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Highlights Gorka Aulestia spent six weeks in the Basque country this summer. He contacted several scholars regarding his dictionary and collected phonograph records and tape cassettes of Basque music for our collection. Joseba Zulaika completed a post-doctoral year of study with the Basque Studies Program and returned to San Sebastián where he will begin teaching anthropology for the University of the Basque Country. William A. Douglass attended a conference in Trieste in early September where he presented a paper entitled “Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of Extended Family Households in an Eighteenth Century South Italian Hill Town.” Gorka Aulestia is currently teaching the first semester of second-year Basque and a course on the Evolution of the Basque Novel. William A. Douglass is providing independent study instruction on Old World Basque Culture. Gorka Aulestia published the following articles: “Social Poetry of Gabriel Aresti,” Journal of Basque Studies, vol. III, no. 2, pp. 57-68; a review of “Lasa, Mikel. Paretaren Kontra,” Journal of Basque Studies, vol. III, no. 2, p. 110; and a review of “Amuriza, Xabier. Bertsolaritza. 1: Hitzaren Kirol Nazionala. 2: Hiztegia errimatua,” World Literature Today, vol. 57, no. 1, p. 150. Ms. Jill Berner and Ms. Linda White of the Basque Studies Program staff prepared an exhibit on Basques for UNR's Multicultural Awareness Day (May 6, 1983). In April Professor David I. Kertzer of Bowdoin College (Maine) gave a lecture at UNR entitled "Politics through Ritual, or Does Rite Make Right?" The lecture was sponsored jointly by the Departments of Anthropology and Foreign Languages and the Basque Studies Program. The cataloguing project announced in the last issue of this newsletter was initiated in late summer when Ms. Begoña Prado arrived in Reno from the University of Texas, Austin. In September, Ms. Kathryn Etcheverria joined the project staff. Visitors to the Basque Studies Program included Dr. Candi de Alaiza and Mr. Jean Philippe Mathy. Mr. Mathy is studying ethnicity maintenance in the Reno Basque community. We were also visited by Dr. Richard Lane who was completing the photo selection for a forthcoming book on the Basque sheepherder, and Ms. Marty Mitchell who is studying Basque camplife in Plumas County (California). We wish to thank Janet Inda and Virginia Argoitia who volunteered their assistance to label and sort the mailing of the last issue of this newsletter. William A. Douglass published in the New Mexico Historical Review a critique of the book Today’s Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans by Thomas Kessner and Betty Boyd Caroli. On July 21, Carmelo Urza and William A. Douglass were on a one-hour radio talk show for station KPTL of Carson City discussing the Basque Studies Program and the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium. Last May a paper by Mr. Gorka Aulestia entitled “Characteristics of the Basque Troubadors” was read by Mr. Felix Menchacatorre at the Romance Languages meeting in Cincinnati. |
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