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News Archive - Fall–Winter 2006
Pedro Oiarzabal conducts interview, lecture On January 8, Pedro Oiarzabal interviewed Dr. Gorka Aulestia, the Center’s first Basque Studies Ph.D. graduate, at the headquarters of the Fundación Sancho el Sabio in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain) for an oral history on the Basque Studies Program at UNR. The book is currently being prepared for publication by the Oral History Program. Oiarzabal was invited by Mr. Urko Kolomo from the Ikastola Ibaizabal (http://www.ibaizabalikastola.net/index_ing.php), a school located in Durango, Bizkaia, to give a lecture in English on Basque identity in the Basque Country and in the diaspora. The lecture was followed by an enthusiastic discussion, also in English, with the high-school students about the different meanings of contemporary Basque identity. | |
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Basque anthology translations published Basque Literature Series editor Marijo Olaziregi reported that her compilation, An Anthology of Basque Short Stories, was translated into Russian by Elena Zernova and published by St. Petersburg University Press. The stories were originally published by the Center in English and compiled and edited by Olaziregi and Linda White. In addition, the anthology was reviewed by Maite Nuñez Betelu in the World Literature Review section of World Literature Today (Vol. 80, No. 6, Nov.–Dec. 2006, pp. 63–64). It may also be read online at http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/.
The Anthology has also been published in Italian, in a translation
entitled Pintxos. Nuovi Racconti Baschi (Pintxos. New Basque
Tales). Pintxos is the Basque word for tapas, the
traditional bar snacks served in Spain and the Basque Country, which
highlights these small “tastes” of contemporary Basque literature. The
anthology was published by Gran Via Edizioni. It includes selections by noted
Basque authors such as Bernardo Atxaga, Joseba Sarrionandia, Harkaitz
Cano, Arantxa Iturbe, and Anjel Lertxundi. A book presentation took
place at the University of Milan, attended by series editor and compiler
Mari Jose Olaziregi along with Basque author Sergio Muniz. The two
presented readings and lectures, along with Danilo Manera, professor of
Spanish Literature at the University. The presentations were organized
by Editorial Gran Vía in collaboration with the University of Milan and
Instituto Cervantes. | |
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Joseba Zulaika participates in conferences Dr. Joseba Zulaika participated in a conference held Nov. 10–11 on Terrorism and the University, organized by the John Jay College of City University of New York. He was a speaker in a panel on “The Problems of Definition of Terrorism.”
Also, at the American Anthropological Association’s
annual meetings held in San Jose on November 15–19, Dr. Zulaika chaired
a symposium on Critical Anthropological Perspectives on the “War on
Terrorism.” He contributed a paper entitled “Why Counterterrorist
Writing Cannot Bear a Truman Capote.” | |
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NABO Udazken Biltzarra The North American Basque Organizations, Inc. (NABO) sponsored their Udazken Biltzarra (fall meeting) on October 20–21, 2006 in Gardnerville and Reno, Nevada. Basque club representatives from Canada and Mexico were invited to make it a truly “North American” gathering. The event included a NABO Youth Director Workshop at the Center for Basque Studies, where youth directors explored ways of better integrating Basque youth into clubs. A NABO Delegate Forum on Planning for the Future was held at the Overland Basque restaurant in Gardnerville on Saturday, followed by a dinner and dance.
