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Highlights In November of 1992, William A. Douglass presented a paper entitled “The Swarthy Alternative: Italian Sugar Canecutters in North America’s Deep South and Australia’s Far North” in a session on International Migration and Plantation Labor at the meetings of the Social Science History Association held in Chicago. Linda White is teaching Basque 102 and Basque 204 with the help of native speakers Estibalitz Amorrortu and Arantxa Agirre. Jose Mallea is teaching Basque history (Hist 428/628). The Basque Studies Program sponsored a lecture by Roslyn Frank of the University of Iowa on December 4, 1992. The lecture was intriguingly titled “In Search of the European Sky-Bears” and dealt with ethnoastronomy, tracing the origins of legends about Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. At the annual American Anthropological Association’s conference held in San Francisco, Joseba Zulaika was a discussant in the session entitled Dangerous Anthropologies: Fieldwork, Field Themes and Theory in High Conflict Research. William A. Douglass’s article “Anthropological Methodology in the European Context” was published in Europe Observed, a book from Macmillan Press, co-edited by Joâo de Pina Cabral and John Campbell. Former visiting scholar Cynthia Irvin was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar for 1991-92. She is now at the Harvard Center for International Research conducting investigations on ethnic conflict, its management and resolution. Joseba Zulaika lectured on “The Bertsolariak: Basque Troubadours” in Eureka and Elko, Nevada, as part of the Nevada Humanities on the Road Program. Joseba Zulaika is teaching a course (Anth 460/660) entitled Storytellers and Troubadours: Explorations in Basque Oral Culture. Linda White is presenting two guest lectures during the course. Roland Vazquez, visiting scholar from Rutgers University, left the Basque Studies Program after a six-month residence to initiate his anthropological field research in the Basque Country. In the fall semester, Marie Boutte, William A. Douglass and Joseba Zulaika collaborated in teaching a course on Peoples and Cultures of Europe (Anth 469/669). William A. Douglass has been named by Eusko Ikaskuntza to the editorial board of the Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos. William A. Douglass published an article entitled “Reno-ko Euskal Mintegiaren XXV. Urtebetetzean” in no. 72 of the journal Jakin. William A. Douglass published an article “Images and Adages: Anglo-Australian Perceptions of Italians in Queensland” in War, Internment and Mass Migration: The Italo-Australian Experience 1940-1990, edited by Richard Bosworth and Romano Ugolini (Roma: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale). |
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