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Highlights In early March, Jon Bilbao returned to Reno after spending the last nine months in the Basque Country organizing an Institute of Basque Bibliography and an Institute of Studies of the Basque Diaspora. He will be in residence with the BSP until July of this year. During the fall and spring semesters of the current academic year, Gorka Aulestia has taught courses in second year Basque. During the spring he also conducted a seminar in Advanced Basque Conversation. William A. Douglass spent August and part of September in the Basque Country and Italy interviewing persons who returned to Europe after cutting sugarcane in Queensland, Australia. This research is supported by the National Science Foundation. In January, 1982, Darlene Ammons, Assistant Coordinator, resigned her half-time position to join the staff of the Nevada Historical Society in a full-time capacity. We wish her all the best. On October 30, the NBC Today Show presented a five-minute profile of Beltran Paris, an eastern Nevada sheepman, as a segment in its American Dream series. William Douglass, who co-authored the book Beltran, Basque Sheepman of the American West, served as consultant to the filming crew. Douglass also provided interviews for Basque-related television presentations on the Nevada Weekly and PM Magazine television shows. In February, William H. Jacobsen, Jr. presented a paper entitled “Basques Copulative Compounds: A Problem in Irreversible Binomials” to the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. The paper addresses the ordering of words like jaun-andreak “gentlemen and ladies,” which is handled in reverse fashion in English. In October, William A. Douglass attended a week-long symposium in Mt. Kisco, New York on Households: Changing Form and Function. Douglass presented a paper entitled “Sheep Ranchers and Sugar Growers: Property Transmission in the Basque Immigrant Family of the American West and Australia.” The conference was sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. In November, Janet Inda, past president of NABO, and William A. Douglass visited Buffalo, Wyoming where they served as consultants to the local Basque community in its efforts to create a Wyoming Basque Association. The two-day meeting was sponsored in part by the National Council for the Traditional Arts and the Wyoming Council of the Arts. In October, the Basque Studies Program prepared an exhibit on Basque culture for the “Old Nevada Days” promotion of Reno’s Park Lane Mall shopping center. In January, Janet Inda and William A. Douglass addressed the Junior League of Reno. Douglass also gave a Basque presentation to the Nevada Corral of Westerners International. In November, Robert Laxalt visited the Basque Country with Joel and Peter McCrea of McCrea Productions. The purpose was to explore the possibilities of making a motion picture of Laxalt’s novel Sweet Promised Land. The visitors met with representatives of French National Television and French cinematographers. While in Vitoria they were received by the Basque President Carlos Garaikoetxea. In September, Jon Bilbao represented the Basque Studies Program and the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press at the Fifth Conference of European University and Scholarly Publications held in Pamplona. Mr. Gorka Aulestia published in World Literature Today reviews of Euskal Idazleak Bizkaieraz by K. Etxnagusia, J. Kortazar and A. Etxebarria (Vol. 55); Mitología e ideología sobre la lengua vasca by Antonio Tovar (Vol. 55); and Buruxkak by Jean Etxepare (Vol. 56). He also published an article “Euskal Herria et les Romantiques Français” in J.C. Mendizabal (ed.) Basque Artistic Expression, Society of Basque Studies in America, Vol. II, no. 2, 1982. William A. Douglass published an article entitled “Basque-American Studies: An Overview” in The Immigration History Newsletter, Vol. XIII, no. 2, November 1981. Iban Bilbao and Chantal de Eguiluz, former staff members, recently published their work Vascos Llegados al Puerto de Nueva York 1897-1902. Consejo de Cultura, Sección de Bibliografía y Diaspora Vascas, Diputación Foral de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1981. It is based upon an analysis of ships’ passengers lists of immigrants arriving in New York. The publication is the first in a projected series to be edited by the Institute of Studies of the Basque Diaspora directed by Jon Bilbao. |
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