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American Hungarian Educators Association - Amerikai Magyar Tanáregyesület

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The development of science has not made mankind happier. Science and technology become dangerous whenever overspecialized and isolated... In the spirit of the old ‘Arany János Körök’ a general interest in the sciences should be created; thus we can reduce our isolation, and also perhaps the threat of an isolated technology.  -- Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel Laureate at the 1976 AHEA Conference

The American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) is a scholarly and professional organization devoted to the teaching and dissemination of Hungarian culture. The Association provides opportunities for those interested in Hungarian studies and Hungarian heritage to further these interests by:

  • actively supporting ethnic and multicultural programs to broaden awareness, within the United States, of Hungarian contributions to civilization;
  •  deepening the appreciation for Hungarian culture among Americans of Hungarian origin
  • encouraging the maintenance of the Hungarian language and Hungarian studies in English
  • As a heritage organization the AHEA is vitally interested in the preservation of historical documents and artifacts as close as possible to their place of creation.


The AHEA is open to cooperation with all groups interested in supporting Hungarian culture and Hungarian studies within the United States and Canada, as well as Central European countries with large indigenous Hungarian minorities.

Governance

1974 Articles of Incorporation
Maryland and New Jersey Certificates
2021 Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
2021 Approved By-Laws
Standing Rules

 

Officers 2023 - 2025:
President: Helga Lénárt-Cheng, St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, California.
Vice-President: Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Secretary: Nóra Deák, Secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Treasurer: Kálmán Magyar, American Hungarian Folklore Centrum, New Jersey.
Immediate Past President: Klára Papp, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Members-at-Large
Sarah Lucas, Texas A&M University Kingsville.
Éva Petrás, Committee of National Remembrance (NEB) Budapest
Mari Réthelyi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Membership Development Chair
Andrew Behrendt, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) Rolla, MO

Ex Officio: Nominating Committee ChairJudith Kesserű Némethy, New York University.
Ex Officio: Editor-in-Chief, Hungarian Cultural Studies, e-Journal of the AHEA, Paul Olchváry, Publisher, New Europe Books.
Ex Officio: AHEA WebmasterKatalin Vörös, University of California, Berkeley.

Board of Directors of the Association is made up of the Officers, the Members-at-Large, the Membership Development Chair and the three appointed Ex Officio members. 

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

Membership Development Committee:

Chair: Andrew Behrendt, Missouri S&T

Advisor: Katalin Kádár LynnHelena History Press, Reno, Nevada
Members: Nóra Deák, Secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
                 Teodora Dömötör, Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest               
                 Andrew Lee, Northern VA Community College
                 Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland
                 Elizabeth Vos, Magyar Marketing, Evansville, Indiana     

Standing Program Committee:
 

Program Committee Guidelines

Cultural Studies: Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. 
                           Mari Réthelyi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
Education: Krisztina Fehér,  Cleveland State University and University of Debrecen. 
                  Andrea ParapaticsUniversity of Pannonia, Veszprém. 
History/Political Science: Péter Kristián Zachar, National University of Public Service, Budapest.
                                        James P. Niessen, Rutgers University. New Jersey.
Language/Literature: Ákos Farkas, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary. 
                                 Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Music/Folklore: Sarah Lucas, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.
                         Judith Olson, American Hungarian Folklore Centrum, New Jersey.
Science/Economics: Andrew Lee, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia.
                                 Katalin Vörös, University of California, Berkeley.

