Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1986 (14. évfolyam, 47-50. szám)
1986 / 50. szám
An intensive six-week summer program in Hungarian studies will be held on the campus of Ohio Northern U. from June 15, to July 24,1987. Students will have the opportunity to study the Hungarian language and to learn about Hungarian history, politics, society, and culture. College credit for the program is provided by Portland State U., Oregon. If you know of any students who are over 16 years of age and interested in university studies or simply want to become more aware of their cultural heritage, write for additional information and application forms to Prof. Andrew Ludanyi, Department of History and Political Sciences, Ohio Northern U. Ada, Ohio 45810. Beloit College offers a semester-long study seminar in Budapest, beginning September 1987. As part of the college’s World Outlook seminars, a Beloit faculty member and native of Hungary, Michael Simon, serves as director of the seminar and will accompany the students to Budapest. He chairs Beloit’s department of art and will teach a course on the history of Hungarian photography. Other courses offered include Hungarian language, Hungarian literature in translation, Hungarian history and Hungarian art and music. Courses will be conducted in English and faculty for the course will be from the Eötvös L. Univ. Application deadline for non-Beloit student is May 1,1987. Write or call: Jonathan R. GoldbergBelle, Director, World Outlok Program, Beloit College, Beloit, Wl 53511-9989, Tel.: 608/365-3391, ext. 269. □ At Columbia U. Ivan Sanders, who is prof, of English and Comparative Literature at Suffolk County Community College, is teaching a course on contemporary Hungarian literature, which is funded again by the Soros Foundation. □ RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Sándor Szilassy, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ 08028, completed a thoroughly documented study on “Hungary’s Road to Trianon,” to be published by Columbia University Press in the framework of a larger volume. He is also preparing studies and articleson immigration historyfor a four-volume encyclopedia, Hungarica, to be published in Canada. □ Victor E. Hanzeli, prof, at U. of Washington, is working on a history of Hungarian grammars of the early language reform period (1770-1800). Recently, he presented a paper in the same field, “Gyarmathi Samuel Nyelvmesterének metanyelvezetéhez,” before the II International Congress of Hungarology in Vienna. The paper will appear in the Congress’ Proceedings. □ Norma L. Rudinsky, Department of English, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5302, is interested contacting English-speaking scholars of old Hungarian literature, especially 17-18th century, and particularly the woman writer Kata Sidonia Petrőczy. MEETINGS The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) held its biennial conference in Budapest, March 24-27,1986. Since this was the first EAAS meeting held in Eastern Europe, the statistics may be of interest to the reader. A record number of 425 participants from 55 countries attended, of these 99 from Hungary, 50 from the U.S., and 156 from east European countries, about four times as many as attended the previous conference in Rome, Italy in 1984. Though (Continued on Page 8) CALENDAR OF MEETINGS March 1987 MILITARY HISTORY SYMPOSIUM, 14th annual. Contact: Prof. N.E. Dreisziger, Dept, of History, Royal Military Coll., Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 2W3. April 1-5 INTERNATIONAL HUMOR CONFERENCE, 7th with some sessions on East Central Europe, at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Contact: Don or Alleen Nilsen, English Dept., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. April 23-25 AMERICAN HUNGARIAN EDUCATORS’ ASSOCIATION, 12th annual. Montclair State College, New Jersey. Contact: Dr. Enikő Molnár Basa, 707 Snider Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20904. May 27-29 CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF HUNGARIAN STUDIES in concurrence with the annual meeting of the Learned Societies conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. Contact: Prof. M.J. Kovács, Dept, of History, University of Regina, Regina, S4S-0A2. November 5-8 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES, 19th annual, hosted by the New England Slavic Association at Boston. Contact: AAASS Headquarters, 128 Encina Commons, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94395. November 18-22 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION with Hungarian Research Forum at Chicago, IL. Contact: Prof. E.V. Huseby- Darvas, 5 Southwick Court, Ann Arbor, Ml 48105. December 27-30 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STU DY OF HUNGARIAN HISTORY with annual symposium at the concurrent meeting of the American Historical Association, at Washington, D C. Contact: Prof. Susan Glanz, 1550 East 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230. November 18-21 1988 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES, 20th annual, hosted by the Western Slavic Association in Honolulu. Contact: AAASSS Headquarters, 128 Encina Commons, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. BOOKS RECEIVED BUT NOT REVIEWED Homan, Bálint. ŐSEMBEREK — ŐSMAGYAROK (Ancient Men — Ancient Hungarians). A posthumous publication edited by Thomas (Tamás) Szendrey and Botond Clementis- Za'hony. Hungarian Cultural Foundation, P.O. Box 364, Stone Mountain, GA 30086, 1985. Biblio., English and Hungarian forewords, Hungarian text. 190 pages. $15.00 paper. □ NO. 50, WINTER, 1966-1987, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEW5LETTER, 7
