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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
58, 1998
Highlights
In April, William Douglass debated Douglas Silliman,
regional officer for the Middle East in the U.S. State
Department’s Counter-terrorism Office at the 36th
annual International Affairs Symposium of Lewis and Clark
College (Portland, Oregon). The subject of the symposium was
“The Power of Fear: Reassessing International
Terrorism.”
William Douglass and Joseba Zulaika published
“On Terrorism Discourse: Reply to Greenwood” in
the April issue of the journal Current Anthropology, 39(2):
265-66.
Linda White gave a talk “A-Z: The Basque
Dictionary Experience” at the Nevada State Museum,
Carson City, Nevada, July 28, 1998. The speech was broadcast
on local television.
Joseba Zulaika gave the lecture “Barandiaran and
Walter Benjamin: Basques and the Anthropological
Imagination” at the III Symposium organized by the
Barandiaran Chair at University of California, Santa Barbara
on May 15, 1998.
In March, William Douglass gave a one-week doctoral
seminar on the topic of “Identity” in the
Sociology Department of the University of the Basque country
(Lejona).
In April, Marcelino Ugalde gave a lecture on Basque
surnames at the third annual conference, “Know Your
Origins (Nosco Noster Originis),” at Foothill College
in Los Altos Hills, California, offered by the Hispanic
Genealogical & Historical Society of Santa Clara
County.
Joseba Zulaika published the article “On the
Seduction of Architectural Miracles” in the Nevada Art
Council’s summer issue of Neon.
This semester Linda White is teaching Basque 101,
Elementary Basque Language.
In March, William Douglass lectured in Bilbao on the
“Basque Diaspora” for the University Studies
program of Eusko Ikaskuntza.
In July, William Douglass gave a paper “Creating
the New Basque Diaspora” in the conference
“Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration,
Identity, and Globalization” (Reno,
Nevada).
Marcelino Ugalde is teaching his Basque Country
Cooking course for Truckee Meadows Community College this
fall. About half of his recipes are from the New Basque
Cuisine.
Linda White presented a paper “Message for the
Millennium: Gendering and Engendering Basque Literature for
the Next Thousand Years” at the “Basques in the
Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and
Globalization” Conference in Reno July 6-9,
1998.
Joseba Zulaika gave a talk “The Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao: Architecture and Society” at the
International Tea and Coffee House, University of Nevada,
Reno, on April 10, 1998.
In August, William Douglass lectured on Basques of
the American West at the Nevada State Museum (Carson
City).
On September 30, 1998, Linda White gave a
presentation on “Basque Witches and the Spanish
Inquisition” to a graduate seminar in Spanish
literature, “Literary Pacts with the Devil”
Spanish 464/664.
At the “Basques in the Contemporary World”
conference in Reno last July, Marcelino Ugalde gave a paper
titled “Studying Basque Immigration: The
Sources.”
Joseba Zulaika gave a talk with William A. Douglass
entitled “An Anti-Counterterrorist Manifesto” at
the International Student Center, UNR on April 27,
1998.
Marcelino Ugalde published an article with Kathryn
Etcheverria, “Mendigainera: Scaling the Peak of the
Basque Library Backlog” in the December 1998 issue of
Library Resources and Technical Services.
Joseba Zulaika presented the paper “Miracle in
Bilbao: Basques in the Casino of Globalism” at the
conference “Basques in the Contemporary World:
Migration, Identity, and Globalization,” held in Reno,
July 6-9.
William Douglass was recently appointed an honorary
member of Euskaltzaindia (the Basque Language Academy). He
was inducted as one of ten new honorary members, joining a
total of only twenty individuals with honorary membership
status in the Academy.
Basque author Aurelia Arkotxa and her husband,
journalist Roberto Scarcia, visited the Program and the
Library on July 31, 1998, to discuss Basque literature with
Linda White.
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