Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1974 (2. évfolyam, 3-5. szám)
1974 / 5. szám
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Those interested in Hungarians in America may take notice Of John W. Dodds’ THE SEVERAL LIVES OF PAUL FEJŐS. A Hungarian-American Odyssey. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1973. The recent issue of Studies for a New Central Europe (special editor: the late Dr. B. Talbot Kardos) deals with “Normalization and security in Central Europe or a second Yalta.” Kardos writes on new patterns emerging in Central Europe; Carl J. Friedrich on "The politics of languages and corporate federalism;” Stephen D. Kertesz on “A federation manque;” Tadeusz N. Cieplak on Brandt’s Ostpolitik, 1969-72; S. Velinsky on Central European security; Julius Varsányi on “Recent developments in the international regime of the Danube;” V. Holubnychy writes on Soviet-Central European trade; and the Mid-European Research Institute provides a statistical section. The Society for German-American Studies under the chairmanship of Dr. Robert E. Ward, publishes the German- American Studies. The journal publishes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, and original German poems written by German speaking elements of the U.S. The journal appears annually and is in its fifth year of publication. It solicits manuscripts in creative literature from German speaking Americans. For further information write to Dr. Ward, 7204 Langerford Drive, Cleveland, OH 44129. Dr. János Jo'zsef Ladik from the Technische U., Munich is a visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, National Institute of Arthiritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Coloman Laki, he is working in the area of quantum chemistry investigating the electronic structure of biologically active molecules and macro molecules especially DNA and proteins. He is also studying the interaction of the constituents of contractil proteins. Dr. Ladik is planning to stay for one year. The American Association for the Study of Hungarian History has a new Secretary and a new address: Dr. Thomas L. Sakmyster, Dept, of History, U. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. As we reported (HSN no. 3) the Association sponsored a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco in 1973. Papers presented were by Dr. Richard Allen (U. of Denver) on Oscar Jászi and the Critique of Nationalism; Mario Fenyő (Boston U.) on Literature and Politics in Hungary: the ‘Nyugat’ Generation', and Marian A. Low (John Jay Coll, of Criminal Justice) on The Populist Critics: László Nemeth. In another panel of the meeting Bela K. Király (City U. of New York) presented a paper on The Origins and the Rapid Dissemination of Protestant Reformation in Hungary. ACLS AWARDS ACLS and the Social Science Research Council sponsor an East European Studies program funded by the Ford Foundation. Of the thirteen postdoctoral research grants awarded for 1974-75 the following relate to Hungarian studies: Richard E. Allen, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia U; for a study on “The nationalities of old Hungary: the road to independence, 1900-1919;” Leslie Dienes, Assoc. Prof, of Geography, U. of Kansas, for a study on “The mechanisms of environmental disruption in Hungary;” Scott McN. Eddie, Assoc. Prof, of Political Economy, U. of Toronto, fora study on “Agrarian reforms in eastern Europe, 1919-1939;” Bennett Kovrig, Assoc. Prof, of Political Economy, U. of Toronto, for a study on "Hungarian Communist Party history;” and Joseph A. Licari, Asst. Prof, of Economics, Occidental Coll., for the study of “Postwar Hungarian economic development.” The ACLS-SSRC also awarded 23 grants to scholars and graduate students for study of East European languages, among them the following three persons for the study of Hungarian: Roger E. Blaine, Grad. Stu-IREX IREX nominees for 1974-75. The HSN will report on the IREX Annual Report in issue 7 (Spring 1975), but having been informed on nominations to Hungary for the current academic year, we thought they may be of interest to our readers. Dr. Karl Aschenbrenner, Prof., Dept, of Philosophy, U. of California, Berkeley, to study evalutive terms in the Hungarian language; Peter Bell, Grad. Student, Dept, of Anthropology, U. of California, San Diego, to study effects of collectivization on social perception; Etelka deLaczay, Grad. Student, Dept, of Sociology, New School of Social Research, to study ideology and culture in Hungary’s emergence into modernity; Dr. Scott Eddie, Assoc. Prof., Dept, of Political Economy, U. of Toronto, to study agrarian reforms in Eastern Europe, 1919-1939; Dr. Edward Hewett, Asst. Prof., Dept, of Economics, U. of Texas, to study East-West trade and economic systems; John Komlos, Grad. Student, Dept, of History, U. of Chicago, to study the Habsburg Monarchy as a customs union; Michael Marrese, Grad. Student, Dept, of Economics, U. of Pennsylvania, to study economic theory and central planning; Harry Steckman, Grad. Student, Dept, of Music, Columbia U., to study the composition of two and three part songs based dent, Uralic and AltaicStudies, Indiana U.; Paul R. Magocsi, Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard U.; and Conrad C. Reining, Chairman and Prof, of Anthropology, Catholic U. on the American folk song for children’s voices (based on the Koda'ly concept); and Dr. Ivan Volgyes, Assoc. Prof. Dept, of Political Science, U. of Nebraska, to study secondary education in Hungary. EDITOR’S CORNER Several professional journals have taken notice of the Hungarian Research Center and the HSN. As a result I am receiving letters of inquiry from all four corners of the world. My answer may not always satisfy expectations as far as the Center is concerned. Our facilities are in the developmental stage, and the total library collection is being cataloged now. Some 6000 volumes arefullycataloged.Peopleand ideas interact with increasing vigor, and more researchers come to the facility and defy any shortcomings. We will print a more detailed report in our next issue. You may have noticed the initials EMB after some entries under “Articles and Other Publications.” Dr. Enikő Molnar-Basa, Professorial Lecturer at American U. volunteered to assist in the editorial work by providing abstracts of articles. Many thanks Enikő. I feel reinforced. And thanks to you all who keep sending me occasional news items and words of encouragement; especially to Francis M. Bator, István Deák, Isabel G. Finck, Ruth E. Foster, Victor E. Hanzeli, Marida Hollos, Bela Király, Lita Osmundsen, Brian Mac- Whinney, Carmen Remenyi, Thomas O. Schlesinger, William Scfjyom-Fekete, Gordon Turner, Agnes H. Vardy, Andrew Vazsonyi, and Daniel E. Weinberg. -|-^e j^or HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER , No. 5, 1974 7
