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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 35, 1987
Highlights
In the spring of 1987, Jose Mallea taught the second
semester of first year conversational Basque.
In February Joseba Zulaika, professor of
social anthropology at the University of the Basque Country, began
several months’ residence with the Basque Studies Program.
His current research and writing on Basque political violence is
supported by a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation.
In December of 1986 Carmelo Urza,
Coordinator of the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium,
and William A. Douglass, Coordinator of the Basque Studies
Program, visited the University of Turin to explore the feasibility of
adding an Italian option to the existing programs offered in San
Sebastián and Pau by the Consortium.
In March William A. Douglass gave a lecture
at Brown University entitled “Basque Ethnic Nationalism” as one of
six guest speakers during the 1986/87 academic year for the Herbert H.
Goldberger lectureship series on Responses to Oppression.
He then lectured on “Anthropological Methodology in the
European Context” at Cornell University under the auspices of the
Western Studies Program.
Carmelo Urza has returned to Reno after
directing the San Sebastián Studies Abroad Program during the fall
semester of 1986. While in
residence in the Basque Country, he taught a Survey of Spanish
Literature course.
In February Robert Laxalt, Carmelo Urza,
and William A. Douglass lectured to a Basque Culture class for
Washoe County (Nevada) schoolteachers.
Gorka Aulestia published four reviews of
Basque literature in World Literature Today.
These include a critique of Orixe’s Santa Kruz Apaiza
in volume 60 (Summer 1986), and reviews of Iñaki Eizmendi’s Bertsolari-tzari
Buruz, P. Larzabal’s Matalas and Mikel Zarate’s Ipuin
Antzeko Alegi Mingotsak (4th ed.) in the Autumn 1986
issue.
Carmelo Urza recently published an article entitled “An
Awakening of American Universities to Iberian Pluralism” in Las
nacionalidades del estado español: una problemática cultural
(Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature, 1986).
He also published “Metáfora y deshumanización en El Señor
Presidente” in Explicación de textos literarios, vol.
XIV, no. 1 (1986).
In December the University of the Basque Country Press published the
Spanish translation of Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World, by
William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao.
The Círculo Vasco of Bilbao, Vizcaya sponsored a book
presentation and press conference at which the authors and translator Román Basurto
discussed the work.
During the spring semester Iñaki Oregui of Vergara and Karmelo
Lasa of Bilbao have been in residence with the Basque Studies
Program while pursuing their studies of English.
During the spring semester, professor Eli Areizaga of the
Spanish Language and Literature Department of the College of Education
of the University of the Basque Country was in residence with the
Foreign Languages Department of the University of Nevada-Reno where she
taught three Spanish courses.
María Otero-Boisvert, Basque Studies Librarian, spent the
months of November and December in the Basque Country contacting
scholars, booksellers, publishers and librarians in order to establish
the bases for future collaboration between the program and European
institutions.
Last fall Linda White gave a slide presentation and talk on the
Basques in the American West to the docents of the Nevada Historical
Society as part of their fall training program.
She also spoke to the Reno Chapter of the Women’s Auxiliary of
the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers.
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