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Goyheneche Featured at Historians’ Meeting Last November 11-13 the Western Society for French History held its annual meeting for the first time in Reno. For this occasion the Basque Studies Program sponsored the appearance of Professor Eugene Goyheneche of the Université de Pau (France). As the Charles M. Iriart Memorial Speaker he delivered one of the two principal addresses of the conference. His lecture on “Medieval French Basque Economic and Political Institutions” was made possible by the memorial fund established by Mrs. Alfrida Poco Teague in her cousin’s memory. Professor Goyheneche also participated as a commentator in a session of the meeting devoted to research on “The Role of Women in French Basque Culture.” This session was chaired by Professor Roslyn M. Frank of the University of Iowa who had organized and coordinated the research on this topic by her students in Iowa. The three papers read dealt with “The Role of the Basque Woman as Etxekoandrea–the Mistress of the House,” “Inheritance, Marriage, and Dowry Rights in the Navarrese and French Basque Law Codes,” and “Women’s Rights and the Doléance du sexe de St. Jean de Luz et Cibour au Roi (1789.” Also serving as commentators in this session were Rachel Bard of the Tacoma Community College and Jon Bilbao of the Basque Studies Program. These papers, comments, and the English translation of Professor Goyheneche’s address will be published in the forthcoming Proceedings IV of the society’s annual meeting. This volume ($20) can be ordered from Professor Jeanne Ojala, Department of History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. Orders should be prepaid and checks made payable to the Western Society for French History. Professor Goyheneche, who resides in Ustaritz, currently occupies the chair of Basque studies at the Université de Pau. Author of many works on Basque history, he is perhaps best known for his monograph Notre Terre Basque (Bayonne: Editions IKAS, 1961). This was his first visit to the United States, and following the historians’ meeting in Reno he was invited to meet with scholars in medieval and Pyrenean studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and to address the San Francisco Basque community. In Reno during the remainder of his two-week visit to the United States, he resided at the Santa Fe Hotel, where he gained some insight into Basque-American traditions, and had many discussions with members of the Program, which have already brought about closer ties and the promise of greater future collaboration with scholars in the French Basque country. |
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