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Our visitors - Archive 2002 Aintzane Camara, a professor of music education from the University of the Basque Country–Bilbao (Facultad de Magisterio), is conducting research in the Basque Studies Library for six weeks (Nov.-Dec. 2002) on a grant from USAC. She is comparing teaching methodologies between the Basque and U.S. school systems. |
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Gabriel Gatti, a professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of the Basque Country, will be in Reno for the month of October 2002 on a USAC grant. He is preparing a graduate level class on contemporary forms of identity. |
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Elixabete Imaz is pursuing a doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of the Basque Country. While at UNR this October (2002), she will continue her research on maternity and family in the Basque Country in modern times. |
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We recently welcomed visiting scholar Gaizka Larrañaga, who will be at the Center for the next month (fall 2002). While at UNR, he plans to study the relationship between the American Basque diaspora and native Basques, comparing their experience to the Irish example. Larrañaga is a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
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Jenaro Guisasola, a professor of Physics from the Dept. of Applied Physics, University of the Basque Country, is visiting UNR for most of September 2002 with support from University Studies Abroad Consortium. While here he is collaborating with Prof. Michael Robinson of UNR’s Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction on a project pertaining to physics education. He is also working with Prof. David Bennum of UNR’s Physics Department, with whom he will participate in a colloquium on Friday, September 13 on “The Characteristics of Physics Education Research and Its Implications for Teaching.” For information on the colloquium, please contact Physics at 775.784.6792. |
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Visiting scholar Edorta Jiménez is at the Center for the fall semester 2002 as the recipient of a CBS travel stipend. He is a writer who has authored several literary works in Basque, some of which have been translated into Spanish. While at the Center, he is researching a book on Hemingway and his Basque friends in the American West, particularly Idaho. The book will also discuss Hemingway’s connection with Basques in Euskadi and in Havana. Jiménez’s previous publications include Hemingway y Urdaibai (Urdaibai Txatxi, 2001) and Voces de Ballena (Bilbao: Txalaparta, 1999), a translation of Baleen berbaroa (Tafalla: Txalaparta, 1997). |
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We welcome visiting scholar Yumi Nagase, who is preparing a Ph.D. dissertation for the Dept. of History, Universidad del País Vasco–Vitoria. She will utilize the Basque library for the month of September 2002 to research her project on “Spanish Missionaries in Japan, 1900-1930.” |
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Leire Lopera is a visiting scholar from the Universidad del País Vasco–Leioa, Department of Cellular Biology. During this academic year (2002-2003), she will conduct post-doctoral research in the Genetics Laboratory here at UNR. |
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Alberto Alday is visiting the Center for a month on a CBS summer stipend. While here he will research his Ph.D. dissertation on Navarrese immigration to the Americas, and their ethnic identity maintenance. He is from the Universidad de Deusto, department of Anthropology. |
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Jose Portillo will be a visiting professor at the Center for the academic year 2002-2003, coming from Georgetown University where he was the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor. He has a degree in History from the University of the Basque Country, and his teaching fields include modern European history, history of political ideas, and autonomy in the Hispanic world. Prof. Portillo will teach a class at UNR on Ethnicity, Nation, and State in the Hispanic World. He edited a series of classics, Clásicos del pensamiento politico y social del País Vasco, published the University of the Basque Country Press. |
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Dr. José Luis de la Cuesta, Director of the Instituto Vasco de Criminología in San Sebastián, is visiting for several weeks in summer 2002 to research criminal justice topics and to network with colleagues in the National Judicial College in Reno. De la Cuesta is the president of the International Association of Criminologists, and is also a professor in the Facultad de Derecho (College of Law) at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián. |
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Visiting scholar José Larrañaga is at UNR on a stipend from the University Studies Abroad Consortium. He is a journalist who has worked for ETB (Basque television) and currently is teaching journalism classes at the University of the Basque Country branch in Leioa. He is conducting a research project on “Información económica audio-visual.” |
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Iker Etxano of the University of the Basque Country, Department of Applied Economics, is conducting research in the Basque Studies Library for his doctoral studies (summer 2002). His research topic is “Desarrollo rural sostenible” (Sustainable rural development). He is accompanied by Estibalitz Olea of Bilbao, who is working on a translation project on the Basque diaspora for Enciclopedia Auñamendi. |
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Post-doctoral researcher Igor Ahedo of the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / University of the Basque Country, Political Science Dept., is researching political developments in the French Basque region towards formation of a Basque département. Currently the region that historically contained the Basque provinces of Labourde, Soule, and Basse Navarre is organized within the département of Pyrenees Atlantiques. |
