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Basque Center PUBLICATIONS Books Newsletter Issue 61 Issue 60 Issue 59 Issue 58 Issue 57 Issue 56 Issue 55 Issue 54 Issue 53 Issue 52 Highlights Cast Scholarships Monument Leading Library Novice Bookshelf Elderhostels Issue 51 Issue 50		Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 52, 1995 Highlights Last spring the University of Queensland Press published the book From Italy to Ingham. Italians in the North Queensland by William Douglass. In April he visited Australia for a book promotional tour which included numerous newspaper and radio interviews. After being interviewed on national public radio, Douglass attended the week-long National Italian Festival held in Ingham where the book was launched officially. Joseba Zulaika published an article entitled “Euskadi fantome” in Arteleku’s workshop proposed by Muntadas, Urban Interventions: Projects and Lectures. On April 7, 1995, Linda White and William Douglass lectured at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a part of that university’s first Basque Culture Day held to commemorate founding of the José Miguel de Barandiarán Chair of Basque Studies. Douglass talked about Basque ethnicity in the U.S., and White gave a lecture entitled “Euskaldun, Euskaldon’t: Should Basque Americans Learn Euskara?” David Rio of the Universidad del País Vasco (Vitoria), Facultad de Filología Inglesa, spent the month of May at the Basque Studies Program researching Basque-American literature, particularly the writings of Robert Laxalt, whom he interviewed while in Reno. Linda White spent July 28 and 29 in Boise, Idaho for the celebration of Jaialdi. Visiting scholar Kathie Piton was also there, researching her dissertation topic of American Basques and their festivals. Writer Eileen Walter, who is minoring in Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, recorded her impressions of her first festival for this Newsletter. Visiting Professor Felipa Etxeberria, of the Departmento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación, Universidad del País Vasco (San Sebastián), was in residence at the Basque Studies Program from March through August. Her research here concerned the inter-relation of languages and culture. She also did a study on language learning in education. Visiting scholar and stipend awardee Francisca Arregui, of the Universidad del País Vasco (San Sebastián), Ciencias de la Educación, spent the months from March through August at the Basque Studies Program researching the integration of Basque immigrants in Nevada. Prof. Arregui brought to closure a project initiated by the late Angel Ansa, a former visiting scholar to the BSP. Ricardo Cierbide of the Facultad de Filología y Geografía e Historia, Universidad del País Vasco, in Vitoria, spent three months in the U.S. (part of it in Reno, Nevada) to research Basque sheepherders from the Navarrese regions, and conduct onomastic research. During the summer of 1995, Joseba Zulaika taught two summer courses in the New Europe Program organized at the University of California, Santa Barbara, entitled Comparative Issues of Ethnicity in Europe, and Exhibiting European Arts and Cultures.
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