Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1974 (2. évfolyam, 3-5. szám)
1974 / 4. szám
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS The First International Conference on Slavic Studies will take place at Banff, Alberta, Canada, between September 5 and 7, 1974. The conference is sponsored by American, British, and Canadian scholarly associations, and it aims at bringing together specialists on the area to exchange the results of their research on awidevariety oftopics relatedtoSovietand East European studies. Some 700 delegates are expected. Information concerning the conference may be obtained from Prof. Adam Bromke, Dept, of Political Science, Carleton U., Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6, Canada or from Prof. Don Karl Rowney, Dept, of History, Bowling Green State U„ Bowling Green, OH 43402. A Symposium on the East European Peasant was arranged and sponsored by the Interuniversity Consortium on East Central and Southeast European Studies at a three-day meeting in North Andover, Mass., between January 7and 10, 1973. The general theme of this first seminar in a series was “What is a peasant?" Two Hungarian ethonologists submitted background papers. Tamas Hofer (Ethnographic Museum, Budapest) pn “Some aspects of peasant identity in Hungary;” and Tamas Hoffmann (Director of the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest) on “The approach to the concept peasant within European anthropology." For additional information on this and future meetings write to Prof. ‘ Irwin T. Sanders, Dept, of Sociology, Boston U., 96 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. The Third International Congress of Southeast European and Balkan Studies will take place at Bucharest, Romania in September 1974. Though the Balkans may be periferal to Hungarian studies, for readers potentially interested, we are glad to report that the meeting will take as its general theme “The place, role and contributions of Balkan studies to the sciences of man," and will be organized by the following topics: Ancient and modern history; linguistics; literature; ARTICLES (Continued from page 4) of success is unpredictable. The system is not committed to decentralization and liberalized policy-making machinery any more than it was committed to centralized and rigid planning practices in the past. Nevertheless, experimentation may goon for some time to come, thus Hungary may turn out to be, an interesting political-economic laboratory for scholars of socialist economics. Vermes, Gabor. “The agony of federalism in Hungary under the Károlyi Regime, 1918-1919." East European Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 4. (January 1973), pp. 487-503. Differences of opinion existed among Hungarian intellectuals at the close of World War I concerning a potential federalization of Hungary. The commitment of the Karolyi Government to the idea of national self-determination, which included the option of secession from Hungary for the national minorities, was contradictory to the insistence upon Hungary’s territorial integrity. The failure of such a plan was foreshadowed by the negotiations between Oszkár Jaszi, the Hungarian Minister of Nationality Affairs, and thejeaders of the Transylvania Romanians in November 1918. Further erosion of the federalist idea was achieved by the military actions of Czech, Romanian, and Yugoslav troops, and the concomitant disillusionment, bitterness and abadonment of federalism on the part of Károlyi and Jaszi, and thesubsequent unfavorable emotional atmosphere of the Be'la Kun regime. folklore; ethnography; arts; laws and institutions. Questions on submission of papers and further details may be obtained by writing to Prof. Irwin T. Sanders, Dept, of Sociology, Boston U., 96 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. Results of the Hugarian History Essay Contest sponsored by the American-Hungarian Alliance of Colorado in conjunction with the Dept, of History at the U. of Denver, were made public. The $100 prize in the competition which was open to students at the U. of Denver and the lliff School of Theology, was awarded by a committee chaired by Prof. George Barany to Miss Joanne M. Hartley for her paper, “The Hungarian experience in centralized economic planning: policies and probelms in the prerevolutionary environment (1949-1955).” Miss Hartley has a BA from the U. of Colorado, and an MA from the U. of Denver, and is presently a Research Specialist at the Denver Research Institute while working for another advanced degree at the U. of Denver. Lydio F. Tomasi, Assoc. Dirctor of the Center for Migration Studies (209 Flagg Place, Staten Island, NY 10304) informed us about the activities and publications of the Center, which is dedicated to scientific research in migration and ethnicity, collection of documents, and to publication of relevant books and papers. It publishes the International Migration Review, which produced specialized issues on such topics as “Immigration in Canada," “U.S. Immigration in the 1970’s,” “The Impact of migration on Language Maintenance and Language Shift,” “Naturalization and Citizenship in the U.S.,” “American Historiography and Immigration.” For free brochure write to the above address. The Immigration History Newsletter has a new editor and a new address: Dr. Carlton C. Qualey, 690 Cedar Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. KODÁLY SYMPOSIUM IN OAKLAND The HSN, no.2 reported on the success of the Kodály method in the U.S. Now the Boosey and Hawkes Newsletter (Vol. VII, No. 2.,30 West57thStreet, New York, N.Y. 10019)reports on the First Kodály International Symposium held at the Holy Names Collge,Oakland, California in August 1973. Mrs. Zoltán Kodály opened the Symposium which was attended by 3,000 from 16 countries. Papers presented were on teacher training, folk music, curriculum designs,^and research programs now in progress. Dr. László' Ősze, Kodaly’s biographer presented Koda'ly’s life work as a unity. It was announced that the Ford Foundation extended a two-year award of $116,218 to Holy Names College; and that plans were laid out for the formation of a National Koda'ly Association of the United States. A further result of the Symposium is the formation of the Kodály Institute of Canada. This institute joins the ranks of already existing institutes in Hungary, Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany, and in the U.S. Information gathered and presented in the Symposium will be in print and available in the near future, along with films prepared by South Carolina Educational Television. For further information in regard to graduate programs in the Kodály method, write to Sister Mary Alice Hein, Holy Names College, 3500 Mountain Blvd., Oakland, Cal. 94619; or to Dr. Robert Perinchief, 800 West Main Street, Whitewater, Wis. 53910 (U. of Wisconsin program); or to Sister Lorna Zemke, Holy Family College, Manitowoc, Wis. 54220; or to Denise Bacon, Koda'ly Training Institute, 525 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA 02181. NO. 4, 1974, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 7