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Olatz González Abrisketa, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of the Basque Country, is spending a month during summer 2002 at the Center to research her dissertation on Basque sports and their relationship to the culture. She gave a presentation on the topic, “Apuntes antropológicos sobre el juego vasco de pelota,” during her visit here. |
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Iñaki Arrieta is visiting for a month this summer (July 14-August 14 2002) to utilize the Basque Studies Library resources for his research. A professor in the Anthropology Department of the University of the Basque Country, he is creating a bibliography on museums and also researching their relationship in the Basque region to identity and socio-economic development. |
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Visiting scholar Marián Martínez de Pancorbo of the University of the Basque Country is at the Center for a month (August 2002) with her husband Iñaki Sanchez. Prof. Martínez is a genetic researcher who has worked on the Human Genome Project during a previous visit, and currently is researching the genetic clues to Basque origins. Part of the collaborative project involves investigating populations believed to have linguistic links to the Basques, such as the Caucasian peoples, then using genetic testing in an attempt to verify a common genetic background. Prof. Martínez will use resources from the Basque Studies Library to identify populations with possible linguistic links to the Basque people. |
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Ph.D. candidate Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz from the Dept. of Sociology, University of the Basque Country, will spend two months at the Center during summer 2002 researching his dissertation on Basque youth and politics. |
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Itziar Alonso Arbiol is visiting the Center for six weeks (July-August 2002) to conduct research on “emotion words” in Basque. The study on “Structure of the Basque Emotion Lexicon” is being carried out with a colleague, Ruben Urizar, who was in Reno during summer of 2001 to use the Basque Studies Library resources for this project. Dr. Alonso is from the Psychology Department of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián; Dr. Urizar is from the Department of Basque Philology in the same institution. |
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Two returning visitors are Basque Studies Ph.D. candidate Magda Czajkowska-Vazquez, who is writing her dissertation on Basque mythology, and her husband, Roland Vazquez, an anthropology professor from Upper Iowa University. Dr. Vazquez is writing a book on the Basque political party system, based on his doctoral research for a degree at Rutgers University. They will be in Reno for about three weeks (summer 2002). |
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Joxemi Correa of the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Dept. of Education, has returned to UNR this summer (2002) to continue his research on online education. He teaches classes in this methodology as well as using the Internet to present courses. He is also involved in developing web sites for museums—not only to present information to visitors prior to their visits, but also as an educational tool, encouraging visitors to research topics that have piqued their interest upon viewing the museum exhibits. |
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John Bieter of Boise, Idaho is a Ph.D. student in the History department of Boston College. He visited the Center June 26–28, 2002 to research a book manuscript that he is preparing, and to give a presentation on a legal case involving a Basque herder in Idaho. |
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Janine Soper, a graduate of Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, was at the Center for the week of June 24–28, 2002 to research the Guggenheim Bilbao. While here she gave a presentation on her field research conducted in Bilbao for her senior thesis on “Grids, Curves, and Narratives: Systems of Interference in Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.” |
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Ander Gurrutxaga, Professor of Sociology from the Universidad del País Vasco, is visiting the Center from June 16, 2002 through the end of August working on a Basque sociological study. He is accompanied by his two children, Benat and Olatz, who are studying English during their stay here. Prof. Gurrutxaga previously served as Vice Consul in the Department of Education of the Basque Government. |
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Iñaki Diaz Balerdi of the Universidad del País Vasco, Department of Art History, will be at the Center June 8–July 7, 2002. He plans to utilize the Basque Studies Library for research he is conducting on museums. |
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Andoni Alonso is visiting the Center May 6–15, 2002 to review his forthcoming online class on Basque Cyberculture. Dr. Alonso is a professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Extremadura whose research interests include studies on science, technology and society. While at the Center he will give a talk on cyberculture in the 21st century and discuss his recent book, La nueva ciudad de Dios (Siruela, 2001). |
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David Rio, a professor of American Literature at the Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, is visiting the Center for two weeks (Spring 2002) to review sources in the Basque Studies Library. While at UNR he will present his new publication, Robert Laxalt: la voz de los Vascos en la literatura norteamericana (Robert Laxalt: the Voice of the Basques in North American Literature). |
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For past visitors, please see our Visitors Archive. |
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