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Highlights William Douglass has published the entry "Basques" in the 1991 Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Joseba Zulaika published an article entitled, "Terror, Totem, and Taboo: Reporting on a Report" in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 3 (Spring 1991), 1:34-45. Gorka Ormazuri visited the Basque Studies Program in March. Mr. Ormazuri is a visiting professor at the University of Iowa where he taught a Basque culture class. On March 25, Demetrio Loperena, a Professor of Administrative Law from the University of the Basque Country, presented a lecture on "Organización político-administrativo de España" at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Basque Studies Program co-sponsored a lecture by the Peruvian novelist Alfredo Bryce-Echenique on April 17. In the morning the author gave a bilingual reading and answered questions from the audience. In the afternoon he presented a lecture entitled "Confesiones de un escritor latinoamericano." Demetrio Loperena participated in the "Navarese Autonomy in Modern Spain" Session of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies held April 18-21 at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Loperena's presentation was entitled "Relaciones entre Navarra y el poder central desde su incorporación a la monarquía española." Visiting Professor Demetrio Loperena gave a colloquium on May 1 entitled "Environmental Policy in the European Economic Community." The talk was presented at the University of Nevada, Reno and drew an appreciative audience. Joseba Zulaika presented a lecture at the University of Chicago Anthropology Department on May 13. The lecture was entitled "Terrorism, Ritual, and the Imagination." Linda White served as commentator for a panel on Basques at the Southwest Oral History Association conferences in Reno on May 2 and 3. Panel speakers included Jeronima Echeverria, Barbara Perry-Bauer, Dave Ensuntsa and John Bieter. On May 16, Basque Government Scholarship recipients Imanol Galdos and Itziar Iriondo returned home to the Basque Country after a tremendously productive year in Reno. Also in May we bade farewell to visiting scholar Demetrio Loperena. Joseba Zulaika left for Euskadi on May 23 to spend the summer writing and doing research. Dr. Zulaika returned to the BSP on September 9. While abroad, he presented two papers at conferences in Chaves, Portugal and Santander, Spain. The former was a conference on "Los límites de la galleguidad" held July 11-13, and the paper was entitled "Las distancias del marinero de Terranova." The latter was a conference on "Investigaciones de la violencia en el País Vasco" held at the International University of Menéndez Pelayo on September 2-6. Dr. Zulaika presented a paper entitled "Violencia como azar, ritual, y juego." Jon Patrick, Professor of Computing and Mathematics from Deakin University in Australia, and Roslyn Frank, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, gave a joint lecture on "A Basque Navigation System: Stone Circles, Navigation and Geodetic Systems" on May 24 at the University in Reno. Jose Mallea gave a talk on "Basque Aspen Art" to the Westerners International group in June. Mari Carmen Garmendia, secretary-general of Linguistic Policy for the Basque Government, visited the Basque Studies Program in June and met with Linda White, Carmelo Urza, Ellen Brow, and members of the BSP Staff. She was accompanied by her U.S. Escort-Interpreter Sheryl Santos. Antonio Mingolarra, Vicedecano of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Información of the University of the Basque Country, and his wife Isabel Garaizar, professor of contemporary history at the Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación (University of the Basque Country), spent a month at the Program during July researching communication and cultural publications of the Basque diaspora. Mikel Aizpuru Murua, a professor of social history at the Escuela Universitaria de Graduados Sociales de Vizcaya, spent a month at the BSP this past summer as a recipient of a Basque Studies Program travel stipend. Dr. Aizpuru did diligent research on the Basque nationalist press in America prior to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923). Enrike Knorr, president of Euskaltzaindia's Comisión de Onomástica, visited the Program during the first week in August to do research and to discuss the possibility of an onomastics conference in Reno during Fall 1992. During the fall of 1991 Linda White taught Basque 101 and Basque 203, the first and second year levels of Basque language. Fifteen students and faculty members took advantage of this opportunity to learn euskera. William Douglass published a book Cultura vasca y su diáspora. Ensayos teóricos y descriptivos with Baroja of San Sebastián. This book is a Spanish translation of ten of his essays dealing with Old World Basque culture and the emigrant diaspora. Its compiler and editor was Teresa del Valle and the translator was Jone Aldave. Eusebio Osa, Arantxa Uribarri, and their nephew Egoitz Lopez de Lacalle arrived in mid-August and will be visiting the Program through December. Dr. Osa received a scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Science (Spanish government) to conduct research on Basque linguistics. Daniele Conversi, a graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, visited the Program as a recipient of a Basque Studies Program travel stipend to research Basque nationalism and immigration. Linda White translated the new Basque book Series publication, A View from the Witch's Cave (Reno: University of Nevada, 1991). Joseba Zulaika wrote a brief introduction for the volume. William Douglass participated in a conference on Travel and Discovery held in July at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). He gave one paper entitled "Trionfo in Ingham" and another called "Catalan Influence among Australia's Spanish Immigrants." Basque artist Iñaki Insausti visited the University in June on a Basque Studies Program summer stipend. His project involved art photographs of Basque aspen carvings. Basque Government Scholarship recipients for this academic year are Amaia Rekalde and Javier Cellero. They will assist with teaching in the Basque language classes. Rafael Galdos, a Basque student in residence at the University of Nevada, Reno for the past year, assisted Dr. Mallea with data entry for a computerized catalog of Basque tree art in the American West. |
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