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Highlights Professor Jon Bilbao, Director of the Institute of Basque Bibliography, has been in residence during the Spring semester during which time he has taught his Old World Basque History course. In May Bilbao returned to the Basque Country to continue his bibliographic research. He will be instructing for the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium programs during the current year. Professor José Antonio Garmendia, Industrial Sociologist of the University of Madrid, has been in residence since January. Professor Garmendia gave a course co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Basque Studies Program on Ethnic Nationalism in Western Europe. Professor Garmendia will remain in residence until August researching the impact of high technology upon the American work force. Jose Mallea, graduate student in the Basque Tutorial Ph.D. program, has taught the first year Basque language sequence over the past two semesters. German Basterra, graduate student in the Basque Tutorial Ph.D. program, is currently living in Lekeitio (Bizkaia), where he is studying Basque in preparation for his anthropological field study of language use. Professor Joseba Zulaika, anthropologist at the Zorroaga campus of the University of the Basque Country and Adjunct Professor with the Basque Studies Program, was in Reno during March working on a revision of his Ph.D. dissertation for possible publication in the Basque Book Series. Professor Zulaika has just been awarded a grant from the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation to continue his research on Basque political violence. Congratulations, Joseba. Aurrera! In May the Basque Studies Program co-sponsored at UNR a presentation of the comic play Medora by Lope de Rueda performed by Zascandil of Madrid. The talented company delighted a sell-out crowd. Special thanks are due to the Nevada Humanities Committee for their significant financial support and to Professor Judith Whitenack whose organization skills were key to the successful evening. In May Professor José Antonio Garmendia presented a colloquium entitled “Ethnic Nationalism, the Nation-State and Federalism in Western Europe.” This was the first in an anticipated series of lectures sponsored by the newly-formed Mediterranean Studies Committee of UNR Mr. Gorka Aulestia, Basque Lexicographer, has published the following book reviews in World Literature Today: Ramón Saizarbitoria, Egunero hasten delako (Autumn, 1984); Joseba Sarrionaindia, Narrazioak (Winter, 1985) and Iñaki Eizmendi (“Basarri”) Kezka-Giroan (Winter, 1985). In addition he authored “Txillardegi, Leturiaren Egunkari Ezkutua” and “Deux Ecrivains Français au Pays Basque: Francis Jammes et Pierre Loti” in Journal of Basque Studies in America, Vol. V, 1984 Ms. Linda White has recently received a professional appointment with the Basque Studies Program. Her primary duties are to copyedit the Occasional Papers Series and to co-author with Gorka Aulestia the English-Basque volume of the dictionary. Ms. Jill Berner has recently been promoted to Senior Library Assistant. Her new duties make her the office manager of the Basque Studies Program. Ms. Jeanne Harris has joined our staff on a temporary basis as a clerical assistant. In May Mr. Gorka Aulestia left for the Basque Country to begin his dissertation research on the Basque bertsolaria phenomenon. Mr. Aulestia will spend the summer months in Europe before returning to UNR in the fall to resume his duties of Basque Lexicographer and graduate student in the Basque Tutorial Ph.D. program. We wish to thank Mrs. Janet Inda, Mrs. Maria Louise Inda and Mrs. Virginia Argoitia of Reno for their assistance with the labeling and mailing of our last newsletter. Robert Laxalt, Adjunct Professor with the Basque Studies Program, was recently appointed to the twenty-six member advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In April Carmelo Urza edited and distributed Vol. 3, No. 2 of the Anglo American Basque Studies Newsletter. |
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