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05/20/2021
The Basque Educational Organization (BEO), headquartered in San Francisco has organized a contest whose prizes are two $2,000 scholarships. Any university student can participate and the only requirement includes the presentation of a work on the topic “Celebrating and Cultivating Awareness of the Basques and Basque Culture.” The submission may be literary, visual or performing art of your ...
05/19/2021
“Noka” is a form of address in the Basque language that is used only between women in enviroments of proximity and trust. It has a masculine equivalent, hika, that is used between men. Noka and hika were once very common forms whose use was drastically reduced during the second half of last century, in particular in the case of noka. Noka is also the name of the Basque ...
05/19/2021
The National Geographic magazine this week published an interesting report on cider houses and the cider tradition in the Basque Country: yesterday in its original English edition, and today in the Spanish one. The title in America is "Basque Country 's Cider Houses Keep an Ancient History Alive," which is the literally in Spanish: "Las sidrerías del País Vasco ...
05/19/2021
For anyone who likes Basque food in Argentina, the name Takehiro Ohno is well known. In fact, trained in Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa he has been in Argentina for years especially connected to the gastronomy of Euskal Herria, sharing traditional recipes as part of his cooking programs on the Gourmet channel, as well as on stages at “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country,” sometimes with ...
05/18/2021
Karlos Cid Abasolo (Madrid, 1963) is an active Basquephile, professor, translator, poet and Basque reference in the Spanish capital. He is a Ph.D. in charge of the Basque Studies Department at the Complutense University in Madrid where he carries out, among other tasks, translations into Basque of works by authors such as Milan Kundera, Jaroslav Hašek or Josef Škvoreck from their ...
05/18/2021
Karlos Cid Abasolo is a member of the Basque Diaspora. Born in Madrid in 1963, in his youth he decided to travel and get to know the Basque Country better, its culture and language and with time he achieved his goals, including dominating the Basque language. Today he is a Ph.D. in the Humanities, professor of Basque Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid and head of its department of Basque ...
05/17/2021
Engaging article signed by historian and researcher, Pedro Oiarzabal, in which he rescues a story “from there, but which is from here,” or vice versa, a feature always present in our Diaspora themes. The protagonists are the Mallabian (Bizkaia) Jai Alai player Julio Anchia and his family, in a testimony that comes to us through Rafael Anchia, Julio’s son, a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Eskerrik asko to them and to Pedro Oiarzabal for sharing.
05/17/2021
Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science, headquartered in Bilbao) has launched a new international call with 10 permanent spots for researchers who wish to carry out long-term projects in Euskadi. The call is aimed at: Established Researchers with at least 8-12 years of experience as Research Associates; and Senior Leading Researchers, more experienced researchers like Research Professors. See ...
05/17/2021
The conference will take place November 17-19 in Donostia organized by the Hamaika Bide Elkartea Association, that is dedicated to research on Basque exile, including a session as a tribute to José Ángel Ascunce, its colleague and honorary president. Distinguished researcher and man of culture, Ascunce passed away in February 2020. Entitled “The Myths of Exile, Don Quixote and ...
05/14/2021
Supported by the Iparra Hegoa Association in the Basque Country, the “Kutxa Gira…Kutxa Bira” initiative began its itinerary on March 20th in the Diaspora at the Carmen de Patagones y Viedma Aberri Etxea Basque Club that represents both cities. It was welcomed with Basque dance and locals as well as by the Mayors of both cities. The kutxa (box) returned to the Basque Country on April 1st to ...
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