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Highlights In November Carmelo Urza addressed the National Woolgrowers’ Association Convention in Sheridan, Wyoming. He lectured about the Basque sheepherder in America. In January María Otero-Boisvert assumed her duties as Basque librarian and curator of our Basque library collection. Ms. Otero recently completed her M.L.S. in the Library School of the University of Michigan. She also holds an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature from Princeton University and a B.A. in Spanish Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University. Jose Mallea is currently teaching the second semester of second year Basque (Basque Language 204). Teresa del Valle, visiting professor, spent the month of February in residence at Princeton University. She gave two seminars in the department of Anthropology and the Women’s Studies Program. Carmelo Urza is currently teaching a course on Literature and Ethnic Nationalism for the Department of Foreign Languages. The photo exhibit “Basque Sheepherders of the Plumas Sierra” prepared by Marty Mitchell was displayed during the month of October in Fresno, CA as part of the Fresno Centennial celebration. In November there was an exhibition of the paintings entitled “Intolerance” by famed Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas in the Museo de Bellas Artes of Bilbao (Euskadi). The paintings were inspired by the book The Witches’ Advocate by Gustav Henningsen and published by the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press. William H. Jacobsen, Jr., Coordinator of Linguistics, recently published an article entitled, “The Analog of the Passive Transformation in Ergative-type Languages," in Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field (eds.) Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge University Press, 1985. In February Teresa del Valle gave a paper on “Basque Ethnic Identiry: Korrika as a Symbolic Action,” at a symposium on gypsies and other minorities in Spain, for the Gypsy Studies Society Annual Meeting in New York. In February Linda White gave a talk and slide presentation on Basques in the American West to the social studies students at Wooster High School (Reno). William A. Douglass published an article, “Ethnic Categorization in the 1980 U.S. Census: The Basque Example,” in Government Publications Review (vol. 12, 1985). In March Teresa del Valle presented two papers on Basque women at anthropological symposia in Sacramento, California and Reno, Nevada. In March the Basque Studies Program sponsored a concert and a lecture-recital by internationally acclaimed Catalan pianist Leonora Milá at the University of Nevada. In April William A. Douglass attended the European Congress of Rural Sociology in Braga, Portugal and presented a paper entitled “Anthropological Methodology in the European Context.” The Basque Studies Program presented an exhibit at the 1986 International Fair given by the Washoe County School District in April. The fair promotes the importance of foreign language skills. Gorka Aulestia published two reviews in the Autumn 1985 issue of World Literature Today. The books reviewed are by Jon Mirande: Ene Jainko-eidol zaharra, lur! (Donostia, 1984), and Gauez parke batean (Donostia, 1984). Visiting professor Teresa del Valle spoke on “Women’s Power in Basque Culture: Ideology and Practice” at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies in Minneapolis, Minn. in April. She also presented a related lecture on the UNR campus in April, sponsored by the Women’s Studies Board. |
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