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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
58, 1998
Basques in the Contemporary
World:
Migration, Identity, and
Globalization
Rarely does an interdisciplinary group of scholars
have an opportunity to gather and share information about a
favorite topic like the Basque people, language, culture,
and history. From July 7th through the 9th, over a hundred
people gathered in Reno, Nevada for such an event at the
“Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration,
Identity, and Globalization” conference, co-hosted by
the Basque Studies Program and the University Studies Abroad
Consortium with joint funding from the Basque
Government’s Secretaría General de Acción
Exterior and the Consejería de
Cultura.
A few lucky participants came early enough to attend
the National Basque Festival in Elko, Nevada, July 4th and
5th. Kate Camino, Marcelino Ugalde, Joseba Zulaika, and
twelve guests drove from Reno to Elko (about five hours) to
experience the American Basque festivities.
Thirty-five scholars and their guests arrived for early
registration on Sunday evening. Old friendships were renewed
and colleagues greeted as they began discussions that would
last for the next four days.
Early Monday morning, one hundred and ten people
gathered to hear welcoming remarks from special guests and
organizers, including:
William A. Douglass, the Coordinator of the Basque
Studies Program;
Carmelo Urza, Director of the University Studies Abroad
Program;
Jeff Griffin, the Mayor of the City of Reno;
Iñaki Aguirre, el Director de Relaciones con las
Colectividades Vascas;
Josune Ariztondo Akarregi, representing the Hizkuntza
Politikarako Sailburuordea;
Richard S. Jarvis, Chancellor of the University and
Community College System of Nevada.
Our special guest speaker was Manuel Castells,
renowned Professor of Sociology and City and Regional
Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He
spoke to us on Thursday about “The Basque Question in a
Global Context” and gave a refreshing new perspective
on the relative positions of nation and state. Dr. Castells
claimed that there is no Spain. Only the nations that
comprise it truly exist.
Between scholarly sessions, lively conversation in
four languages filled the lobby outside the meeting rooms.
Basque, English, Spanish and French mingled in an
invigorating melody. Senior scholars and graduate students
mingled with no concern for rank or years of experience. The
only item of importance was field of interest. Discussions
about all things Basque could be heard on all sides - film,
politics, New World associations, language, literature,
history, and the internet. No one wanted to stop talking.
There was an air of excitement and a singular camaraderie
among the participants.
On Wednesday afternoon, ninety-eight of those
attending climbed into buses for a special tour of the
Nevada State Museum in Carson City. One of the special
exhibits at the museum was the “Amerikanuak”
exhibit, featuring photographs and realia from the lives of
Basque immigrants to the American West. After the museum,
the group went to Lake Tahoe for dinner on the M.S. Dixie, a
paddleboat that travels across the lake to Emerald Bay. What
a thrill to stand on the prow or above on the observation
deck and admire the pine forests and the luxury castles on
the shoreline.
Next stop was Virginia City, the famous mining town
of the Comstock days. We arrived at 8:30 in the evening. All
the stores were closed but the saloons were open, and many
of the residents were mingling with the conference guests,
sharing stories and taking snapshots. Local residents often
dress like the old Nevadans did, and the lack of tourists
allowed visitors to experience the town in a purer state
than those who come during the day. The group returned to
the hotel exhausted but happy.
Many of the participants voiced their pleasure with
the conference, and no one wanted it to end. It was a
magical week for all of us who were able to gather in Reno
and indulge our passions for all areas of Basque
research.
Joseba Zulaika of the Basque Studies Program said:
“The conference provided an opportunity to meet and
exchange ideas for various generations of Basque scholars
from diverse countries. It was intellectually challenging to
be confronted with the variety and urgency of issues that
affect Basques directly as the result of the new wave of
globalization. For those of us involved in the organization
of the conference, it was an honor to have such an
outstanding group of scholars present their best work. At a
personal level, the interaction with old friends and newly
acquainted colleagues could not have been more
rewarding.”
William Douglass said, “The recent conference
held here in Reno was extraordinary in a number of ways. The
seventy-seven papers embraced much of the spectrum of
significant contemporary issues affecting Basque society and
culture (in both the Basque homeland and its diaspora) on
the eve of the millennium. The contributors themselves
reflected the global scope of the effort, with participants
from several European and Latin American countries, the
United States and Canada, as well as the Philippines. The
four-day event would have been impossible without the close
cooperation between the Basque Studies Program, the
University Studies Abroad Consortium, and the Secretariat of
Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture of the Basque
Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza). All four entities shared the
considerable costs of such an ambitious
undertaking.
While the presentations were generally excellent,
probably just as significant (if less tangible) was the
opportunity for Basque scholars from around the world to
network with one another. The many personal ties that were
established in Reno transcended not just geography, but the
generations as well. We are grateful to those who gave
papers and the many persons who came to listen. We are
hopeful that at least some of the papers will be published
in essay form in the near future. Negotiations for such
publication are currently underway.
The speakers (in alphabetical order) and their topics
were:
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga - Past and Present of
Eusko Ikaskuntza, the Society of Basque Studies: An
Expression of the Basque Scientific Community
(1918-1998)
Alberto Alday Garay - Vasco-navarros en el Nuevo
Mundo: una identidad dual
Andoni Alonso - http://www.basque/community.org -
Basques and the Internet, a New Community?
