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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
61, 1999
Highlights
In November of 1999 William Douglass gave the
Ninth Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Journal of
Anthropological Research at the University of New Mexico
(Albuquerque). His talk, “In Search of Juan de
Oñate: Confessions of a Cryptoessentialist” will
be published as the lead article in the JAR’s
summer of 2000 issue.
Linda White presented the paper “The
‘F’ Word in Northern Spain: Feminism and the
Basque (Woman Writer’s) Question” as part of Kate
McCullough’s session “Women and Literature”
at the PAMLA Conference in Portland, OR, November 5-7,
1999.
William Douglass published an article
“The Mining Camp as Community” in the book
Social Approaches to an Industrial Past edited by A.
Bernard Knapp, et. al. (Routledge).
Marcelino Ugalde attended the Nineteenth
National Conference on the First Year Experience in
Columbia, South Carolina in January. His participation in
the conference was a part of his duties as a member of the
university libraries Instruction Work
Group.
Joseba Zulaika delivered a paper, “The
Ruins of Theory and a Theory of Ruins,” at the panel on
Movements of the Moral Imagination: The An-trope-ology of
James W. Fernandez, AAA Meetings, in Chicago last
November.
Linda White had a book review of Bernardo
Atxaga’s Lone Woman (London: Harvill, 1999)
published on Harvill Press’ web site.
The documentary film by Enekoitz Andonegi with script
by Joseba Zulaika was premiered at the Cannes Film
Festival this year.
Prof. Casilda de Miguel Martínez,
visiting scholar from the Universidad del País Vasco
in Bilbao, Spain (Dept. of Audiovisual Communications and
Publicity) was in residence at the Center for Basque Studies
during the month of April to conduct research on Basque
women in film. While at UNR she gave a lecture on “Cine
Vasco de los Años 80.”
In May, Marcelino Ugalde was elected to serve
on the university libraries’ Budget & Planning
Committee for a two-year term.
The Spanish Consul of San Francisco, Sr. D.
Lorenzo Gonzalez, visited the University of Nevada,
Reno on March 30 and paid a visit to the Center for Basque
Studies’ new offices.
In May, Joseba Zulaika delivered a paper,
“Vieja luna de Bilbao,” at Bidebarrieta
Kulturgunea during the symposium Los Bilbaos Soñados,
Imaginados.
Brett Copeland, library assistant in the
Basque Studies Library, resigned his position at the end of
March 2000 to begin a new career.
For the May 2000 issue of Sunset, Marcelino
Ugalde consulted and provided some translation work for
a feature on Basque cuisine.
Joseba Zulaika gave two lectures in May, on
“The Anthropology of Violence” and “Basque
Diasporic Culture and Identity,” at the Public
University of Navarre, Pamplona for the Jakitez program of
Eusko Ikaskuntza.
Marcelino Ugalde gave a lecture to Professor
Kate Berry’s ethnic geography class on the Basque
language, identity and surnames on February 9,
2000.
Linda White presented the paper “Orality
and Basque Nationalism: Dancing with the Devil or Waltzing
into the Future?” as part of Thomas F. Shannon’s
MLA session “Orality, Literacy, and the Study of
Language and Change” at the December 1999 MLA
Conference in Chicago.
In March, Marcelino Ugalde gave presentations
on Basque history and culture to the Docent Council of the
Nevada Historical Society and to the American Association of
University Women’s group at a luncheon in
Reno.
Lorenzo Trimble, a native Californian of
Basque descent, has accepted an emergency hire in the Basque
Studies Library as a library assistant.
Linda White is currently teaching Basque 204
(Second Year Basque).
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