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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
54, 1996
Highlights
Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass
coauthored a book Totem and Taboo: The Follies, Fables
and Faces of Terrorism, released in July by
Routledge.
William Douglass contributed the entry
“Basque Americans” to American Folklore. An
Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996) edited by
Jan Harold Brunvand.
Pauliina Raento received her Ph.D. in Basque
Studies (Geography) in May 1996. Congratulations, Dr.
Raento! She is now teaching in Helsinki.
Linda White received her Ph.D. in Basque
Studies (Language and Literature) in May 1996.
Congratulations, Dr. White! She is currently the Assistant
Coordinator of the Basque Studies
Program.
Mikel Gómez Uranga spent two months at
the Basque Studies Program doing research and studying
English. On May 22, 1996, he presented the lecture,
“Actualidad y perspectivas de la economía
vasca.” Professor Gómez is with the Department
of Economics at UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country),
Gasteiz.
Joseba Zulaika presented a paper, “From
Ethnographic Ruins to Franchised Museums: The Guggenheim in
Bilbao,” at the XVIII Mediterranean Conference,
organized by Dowling College and held in Istanbul, July
8-11, 1996. The paper was read at the session on
“Global/Local: Place, Politics and Mass Culture among
the Basques.”
William Douglass published the articles
“Basque Sheepherding” and “Beyond
Amerikanuak” in the work Amerikanuak! Basques in the
High Desert edited by Jack Cooper and Thomas McClanahan (The
High Desert Museum and the Idaho Humanities Foundation,
1995).
The Basque Studies Program hosted a Basque
Elderhostel May 19-25, 1996. Classes were taught by Lisa
and Enrique Corcostegui, Jose Mallea, and
Linda White. In addition, the Zenbat Gara dancers
performed for the group.
Graduate student Lisa Corcostegui attended the
grand opening of the Parc de l’aventure basque en
Amérique held June 22, 1996 in Trois Pistoles,
Québec (Canada).
Visitor Marian Martínez de Pancorbo of
the UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country) presented a
lecture entitled “Aportación de la
genética al conocimiento de la historia
biológica de los vascos” on June 17, 1996 at the
University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Martínez is a
geneticist in the Departamento de Biología Celular y
Ciencias Morfológicas of the School of Medicine at
Leioa.
Eskerrik asko to Gloria Castillo for her help
with the March 1996 Newsletter mailing. We appreciate
it!
William H. Jacobsen, Jr. published the article
“Comment on R. L. Trask’s ‘Basque and
Dene-Caucasian: A Critique from the Basque Side’”
in Mother Tongue: The Journal 1:120-142 (December
1995).
Cameron Watson published the article
“Folklore and Basque Nationalism: Language, Myth,
Reality” in Nations and Nationalism
(Cambridge) Vol. 2, No. 1 (1996).
In early July, Marcelino Ugalde gave a paper,
“Basque Studies in the United States: Thirty Years of
Success,” as a panel member of the Western European
Specialists Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries at the annual meeting of the American
Library Association in New York City.
Mikel Villarreal, a social psychologist from
the University of the Basque Country, arrived at the BSP on
March 5, 1996 and spent several weeks doing
research.
Basque author Laura Mintegi visited the BSP to
do research on her dissertation topic, Stephen Crane. Also
in residence was Antton Azkargorta and the
couple’s two children, Beñat and Leire. Mintegi
and Azkargorta received BSP travel
stipends.
Pauliina Raento presented the paper
“Nationalism Rejected: Unidad Alavesa and Basque
Nationalism in Spain” at the Association of American
Geographers (AAG) 92nd Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, in
April 1996. The paper was awarded in the European Specialty
Group’s Graduate Student Paper
Competition.
Pauliina Raento presented a paper entitled
“Basque Challenge to the Study of Peripheral
Nationalism in Europe” to the AAG European and
Political Geography Specialty Group Conference
“Transformations in the Political Geography of
Contemporary Europe” in Columbia, SC, April 6-9,
1996.
Linda White appeared as a guest author in
Milton Wolf’s science fiction class on August 12, 1996.
The class read Dr. White’s short story “God Save
the Child” and met with her to discuss it and ask
questions.
William Douglass published an article entitled
“L’aggregato domestico congiunto in Italia
meridionale nel XVIII secolo” in La famiglia in
Italia dell’antichit… al XX secolo (Florence:
Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1995) edited by David I. Kertzer
and Richard P. Saller.
Marcelino Ugalde gave a lecture and slide
presentation about Basque culture and history to the Friends
of the Fernley Library in Fernley, Nevada, in February, and
gave a repeat performance in July at John Ascuaga’s
Nugget for the Southwest Regional Conference of Alpha Delta
Kappa, a professional women’s
organization.
Joseba Gabilondo, a writer and a professor of
Spanish literature at Bryn Mawr College, visited us in
August to polish his book on Basque author Bernardo
Atxaga.
Xabier Palacios, professor of history at the
Basque University in Vitoria, received a BSP travel stipend
this summer to research Basque nationalism and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau.
Miel Angel Elustondo returned to the Basque
Studies Program this summer to conduct field research for
news articles for the Basque press.
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