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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
55, 1997
Highlights
Linda White gave a lively reading of Mariasun
Landa’s The Dancing Flea at the Reno Winter Book
Festival sponsored by the University of Nevada press on
December 8, 1996. Dr. White translated the bilingual book
and its companion volume, Karmentxu and the Little Ghost,
into English.
In November, William A. Douglass and Joseba Zulaika
gave a paper entitled “Creating Basques:
Anthropological Narrativity and European Cultural
Exotica,” in the session Southern Europe and the
Ehtnography of Anthropology, at the annual meeting of the
American Anthropological Association (San
Francisco).
Presentations and a tour of the Basque Studies
Program and Library were given by Marcelino Ugalde, Basque
Librarian, this past October to UNR’s ElderCollege
program. More than forty members
attended.
Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass published
“Talk to a McVeigh?” in The HFG Review (Vol.1,
No.1) of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Javier Zuñiga, Pello Salaburu, and Nicanor
Ursua of the University of the Basque Country toured the
Basque Studies Program during their visit to the USAC
February 15-20, 1997. They also hosted a dinner for the
Basque students in the Reno area. Zuñiga is the Vice
President for Research and International Relations. Salaburu
is the System Rector/Chancellor of the University, and Ursua
is the Rector of International
Relations.
Gorka Aulestia, former faculty member with the Basque
Studies Program and author of the Basque-English dictionary,
has been selected as a member of the prestigious
Euskaltzaindia, Academy of the Basque Language.
Congratulations, Dr. Aulestia!.
The Basque Studies Program and the University Studies
Abroad Consortium hosted a tea and tour of the
programs’ offices and Basque Library on September 4,
1996. Attendees included a group of Basque journalism
students from the University of the Basque Country.
William Douglass published an article,
“Basque-American Identity: Past Perspectives and Future
Prospects,” in Stephen Tchudi (ed.), Change in the
American West, Exploring the Human Dimension (University of
Nevada Press, 1996).
Basque Studies Ph.D. student Javier Cillero
Goiriastuena published “Kultur-hitzak euskaraz” in
Senez (December 1996).
Linda White was interviewed by Euskadi Irratia on
November 5, 1996 for a broadcast (in Basque) about the
American presidential election.
In February of 1997, William Douglass gave an
inaugural address entitled “Becoming Basque-American:
From Immigration to Virtual Ethnicity,” at the opening
of the “Amerikanuak: Basques in the High Desert”
exhibit at the Herrett Center for Arts and Science, College
of Southern Idaho (Twin Falls).
This spring, Marcelino Ugalde is teaching a
traditional European Basque cooking course for Truckee
Meadows Community College, Community Services Division.
Nineteen students are attending the weekly
sessions.
In September of 1996, William Douglass gave a lecture,
“Sobre el nombre de Arizona,” at the Third Basques
in Mexico Congress, held in Zacatecas.
Cameron Watson received his Ph.D. in Basque Studies
(History) in December 1996. Congratulations, Dr. Watson! He
is currently teaching part-time for the University of
Nevada, Reno.
In November, Marcelino Ugalde gave a workshop on
“Basque Research Tips” for the University of
Nevada, Reno Libraries. Use of both paper and electronic
resources was covered.
William Douglass published a book, Tap Dancing on
Ice. The Life and Times of a Nevada Gaming Pioneer
(University of Nevada Oral History Program,
1996).
The University of the Basque Country Press (Lejona,
1996) published the book Azúcar amargo. Vida y
fortuna de los cortadores de caña italianos y vascos
en la Australia tropical, by William Douglass.
On July 24, 1996, Jose Mallea gave a Basque history
presentation to a meeting of some 250 women educators from
the Western U.S., Hawaii, and New Zealand at John
Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nevada.
On November 8, 1996, Zenbat Gara Euskal Dantzari
Taldea presented dances from Euskalerria and the stories of
Pernando Amezketarra at the Multicultural Theater at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. The performance was
part of the Second Symposium on the Basques and the USA
sponsored by the José Miguel de Barandiarán
Chair, Basque Studies Program, UCSB.
Late summer and early fall visitors to the Basque
Program included David Río of the Departamento de
Filología Inglesa, UPV-Vitoria, who continued
a study of Basque American literature; Lidia Elola, who
carried out research on Vizcayan emigration to the U.S. for
her Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional de Educación
a Distancia; and Gloria Totoricagüena, who conducted
research for her Ph.D. thesis from the London School of
Economics on Basque ethnonationalism in the diaspora. Other
researches included Imanol Galdos and Itziar Iriondo, of
Donostia, and Steve Ybarrola and Keith Yanner of Central
College in Pella, Iowa.
Last fall, the Basque Studies Program received a
donation of $5,000 from the Ahmanson Foundation. Their
continued generosity has greatly enhanced our ability to
carry out our programs and improve our library holdings.
Eskerrik Asko!
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