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Highlights Linda White recently joined the Basque Studies Program staff as a Library Assistant. Ms. White is replacing Jill Berner who is on maternity leave (twins!) until this fall. Jon Bilbao was accorded the Rank of Professor Emeritus at UNR's May commencement ceremony. >Professor Bilbao will continue to divide his time between the newly formed institutes of Basque Bibliography and the Basque Diaspora in Vitoria (Alava) and the Basque Studies Program here in Reno. Scholars visiting the Basque collection during the past few months include Dr. M.E.R. Nicholson (who is working on conflict resolution in French Basque villages), Dr. Dorothy Legarreta (who is preparing a book on the Basque refugee children during the Spanish Civil War), and Ms. Rachel Bard (who is completing a book on the history of Navarra for the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press). William A. Douglass spent May and part of June in the Basque Country and Italy interviewing persons who had returned to Europe after cutting sugar cane in Australia. He leaves again in August to complete the European phase of his comparative study of Basque and Abruzzese Italian canecutters. Ernest Richert and John Miller, both of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, visited the Program to review the status of the Basque-English dictionary project. Gorka Aulestia and his wife Mertxe de Renobales spent the month of July in the Basque Country. Mr. Aulestia consulted with scholars concerning the structure of his Basque-English dictionary. He also continued work on an article he is preparing on bertsolaris. Mertxe lectured on her specialty of biochemistry at the Summer Session of the Basque University held in Pamplona. Donato Arrinda, Basque writer, visited the BSP as part of his research into Basque ethnicity maintenance here in the American West. His travels also took him to Boise, Elko and Fresno. José Miguel Zabala and Alberto Amorrortu, representatives in the Parliament of Vizcaya, met with BSP staff as part of their official visit to the Basques of the American West. While in Boise they planted a seedling from the tree of Guernica on the grounds of the Idaho State capitol. On their visit to Reno they were accompanied by Peter Cenarrusa, Secretary of State of Idaho, and Mr. Joe Eiguren. William H. Jacobsen, Jr. and Jon Bilbao of University of Nevada Reno and Dr. Sandra Ott of Oxford University conducted our fifth Basque Studies Summer Session Abroad held in Ustaritz, Vitoria and Urberuaga. Thirteen students attended this year’s program. We are pleased to announce that the Spanish Treaty Grant has been renewed for a third year. The funding will allow us to continue searching archives in the American West for evidence of Basque activities during the nineteenth century. William A. Douglass has been appointed to a three-year-term on the Anthropology Screening Committee of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. The program provides fellowships (popularly known as “Fulbrights”) to American scholars to enable them to teach abroad. Gorka Aulestia recently published several items in the journal World Literature Today. They include reviews of Historia de la Literatura Vasca by Luis Villasante and Historia de la Literatura Euskérika by Luis M. Mujika (Vol. 54); reviews of Linguae Vasconum Primitae by Patxi Altuna and Esan eta Esango by Agustin Zubikarai (Vol. 55); and an article entitled “Poetry and Politics: Basque Poetry as an Instrument of National Revival” (Vol. 55). He also published “Bernat Dechepare, Medieval or Renaissance Writer” in J.C. Mendizabal (ed.) Basque Artistic Expression, Vol. II, Society of Basque Studies in America, 1981. Ms. Darlene Ammons, Assistant Coordinator of the Basque Studies Program, published “Basque Food: Discovering Another Western Treasure,” Friendly Exchange Vol. 1, No. 2 (summer), 1981; and “Basque Resources at the University of Nevada Reno,” Western European Specialists Section Newsletter. American Library Association, Vol. IV, No. 1, January, 1981. William A. Douglass recently published “The Basques” in Stephen Thernstrom (ed.), The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980; and “South Italian Familism: A Critique,” Journal of Family History, winter, 1980. |
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