Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1983. július-december (37. évfolyam, 27-49. szám)

1983-10-13 / 38. szám

Thursday, Oct. 13. 1983.

AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO

9.

HUNGARY IN THE 1980s

An *

International Conference sponsored by

The Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University

and

The Hungarian Chair at Indiana University

to be held at Columbia University in New York City on

Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29,1983

The Conference aims at exploring the problems and the achievements, as well as the prospects, of the Hungarian reform in the economy, in politics, society, and culture. The conference also addresses the question of the Hungarian reform's impact on neighboring countries.

Conference is open to all!

Program

Saturday, October 29,1983

Friday, October 28,1983

Domestic Economic Reform: How Far, How Fast ? (9:30-12:00)

Chair: Deborah Milenkovitch, Barnard College.

I’,a porn :

Ed llewctt, Brookings Institution. "The Hungarian Foreign Sector: External Shocks and Responses."

PauL Marer, Indiana University. "The New Economic System."

Commentators: György Ránki, Indiana University. Ivan Völgyes, University of Nebraska.

Luncheon (12:30-2:30)

Speaker: Tamás Bácskai, Hungarian National Bank» Budapest . "International Financing of the Hungarian Economy: The Price of Credit."

Could the Hungarian Model be Applied Elsewhere? A Roundtable. (10:00-12:30)

Chair: Charles Gati, Union College and the Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University.

Participants:

Walter Connor, Foreign Service Institute (East- ern Europe).

Vernon Aspaturian, Pennsylvania State University (Soviet Union).

Sarah Terry, Tufts University (Poland).

Michael J. Sodaro, George Washington University (German Democratic Republic).

Hungarian Culture Turning to the Past to Shape the Future (2 30-5 30)

Chair: Robert B. Silvers, Editor, New York Review of Books.

Yvette Biro, New York University. "Thinking in Film." (includes film showing).

Domokos Kosáry, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,Budapest. "Re-thinking the Recent Past in Hungarian Historiography."

Ivan Sanders, Suffolk County Community College. "Doing Away with Tabops: 'Sensitive' Topics in

Hungarian Contemporary Literature."

Commentators: László Katus, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

István Deák, Columbia University.

Reception (530 —7:30)

The Institute on EastCentral Europe Columbia University 420 West 118th Street Room 1501 New York, New York 10027 Phones: 280-4008,280-4627

IRT Seventh Ave Subway to 116 Street Entrance through Law School, cor. 116 Street 6c Amsterdam Ave.

Social and Political Reform ; Are They at a Standstill? (300-5:30)

Chair: Joseph Rothschild, Columbia University.

Papers:

Elemcr Hankiss, Sociological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. "The Social Contract.".

Iván Szelenyi, University of Wisconsin. "Prospects and Limits of the Second Economy: Implications for the Reform Movement."

George Schöpflin, London School of Economics. "Problems of Nationalism and National Identity."

Rudolf Tőkés, University of Connecticut. "Reform or Movement: Issues and Prognosis."

Commentator: Miklós Vásárhelyi, Academy of Science’s, Budapest.

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