Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1981 (9. évfolyam, 27-30. szám)

1981 / 30. szám

MEETINGS (Continued)

St. U’s summer program). The Transylvanian writer Tibor Bálint read from his short stories and spoke of his work as editor of a Hungarian-language children magazine in Kolozsvár. Bela K. Király (CUNY) gave the address at the closing banquet on Russian interference in 1956, in a historical perspective.

Papers of the symposia will be published in the War and Society in East Central Europe series of Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change. (EMB) □

The Central and East European Studies Association of Canada in cooperation with the Learned Societies Conference, held its 1981 meeting at Dalhousie U., in Halifax, May 31-June 1. An entire session was devoted to Hungarian and Hungarian Canadian Studies. The session, chaired by A. Anderson (U. of Saskatchewan), offered three papers: Carmela Patrias (Multicultural History Society of Ontario) spoke on “The Nature and Causes of Emigration from Hungary between the First and the Second World Wars;” Nándor F. Dreisziger (Royal Military College of Canada) presented a paper on “The Hungarian Revolution and Its Aftermath;” and Kenneth McRobbie (U. of Manitoba), who intended to speak about poets and poetry in Hungary, had to leave the conference before his paper came up for presentation. In another session, devoted to the history of Bukovina-Moldavia, Martin L. Kovács (U. of Regina) spoke about Hungarian settlements east of the Carpathian Mountains. (N.F.Dreisziger) □

The American Association for the Study of Hungarian History held its annual meeting in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, in Los Angeles, on December 29, 1981. A panel on THE EFFECTS OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF 1956 was chaired by Bela K., Király (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY). Papers were presented by Josef Brodsky (Soviet Exile) on “The Effect of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on Soviet Intellectuals;" Andrzej Korbonski (UCLA) on “The Effect of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on East Central Europe;” and Bennett Kovrig (U. of Toronto) on “The Effect of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on the West". The session was followed by the AASHH annual business meeting. □

The Fifteenth Annual Duquesne University History Forum

took place on October 12-14,1981, in Pittsburgh, under the directorship of Steven Bela Vardy, prof, of history at Duquesne U. Two of the fifty sessions were devoted exclusively to Hungarian topics. HUNGARIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN MODERN HISTORY was chaired by William Batkay (Montclair St. Coll.). Panelists were Janos Decsy (Greater Hartford Comm. Coll.) who spoke on “Gyula Andrássy and the Russians;” Peter Pastor (Montclair St. Coll.) on “Mihály Károlyi and his View of Russian-Hungarian Ties, 1910-1955;” Nándor F. Dreisziger (Royal Military Coll, of Canada) on “Operation Barbarossa and Hungary;” and Bela K. Király (CUNY) on “The First War among Socialist States: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Soviet Union.” Commentators of the session were Edsel Walter Stroup (U. of Akron), and William Batkay. The other full Hungarian session was on THE REFLECTION OF HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, chaired by Gyula Decsy (Indiana U.). Panelists were Dalma Brunauer (Clarkson Coll.), who presented a paper on “Parallel Lives: Edgar Allan Poe and Attila József;” Julius S. Nyikos (Washington and Jefferson Coll.) on “Autobiography as a Historical Source: A

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Case Study of Thomas Bernhard of Austria;” Sándor Kányádi (Kolozsvár) on “Literature of the Minority Nationalities of Romania as a Reflection of their History." Commentators were: Anna Katona (Coll, of Charleston) and Paul Neumarkt (Duquesne U.). Other Hungarian related papers were Ivan Sanders’ (Suffolk County Comm. Coll.) "Hungarian Perceptions of Contemporary American Civilization” which was presented in a panel on EUROPEAN PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, chaired by Agnes Huszar Vardy (Robert Morris Coll.) and discussed by András Boros-Kazai (Indiana U.). On the panel on AMERICAN REACTION TO CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEANS, Edwin T. Greninger (East Tennessee St. U.) read apaper on “America Welcomes a Hero: Louis Kossuth in 1851-52;” and Bela Vassady Jr., (Elizabethtown Coll.) presented an essay on “Ethnic Rivalries and the Growth of Ethnic Consciousness: The Magyar- Slovak Case, 1880-1920.” György Ránki (Indiana U. and HAS) spoke on “Economic Underdevelopment in Nineteenth- Century East Central Europe: Its Causes and Its Effects,” in a Session on WARFARE, HUNGER, COMMERCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE. Michael Sozan (Slippery Rock St. Coll.) presented a paper on “Food Deprivation and Social Stratification in an East Central European Peasant Community in the Twentieth Century,” as part of the session on FOOD DEPRIVATION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA AND EAST CENTRAL EUROPE. In a session on POLITICS AND DISSENT IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE, chaired by Joseph Held (Rutgers U.) Be'la Padányi-Gulyás (Switzerland) contributed a paper on “Hungary’s Democratic Transformation (1945-1948) and the Smallholders’ Party;” and Thomas Szendrey (Gannon U.) on “Patterns of Political Succession and Elite Formation in Hungary Since 1945.” Commentators of the session were Frank Foldvary (U.S. Department of State) and Joseph Held. The panel on IMMIGRATION AND THE PRESERVATION OF ETHNIC HERITAGE accommodated a paper by Mary Boros-Kazai (Indiana U.) on “The Legal Background of Hungarian Immigration, 1880-1910.” The forum was attended by 266 persons, representing 165 institutions from seven countries (Bulgaria, Canada, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Sweden and the U.S.) and delivering 142 lectures. □

The Eighth Annual Military History Symposium at the Royal Military College of Canada presented five papers concerned with “Coalition Warfare,” including one by Norman Stone (Cambridge U.) on “Germany and Austria-Hungary.” For further informtion on this or future symposia write to Dr. N. F. Dreisziger, Department of History, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 2W3. (AASHH newsletter) □

A conference on Hungarian history took place at Indiana U.

in April 1981. A select group of about 30 scholars attended, including four from Western Europe, and seven from Hungary. Topics discussed were Hungary’s relationship to neighboring empires, i.e., Ottoman, Austrian, and theThird Reich. Participants from Hungary were: Ivan Berend, Peter Hanák, Gyula Juhász, Bela Köpeczi, Domokos Kosary, Zsuzsanna L. Nagy, György Ránki, and Aladár Urba'n. Those from Western Europe were Peter Gosztonyi, Karl Nehring, László Peter, and Karl Szhorke. Among the participants from North America, we saw George Bárány, Lee Congdon, István Deák, László Deme, László Domonkos, Joseph Held, Bela K. Király, Peter Pastor, Thomas Sakmyster, Denis Sinor, Peter Sugar, Rudolf Tokes, and Steven Vardy. □

NO. 30, WINTER 1981-1982, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER