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Our visitors – Archive 2003–2004 David Lasagabaster is a visiting scholar at the Center for the month of October 2004. He is an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and has carried out research on multilingualism at school in a bilingual context, the Basque Country, with two co-official languages (Spanish and Basque), and with English also part of the curriculum. His research interests also deal with language attitudes and foreign language teaching methodology. He has published Creatividad y conciencia metalingüística: incidencia en el aprendizaje del inglés como L3 (Bilbao: University of the Basque Country, 1998) and Trilingüismo en la enseñanza. Actitudes hacia la lengua minoritaria, la mayoritaria y la extranjera (Lleida: Milenio Educación, 2003). |
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The Center received a visit during August 2004 from Jose Luis Agote, a freelance book designer and layout artist. He has collaborated with us on our newest publication, An Anthology of Basque Short Stories, compiled by Marijo Olaziregi and edited by Linda White and Cameron Watson. |
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Arantza Libano is a law student completing a Ph.D. at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, where she also gives classes in procedural law. She received a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend from the Center to come to Reno (summer 2004) to conduct research in the Basque Studies Library on the Spanish justice system, and comparisons with the U.S. system. |
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Inmaculada Astorkiza, a visiting professor on sabbatical from the Universidad del País Vasco–Bilbao, Economics Department, is a visiting scholar at UNR conducting research in the field of rural and environmental economics. She will reside in Reno for a year, working on two projects: policies related to the sustainable management of fisheries (both in the U.S. and Europe); and land use for residential purposes within the UN Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai (in Bizkaia, Spain). Dr. Astorkiza is a coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for the Urdaibai reserve. |
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Visiting professor Juan Murua will be in residence at UNR for the next year (2004–2005), on sabbatical from his duties in the Department of Applied Economics at the Universidad del País Vasco–Bilbao. While here he plans to work on projects relating to agricultural economics, including costs of agriculture and studies relating to Urdaibai, a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in the province of Bizkaia. Professors Astorkiza and Murua received summer stipends from the University Studies Abroad Consortium. They are accompanied by their two children, who will enroll in local schools for the year. |
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Jose Ignacio Imaz Bengoetxea of the
Department of Sociology I, University of the Basque Country is
visiting UNR for the summer of 2004 on a stipend from USAC. He was
recently awarded his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology I,
University of the Basque Country – Bilbao with research on aspects
of work and labor unions in the Basque region. |
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Gregorio Monreal has returned to Reno for a month this summer (2004) to collaborate with William Douglass on a project relating to the Basque Fueros (“old laws”). He is a former President of the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. |
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 Galder Guenaga & Goizalde Hernando Galder Guenaga of the College of Business Studies, University of the Basque Country – Bilbao, is a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend recipient for the period July 17–August 17, 2004. He is conducting research in the Basque Studies Library on tourism and economic development for his Ph.D. dissertation. Guenaga is accompanied by his wife, Goizalde Hernando. |
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José Luis de la Granja is a visiting scholar for the summer of 2004 from the University of the Basque Country – Leioa, Department of Social Sciences. He is researching the Basque Studies Library’s Huarte de Jauregui Archive of Spanish Civil War and Franco era materials, and will write a report on the contents of this unique and valuable collection. Prof. de la Granja’s visit is sponsored by the University Studies Abroad Consortium. He is accompanied by his wife, Inés Valdeón, and children Rebeca and Iñigo, who are enrolled in UNR’s Intensive English Language Center. |
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Visiting scholar Xabier Barrutia Etxebarria is at UNR to conduct research on Basque industry and technology. He is preparing courses for his work at the University of the Basque Country – Bilbao, Department of Applied Economics, and also for a guest teaching stint at the University of the Dominican Republic this fall. Prof. Barrutia presented a seminar on industrial economics as part of the Basque Lecture Series on July 28, 2004. He is funded by the University Studies Abroad Consortium. |
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Roland Vazquez and Magda Czajkowska-Vazquez have returned to UNR for two weeks this summer (2004). Dr. Vazquez is editing his work on Basque party politics, and Ms. Czajkowska-Vazquez is continuing her Ph.D. dissertation research on Basque mythology. |
