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Highlights Javier Corcuera, currently director of the press at the University of the Basque Country, accompanied by his wife, Yolanda Oribe, visited the Program July 13-29 to do research on economic aspects of the American federal system and to analyze the Basque political literature in our collection. Prof. Corcuera was a recipient of one of our summer stipends. Josu Amezaga of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, another summer stipend recipient, spent two weeks at the Program investigating the concept of Basque culture from a non-traditional point of view. María Otero-Boisvert, former librarian for the Basque Studies Program, recently published an article entitled “The Publishing Industry in the Basque Country: An Introduction” in Collection Management (1992, vol. 15, no. 1/2, pp. 155-121). Iñigo Lasagabaster arrived on September 1 to spend a year in residence as Visiting Scholar, funded by the Basque Government. Mr. Lasagabaster will be conducting research in bibliographic historiography. Arantza Agirre and Estibalitz Amorrortu, recipients of Basque Government scholarships, arrived on August 24 to spend a year at the University of Nevada, Reno studying English and assisting in the Basque classes. Joseba Zulaika spent May 21 through August 29 in the Basque Country conducting research for his current projects as Basque Scholar. During that time he presented a paper entitled “Espacios Precopernicanos en la Cultura Tradicional Vasca” at the Imaginación Espacial en la Cultura Vasca conference held at Arteleku (San Sebastián), June 1-6. Magdalena Czajkowska from Poland and Cameron Watson from England have enrolled in the Basque Studies Tutorial Ph.D. program this fall. Ms. Czajkowska’s field of concentration is language and literature, while Mr. Watson is studying history. Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass are team-teaching The People and Cultures of Europe with University of Nevada anthropologist Marie Boutté during Fall 1992. Linda White is teaching first and second year Basque (101 and 203) again this year. William A. Douglass published a chapter “Basques in the American West” in Allen G. Noble (ed.) To Build in a New Land, Ethnic Landscapes in North America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), pp. 379-395. Historian Jose Mallea lectured the Washoe County Historical Society on “Basque Aspen Carvings” in Reno, Nevada on August 25. William A. Douglass presented two lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Basque Studies Program, on April 29 and May 1. The lectures were entitled “In the Mirror: Reflections on the Origins of the BSP” and “Through the Looking Glass, or Becoming the Datum.” Anthropologist William Christian, a MacArthur Fellow and Researcher at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, visited the University of Nevada, Reno on May 8 to present a lecture and slide show on the subject of apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The lecture, “The Mind’s Eye: Basque Visionaries in Trance--Ezquioga 1931,” was sponsored by the Basque Studies Program. Library Assistant Marcelino Ugalde joined us in July and has taken charge of the Basque Studies library. Former Basque Librarian Ellen Brow is no longer with the Program. Joseba Zulaika has published a review essay entitled “Paradoxes of Religion and Terrorism” in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 4(1):109-114. He also published an article “Kulturaren Funtsak eta Buruhauskarriak” in the book Gipuzkoa (Pamplona: I.G. Castuera) edited by Gipuzkoako Foru Alundia. Basque scholar Joseba Zulaika presented the paper “Corrientes Teóricas en la Antropología Simbólica” at a conference entitled El estudio antropológico de los procesos cognitivos y simbólicos held in Granada (Spain), September 21-25. William A. Douglass published a review of Los españoles vistos por los antropólogos, Maria Cátedra, ed. (Madrid: Júcar Universidad, 1991) in the newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (a section of the American Anthropological Association). Linda White, co-author of the English-Basque Dictionary, spoke on “Writing a Dictionary” at McQueen High School as part of the school library’s Meet the Writer program on May 1, 1992. William A. Douglass co-edited (with Robert P. Nylen) the book Letters from the Nevada Frontier: The Correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992). |
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