Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)

1983 / 35-36. szám

I REX (Continued)

Ldrand U. for consultation in literary and cultural studies. August to October 1982.

Denis Sinor, Dept, of Uralic & Altaic Studies, Indiana U. Travel for seven scholars who participated in an international symposium on “War and Social Change in Hungary in the 20th Century” at Indiana U. in October 1982. Participants were: Tibor Hajdú, Peter Hanák, Kálmán Kulcsár, Ferenc Pölöskei, István Vida, and Dániel Szabd.

Albert Tezla, prof. Dept, of English, U. of Minnesota, Duluth. Travel to Budapest for consultation on a study of Hungarian immigration to the U.S., 1895-1920. Results of this study, supported also by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will be published in Hungarian by Európa könyvkiadó in 1983.

Steven B. Vardy, prof., Dept, of History, Duquesne U. Travel and per diem for Peter Püspöki-Nagy, Inst, of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences and per diem support to participate in the 16th annual Duquesne History Forum in October 1982, and for the same persons involved in the grant to Denis Sinor (above).

SPECIAL TRAVEL GRANTS

for senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences were extended to the following:

Thomas G. Bever, prof. Dept, of Psychology, Columbia U. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of Ferenc Pataki, director of the Institute of Psychology, HAS, for lecture in language and cognition in primates, cerebral asymmetries, and psycholinguistics. May 1982.

Csaba, Kilian, prof., Dept, of Theology, Fordham U. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of László Cardinal Lékai, Primate of Hungary, for research and consultation on religion and theology in Hungary. September 1982 to January 1983.

Richard E. Quandt, prof., Dept, of Economics, Princeton U. Travel to Hungary at the invitation of the Research Institute for Applied Computer Sciences, for the 6th International Conference on the Econometric Modeling of Socialist Economies. March to April 1982.

AMERICAN NOMINATIONS TO HUNGARY Wilma Ennenga, grad, stud., Dept, of Political Science, Indiana U., to study agricultural policy and performance in Hungary, 1968 to 1980. (10 months: April 1983 to February 1984)

Tibor Halasi-Kun, prof., Dept, of Turkic Studies, Columbia U., to study Kipchak Turkic studies in Hungary. (3 months: September to October 1982).

Eva V. Huseby, grad, stud., Dept, of Anthropology, U. of Michigan, to study cultural adaptation to social change in rural Hungary. (12 months: August 1982 to August 1983)

Andrew Ludanyi, prof., Dept, of History and Political Science, Ohio Northern U., to study cultural pluralism in Hungary and majority-minority relations. (5 months: September 1982 to February 1983)

James Niessen, grad, stud., Dept, of History, Indiana U., to study Austrian social policy in Transylvania, 1860-1865. (8 months: September 1982 to May 1983)

Steven Popper, grad, stud., Dept, of Economics, U. of California, Berkeley, to study comparative technological innovation in socialist economies. (9 months: September 1982 to June 1983)

Uli Schamiloglu, grad, stud., Dept, of History, Columbia U., 12

to study Central Asian history, Turkic philology, and Altaic linguistics. (4 months: September 1982 to January 1983) Leyla Woods, grad, stud., Dept, of Economics, U. of California, Berkeley, to study the influence of size on the behavior of Hungarian firms. (10 months: October 1982 to August 1983)

Nominees with Alternate Status

Elizabeth Rajec, assoc, prof, and librarian, CUNY, to study annotated bibliography of Ferenc Molnár. (4 months)

Paul Jalics, assoc, prof., Computer and Information Science, Cleveland St. U.,to study portability of computer software. (2 months)

László Tikos, prof., Dept, of Slavic Literature, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, to study contemporary Hungarian drama: István Örke'ny. (2 months)

The report also announces that IREX will be able to continue funding the activities oftheACLS-HAS Commission on the Humanities and the Humanistic Aspects of the Social Sciences (for description see: HSN no. 23/24, p. 1) forat least academic year 1982-83, due to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The most recent Commission meeting took place in the spring of 1983 at Princeton U. Projects in this program pursued were: In the field of comparative literature two working meetings took place in the spring of 1982; and a conference on a publication on new methodological approaches to comparative literature. In the field of history, a conference on problems of assimilation and the problem of elite and mass culture was held in August 1982. Research on the psychology of decision making lead to the development of a collaborative five-year program. A second meeting on this program was held in the winter of 1982. Plans for a pilot research study were developed and another meeting was scheduled for September 1983. A conference on semantics was held in Budapest during August 1982, and the study of folklore of a Hungarian community in the U.S. was scheduled to begin in June 1982.

For information on support write to Vivian T. Abbott, assist, director, IREX, 655 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

NSF AWARDS

The National Science Foundation and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences signed a new agreement on scientific and technological cooperation on July 7,1982. The previous agreement of July 7, 1972, renewed in 1977, has been a satisfactory arrangement beneficial to both organizations and their countries. The two agencies agreed on the following principles to guide activities under the agreement: The aim of the agreement is to encourage and increase cooperative scientific activities between scientists, engineers, scholars, and institutions of research and higher learning and to provide opportunities for the exchange of information, ideas, skills, and techniques. The cooperation will improve all branches of science and technology, within which special areas for cooperation may be identified by mutual agreements in the future. The agreement will not affect existing or preclude future agreements. The program shall consist primarily of three types of cooperation: cooperative research, joint seminars and workshops, and individual scientific visits. Each agency will share in the effort and cost of each activity. Results and information derived from an activity under the agreement shall be made available through customary channels in accordance with normal scientific

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