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Highlights Over the past few months there have been several developments on the Basque Studies Program: Dr. Douglass, Program Coordinator, spent two months in the Basque Country where he continued his investigations of rural life in Vizcaya and Navarra. He also supervised the translation into Spanish of two books that he has written which are scheduled to be published in Spain some time during the coming year. The president of the Diputación de Vizcaya has graciously decided to donate to the Basque Studies Program a large number of Basque books and periodicals. The gift will be made out of the reserve of duplicates in the provincial library of Vizcaya. The materials should arrive in Reno sometime during the coming year. They will be a most welcome and valuable addition to our holdings. We wish to express our appreciation to everyone concerned. Professor Jon Bilbao, research associate to the Basque Studies Program, is presently supervising a microfilming project in the French Basque Country. He is filming the diaries, personal correspondence, and other unpublished materials belonging to several of the leading Basque scholars of the nineteenth century. The microfilms will be added to our library holdings and will provide valuable background to the historical controversies that have taken place in Basque Studies. Professor Bilbao is also supervising the publication of his truly massive and exhaustive bibliography of Basque Studies. The work will comprise eight volumes in a larger encyclopedia of Basque Studies that is presently being published in Spain. Professor Bilbao’s bibliography includes over 300,000 references and will undoubtedly become the most important sourcebook in Basque Studies. Mr. Robert Laxalt, consultant to the Basque Studies Program, has written an article about the Basque Country. The article, “Land of the Ancient Basques,” appeared in the August issue of National Geographic Magazine. Mr. David Turner, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, spent ten weeks in the Basque Country where he participated in two archeological excavations (at Dima, Vizcaya and Mondragon, Guipuzcoa). The excavations were directed by the foremost Basque archeologist, Don Jose Miguel de Barandiaran. Dr. Douglass is presently teaching a course in Elko (Nevada) on Old World Basque Culture. The course is listed under the Department of Anthropology and presented under the auspices of the General Extension Service of the University of Nevada, Reno. In the spring semester of 1969, a three-credit course in spoken Basque will be presented as a regular part of the curriculum at the Reno campus of the University of Nevada, Reno. This course will be presented in the evening so that interested persons in the community may attend. The course is listed in the Department of Foreign Languages. |
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