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Highlights Mimi Grover, from the School of Library Science, University of Iowa, spent part of May in residence writing a description of our English language book and journal holdings as part of her requirements for a Masters of Library Science degree. Ms. Jeanne Harris has joined our staff as a full time administrative aide. She brings considerable expertise to her duties including a B.A. in Anthropology, a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Spanish. The Sheepherders of the Sierra photo exhibit compiled by Ms. Marty Mitchell and distributed by the Basque Studies Program was displayed at the Northeastern Nevada Museum in Elko during the month of July. The California State Senate recently passed a resolution commending Ms. Mitchell for her fine work. Last spring Carmelo Urza gave an address on Basques in the American West to the Lake Tahoe Historical Society and William A. Douglass gave a lecture on the same topic in Lovelock, Nevada in a series dealing with America’s immigrant experience sponsored by General University Extension of the University of Nevada-Reno and the Nevada Humanities Committee. This past summer the three candidates in the tutorial Ph.D. program in Basque Studies conducted research in Europe. Gorka Aulestia was in the Basque Country researching the role of the bertsolari or troubadour in Basque society, Germán Basterra was assessing language use in two coastal towns of the Basque Country and Jose Mallea worked in the Archivo General de Indias of Seville as part of his dissertation project dealing with the important sixteenth century archbishop Juan de Zumarraga. In April Ms. Jone Aldave from Vitoria, Alava joined the staff of the Basque Studies Program as a part-time student assistant. Dr. Gregorio Monreal, ex-rector of the University of the Basque Country and legal historian, is spending the 1985/86 academic year in residence with the Basque Studies Program. Dr. Monreal is researching a book on the legal relations between the Basque Country and the central governments of Spain and France over the past two centuries. Ms. Chantal Cramaussel of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Paris) was in residence during the months of September and October researching Basque influence during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in New Biscay (northern Mexico). Her research is part of her doctoral dissertation project. Dr. Teresa del Valle, Chairman of the Anthropology Department of the University of the Basque Country is in residence until September of 1986. Dr. del Valle is co-teaching a course on Old World Basque Culture with William A. Douglass during the fall semester. She will also be preparing a study of symbolic interaction and Basque ethnicity maintenance with particular emphasis upon the institution of the korrika (an annual, highly publicized foot race in the Basque Country in which many Basque cultural values are reflected). Dr. Baleren Bakaikoa, economist from the University of the Basque Country, spent the month of September in Reno as a visiting scholar researching fiscal policy in the Basque Country. Dr. Richard H. Etulain of the University of New Mexico spent September and October at UNR as a Hilliard Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Dr. Etulain is a specialist in Western American history and literary criticism. He gave several departmental and public lectures during his stay, including one on research opportunities in Basque Studies. In August Carmelo Urza gave a week-long Elderhostel program on Basque Culture at UNR, attended by 40 persons from around the United States. Gorka Aulestia published two reviews in the Spring 1985 issue of World Literature Today. The books reviewed are: Manuel de Larramendi, Diccionario Trilingüe del Castellano, Bascuence y Latín. 2 vols. (San Sebastián: Txertoa, 1984) and Luis Mari Mujika, Mirande-ren poesigintza. 2 vols. (San Sebastián: Sp. Haranburu, 1984). In addition he authored "A Comparative Study of Basque and Yugoslav Troubadorism" in World Literature Today vol. 59, no. 3, Summer 1985 (p. 382-385). |
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