Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 2000 (17. évfolyam, 58-61. szám)
2000 / 58-61. szám
1 of the Republic of Hungary, it is a multi-disciplinary endeavor, bringing together specialists from a wide range of fields in the social sciences, the humanities and the arts. The Institute supports an undergraduate curriculum in Hungarian Studies administered by the Program in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and various other departments-with substantial, sustained, and highly valued financial support from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Hungary and the Hungarian Fulbright Commission. As a result, we have a full-time language instructor who comes to us from Hungary for two years at a time, and teaches three courses per semester in the Hungarian language and culture for twenty-five to forty students. Additional courses in the Hungarian Studies minor are taught by visiting faculty selected and financed by Fulbright on an annual basis. The specialty areas of the Fulbright visiting instructors vary year to year: so far we have had a social historian, a political scientist-economist, a folklorist and a media and film expert. The special topic courses taught by the Fulbrighters usually attract twenty to twenty-five students. With their rich and high-quality input, visiting instructors in Hungarian Studies contribute to the instructional and extracurricular content of the Central European Studies major and the Graduate Certificate in Central European Studies. In addition, the Institute holds a very well attended public lecture series highlighting the state of the art in research on Hungary and Central Europe. Our affiliates participate in joint research projects involving other institutions within Rutgers as well as on the outside. The Institute provides an opportunity for Rutgers faculty and graduate students to present and discuss their work on Hungary. An important additional function of the Institute is to provide a "home away from home” for Hungarian scholars visiting the East Coast and to encourage the participation of Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students in university programs in Hungary by fostering immediate contacts with Hungarian institutions of higher learning. Several of our students attend study abroad and summer programs in Hungary each year. The Institute has developed and maintains a range of internetbased services related to Hungary and Central Europe and assists the development of the already considerable Hungarian book, journal, record and document collections in all Rutgers affiliated libraries. The Institute does all this work on a shoestring budget. The single major obstacle to the growth and further development of the Institute has been the limited amount of funding. PROFILES (Continued) For more information on the Institute and all Hungarian-related activities at Rutgers, consult the Institute's website at http://hi.rutgers.edu or contact its Director, lózsef Böröcz, at jborocz@rci.rutgers.edu or write to: Institute for Hungarian Studies, Rutgers - The State University, 172 College Avenue, New Brunswick, N) 08901, phone:(732)932-1367 fax:(732)932-1144 lózsef Böröcz CONFERENCES The 34th annual Duquesne University History Forum held November 16-17, 2000, in Pittsburgh, focused on "Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.” Co-sponsors of the conference were the Institute of German- American Relations and Austin College, Texas. A number of panels were devoted to the expulsion of Hungarians from different states in Central and South Eastern Europe. The plenary address on Friday was delivered by Géza Jeszenszky, the Ambassador of Hungary to the United States. The coorganizers of the conference were Hunt Tooley of Austin College and Steven Bela Vardy of Duquesne University. Other participants who represented the Hungarian-American-Canadian scholarly community included: Nándor F. Dreisziger, Agnes Huszar Vardy, Nicolae Harsanyi, Tamas Stark, János Angi, Edward Chászár, Robert Balta, László Hámos, Andrew Ludányi, Tibor Giant, lanos Mazsu and Gabriel Pelláthy. The collected studies of the conference are being prepared for publication. The 6th annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) will be held at the International Affairs center of Columbia University in New York City, April 5-7, 2001. Out of over one hundred panels and round table discussions three panels are devoted to issues directly affecting Hungarians. One deals with "Nationhood and the European Union” which includes as participants Melinda Kovács and lózsef Böröcz. Another deals with "Romanian Identity Politics in Transylvania: community and Education.” The participants of the latter panel include Troy McGrath, Victor Neumann, Andrew Ludanyi, Nicolae Harsanyi and Tibor Giant. Finally, one panel deals with "Roma Identity" in the post-communist setting. The participants of the panel include György Csepeli, Ildikó Barna, Zsuzsa Himesi, David Simon and Éva Huseby Darvas. The 26th annual conference of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association (AHEA) will be held jointly with the World Federation of Hungarian Professors at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, April 19-21, 2001. The conference includes panels on the state of Hungarian historiography, artists and culture in the contemporary context, Hungarian language instruction, the impact of World War 1 on Hungary and Hungarians, minorities and assimilation, and the challenges facing post- Communist societies. Of the more than forty presenters and panelists, roughly one-fourth are from Hungary. The organizational credit belongs to Enikő Molnár Basa of the Libarary of Congress and James Collins and Gabor Ágoston of Georgetown University. Highlights of the conferenc will include a reception at the Hungarian Embassy on Friday evening and an address by Géza leszenszky, Ambassador of Hungary, on Saturday evening, some of the panel organizers are Peter Pastor, Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter, Attila Lantos, Kay Scrimger, Károly Nagy, Béla, Bognár and Susan Glatz. JUST ARRIVED - NEW BOOKS Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide; One Hundred Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States by historian Dr. Julianna Puskás, pg. 440 Hardcover $39.95 Strong Wine, The Life and Legends of Ágoston Haraszthy; a definitive biography of the father of California viticulture by his great, great grandson, Brian McGinty. pg. 559 Hardcover $59.95; paperback $24.95 Earthen Wonders, Hungarian Ceramics Today by Carolyn Bardos, color photos, pg. 130 Hardcover $29.95 John the Valiant, |ános Vitéz (biligual edition) A classic by Sándor Petőfi in Hungarian and a new English translation by lohn Ridland, American poet, professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, pg 177 Softcover $20.00 The Little Globe-Trotting Mouse by Sándor Kányádi. Hungarian childrens verse in English translation by Elizabeth Csicseri-Rónai and Paul Sohar. pg. 115 Hardcover $13.00 The Princess That Saw Everything, Twenty-four Hungarian Folk Tales in English translation by Bernard Adams, pg. 311 Hardcover $19.95 Mail Order to: American Hungarian Foundation 300 Somerset Street, P.O. Box 1084 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Tel: 732-846-5777 Fax 732-249-7033 Check payable to "American Hungarian Foundation" Credit card purchases: Visa, Master Card, AmEx Shipping and Handling Service: Orders up to $20 $5.50 $20.01 $35 $6.75 $35.01 - $60 $7.75 $60.01-$85 $8.75 $85.01-$100 $10.00 NO. 58-61, W1NTER/SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN 2000, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 11
