Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)
1978 / 16. szám
The 7 Hungarian participants in the exchange programs were as follows: Robert Hirschler, Chief Engineer, Textile Research Institute, Ministry of Light Industry (Budapest). Five months at the Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with brief visits to other institutions. Textile chemistry: color measurement and colorant formulation. Peter Hoffmann, Dr. Tech. Candidate, Technical U. of Budapest, and Scientific Worker, Computer & Automation Institute, Academy of Sciences. Five months at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, U. of Rochester. Fundamental research issues in manufacturing automation. Elek Karsai, Director, Central Archives, National Council of Trade Unions. Five months at the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, George Washington U. and the Library of Congress with brief visits to other institutions. History of Hungarian-American diplomatic relations, 1945-1949. András Leövey, Prof, and Head, Department of Internal Medicine, Debrecen U. of Medicine. Five months at the Schools of Medicine, U. of California, Los Angeles and Virginia Commonwealth U. Humoral and cellular aspects of immunopathogenesis of Graves’ disease and thyroid ophthalmopathy. István Székely, Chemist, Prostaglandin Research Group, Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works (Budapest). Ten months at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard U. Synthesis of Vane’s prostaglandin X. József Sziray, Institute for Coordination of Computer Techniques (Budapest). Ten months at Digital Systems Laboratory, Stanford U. and the Department of Electrical Engineering, U. of Southern Californnia. Test generation methods for combinational and sequential logic circuits on LSI level (single stuck-at type faults are considered). György Szoboszlai, Asst. Prof., Institute for Management of Councils and Local Administration. Ten months at the Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia U. and brief visits to other institutions. Sociological research on public administration. Ad-hoc grants to promote new exchanges were awarded to: Harlan Cleveland, Director, Program in International Affairs, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (Princeton U.). Travel to Houston, Texas, for Dr. Alexander Szalai, Dept, of Sociology, Karl Marx U., to take part in the International Conference on Human Needs. (June 1977) Henry H.H. Remak, Prof, of Comparative Literature, Indiana U. Travel for Prof. György M. Vajda, U. of Szeged, to attend a meeting at the U. of Illinois of the Coordinating Committee for the “History of Literatures in European Languages” of the International Comparative Literature Association. (April 1977) Seven H. Rossel, Assoc. Prof., Dept, of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, U. of Washington. Travel for Prof. Lajos Vargyas, Scientific Adviser, Institute of Musicology (Budapest), to meet with colleagues and to deliver a lecture on “The Child Collection and Danmarks gamle Folkeviser as Source for the Ballad Genre,” at the International Conference of Nordic and Anglo-American Research. (April-May 1977) Lynn Turgeon, Prof. Dept, of Economics, Hofstra U. (1) Travel for Prof. János Tímár, Head, Dept, of Science of Work, Karl Marx U. to attend the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Association and to meet with colleagues at several institutions. (September 1977) (2) Travel for Dr. Timárto spend two months in the U.S. lecturing and consulting with colleagues. (Postponed until Spring 1978) Myron Uretsky, Prof. Graduate School of Business Administration, New York U. Travel and per diem support for Drs. László Mózes, Ferenc Rabar, and Endre Megyeri of Karl Marx U. to attend a conference at New York U. on the development of the Management Decision Laboratory. (Postponed until winter 1977-78). Grants for Collaborative Projects were extended to: Eva Balogh, Assist. Prof, of History, Yale U. Travel to Budapest and to Dallas and per diem support for editorial work in connection with a volume entitled New Perspectives on Modern Hungarian History: A Joint Inquiry, which is being undertaken by the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History in collaboration with the Inst, of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. (Summer 1977; December 1977) Be'la Király, Prof, and Chairman, East European Section, Center for European Studies, Graduate Center of the CUNY. Travel for eight East European scholars invited to attend a symposium on “War and Society in East Central Europe during the 18th and 19th Centuries." (March 1978) See HSN no. 15, p. 6 for description of the symposium. IREX issues a useful pamphlet on East European and Russian Language Institutes and Courses Offered in the U.S., Canada, and Europe; Summer 1978. For further information or copies of the pamphlet or the annual report write to IREX, 110 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022. AHF SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS For 1977-1978 the American Hungarian Foundation awarded four exchange fellowships and three research grants and scholarships. The exchange fellowship program for students, scholars and scientists supported two American participants and two Hungarian participants. The following grants were awarded. EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center: a research grant for Dr. Julianna Puskás of the Inst, of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Péter G. Mozsary of the National Traumatological Inst, of Budapest: a study grant to support training in plastic and micro-surgery in the United States; awarded in cooperation with Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and other institutions. Indiana University: a one year grant for Maria Boros-Kazai, Graduate Student, Dept, of Uralic and Altaic Studies, to support her research in Hungary about emigration history. Kodály Center of America: a study fellowship grant to aid American graduate students enrolled at the Kodály Institute at Kecskemet. SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH GRANTS Susan Andreanszky: for the Hungarian studies program, 1977 summer session, Portland State U. István Poor: Hungarian music, film and television studies, School of Art, Graduate Division, New York U. László Kürti: research project on the folklore of Hungarian immigrants in the U.S. Dept, of Anthropology, The City U. of New York. The AHF recently received a grant from The Charles E. Merrill Trust to support an expanded exchange program between, the United States and Hungary. In addition, a three year grant commitment has been made to AHF by Johnson & Johnson to aid the exchange program and several other programs of the Foundation. NOTICED, BUT NOT REVIEWED (Continued) Hare, P.G., "Industrial Prices in Hungary,” Soviet Studies XVIII (April 1976) 188-206; and (July 1976) 362-390. Hetényi, I. “Growth and Equilibrium in the Five-Year Plan of Hungary for the Years 1976-80,) Acta Oeconomica 11:1 (1976) 5-14. Szelényi, I. “Notes on the Budapest School," Critique 8 (Summer 1977) 61-68. The entire recent issue of Studies for a New Central Europe is devoted to topics which bear heavily on Hungarian issues or Hungary, though none of the articles deal with Hungary specifically. Editorial office: P.O. Box 116, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. The Origins of Ethnicity; Immigrants in America, including The Immigrant in Fiction is Catalogue 85 of The Chatham Bookseller (38 Maple Street, Chatham NJ 07928). It contains 623 entries of out-ofprint books and pamphlets. The small number of Hungarian related entries is astounding. NO. 16, 1978 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 15
