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Highlights March 14-31 Gurutz Jauregui Bereciartu (professor of Legal History and Constitutional Law, San Sebastián campus of the University of the Basque Country) was in residence with the Program. Professor Jauregui's visit was supported by a stipend from the U.S. Spanish Treaty Program of Cultural Cooperation and the Basque Studies Program. The main purpose of his stay was to enable him to review the recent English language literature on nationalism. He also provided a lecture to a combined class of students of Old World Basque Culture and International Relations entitled "Basque Country Versus Spain: A Centuries-Old Conflict." November 30 - December 4 William A. Douglass, Basque Studies Program Coordinator, attended the Basque History session of the Second World Basque Congress held in the city of Bilbao. His address was entitled "Factors in the Formation of the New World Emigrant Basque Diaspora." In November, Jon Gangoiti, former Basque representative to the Spanish Parliament and recent candidate to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, visited the Basque Studies Program as a guest of the American government. March 22-25 Rachel Bard, author of the Basque Series book Navarra, the Durable Kingdom, was in residence researching an article on Berengaria, daughter of King Sancho the Wise and wife of King Richard the Lionhearted. On January 14 William A. Douglass gave one of the invited addresses in the plenary session on Exploration and Settlement of the Society for Historical Archeology during its annual meeting held this year at Bally's Hotel in Reno. The title of the lecture was "Basque Settlement: A Perspective from Social Anthropology." In March the Organization of American Historians held its annual meeting at Bally's Hotel in Reno. The Immigration History Society took the opportunity to tour the Basque Studies Program. The members then traveled by bus to Gardnerville where they enjoyed a Basque dinner. President Victor Greene (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) gave his presidential address and the group was then entertained by the Gardnerville Basque dancers. On March 14 Carlos Blanco Aguinaga (professor of Spanish literature at the University of California, San Diego) lectured at UNR on the subject of "Unamuno Today." The lecture was cosponsored by UNR's Department of Foreign Languages and the Basque Studies Program. In April, Basque librarian Maria Otero-Boisvert addressed the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries at its meeting in Florence, Italy. The subject of her paper was "The Publishing Industry in the Basque Country: An Introduction." There have been two recent personnel changes at the Basque Studies Program. Secretary Jeanne Harris resigned her position in order to accept an opportunity in the private sector. Ms. Harris has been replaced by Joan Brick. Also, Louella Laguna left her position as secretary of the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium and was replaced by Kim Jacobsen. In October Gorka Aulestia was a guest lecturer at Portland State University where he gave talks entitled "The Past and Present of Basque Nationalism" and "Non-Indo-European Elements in the Basque Language." In the fall semester Carmelo Urza, Coordinator of the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium, addressed Spanish classes at UNR on the subjects of "Spanish Regionalism" and "Ethnic Nationalism and the Basque Country." William A. Douglass published a film review in Anthropology Today (3[5]: 17-18). The review regards the excellent hour-long documentary "The Basques of Santazi" released by Granada Television of Great Britain in its "Disappearing Worlds" series. The film is based upon the research of anthropologist Sandra Ott (former director of the USBCC program in San Sebastián), who served as a consultant to the film crew. March 20 Robert Laxalt, Warren Lerude and William A. Douglass signed copies of their University of Nevada Press published books at the Alliance Française in San Francisco. The event was sponsored by the Basque Educational Organization of San Francisco. Gorka Aulestia published three book reviews in World Literature Today, vol. 61, no. 4 (autumn 1987). The works reviewed were: Balendin Enbeita, Bizitzaren Joanean, San Sebastián, 1986; Telesforo Monzón, Hitzak eta idazkiak, vol. 4, Zarautz, 1986; and Txomin Agirre, Kresala, Bilbao, 1986. Linda White addressed a teacher-training workshop held in October 1987 in Winnemucca, NV. Her presentation was entitled "Basques in the Old and New Worlds: The Bridge Between." The Basque Studies Program sponsored several classes during the spring 1988 semester. Jose Mallea taught the second semester of second-year Basque language, William A. Douglass taught Old World Basque Culture, and Gorka Aulestia taught introduction to Basque Literature and an independent study course on Basque dialectology. William A. Douglass has been elected Program Chair of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe section of the American Anthropological Association. He will be responsible for organizing the Society's scientific program at the November 16-20, 1988 meeting of the American Anthropological Association to be held in Phoenix, AZ. William A. Douglass is guest editor of the current issue of The Journal of Family History (vol. 13, no. 1) devoted entirely to Iberian family history. He authored two articles in the issue entitled "Iberian Family History" and "The Basque Stem Family Household: Myth or Reality?" Carmelo Urza published "La saga/fuga de J.B. y el regionalismo gallego" in Kultura, no. 10 (March 1987). Kultura is published in Alava. Gorka Aulestia's paper on "Bertsolarism, or Basque Troubadourism" was read at the Popular Culture/American Culture Conference held in New Orleans March 23-26. Robert Grenier, underwater archeologist with Parks Canada, gave a presentation at UNR of the film "The Basque Whalers of Labrador," which details the offshore whaling vessel and on-shore whaling and living facilities of sixteenth-century Basque whalers at Red Bay, Labrador. Grenier then conducted an informal discussion of the project and its significance. |
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