Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)
1983 / 38. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 SOMERSET STREET P O BOX 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY 08903 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID New Brunswick, N.J. Permit No. 257 MISCELLANEOUS (Continued) HUNGARIAN SPECIALISTS ARE NEEDED. The U.S. Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) provides translations from Hungarian into English as requested by the government departments and agencies. At times the text may be technical requiring specific subject knowledge in addition to mastery of the language. JPRS contracts at a rate commensurate with CALENDAR OF MEETINGS 1984 May 3-6 AMER ICÁN HUNGAR IAN EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION. 9th Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH. Contact Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter, Dept, of Romance Languages, Ohio St. U , Columbus, OH 43210. June 4-6 The Brooklyn College Program on Social Change, the Romanian Academy of Social and Political Sciences, and the Romanian Commission on Military History co-sponsors a conference on EAST CENTRAL EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND WAR, 1740-1920: A SYNTHESIS. Bucharest. Contact: Jonathan Chanis, Dept, of History, Brooklyn Coll., Brooklyn, NY 11210. June6-7 CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA with the LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE. Annual Workshop. Guelph, Ontario. Contact: Dr. M. L. Kovács, Dept, of History, U. of Regina, Regina, SAS, Canada 542 OA2. July 9-11 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 7th meeting. Paris. Contact: Dr. J. Hajda, Dept, of Political Science, Kedzie Hall, Kansas St. U., Manhattan, KS 66506. Nov. 1-4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES. 16th Annual Meeting. New York. Contact: Dr. Abraham Ascher, Grad. School, City U. of New York, 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036 Nov. 14-18 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 83rd Annual Meeting with Hungarianist research forum. Denver. 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 ASSOCIATION. Chicago. Contact: Eileen Gaylard, AHA, 400 A Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. Dec. 27-30 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION with a AHEA symposium. Annual Meeting. New York City. Contact: Ann Hull, MLA, 62 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. 1985 Oct. 30-Nov. 2 WORLD CONGRESS FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. Washington, D C. Contact: Dr. Donald Treadgold, Dept, of History, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. □ the translator’s educational background, experience, and accomplishment on the language examination. Translators work at home and all aspects of JPRS work can be handled by mail. U.S. citizenship is not required. If you are interested, send your resume to U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, 1000 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201. □ The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) has an opening fora person with strong reading ability in Hungarian, good command of English, a degree in one of the social sciences, area studies or international relations. The position is in Washington, D.C., and requires U.S. citizenship. The salary is between $16,559 and $24,508. Contact: Personnel Office, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, P.O. Box 2604, Washington, DC 20013. □ The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) moved to new quarters. Its new address is 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 20017. □ THE HISTORY MÄKERS GIVE WITNESS lecture series of 1982-1983 included one by Zoltán Nyeste on the detention camp at Recsk, one by Istva'n Szentmikldsy on Hungarian independence movements during and afterWorld War II, and two lectures by the late Sa'ndor Kiss on Hungarian reform movements before 1948. The latter lectures were published on behalf of the Hungarian Alumni Association of New Brunswick, N.J. and Rutgers U., as a small volume: Kiss Sándor, A MAGYAR DEMOKRÁCIÁÉRT (For Hungarian Democracy) by the Puski-Corvin Bookstore, 1590 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10028, in 1983.88 pages, $6.00. The booklet is no. 5 in the History Makers Give Witness series. General editor is Karoly Nagy. For description of the lecture series and some transcripts, see HSN no. 19/20, p. 13 and no. 26, p. 5. The volume deserves translation into English. □ HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF “ A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarian related research for the English speaking scholar. Please request complete list. 3. HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977.1,620entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $9.95 cloth, plus postage and handling. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University), 1978. $2.75 plus 75<P handling, $3.50 SPECIAL OFFER INDEX FOR HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER. Nos. 1-30: Name index of 2,000 entries, 80 periodicals, 150 organizations listed in 30 issues of HSN. $6.00 includes postage. Order: AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 8 NO. 38 , WINTER 1983-1984, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
