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News Archive - Summer 2004
Basque Cultural Tour welcomed in Euskadi Joseba Zulaika recently returned from Europe where he and Sandra Ott assisted with the Center’s Basque Country Tour. The tour included many special events arranged just for our participants, such as a visit with Lehendakari Ibarretxe, president of the Basque Country, as well as receptions and special programs in the towns of Gernika and Mondragon. For details, see our article about this exciting cultural tour. While in Bilbao Dr. Zulaika was invited to present a talk at the Galeria Abisal on July 14, where he spoke on “Entre la Palanca al Guggenheim.” |
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New Basque Ph.D. student arrives We welcome our new Basque Ph.D. student, Argitxu Camus, who will be a Research Assistant at the Center beginning in fall 2004. She has a Master’s degree from the University of Pau (France), and plans to research Basque immigration and the Euskal Etxeak (Basque Clubs) of the diaspora. Ongi etorri, Argitxu! |
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Totoricagüena honored by Boise State University Gloria Totoricagüena has been selected by the Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs for recognition as one of the Top Twenty Outstanding Alumni in the twenty-year history of the College. She was nominated by the College Relations Committee in May, and winners will be recognized by Dean Michael Blankenship at the BSU Homecoming celebration in October. |
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Center faculty conduct fieldwork in Europe Center for Basque Studies faculty Sandra Ott and Gloria Totoricagüena each spent several weeks in the Basque region this summer conducting fieldwork in their areas of interest. Dr. Ott was in Iparralde (the French Basque Country) while Dr. Totoricagüena was in Euskadi (Basque Country of Spain). Sandra Ott spent the summer conducting field work in Maule and other communities in Xiberoa. Combining ethnographic and historical research, she is examining the experiences of people who lived in or who passed through the province of Xiberoa during the 1930s and 1940s. She explores public, group and individual memory from the perspective of Basque, French, Spanish and Jewish people whose lives were affected by exile, civil war, and a world war. Her book is tentatively titled A Duty to Memory: War, Experience and Remembrance in the Basque Country. Gloria Totoricagüena’s latest research involves the Basque migration experience and Australia. Because numerous Basques returned to Euskal Herria after decades of working in Australia, Totoricagüena spent four weeks in the Basque provinces researching migration archives and Catholic missionary records, and interviewing individuals who have returned to their homeland. The majority of the interviewees had worked cutting sugarcane in north Queensland during the 1940s–1960s. Dr. Totoricagüena will travel to Australia in 2005 to complete fieldwork there. |
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Basque Lecture Series presentations by visiting scholars The Center’s Basque Lecture Series continues this summer with presentations by several of our visiting scholars. On July 28, Asier Barandiarán of the University of Navarra (Philology) gave a talk on oral traditions and bertsolaritza (Basque improvised singing): “Teoría Oral: ¿Puede Ser Aplicada al Bertsolarismo?” Immediately following was a lecture by Xabier Barrutia of the Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country – Bilbao: “What Must We Study in Industrial Economics?” On August 4, Ana Zabalza of the Department of History at the Universidad de Navarra lectured on “Nombres, números y casas. Género y transmisión del patrimonio en la Navarra moderna.” We also heard a presentation from Marta Arroyo of the Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science, University of the Basque Country, on “Strategies for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity.” On August 11, Jose Ignacio Imaz of the Department of Sociology I, University of the Basque Country gave a presentation on “El debate sobre la reduccion y el reparto del tiempo de trabajo en Euskadi.” Galder Guenaga of the College of Business Studies, University of the Basque Country – Bilbao presented “El Turismo en Euskal Herria Como Sujeto y Objeto de los Procesos de Reestructuración Productiva/Funcional y de Remodelación Espacial/Morfológica: El Caso Paradigmático de Bilbao.” On August 18, Arantza Libano of the Faculty of Law, University of Deusto (Bilbao) presented “The Spanish Criminal Justice System: Some Highlights.” Marek Peda of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw) gave a talk on “The Burgos Trial: December 1970.” On August 23, we heard a talk on “La República, la Guerra Civil y el Franquismo a través del Archivo Jauregui (Reno),” given by José Luis de la Granja of the Department of Social Sciences, University of the Basque Country – Leioa. For information on forthcoming lectures, please contact the Center for Basque Studies at 775.784.4854. |
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Guggenheim article published in Iberian Studies Joseba Zulaika published his article “In Love with Puppy: Flowers, Architecture, Art, and the Art of Irony” in a special issue on The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum: Art, Politics and the City, of the International Journal of Iberian Studies (vol. 16, no. 3, 2003, pp. 145–158). Zulaika’s article discusses the Guggenheim Bilbao and Jeff Koons’ floral art installation, Puppy, located near the Museum. |
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Basque Ph.D. student lectures on Basque dance The Cenarrusa Center for Basque Studies and the Basque Museum and Cultural Center (Boise, Idaho), through the generosity of a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, hosted Basque dance expert and educator Lisa Corcostegui for a multi-media presentation on the evolution of traditional Basque dance and clothing. The program was held at the Basque Museum and Cultural Center on July 29, 2004. Ms. Corcostegui is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno and has written extensively on the subject of Basque dance, traditions and costumes in the Basque country and diaspora.
