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Basque Center PUBLICATIONS Books Newsletter    Issue 61    Issue 60       Highlights       Festival       Scholarships       Library       Congress       Review       Abroad       Retirement       Online       Webmaster       Bookshelf       Women    Issue 59    Issue 58    Issue 57    Issue 56    Issue 55    Issue 54    Issue 53    Issue 52    Issue 51    Issue 50		Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 60, 1999 Highlights In March William Douglass lectured in Vitoria-Gasteiz on the Basque diaspora for the Jakitez (University Coursework) program of Eusko Ikaskuntza. Joseba Zulaika published “Ruinas/Peripheries/Transizioak,” in F. Jarauta, ed., Mundial-izazioa eta periferiak. Mundialización y periferias (Arteleku, Cuadernos 14, 1988), pp. 109-122. Linda White presented a paper entitled “Bat, Dos, Trois, Four: The Use of Foreign Language in Basque Literature,” at the Multilingual Spain Conference held in Santa Barbara (UCSB) April 21-24. William Douglass published an article “El Vasco antitético: Iparraguirre en América” in volume two of Iparraguirre. Erro-urratsak/ Raíz y viento (Madrid: Keinu) edited by Gontzal Mendibil. William Douglass published an article entitled “L’idée d’independance dans la diaspora basque” in La question basque (Paris: L’Harmattan) edited by Denis Laborde. This fall at UNR, Joseba Zulaika is teaching an independent study on museum culture. Linda White gave a speech on “The Art of Basque Bertsolaris” on July 22 as an introduction to the Bertsolari Dinner, part of “Renoko Aste Nagusia” (Basque Culture Week) in Reno. William Douglass published two articles, “Santi’s Story” and “Robert Erburu and Becoming a Postmodern Basque,” in Portraits of Basques in the New World (Reno: University of Nevada Press) edited by Richard W. Etulain and Jeronima Echeverria. The article “La tentation de l’innocence,” by Joseba Zulaika was published in De la revendication identitaire à la violence politique (Rencontre Européenne - Biarritz-San Sebastián, May 30-31, 1997) (Réunir, 1988), pp. 64-71. We are lucky to have graduate student Izaskun Echaniz working for the Basque Studies Program and the Basque Library this semester. She brings three languages (Basque, Spanish, and English) and tremendous intelligence to her tasks as research assistant and library aide. Linda White is teaching Basque 203, Spanish 204, and an independent study class on advanced Basque linguistics. Joseba Zulaika published “Terrorismo y tabú: la remitificación terrorista,” in J. Beriain and R. Fernández Ubieta (eds.), La cuestión vasca: Claves de un conflicto cultural y político (Barcelona: Proyecto A Ediciones), pp. 87-93. The Basque Studies Program co-sponsored a lecture in April by Robert Franklin Gish, director of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, on “Telling It Like It Isn’t But Could Be: The Future of Ethnic Studies Programs in the U.S.” In June, Joseba Zulaika published Enemigos, no hay enemigo (Polémicas, imposturas, confesiones Post-ETA) (San Sebastián: Erein). Marcelino Ugalde was elected by his colleagues at UNR’s University Libraries to serve as Chair of the Library Faculty for the second consecutive academic year, 1999-2000. Brett Copeland, library assistant in the Basque Library, attended the 1999 Nevada Library Association conference in Elko, Nevada, Sept. 30-October 2. Linda White published “Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition” in Margaret Read MacDonald (ed.), Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. (Chicago, London: Filtroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 185-189. During the “Renoko Aste Nagusia” for the Reno Basque Festival & NABO Convention in July, Marcelino Ugalde gave a presentation on the history and construction of Basque surnames for the day dedicated to the Basque woman. The event was organized by UNR’s Consortium for the Study of Basque Women. Photographer Marianne Schaffeld of Boise, Idaho exhibited her Basque Country photos in the main library at UNR during the month of October. On April 13, Linda White lectured on “Basque Women, Basque Witches: The Female Legacy in Basque Mythology” to a graduate class in Spanish literature studying the Inquisition. Anthropologist Joseba Zulaika spent seven months (January-July 1999) conducting fieldwork on Bilbao’s urban transformations. Nancy Faires enrolled in the Basque Tutorial Ph.D. program this fall. Ms. Faires comes to us with a Master’s degree in Spanish literature and plans to do research on the city of Bilbao. This past summer, Marcelino Ugalde spent time in the Basque Country working with vendors to acquire material for the Basque Library. He also spent time in London, England meeting with members of the Basque community and researching in the Public Records Office. Professor David Río, adjunct faculty of the BSP, published “Robert Laxalt: intérprete de la inmigración vasca en el Oeste Americano,” in Sancho el Sabio no. 8, 1998, pp. 11-21. He also presented two papers on Robert Laxalt’s work at conferences in Spain.
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