Oscar Alvarez - Estudiando la emigración vasca
desde la perspectiva europea
Estibalitz Amorrortu - Basque Language Use in the
American West
Begoña Aretxaga - Basque Youth and Political
Violence
Jon Aske - Just How Unusual is Basque? The Basque
Language from a Typological Perspective
Gorka Aulestia - The Basque Bertsolari in the New
Millennium
Jennifer Austin - Basque Bilingualism: Language
Recovery and Transition
José Manuel Azcona - Cultura
contemporánea vasca en América del Sur
Baleren Bakaikoa - The Basque Economy in the Emerging
Europe
Michael Barkham - The Basques in the North Atlantic
in the Sixteenth Century
Jon Bilbao Saralegui - Capital and Labor in the New
Basque Society
Marciano R. de Borja - Basque Identity in the
Philippines
Richard Bourhis - Recent Sociolinguistic Surveys of
the Basque Language: Issues for Language Policies in Euskal
Herria
Margaret Bullen - Gender and Identity in Two Basque
Towns
Manuel Castells - Special Guest Speaker! - The Basque
Question in a Global Context
Javier Cillero Goiriastuena - Contemporary Basque
Fiction Revisited
Juan Cobarrubias - The Viability of Euskera in the
New Millennium in Basque Cinema
Lisa Corcostegui - Moving Emblems: Basque Dance and
Symbolic Ethnic Identity
Teresa del Valle - At the Crossroads of Gender, Space
& Time: Discovering the Basis for Inequality
William A. Douglass - Creating the New Basque
Diaspora
Begoña Echeverria - Hitanoa and the Gendering
of Basque Speech
Jerónima Echeverria - The Basque Hotelera:
Implications for Broader Study
Txema Esparta- La identidad del arte y la identidad
del artista en el País Vasco del siglo XXI
Richard Etulain - Telling Basque Stories of the
American West
Kepa Fernández de Larriñoa - Basque
Festivals of the American West
Joseba Gabilondo - Minority Literatures and the
Global Politics of Seduction: From Rushdy and Djebar to
Bernardo Atxaga
Iñigo Garaialde Maiztegi - Modeling the
Long-term Future of the Basque Language
Amaya Garritz - Basque Studies in Mexico
Estibaliz Gastesi - Music in the Basque Community of
Boise
Iñigo Herce - The Media in the Basque
Country
José Ignacio Hualde - Euskera Batua and the
Dialects
Alberto Irigoyen - Los centros vascos del Uruguay
Cynthia Irvin - Ties That Bind: Militant Nationalism
in Ireland and the Basque Country
James Jacob - The Future of Iparralde
William Jacobsen, Jr. - Basque Origin Theories
Gurutz Jauregui Bereciartu - Basque Nationalism at a
Crossroads
Sharryn Kasmir - Being and Becoming: Class,
Immigration, and Basque Identity in Mondragon
Julie Lacy (read by Joseba Zulaika) - Tourism and
Terror: The Violence of Representation
Demetrio Loperena Rota - Basque Countries, Compatible
Nationalisms and Environmental Policy
Jeremy MacClancy - Navarre and the Present Basque
Reality
Jose Mallea - Artzainen nesk’ametsak
lertxumarretan
Jaume Marti-Olivella - Invisible Otherness: From
Migrant Subjects to the Subjects of Immigration in Basque
Cinema
Marián Martínez de Pancorbo - Genetics
and Theories of Basque Origins
Mario Mimeault - The Basco-Canadians - 1500-1998:
From Offshore to Inshore
Joserra Mauleon - Consecuencias de la
globalización y la emigración en la
evolución futura del caserío vasco
Gregorio Monreal- The Basque Fueros as Nationalistic
Charters
Felipe Muguerza - Pasado, presente y porvenir de la
FEVA (Federación de Entidades Vasco-Argentinos)
Ane Muñoz Varela - Redefining Euskadi -The
Basque Country as Autonomous Region and European Player
Fernando Muru - Las colectividades vascas en
Sudamerica: pasado, presente, y futuro
Sandra Ott - A Social Anthropologist’s View of
Basque Society
Alfonso Pérez Agote - The Future of Basque
Identity
Pauliina Raento - Center, Periphery, and Borderland:
Alava and the Future of Euskadi
David Río - Basques in the Contemporary
Literature of the American West
Xavier Rubert de Ventós - The Rationality of
National Passions
Pello Salaburu - Formulating the Future: Universities
in Basque Society
Nora Siegrist de Gentile (presented by Graciela
Mayorga) - Vasconavarros en Buenos Aires, su relación
con la matrícula de comerciantes del sur de
España y con la orden tercera de San Francisco. S.
XVIII-XIX. Fuentes contemporáneas para su
estudio.
Benjamín Tejerina and Izaskun Urien - Language
Politics in Euskal Herria
Gloria Totoricaguena - Shrinking World - Expanding
Diaspora: Basque Intradiasporic Relations
Blas Uberuaga - Basques on the Internet
Marcelino Ugalde - Studying Basque Immigration: The
Sources
Jacqueline Urla - Basque Popular Culture and Language
Normalization
Hernan Urrutia - Bilingualism and Education: Academic
Outcomes and Attitudes
Carmelo Urza - Basque Sport in Transnational
Perspective
Roland Vazquez - A Critique of “Ideology”:
The Social Bases of Basque Nationalist Politics
Cameron Watson - Imagining ETA
Linda White - Mission for the Millennium: Gendering
and Engendering Basque Literature for the Next Thousand
Years
Keith Yanner - The Conflict of Interpretations:
Rhetorical Functions of Newspaper Narrative in Negotiating
Basque and Anti-Basque Identity
Steven Ybarrola - Basque Like Me: Immigrants and
Basque Identity in a Gipuzkoan Industrial Town
John Ysursa - “Hi ere kantari” - Basque
Music, Identity and Community
Iñaki Zabaleta - Image of the Basques in the
International Media: A Reassessment of Its Importance
Joseba Zulaika - Miracle in Bilbao: Basques in the
Casino of Globalism
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