Conference Papers Series
This series, begun in 2005, features papers presented at the conferences sponsored by the Center for Basque Studies.
Published by the Center for Basque Studies. To order contact the Center for Basque Studies (775.784.4854) or you may request titles from any major book dealer, who will obtain them on order if they are not in stock.
Opportunity Structures in Diaspora Relations: Comparisons in Contemporary Multilevel Politics of Diaspora and Transnational Identity Edited by Gloria Totoricagüena
Empire & Terror: Nationalism / Postnationalism in the New
Millennium
Edited by Begoña Aretxaga, Dennis Dworkin, Joseba Gabilondo
and Joseba Zulaika
This work is a compilation of papers from the conference on "Nationalism, Globalization, and Terror: A Debate on Stateless Nations, Particularism/Universalism, and Radical Democracy." The conference was sponsored by the Center in April of 2002.
Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim
Edited by Anna Maria Guasch and Joseba Zulaika
Papers given at the conference held April 22–24, 2004, Reno, Nevada. The conference focused on discussion of the "Guggenheim effect" five years after the opening of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, and reflected on its influence on art, architecture, museums, and urban renewal.
Voicing the Moment: Improvised Oral
Poetry and Basque Tradition
Edited by Samuel G. Armistead and Joseba Zulaika
Presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of
orally improvised poetry. Includes papers on Hispanic and
extra-Hispanic improvised poetry as well as papers in which
leading practitioners of bertsolaritza studied their own
poetic art and its techniques.
Knowledge Communities Edited by Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal
This book studies “communities of knowledge,” a concept that goes beyond the notion of communities of practice to analyze the structure of the emergent knowledge societies. A complex society has to be integrated by various and heterogeneous communities and a knowledge society should be based on the plurality of communities of knowledge. This was the main hypothesis behind the organization of the “International Conference on Knowledge Communities,” which is at the origins of this book. A selection of updated versions of the papers presented at the conference is found in this volume. Our intention was to examine the structure of knowledge-based societies, while exploring new modalities of innovation, in addition to those based on science (e.g., e-science) and engineering. The chapters of this book are an in-depth examination of the concept of knowledge communities and address scientific, engineering, and artistic communities as well as online communities with particular interest on the development of knowledge societies..
Writers In Between Languages: Minority Literatures in the Global Scene
Edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi
This book is a collection of the contributions made by Basque writers and American and European academics to the international symposium, “Writers In Between Languages: Minority Literatures in the Global Scene,” held May 15–17, 2008 at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, in the United States. Our symposium attempted to think about the consequences of bilingualism for writers in a minority language, like Basque, in that they are located in that “in-between” of different cultural and identity communities and subjected to constant exchange and recognition of differences. One could say that practically all the current 800,000 Basque-speakers or euskaldunak who live on both sides of the Pyrenees in Spain and France are bilingual. And that this bilingualism is formed in conjunction with such widely spoken languages as Spanish and such prestigious languages in literary circles as French; languages that, in turn, have been displaced by the enormously central and legitimizing place that English occupies in the current global framework. The symposium attempted, moreover, to debate the consequences implied by linguistic extra-territorialization for many authors in a minority language, the realignment implied by the hegemony of English for all other literatures, and the options open to a minority author to get their voice heard in the World Republic of Letters. Together with the above themes, certain aspects of the academic study of a minority literature such as that of Basque completed the list of subjects we intended to examine.