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Basque Studies Program Newsletter
· Issue 57,
1998
Highlights
Linda White gave a public reading of Mariasun
Landa’s The Dancing Flea at the Great Basin Book
Festival held in Reno in September 1997. White translated
the children’s book from the original
Basque.
Marcelino Ugalde taught a Basque Country Cooking
course for Truckee Meadows Community College last fall. A
record number of students (20) attended.
William Douglass published his article “A
Western Perspective on an Eastern Interpretation of Where
North Meets South: Pyrenean Borderland Cultures” in the
book Border Identities. Nation and State at International
Frontiers edited by Thomas Wilson and Hastings Donnan
(Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Linda White presented the paper “Echoes and
Mirrors: Teaching Basque Auxiliary Verbs and Sentence
Structure to English Speakers” at the Basque English
Teachers Association conference in San Sebastián,
Spain (November 9, 1997).
Joseba Zulaika is teaching a seminar course this
spring on “Bilbao, Fin de
Millennium.”
Linda White (with Anita Watson and Jean Ford)
published “The Advantage of Ladies’ Society: The
Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock” in Ronald M.
James and C. Elizabeth Raymond (eds.), Comstock Women:
The Making of a Mining Community (Reno/Las Vegas:
University of Nevada Press, 1997).
In September William Douglass was on the Nevada
History panel of the Great Basin Book Festival. His
presentation “To Study History” was published in
the Nevada Humanities Committee’s Touchstone
(December, 1997).
Joseba Zulaika published the article “Tropics of
Terror: From Guernica’s ’Natives’ to Global
’Terrorists’” in Social Identities,
4(1): 93-108.
Linda White gave a lecture and slide show on
“Basques in the American West” for the Reno
Newcomers group (November 18, 1997)
While in the Basque Country in November 1997, Linda
White gave an informal lecture titled “Ingelesa
euskaldun ikasleei irakasten” to PAT/COP (a center for
English language learning materials) in
Sestau.
In October William Douglass gave a lecture at the
Shasta County Historical Society (Redding, California) as
part of the inauguration of the traveling exhibit
“Amerikanuak: Basques in the High Desert” curated
by the High Desert Museum of Bend,
Oregon.
Linda White served as consulting editor on the Basque
edition of Faces: People, Places, and Cultures (March
1998). She also contributed the article “A Secret
Language” (pp. 14-15). Cameron Watson, a graduate of
the Basque Tutorial Ph.D. in 1996, wrote “The
Basques” (pp. 8-12), an historical
overview.
Lisa M. Corcostegui, currently working on her Ph.D.
in Basque Studies, published the article “Dancing into
the Past” in Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
(March 1998 pp. 22-25).
Marcelino Ugalde, Basque Librarian, wrote
“Euskal Sukaldaritza: Pride in Basque Cuisine” for
Faces: People, Places, and Cultures (March 1998,
pp.16-20).
In March William Douglass lectured on Basque
emigration for Eusko Ikaskuntza in Bilbao. He also presented
a short course for the Sociology Department of the Lejona
campus of the Basque University on the subject of
“Identity.”
On January 31, 1997 Linda White spoke on “A
Reflection in the Mirror: Americans Learning Basque in
America” at the Turtle Bay Museum in Redding,
California as part of the ongoing lecture series organized
around the traveling exhibit “Amerikanuak: Basques in
the High Desert.” The exhibit is scheduled to open at
the Nevada State Museum in Carson City on May
8.
William Douglass published “Restless Continent:
Migration and the Configuration of Europe” in Europe
and the Anthropological Imagination edited by Susan
Parman (Prentice Hall, 1998).
Better late than never! In 1996 Linda White wrote an
article entitled “The Case of the Invisible Novel:
Genre Fiction in Basque Literature” for Genre and
Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays (Milton T. Wolf and
Murray S. Martin, eds.), published by JAI Press. At last the
books arrived.
On October 15, 1997 Linda White was guest lecturer
and guest author at a community college science fiction
class in Carson City, Nevada.
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