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Gloria Totoricagüena awarded Junior Faculty Research Grant Prof. Gloria Totoricagüena of the CBS was selected for the 2004–2005 University of Nevada, Reno Junior Faculty Research Grant Award. The $15,000 grant will be used to investigate transnational communities and their institutional connections to their homelands, focusing on comparing Basques in Australia to other ethnic groups in Australia, and also how Basques in Australia maintain their identity. Dr. Totoricagüena will conduct original research in Australia and the Basque Country regarding those emigrants who eventually returned to their homelands. | |
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P.J. Oiarzabal to assist visiting scholars Ph.D. student Pedro Oiarzabal has been hired by the Basque Studies Library for the summer to assist visiting scholars with their research needs. Many scholars visit during the summer months to utilize the Library, several of them funded by the Center’s Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend or by University Studies Abroad Consortium grants. As library assistant Demosthenes Papaeliou has transferred to another job, and Basque Librarian Kathryn Etcheverria is in the Basque Country for two months, there was a need to have someone familiar with the Basque collection available to assist researchers. As a Basque Studies graduate student who is currently working on his dissertation, Pedro is ideally suited for the job. |
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New publication on Basque identity Living Boundaries: Frontiers and Identity in the Basque Country by Zoe Bray was recently published by Peter Lang. The work looks at how individuals construct and express their identities in a frontier area in the Basque Country. The focal point is a cross-frontier cooperative project among three towns: Hondarribia and Irun on the Spanish side, and Hendaia on the French side, showing the interplay between Basque ethnic and identity politics, and French and Spanish social and cultural influences. For more information or to obtain a copy, please contact your local book dealer. |
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Paul Laxalt remarks on friendship with Reagan In an interview that appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on June 6, the day after former President Reagan’s death, Paul Laxalt reminisced about their friendship. Laxalt and Reagan became friends while governing the neighboring states of California and Nevada. Laxalt also served as Reagan’s presidential campaign chairman, nominating him for President at three Republican Conventions. Once Reagan was elected, their friendship continued in Washington with Laxalt then serving as a Nevada Senator. In Laxalt’s words, “He was a special man in every way, we had the same political philosophy. As candidates go, I’ve never seen one like Ron Reagan. If he had a bad day, you never knew it. He had this inner strength and such a positive outlook on things.” Through the efforts of then Senator Laxalt and Idaho’s former Secretary of State, Pete Cenarrusa, Reagan was the only U.S. President to receive a Lehendakari (Basque President) in the White House. In 1988, on Lehendakari Ardanza’s first trip to the U.S., he met with Reagan while in Washington. Read the complete article, “Reagan was a Friend of Nevada,” at http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/06/05/72463.php. [Photo courtesy of Euskalkultura] |
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Juan Arana assists with film production Basque Ph.D. student Juan Arana assisted with production of a recently-released film short, Vuelta y Vuelta (2004). The comedy, created by Fernando Gil Moreno, was filmed in Madrid by Impostor Films. |
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Visiting scholar publishes Hemingway book Edorta Jimenez, who visited the Center in fall 2002 as a travel stipend recipient, recently published Hemingway eta Euskaldunak zerbitzu sekretuetan (Hemingway and the Basques in the Secret Service) (Zarautz: Susa, 2003). The book includes results of his research conducted in the Basque Studies Library on author Ernest Hemingway. Jimenez is a writer who has authored several literary works in Basque, some of which have been translated into Spanish. Previous publications include Hemingway y Urdaibai (Urdaibai Txatxi, 2001) and Voces de Ballena (Bilbao: Txalaparta, 1999). |
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