Past Presidents:
1974-1975               Interim president Enikő M.  Basa
1975-1978               Enikő M.  Basa, two terms
1978-1982               Barbara Lotze, two terms
1982-1984               János Horváth
1984-1988               Martha Pereszlényi-Pinter, two terms
1988-1992               Enikő M.  Basa, two terms
1992-1996               Katherine Gatto, two terms
1996-2000               Péter Pastor, two terms
2000-2004               Martha Pereszlényi-Pinter, two terms
2004-2008               Susan Glanz, two terms
2008-2012               Judith Kesserű Némethy, two terms
2012-2014               Julia Bock
2014-2018               James P. Niessen, two terms
2018-2023               Klára Papp, two terms +1 year (COVID)
2023-                       Helga Lénárt-Cheng

 

Programs

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Annual Conferences at North American universities (every five years in Hungary) provide a scholarly forum and opportunity for workshops and discussion groups devoted to topics of special interest

List of All AHEA Conferences

The AHEA was organized in 1974 at the Magyar Találkozó in Cleveland, Ohio.  The following year we held our meeting again in Cleveland, as a one-day event.  1976 saw the start of independent conferences of two days (Friday and Saturday), expanded in 1983 to include a program on Thursday evening and occasionally a study tour or cultural program on Sunday.  Many of the conferences were co-sponsored by departments or programs from the host university as well as various local or national organizations.
                             1st        1976    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                             2nd       1977    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                             3rd        1978    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                             4th        1979    Silver Spring, MD
                                          1979    Special Symposium on Transylvania, Kent State University, Ohio
                             5th        1980    St.  Michael’s College, U.  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
Beginning with the 1981 Conference there has been a unifying theme given to each:
                             6th        1981    Kent State University, Kent, OH
                                                     Symposium on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
                             7th        1982    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Culture of Hungarians  in the USA
                             8th        1983    St.  Michael’s College, University  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                             9th        1984    Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
                                                     Hungary and Hungarians – Accomplishments and Prospects
                            10th      1985    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                     A Ten-Year Retrospective       
                             11th      1986    St.  Michael’s College, University  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                             12th      1987    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Hungary and Its Neighbors – Hungary and the West
                             13th      1988   University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
                                                    Contributions of Hungarians and those of Hung. Descent to World Civilization
                             14th      1989    St.  Michael’s College, University of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                                                     With the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
                             15th      1990    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Hungary in an Age of Crisis
                              16th      1991    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                     The Life and Times of Ernő Dohnányi
                              17th      1992    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
                                                       A Commemorative Conf. on the Centennial of the Birmingham Neighborhood
                              18th      1993    University  of Maryland, College Park, MD
                                                      Hungary in the 1990's: New Possibilities in a New Context 
                              19th      1994    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                                                      Fifteen Million Hungarians in Transition Today
                              20th      1995    U.  du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Que.  Canada
                                                      At the Learned Societies of Canada Conference
                              21st      1996    Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                      Hungarian Anniversaries: 896 and 1956
                                           1996   Library of Congress: Commemorating 1100 years of Hungarian Statehood
                                                     Hungary on the Threshold of the 21st Century
                              22nd      1997    U.  of Maryland, College Park, MD
                                                      A Thousand Years of Hungarian Education: Toward the Second Millennium
                               23rd      1998  Columbia University, New York, NY
                                                     Reform, Revolution, Integration: Hungary Past and Present
                               24th      1999  John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
                                           Memory, Culture and Identity: The Hungarian Global Village at the End of the Millennium
                               25th      2000  Magyar Kultúra Alapítvány/Hungarian Culture Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
                                                     Hungarians in North America – Magyarok Észak Amerikában
                               26th      2001  Georgetown University, Washington, DC
                                                     Hungarian Culture – Central European Culture
                               27th      2002  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
                                                     At the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada
                               28th      2003 Columbia University, New York, NY
                                                     Hungarian Culture, Global Culture
                               29th      2004 Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                    Hungarians at a Turning Point
                              30th      2005 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
                                                   Looking Forward – Looking Back: The AHEA at Thirty
                              31st      2006 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                   Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution 
                                                   Cold War Hungary, the Revolution of 1956, and its Aftermath
                               32nd     2007 St.  John’s University College of  Professional Studies, New York, NY
                                                    Hungarians in a Larger World
                               33rd      2008 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
                                                   Hungarian Identity in an Intercultural World
                               34th      2009 University of California, Berkeley, CA
                                                    Hungarians in the New World
                              35th      2010 University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
                                                   Bridges Between Hungarians  – Magyar-Magyar Kapcsolatok
                              36 th       2011 John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
                                           Whither Europe? Whither Hungary? The Challenges of Pluralism in the Twenty-first Century
                              37th      2012 Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, New York
                                                   Hungarian Borders, [Im]migrations, Diasporas
                              38th      2013 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                                                   Preserving the Past, Finding the Future – Őrizzük a múltat, keressük a jövőt.
                               39th     2014 University of Florida, Gainesville
                                                   Turning Points in Hungarian Life and History 
                                                   Fordulópontok a magyar életben és történelemben
                               40th      2015 Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca
                                                    Identities Beyond Borders ― Határokon átívelő identitások
                               41st      2016 University of Maryland Conference Center
                                            ― Migration and Emigration ―  On the 60th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution 1956
                                     ― Migráció és emigráció ― Az 1956-os Forradalom és Szabadságharc 60. évfodulója alkalmából
                               42nd      2017 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON Canada
                                                     Joint Meeting with the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
                                                     Sovereignty, Compromise, and the Making of Modern Hungary: 1867 and Beyond
                                                     