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Marek Dominik Peda has come to the Center as a visiting scholar with a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend. A Ph.D. student at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology–Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw), he is researching the Basque perspective of the Spanish transition process (1970–1982) including that of radical Basque nationalist organizations. He will be in residence here from July 6 to September 5, 2004. |
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Asier Barandiaran of the Universidad de Navarra, Department of Philology, is a visiting Professor at UNR June 6–August 3, 2004. His work centers on oral traditions and bertsolaritza. While in Nevada he plans to research these traditions in Navarra (both in Basque and Spanish), and to interview bertsolaris in the U.S. |
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Ana Zabalza has been awarded a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend and will be in residence at the Center June 23–August 12, 2004. Dr. Zabalza is a professor in the Department of History at the Universidad de Navarra. She is researching Christianization in the Basque Country from the 16th to the 19th centuries. |
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Monika Madinabeitia, recipient of a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend for 2004, is visiting the Center May 26 through June 11 to conduct research on her Ph.D. dissertation. She is a student in the Department of English Philology at the Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Her research centers on the integration of Basques into mainstream America, and includes a study of the interpretation of Basque characters in American literature. Ms. Madinabeitia’s dissertation advisor is Prof. David Río, who has also been a visitor to the Center on various occasions. Ms. Madinabeitia is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. She plans to return to Reno in December for additional research in the Basque Studies Library. |
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Fernando Molina is a visiting scholar at the Center for the period May 12 through June 3, 2004. While at UNR he will utilize the Basque Studies Library for research on nationalism. Molina is a researcher and instructor at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in the Department of Contemporary and American History. |
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Nerea Gabellanes is visiting the Center on a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend (2003) to conduct research on her dissertation project, “La figura del pastor vasco en la literatura norteamericana.” Ms. Gabellanes is a Ph.D. student at the Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Facultad de Filología, Geografía, e Historia. Her advisor is Dr. David Río, a frequent visitor to the Center and specialist in Basque-American literature. |
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 Roland Vazquez and Magda Czajkowska-Vazquez have returned to UNR for a few weeks this summer (2003). Dr. Vazquez is finalizing editing of his book on the Basque political party system, and Ms. Czajkowska-Vazquez is continuing her dissertation research on Basque mythology. |
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Prof. Casilda de Miguel, visiting scholar from the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, Spain (Dept. of Audiovisual Communications and Publicity) is at UNR for a month this summer (2003) to further her research on gender and identity in mass media. She is accompanied by her daughter Eider, who previously spent a month on an exchange basis with a Basque American family in Gardnerville, Nevada. Dr. Miguel Martínez’ visit was sponsored by the University Studies Abroad Consortium.
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Luis del Portillo, a professor of mechanical engineering from the Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, is at UNR for the month of July 2003 and is conducting research in his specialty of energy co-generation and heat transfer. Dr. del Portillo is also visiting his brother, Jose Portillo, a visiting professor at the Center. |
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Ainhoa Nieva and Roldan Jimeno are visiting scholars for the period July 5–August 14, 2003 coming from Nabarra. They are working on a project concerning the methodology of Basque ethnographic research, particularly during the 1970s, inspired by the research of Dr. Jimeno’s father, José María Jimeno Jurío. He was a noted ethnographic researcher in Navarra, and wrote many books on the customs and lifeways of the region. After his death in 2002, the family donated these research materials, including numerous taped interviews, to Eusko Ikaskuntza (Society of Basque Studies), where the materials will be digitalized and recorded in a database for easier research access. |
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Joseba Echeveste and his wife Clara Urdangarin are in residence in Reno for a year (2003) to conduct research on scholarly projects. They both are on leave from the Instituto Vasco de Educación Física, part of the Basque Government’s Department of Culture. Joseba is rewriting his Ph.D. dissertation on jokoa jolasa—culture transmission through traditional Basque games—for publication as a book in French. Clara is working on a Ph.D. dissertation for the University of the Basque Country regarding physical education programs and women in Basque culture. They are accompanied by their two sons, Igon and Beñat, who are attending local schools and enriching their English language skills. |
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Jose (Txema) Portillo will be a visiting professor at the Center for the academic years 2002–2004, 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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For past visitors, please see our Visitors Archive. |
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