Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)
1978 / 17. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Address Correction Requested Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 257 MEETINGS (Continued) Austerlitz (Columbia U.) on Hungarian folksongs; Felicitas Goodman (Denison Coll.) on shamanism; Michael Sozan (Slippery Rock St. Coll.) on Hungarian culture in Burgenland; Susan Gal (Rutgers U.) women’s name and inheritance in Burgenland; Robert Blumstock (McMaster U.) Protestantism among Canadian Hungarians; Tibor Kortvelyessy (Miami U.) on education in Hungary; László Kürti (City U. of New York) on material culture of immigrants; and Dalma H. Brunauer (Clarkson Coll, of Technology) on motives in folksongs. Walter E. Stroup (U. of Akron) spoke on “The Hungarian Peasantry and Constitutional Development in 1848,” and Antal Gyenes (Cooperative Research Institute, Budapest) reported on changes in the life and attitudes of the peasantry. Other papers analyzed the role of the KALOT in preparing for HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarianrelated research for the English speaking scholar. 1 HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries, 24 pages. $1.80 plus 20C handling, $2.00. 2 EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIAN SUBJECTS. Compiled by Joseph Széplaki (University of Minnesota), 1976. 48 entries, in issue no. 11 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 204 handling, $1.70. 3. HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977. 1,620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $8.95 cloth. 4. MASTER’S THESES RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIANS ACCEPTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Joseph Sze'plaki; and UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ON HUNGARIANCANADIANS: A Preliminary Check List of Theses. Compiled by John P. Miska. Both: 1977. 53 entries in issue no. 13 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 204 handling, $1.70. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University). In preparation and available December 1978. Order: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 change, and the British intervention of 1938 in Czechoslovakia in view of the minority problems. Imre Kovács (Radio Free Europe) presented a lecture on living history speaking on the March Front as a forerunner of the uprising of 1956. The Section on Natural Sciences, chaired by Barbara Lotze (Allegheny Coll.) focused on traditions and changes. Kalman Laki (National Institutes of Health) sent a paper on the contributions of Hungarians to science. László Gutay (Purdue U.) gave an analysis of the roles of Szilard, Wigner, and Teller in preventing the publication of vital data on nuclear fission, which enabled the U.S. to outstrip German efforts in developing a nuclear bomb. Charles F. Pulvari (Catholic U.) presented a new theory for the economical coversion of solar energy to electric power. A talk on the role of the family doctor in Hungary was given by William M. Schmitt (Duke U.). The Section on Research Tolls and Resources, chaired by Elemer Bako (Library of Congress), emphasized the resources and facilities at the LC. August J. Molnár (American Hungarian Foundation) presented a survey of private collections of which the AHF has probably one of the most significant. An exhibit by the American Hungarian Foundation of materials from the Edmund Vasvary Collection and from the newspaper, The Young Magyar-American, complemented the papers. Judith Oroszlán (DC) spoke about the National Union Catalog in relation to the Hungarian collection of the LC, and Enikő M. Basa (LC) spoke of the significance of machine readable cataloging (MARC) and the SCORPIO (Subject-Content-Oriented Retriever for Processing Information On-Line) system at the LC. The conference closed with the words of Eugene Paul Wigner (Princeton U.) who spoke on the interrelationship of the sciences, the arts, and the humanities, pointing out that technological advances do not necessarily lead to human happiness. Special events included demonstration teaching at the Hungarian Saturday Classes in New Brunswick, which have an 18 year long history. Enikő and Henrik Muha provided an exhibition of ceramic sculpture. An evening of musical entertainment was arranged by the Hungarian Alumni Association and the Bessenyei Circle of New Brunswick. The Koda'ly Chorus of New Jersey and the Hungarian Folk Dance Ensemble made their contributions also. The general (business) meeting of the Association announced the formation of the American Hungarian Folklore Centrum under the leadership of Kalman Magyar. This first AHEA subsidiary will seek to promote folkdancing, folksongs, and folk culture in general. Enikő M. Basa, Library of Congress O 8 NO. 17, 1978, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
