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Highlights of the Basque Studies Program During the spring semester Gorka Aulestia taught second semester, second year Basque, advanced Basque conversation and Basque literature at UNR. William A. Douglass attended the Ninth International Congress of Basque Studies held in the city of Bilbao the last week of October. While in Euskadi he contacted officials and faculty members at the University of the Basque Country, University of Deusto, University of Navarra, University of Pau and University of Bordeaux to discuss the new Basque Studies Tutorial Ph.D. program at UNR. Collaborative arrangements were established at all of the institutions. In March the Basque Studies Program helped sponsor a lecture entitled “Machiavelli in Action” by Professor Fredi Chiappelli, Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. Visitors to the Basque Program included Mr. José Ramón Cengotitabengoa, President of the Society of Basque Studies in America; Mr. Ernest Zirakzadeh, graduate student of the University of California, Berkeley who is completing his doctoral dissertation on Basque politics 1975-1980; Mr. Carlos Bea, honorary vice-consul of Spain in San Francisco; Mr. José Luis Jordana, Spanish Consulate General, San Francisco; and Mr. Alain Azouaou, French Consul General Adjoint, San Francisco. Group visitors included a teachers’ group from the Washoe County School District, British teachers touring the U.S. on a Rotary Group Exchange Program, and a group of German high school exchange students. Robert Laxalt, Gorka Aulestia and William A. Douglass recently attended the exhibition of the works of three Basque sculptors held in Chicago as part of the Chicago Sculpture International art show. In April the Basque Studies Program helped sponsor a lecture entitled “Japanese Apprenticeship, Paternalism and Achievement” by Professor George DeVos, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Rutgers University Press has just published a book by William A. Douglass entitled Emigration in a South Italian Hill Town: An Anthropological History. In March the Basque Studies Program presented an exhibit on Basque culture at the International Fair held at Wooster High School, Reno. During the past school year Carmelo Urza, Coordinator of the University Studies in the Basque Country Consortium, gave presentations on Basque culture for the University Club of UNR, the Sparks Rotary Club, the Monday Club of Reno, Reno Kiwanis Club, a workshop for the English as a Second Language in-service class of the Washoe County School District, and Cultural Awareness Week sponsored by the federal employees of Western Nevada. On December 3, 1983 Carmelo Urza presented a lecture on “Basques of the American West” at Georgetown University sponsored by the Basque Cente of Washington, D.C., “Euskalerria.” Carmelo Urza recently attended the symposium entitled “The ‘Nationalities’ of the Spanish State: A Cultural Problem” held at the University of Minnesota where he served as a discussant. William A. Douglass published an article on “Sheep Ranchers and Sugar Growers: Property Transmission in the Basque Immigrant Family of the American West and Australia.” It appears in Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group, edited by Robert M. Netting, Richard R. Wilk and Eric J. Arnould (University of California Press, 1984), pages 109-129. |
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