A highlight of the event was a College Lecture
Series program presented at the University of Nevada, Reno featuring
Juan Antonio Urbeltz, a leading voice in the world of Basque dance and
culture. In his multimedia presentation, “A People’s Story in Dance,”
Urbeltz elaborated on his theory of the origins of Basque dance and the
ongoing role played by dance in Basque culture. The lecture was
sponsored by the Basque government, in cooperation with NABO and Boise
State’s Basque Studies program. | ||
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David Río book published A recent book edited by David Río and others, Exploring the American Literary West: International Perspectives, was published in Bilbao by the Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco (2006. ISBN: 84-8373-875-9). The essays collected in this volume explore the literature of the American West from a wide variety of perspectives, transcending the confines of regional studies. The volume emphasizes the importance of considering the West and western writing in an international context, for example in relation to Europe and Mexico. The volume includes two essays that closely examine the work of one of the most distinguished contemporary western writers, Basque American author Frank Bergon: David Río, “Exploring the Basque Legacy in Frank Bergon’s Fiction,” and Monika Madinabeitia’s “Frank Bergon’s Fiction: Complexity, Polarization, Diversity.” The last essay in the volume is written by Frank Bergon himself: “Contemporary Mexico and the American West: Writing about the Indian Rebellion in Chiapas.” For ordering information, please contact luxedito@lg.ehu.es. | ||
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Sandra Ott presents at French history conference Sandra Ott presented a paper, “Gift Giving and the Management of Justice: Borderland Basques under German Occupation (1942–1944) and during the Liberation,” at the 34th annual conference of the Western Society for French History, held October 19–21, 2006 at California State University, Long Beach. Her paper was in the session on “Identities, Borderlands and Memory,” chaired by Prof. Bertram Gordon, Mills College. The commentator was Professor Sarah Fishman, University of Houston. Featured speakers included Christophe Charle, director of the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and Jean-Claude Caron, professor of history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. | ||
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Prof. Irujo teaches workshop in Boise Xabier Irujo taught a workshop in English at Boise State University on Contemporary Basque Politics (1937–2006) on October 14–15, 2006. The class, attended by forty-four students, focused on the truce that ETA announced last spring and the right for self-determination of the Basque Country. Former Secretary of State of Idaho, Pete Cenarrusa, came as an invited speaker and spoke on the Memorials that the Idaho Senate passed on the Basque issue requesting the end of any sort of violence and the right for self-determination for the Basques. | |
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Nere Erkiaga appointed interim Basque Librarian Nere Erkiaga has taken charge of the Basque Studies Library while Imanol Irizar is taking time off for health reasons. Before coming to Reno, she had worked in the archive of several organizations such as Xenpelar, the Archive of Bertsozale Elkartea. She has continued with the inventory and reorganization projects begun by Irizar, and is also doing extensive work on a Basque database project. | |
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Sandra Ott receives research grant Dr. Sandra Ott was awarded a $5,000 grant by the Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee of the University of Nevada, Reno for her project, “Basque-German Relations during the Occupation, 1940–1944,” which will entail archival research in the departmental archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Pau, France. This fall Dr. Ott is teaching her course on “War, Occupation and Memory” which derives from some of her research in the French Basque region. | |
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CBS staff interviewed for Basque Television program On September 15, 2006, faculty and staff of the Center for Basque Studies, as well as members of the Reno Basque community, were interviewed for the Euskal Telebista Program “Baskonia Americana-Basques in America.” Interviewees from the Center included Gloria Totoricagüena, Kate Camino, Jill Berner, and Pedro Oiarzabal. More information about the project may be found online. | |
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P. Oiarzabal publishes book review Pedro Oiarzabal published a book review of Gloria Totoricaguena’s textbook Basque Diaspora: Migration and Transnational Identity (Reno: Center for Basque Studies, 2005) in the Basque journal Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos (RIEV), Vol. 50, No. 1. | |
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Pedro Oiarzabal to author book on SF Basque community Pedro Oiarzabal was unanimously selected by the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center Board of Directors as the author and editor of a book on the Basque community of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is part of the Basque Government’s Urazandi (From Overseas) Collection on Basque diaspora communities. On September 16, 2006 he traveled to San Francisco to take part in the Oroitzapen Egunak-Memory Days initiative designed to collect memorabilia from the SF Basque community, within the context of the annual Basque Fall Festival. For further information on the project, please visit the SF Urazandi web site. If you would like to share your memories and memorabilia in relation to the SF Basque community, please send an email to the SF Urazandi Committee: urazandi@sfbasque.org | |
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Joseba Zulaika publishes new book While in the Basque Country for the past semester, Joseba Zulaika published ETAren hautsa (ETA’s Ashes) (Irun: Alberdania, 2006). It is a reflection on ETA’s history, written after ETA declared a permanent ceasefire on March 22 of this year. The book situates the birth of ETA in the Bilbao of the 1950s and in the context of Aresti’s epoch-making poem “Maldan behera.” It argues that the more than three years without killings and the permanent ceasefire by ETA imply the end of the heroic-tragic subject ETA imposed on Basque society. The figures of Lauaxeta, Etxebarrieta, and Lluch are compared to underline changes in the big Other of Basque nationalism. It discusses issues such as symbolic castration, the ruins of identity, post-ETA’s mourning, forgiveness in a post-Christina world, or the need of a new universal.
The essay has received acclaim in the Basque printed
media, with author interviews appearing in the dailies Diario Vasco,
Deia, El País, Gara, Berria, and others, as
well as interviews on various Basque and Spanish radio and
television stations. | |
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