The Director General of iASK, Professor Ferenc Miszlivetz, received an invitation to participate in the Neumann 120 Conference held in the United States. He gave his presentation in New York and made official visits to educational and research institutions located in various cities alongside Dr M\u00e1rton Matyasovszky-N\u00e9meth, Director of the Istv\u00e1n Bib\u00f3 College for Advanced Studies. In addition to attending international conferences, the main goal of the week-long program was to establish connections and initiate shared ventures and partnerships with academic community representatives in the United States. Before the study trip, professional meetings were conducted, and the iASK delegation was received at several highly significant institutions. Additionally, they participated in a working dinner hosted by Hungarian American organizations and a visit from the ambassador.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, November 7th<\/sup>, they met with Mary Taylor, associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York. Taylor\u2019s book \u201cMovement of the People Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship\u201d, published by Indiana University Press in 2021, traces the history of the Hungarian dance hall movement. In her research, she has paid particular attention to the history and the conditions of Hungarian civil society. The researcher was well acquainted with Iv\u00e1n Vit\u00e1nyi, who was mentioned several times in her book as a figure who supported and defended the development of the dance hall movement and civil society. Taylor mentioned that she tries to visit Hungary every year and wants to continue her ethnographic research, which she completed in 2008. She plans to publish the reactions and reviews of her book in a special issue of Acta Ethnographica Hungarica and to organise a workshop for her critics to give their views on the book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\t\t