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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 43, 1991
Highlights
Basque Scholar Dr. Joseba Zulaika gave a seminar on "Allegories of
Terrorism" at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) on
February 18, 1991.
José Ramón Cengotitabengoa visited the Basque Studies Program in
September 1990, accompanied by two Basque businessmen, Karmel de
Onandia and José M. Onandia, President and Vice-President
respectively, of the Ona Company (Ona Electro-erosion, S.A.) of
Durango, Vizcaya.
Dr. Joseba Zulaika's book Ehiztariaren Erotika was published
in December by the Erein publishing house in Donostia.
Linda White is teaching Basque 102 and 204, first and second year Basque
language, during Spring 1991. Dr. Joseba Zulaika is teaching a graduate
seminar on cultural anthropology at the University of Nevada during spring semester 1991.
Dr. William A. Douglass presented a paper entitled "Images and
Adages, Anglo-Australian Perceptions of Italians in Queensland" at
a conference on Italian immigration at the University of Western
Australia at Perth.
Linda White has received a small Instructional Enhancement Grant to
create a set of audio tapes for use in the first and second year Basque
language classes. Imanol Galdos and Itziar Iriondo have been
employed by the Basque Studies Program to create the drills and make the tapes.
Librarian Ann Eagan is spending the spring semester assisting Ellen
Brow in the library collection of the Basque Studies Program.
Dr. Jose Mallea, a researcher with the Basque Studies Program, has
been awarded three grants to record Basque aspen art in northern
Nevada. The Division of Preservation and Archeology in Carson City
has awarded $9,900 to record and videotape aspen carvings in northern Nevada.
The Toiyabe National Forest awarded $5,000 to develop an IMACS
form for recording aspen carvings and developing a dictionary of words
used by the carvers. And finally, the Nevada 125th Anniversary Commission awarded $8,140
to create a video on aspen art in cooperation with the University's
Instructional Media Services. This video will be distributed to Nevada
high schools and libraries.
Dr. Demetrio Loperena, a professor of administrative law with the
University of the Basque Country, is spending the 1990-91 academic year
at the Basque Studies Program as a visiting professor. A recipient of
the Basque Government Visiting Professor Award,
Dr. Loperena is studying the American federal system and drawing
comparisons with the Basque autonomic
system. In addition, Dr. Loperena gave a lecture on the "Organización
político-administrativa
de España" in March at the University of Nevada.
Dr. Gurutz Jauregui of the University of the Basque Country visited
the Basque Program in March and presented a lecture on "The Basque
Political System after the Last Elections."
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