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Our visitors EuskoSare representative Urruty visits the Center Idoya Salaburu Urruty, USA Representative for EuskoSare, visited the University of Nevada, Reno on April 18 in order to interview the staff and visitors at the Center for Basque Studies in conjunction with the celebration of the CBS’ 40th Anniversary. Urruty will be producing regular articles about the CBS and its projects during the next few months. EuskoSare is an initiative of Eusko Ikaskuntza, the Basque Studies Society, and promotes information exchange from and about Basques around the world.
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Estibalitz Ezkerra, a Bachelor in Journalism and Art History at the University of the Basque Country, is researching at UNR on a USAC stipend for a year during 2006–2007. She is investigating the marginalization instances related to cultural and psychological differences in Western Literature. She also plans to write about Basque American matters for the Basque media.
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Iñaki Goiogana, head of the archive of the Sabino Arana Foundation, Basque Country, spent the month of September in the Center and Basque Library. During that time he helped Nere Erkiaga, current head of Basque Library, to improve the database of the Basque Archive. He also took part in the conference organized by the Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University (NY), on October 13 on the figure of Jesus Galindez, the Basque politician who was kidnapped in Manhattan fifty years ago.
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Egoitz Gago Anton, a Bachelor in Politic Sciences in the University of the Basque Country and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Brandford (UK), spent a month in September 2006 in the Center and Basque Library to research around the subject he is planning to investigate in his PhD: the basque peace movement organizations and their effects on civic societies. Before going back to England, where he currently lives, he gave a presentation of his work in the Instruction Room of Getchell Library.
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Iratxe Fresneda visited the University for two months in summer 2006 on a subsidy from USAC. She is from the Audiovisual Communications Dept. of the University of the Basque Country in Leioa, where she teaches history of film. She worked on a research project on the films of Lars Von Trier, utilizing resources in UNR’s main library. On September 1, she gave a presentation at UNR on “Visual Identity of the Cinema of Danish Filmmaker Lars Von Trier.”
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Joseba Etxebeste of the Dept. of Physical Education and Sports of the Universidad del País Vasco-Vitora, visited the University for two months in summer 2006. He was awarded a travel stipend by the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) to return to Reno to continue his research on American football and socialization of youth. Dr. Etxebeste began his research when he was in Reno in 2003 with his wife Clara Urdangarain and their two sons.
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Santiago De Pablo, a professor in the Dept. of Contemporary History of the University of the Basque Country-Vitoria, visited Reno for two months in summer 2006 on a subsidy awarded by the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC). He conducted research in the Basque Library for a book on the lives and public images of the lehendakaris, or Basque presidents, from Jose Antonio Aguirre to the current lehendakari, Juan José Ibarretxe. On August 29, Dr. De Pablo presented a lecture on “The Basque Government-in-Exile during the Early Franco Years.”
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Artitzar Erauskin of the Applied Economics Department, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián researched at UNR on a USAC stipend for a month in summer 2006. She investigated ecological economics and energy, relating to methods of transport. She was accompanied by Iban Asenjo Garde of the Education Department, University of the Basque Country, who gave a presentation at UNR on “Bilingüismo y Educación en el Estado Español: El caso vasco” on August 11.
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Angela Bourne visited the Center for two weeks in April 2006 from the Dept. of Politics, University of Dundee, Scotland. She was awarded a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend to come to Reno to research her book on The European Union and the Accommodation of Basque Difference in Spain, for the University of Manchester Press. |
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Visiting scholar Andoni Alonso, Assoc. Professor from the University of Extremadura (History Department) was at the Center for the spring 2006 semester. Dr. Alonso’s research focuses on the philosophy of technology, and he is co-author with Iñaki Arzoz of Basque Cyberculture: From Digital Euskadi to CyberEuskalherria (Reno: Center for Basque Studies, 2001). In addition to conducting research while at UNR, he also taught a class on cyberculture and offered independent study courses to our graduate students. |
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Pauliina Raento, a graduate of the Center for Basque Studies’ Ph.D. program, visited the Center and Basque Library December 5–12, 2005 to research quotidian identity politics in preparation for geographical fieldwork in the Basque Country. She then traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada for a week of fieldwork on American casino gaming (part of her studies on Leisure and Recreation). Dr. Raento is a senior research fellow of the Academy of Finland (equivalent to the National Science Foundation in the U.S.) and currently based in the Geography Department of the University of Helsinki. [photo: UHelsinki web site] |
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Graduate student Ainslie Ingles of the
University of Melbourne visited the Center for three weeks in
fall 2005, conducting research for a comparative study of Basque and
Catalan nationalism. She is a research assistant for Peter McPhee,
professor of history at Melbourne as well as Deputy Vice Chancellor. |
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The Center for Basque Studies welcomes its first William A.
Douglass Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Gregorio Monreal, to our
campus. Dr. Monreal will be at UNR for the 2005–2006 academic year,
researching and writing a book on the historical progression and
development of Basque Country politics. He is a former President of
the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea. |
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USAC-sponsored academic guest Nicanor Ursua was with us for the summer of 2005, conducting research regarding creating and maintaining virtual ethnic identity and virtual communities. Dr. Ursua is Chair of the Philosophy Department of the Universidad del País Vasco. On September 9, he gave a presentation on his research entitled “Cultural Diversity and New Media: Identity-play Online: Questions of Tele-Identity.” |
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Zuriñe Velez de Mendizabal from Arrasate (Basque Country) will be with the Center for the 2005–2006 academic year. She has been selected to work on our CBS marketing and web projects. Her background in journalism will be invaluable for us.
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Maria del Mar Larraza, a professor in the History Department of the University of Navarra (Pamplona), is a visiting researcher for the period June 21–August 11, 2005. She received a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend from the Center to research her project on the Franco era. She is perusing letters in the archives of Ramón Goñi and Huarte de Jáuregui found in the Basque Studies Library. |
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Alvaro Baraibar, associate professor at the University of Navarra (Pamplona) in the History Department, was awarded a Begoña Aretxaga Travel Stipend by the Center to conduct research from late June to August 11, 2006. His project on “Navarra from a Distance” involves researching Basque identity as revealed in the publications of Basque centers in the U.S. during the period 1936–1982. |
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Miguel Angel Salgado Pérez is a visiting scholar subsidized by the Center for the month of July 2005. He is a doctoral student at the University of the Basque Country–Leioa in the Department of Contemporary History and is researching the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country. His research at UNR will focus on the Huarte de Jáuregui archive. |
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Asier Barandiaran of the University of Navarra, Department of Philology, is a visiting Professor at UNR. His work centers on oral traditions and bertsolaritza (Basque oral poetry). He is researching these traditions as practiced in the province of Navarra, and also their maintenance by Basque immigrants to the United States. |
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