Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)
1978 / 17. szám
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS The American Association for the Study of Hungarian History published an annual report in its April, 1978, newsletter. Among various activities the AASHH arranged a panel, jointly with the American Historical Association at its annual meeting at Dallas, Texas, in December 1977. The topic of the panel was Varieties of Marxism in Austria-Hungary. In addition to the American participants, György Litván of the Historical Institute of the HAS read a commentary on the papers presented. Suggestions for the 1979 meeting are invited and should be sent to R. John Rath, Department of History, Rice U., Houston, TX 77001. Dr. Rath is the 1978 Chairman of AASHH, succeeding Eva Balogh (Yale U.). Thomas Sakmyster (U. of Cincinnati) was elected Vice Chairman, and Richard E. Allen (Columbia U.) as Secretary-Treasurer. Leslie Domonkos (Youngston State U.), Mary Gluck (Queen’s U., Kingston, Ont.), and John Komlos (U. of Chicago) were elected to the Executive Committee. The AASHH annual essay prize for 1976-1977 was awarded to Lee Congdon (Madison U.) for his article Karl Polányi in Hungary, 1900-1919, in the Journal of Contemporary History II (1976) 167-183. Honorably mentioned was András B. Gollner (Concordia U., Montreal) for his article Foundations of Soviet Domination and Communist Political Power in Hungary: 1945-1950, in the Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies 111:2 (Fall 1976) 73-105. The same issue of the AASHH newsletter reports that the Inst, of East Central Europe at Columbia U. has published a bibliography of tapes and transcripts relating to Hungary and Hungarians in Europe and America in the framework of the Oral History Collection at Columbia U. The bibliography was done by Rose Stein and contains a listing of forty interviews and interview projects with Americans who have been associated with Hungary, Hungarians living in North America, Europe, and Hungary, and their relatives and associates. Mrs. Stein continues to add to the collection. EH The Kodály method is pressing on. Holy Names College (3500 Mountain Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94619) offers a Master of Music Education degree with Kodály emphasis or the Kodály Certificate, incorporated in 1969 into its existing Graduate Program. Training is also offered in the Kodály method to undergraduate music majors. A Kodály pilot project conducted by the staff of the college in the San Jose (California) school district was so successful that the district is now committed to developing a music education program in its elementary schools which is based on the Kodály concept of music education. When expanded, this project will include all thirty-six elementary schools and some higher grades, making San Jose the largest school system in the country using the Kodály method. EH A course in East European ethnology with emphasis on Hungarian culture will be offered by Bela C. Maday at American U. during the spring semester 1979. EH Ivan Sanders will give a series of eight weekly lectures on modern Hungarian fiction. The series will be offered by the School of Continuing Education at Columbia University beginning in mid-October through December, 1978. Grants for Post-Doctoral Research in East European Studies are offered for research relating to the cultures and populations of Eastern Europe by the the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the ACLS and the SSRC. Research projects should be problem oriented and of theoretical relevance. The program particularly invites comparative research on social institutions and processes, including empirically based research on immigrant groups or communities from Eastern Europe. Grants will rarely exceed $10,000. Stipends in lieu of summer salary or grants for foreign travel will be considered only in exceptional circumstances. Deadline for application: Decemberi, 1978. For further information write to Office of Fellowships and Grants, American Council of Learned Societies, 345 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017. □ FOLKLIFE CENTER NEWS, published by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is devoted to documenting programs in folklife and ethnicity. The first issue reports on a unique exhibit on Georgia Folk Art at the Library. Other articles deal with the American Folklife Preservation Act, Texas Folklife, various state programs, the Conference on Ethnic Recordings held in January 1977, and the Chicago Ethnic Communities studies in the context of the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project. Hungarian participation is conspicuously absent. EH As noted on p. 14 of HSN no. 16, the Nemzetközi Magyar Filológiai Társaság (official translation. International Association of Hungarian Studies) was founded in 1977 to record and publicize the activities of linguists, historians, and ethnographers (anthropologists) whose scientific concern rest with Hungary. The association is intent to provide assistance for researchers and to instructors in institutions for higher learning, and plans to promote lectures, conferences, exchanges for and among those interested. It scheduled its first general congress for 1982 to be held in Budapest. Elected officers include Bo Wickman (Uppsala, Sweden), President; Tibor Klaniczay (Budapest), General Secretary. The European correspondent of the HSN, Lóránt Czigány is on the board of the 36-member executive committee. Address of the Secretariat is 1014 Budapest, Országház utca 30. The Hungarian Sociological Association was founded in 1978 as one of the scientific societies affiliated with the HAS. Its first president is Sándor Szalai. Sociology has been cultivated in Hungary at institutions of higher education and at specialized research institutes for some time (see “Sociology in Hungary; Recent Issues and Trends,” HSN no. 8, p. 6.) The creation of the Association can be considered as a long overdue recognition of sociology as a scholarly discipline in its own right. ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS ON HUNGARY ANGOL FILOLÓGIAI TANULMÁNYOK HUNGARIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH VOLUME XI (1977) CONTENTS László Országh Is Seventy (I. Pálffy) Ágnes Békás, The Rebirth of the Debrecen English Department after 1945. (Continued on page 7) 6 NO. 17, 1978, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
