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The College of San Ignacio of Loyola, known as “Las Vizcainas,” will be the site this Thursday of an international conference that will discuss the Basque presence in Mexico, both a notable and influential one, from the 16th century to the present.  The conference was organized by the Historical Archive Jose Maria Basagoiti Noriega and the Bascongada Society of Friends of the Country in Mexico. 

Mexico City, Mexico.   The conference will take place at the Colegio de Las Vizcaínas with admission being free and open to the public.  It was organized by the Historical Archive of Jose Maria Basagoiti Noriega and Mexico’s Bascongada Society of Friends of the Country.  During the conference new members will be named of the latter.

Conference program:

PRESENCE OF BASQUES IN MEXICO 16TH-21ST CENTURIES

April 23, 2015

-8:30 Registration
-9:00 Welcome
-9:15 Keynote: “The College of the Vizcainas Point of Overseas Networks of Basques in the Spanish Monarchy” by Dr.  Cristina Torales Pacheco (SBAPM-Universidad Iberoamericana)
-9:45 First Roundtable, “Basques in New Spain 16th-18th Centuries” moderated by Dr. Ana Rita Valero de García Lascarían (SBAPM-CSILV)

• The Brotherhood of Aranzazu in Mexico, 1681-1861: Keys to the Continuity of the Basque-Mexican Project Dr. Elisa Luque Alcaide (University of Navarre).
• Basques as Patrons of the Arts: Portraits of the Founders of the College of the Vizcainas, Professor Elena Sanchez Cortina (Museum of the College of San Ignacio of Loyola, “Vizcainas”)
• Basques in the Region of Guadalajara, Dr. Jaime Olveda de Legaspi (College of Jalisco)
• Notes on the Basque Presence in the Province of Yucatan, 21st Century Dr. Maria Isabel Campos Goenaga (CIESAS, D.F.)
• Don Antonio de Semsa and Alencastre, A Patrarch Illustrated before the Spanish Crisis Professor Jesus Hector Trejo Huerta (ENAH-SBAPM)
• The Business Dealings of Antonio de Basoco at the end of the 18^th Century Dr. Guillermina del Valle Pavon (Instituto Mora)

-11:30 CEREMONY OF INVESTITURE OF SUPERNUMERARY MEMBERS OF MEXICO’S BASCONGADA SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Greeting and welcome Dr. Ana Rita Valero de Garcia Lascurain.
Delegate of the Society
Pablo San Román Abete, Jesús Héctor Trejo Huerta

-11:50 SECOND ROUNDTABLE THE BASQUE COMMUNITY IN A MODERN MEXICTO 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Moderator Jesús Héctor Trejo Huerta (ENAH-SBAPM)

• A Basque in the Heroic Defense of Churubusco, 1847 – Dr. Julieta Gil Elorduy (INAH-SBAPM)
• Lights and Shadows on the Basque Presence in Mexico in the 19th century Dr. Jesús Ruiz de Gordejuela Urquijo (RSBAP-Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
• The Suinaga Family, a Case of Basque Migration and its Insertion in Mexico during the 19^th Century Dr. Javier Sanchiz Ruiz (SBAPM-UNAM)
• The Flavor of our Identity, Mr. Pablo San Román Abete (SBAPM)
• Gaztambide: A Navarran Composer in Mexico in the 19th Century Mr. Antonio Barberena (SBAPM)

-13:20 Closing