Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1982 (10. évfolyam, 31-34. szám)

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make up for the lost Saturday classes, that they will shift classes to before and after normal class sessions, to time slots so far used for religious education. □

The National Geographic Society prepared a kit for an introductory lecture on Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The kit contains a filmstrip of 57 frames, a tape cassette with commentary on the pictures, and a booklet with the text of the comments. The kit is part 3 of the Geography of Europe series, and is aimed at secondary school and junior college students as well as at the general public not familiar with East Central Europe. The price of the kit is $67.50, and it can be obtained from the Educational Service Division, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC 20036. Telephone: 202-857-7000. □

Louis A. Bajkai, director of Friends of World Teaching (see HSN no 12, p. 7, and no. 19, p. 13) tells us that there are more than one thousand English-language oriented schools and colleges in about 150 foreign countries which offer teaching and administrative opportunities to American educators. Positions exist in most fields and on all levels. Salaries vary but in most cases they are comparable to those in U.S. Foreign language knowledge is seldom required. Persons interested in overseas positions should contact Friends of World Teaching, 3235 Hancock Street, #26, San Diego, CA 92110. Telephone: 714-274-5282. □

Visitors from Hungary. The Institute of International Education, a private organization in contract with the U.S. International Communication Agency, sponsored 30-day visits for József Matuz, deputy director of Hungarian Television, and for László' Müller, general director of the HAS. The Visitors Program Service of Meridian House International, also a private organization in contract with the ICA, sponsored in the same manner the visits of Ferenc Ra'tkai, deputy minister of sciences, and Jenő Kovács, secretary of the Central Committee of KISZ (Union of Hungarian Communist Youth). All four persons arrived in the U.S. during the month of September 1982. For information on the ICA visitors program write to Jeannette Engelking, room #532,1776 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20547. □

The Hungarian Chairat Indiana U. included in its Fall 1982 program two lectures by Péter Nagy (Eötvös L.U.) on literature and drama, and a lecture by Stephen Kertesz (Notre Dame U.) on the Yalta conference and peacemaking. Two conferences have taken place in October: one on The Image of Hungarians in the U.S. and one on Social history and social change in Hungary.The Hungrian Cultural Association, established in conjunction with the Hungarian Chair, held its first meeting on September 9, 1982, and elected the following officers: Stephen Cook, president; Kevin Kenyon, vice president; and Mary Boros-Kazai, secretarytreasurer. □

HUNGARIAN STUDIES, SUMMER 1983. An intensive sixweek Hungarian studies program will be offered again at Ada, Ohio, from June 13 to July 22. Courses offered will include language instruction, composition, conversation, history, politics, culture, and society of East Central Europe. A special feature of the program will be the option of participating in field research at the Toledo, Ohio Hungarian community for one week (July 23-30). Participants may obtain 12 to 15 college credits from Portland St. U. and 2 additional credits for the week of field research. Tuition is $400 for the six weeks, and an additional $45 for the research week. Housing will be available on campus of Ohio Northern

MEETING CALENDAR 1983

May 12 - 14 AMERICAN-HUNGARIAN EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION. 9th Annual Meeting. Ottawa, Canada. Contact: Dr. George Bisztray, Hungarian Chair, 21 Sussex Avenue, Room 304, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1.

June4-5. CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES ASSOC. OF CANADA with the LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE. Annual Workshop at Vancouver. Coordinator: Dr. Martin L. Kovács, Dept, of History, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S OA2

Oct. 22-26. AMERICAN ASSOC. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES. 15th Annual Meeting with AASHH symposium. Kansas City, MO. Contact:

Dr. Dorothy Atkinson, Dept, of History, Stanford U., Stanford, CA 94305.

Oct. 18 - 20. DUQUESNE HISTORY FORUM. 17th Annual Meeting with AASHH symposium. Pittsburgh,

Pa. Contact: Dr. Steven B. Vardy, Dept, of History, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Nov. 16-20. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 82nd Annual Meeting with Hungarianist research forum. Chicago, Contact: HSN editor.

Dec. 27-30. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF HUNGARIAN HISTORY. Annual Meeting with symposium at the concurrent Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC. San Francisco. Contact: Dr. Edsel W. Stroup, P.O. Box 4738. Cleveland,

OH 44126.

Dec. 27 - 30. MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION with AHEA symposium. Annual Meeting. Los Angeles. Contact: Dr. Juliette Victor-Rood, Dept, of German, Pennsylania St. U., University Park, PA 16802.

U. for $33 (double occupancy) or $50 (single occupancy) per week. The program will also feature presentations of Hungarian films, guest lectures on special topics, and optional group tours to points of interest nearby. A limited number of scholarships are available. For information write to Dr. Andrew Ludanyi, Dept, of History and Political Science, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH 45810. □

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Antony Perot, (107 Brasher, Lafayette, LA 70506) is working on a genealogical study involving a Hungarian/Croatian family who immigrated to Fredericktown, Missouri, early in the 20th century. □

Vincent A. Miller (923 State Street, St. Joseph, Ml 49085) is preparing a study which promotes crosscultural understanding and includes Hungarian proxemics. □

Zoltán Tar (New School for Social Research) is working on a forthcoming volume on the correspondence of the young György Lukács, i.e. hisdialogue with Weber, Simmel, Mannheim, and others. The research, which is supported by a grant from the American Philosophical Society, is based on archival sources kept in the György Lukács Archives in Budapest. The volume will contain approximately 250 letters, selected and translated from the German, Hungarian, and

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