Függetlenség, Kiegyezés és a modern Magyarország kialakulása: 1867 és azután
                              43rd       2018  Cleveland State University                        
                                                      Forging the Future, Facing the Past: Hungary and its Diaspora
                                                     A jövőbe tekintve, figyelembe véve a múltat: Magyarország és a diaszpóra
                               44th        2019  University of Pittsburgh
                                                       Identity: Hungarian, European, Global?
                                                       Identitás: magyar, európai, globális?
                               45th        2020/2021   University of Pécs, postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic
                                                                Online conference: Cultural Crossroads
                               46th        2022  University of Pécs, Zoom conference 
                                                     Interactions between Hungarians and Hungarian Communities Abroad 
                               47th     2023  Quinnipac University, Hamden, Connecticut
                                                     Dependencies and Alliances



 

Publications

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American Hungarian Educator -- The newsletter of the Association, edited by Enikő M. Basa, reports on the annual conference and members` meeting and carries announcements about books, programs, scholarships and general news:  Volume I (1978) - Volume XLII (2020).

Newsletter -- As of December 2020, the Membership Committee publishes a monthly Newsletter, edited by Andrew Behrendt, reporting on events, starting with the President` Corner, Member Spotlight, upcoming publications, and conference news.

Hungarian Cultural Studies - e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association publishes selected papers and other articles of interest to Hungarian Studies, including selected papers from our yearly conferences. (Launch date: 2008, Louise O. Vasvári, Editor-in-Chief, 2011-2022)

Web site (https://ahea.net/): up-to-date information on conferences, including call for papers, abstracts of conference papers, and programs; awards, governance and general membership information.

E-mail list for members about timely items such as scholarships, new publications, conferences.

Activities

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Hungarian Picnic, a twice yearly get-together for Hungarians and friends in the Washington, DC area

Homecoming Forum (with the Hungarian Embassy and the HungarianAmerica Foundation): a forum for exchange of ideas and the problems and questions of Hungarians studying and working in the US

Supports sessions at professional organizations on Hungarian topics
Liaison for the Smithsonian Institution 1976 Festival of American Folklife and the Hungarian participants–the only Eastern European country able to participate because local support was forthcoming
Presented Position Papers to and testified before the President’s Commission on Language and International Studies

Alliances and Partners

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American Hungarian Folklore Centrum [AHFC] http://magyar.org/
Kalman Magyar, Director, magyar@magyar.org

Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
http://hungarianstudies.org/

Hungarian Studies Association
http://hungarianstudies.info/about.html

New members

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Membership is open to all interested persons who wish to engage in Hungarian studies or to support them. We welcome persons from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.

If interested, please click on Membership Information and Registration.

AHEA Awards and Scholarships

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