblywoman Dolores Cooper, appropriates $100,000 to establish the visiting professorship chair in the history department at Rutgers. Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, whose heroic and humanitarian deeds during World War II resulted in saving tens of thousands of lives of Jewish residents and other persons in Hungary. D JOURNALS EAST EUROPEAN QUARTERLY Vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer 1986) Five out of six essays relate directly to Hungarian topics, the sixth has strong Hungarian implications: R. William Weisberger (Butler County Community College) presents a study on The True Harmony Lodge: A Mecca of Masonry and the Enlightenment in Josephinian Vienna. Endre Kiss (HAS) discusses Lukács, Vienna, Belle Époque: On the Significance of Vienna in the Development of Young Lukács. Peter J. Beck (Kingston Polytechnic) looks at “A Frontier Comedy" or ‘‘A Matter of Extreme Importance" for The Rearmament of Germany and Hungary?: The Szent-Gotthard Affair of 1928. Michael Sozan (Slippery Rock U.) reports on a field research project about The Jews of Aba. Robert M. Bigler (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) surveys the Literature and Politics: The Ideas of the Hungarian Radical Left and Radical Right in the Proletarian Poems of Attila József and the Racist Writings of Dezső Szabó. N.G. Papp (Central Connecticut State U.) analyzes The Paradox of Recent Hungarian Historiography: The Limits of Revision. □ 8 No. 49. AUTUMN 1986, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
