Baiona, Lapurdi. The Basque Museum in Baiona and the IUT Bayonne-Pays Basque will be the sites on next Monday and Tuesday, July 5-6, of an international colloquium “Basque Emigration to Latin America,” that will bring together e a program of conferences, presentations, colloquia and film projections by researchers and experts, both local and foreign, analyzing various aspects of this relevant phenomenon that has recorded our history over the last centuries.
Thanks to EMILA it is being held in the capital of Lapurdi, on Monday in the Basque Museum in Baiona and on Tuesday, at the IUT in Baiona and Basque Country (University of Pau and the Country of Adour) according to the following program:
MONDAY, JULY 5TH
from 9:30am to 18:00pm Basque Museum and of the History of Baiona
Conference inauguration by Sabine Cazenave, director of the Basque Museum and of the History of Baiona
10:00 - 12:00 Session 1 From the Emigration Agent to the Emigration Letter, a Regional History under Construction
-Claude Mehats: Samuel Lafone’s Immigration Agent
-Argitxu Camus Etchecopar: Correspondence: Sources of the Basque Migratory Experience
-Pascal Chastin: Correspondence from Jean Vigne, Emigration Agent in Tardets
-Argia Olçomendy: Basque Emigration to Argentina (1840-1910), between Personal Achievements and Socio-Political Obstacles
Debate 12:00-12:30
14:00pm - 16:00pm Session 2 - Roundtable – Basque emigration History Associations have the floor
-Sabine Cazenave – Director of the Basque Museum
-Annie Sabarots – Behe Nafarroa Museum
-Monique Legarto - Euskal Argentina
-Christiane Bidot-Naude - Emigración 64
16:00-18: 00 Session 3 – Basque Architecture and Literature: Heritage of Emigration in Latin America
-Viviane Delpech: Memories of Stone. Creation and Patrimonialization of the Residences of Emigrants who return to Iparralde (XIX-XXI Centuries)
-Jean Casenave : The Evocation of Latin America in Basque Literature (1850-1930)
-Xavier Escudero : The Work of Basque Emigrant Writers and the Literary Representation of Basque Emigrants in José Olivares Larrondo Tellagorri
-Christian Manso and Dolores Thion : Basque Emigration the Magazine of the Association for the Memory of Emigration: Depart. Archives and Memories of the Pyrenean Emigration
TUESDAY, JULY 6TH
9:30am to 19:00pm - IUT Bayonne Sainte-Claire Amphitheater.
9:30 Welcome
9:45 Inauguration by Karine Guilloteau, representing the Director of the IUT, Thierry Nodenot,
10:00 - 12:00 Session 4 - Río de la Plata, Cuba, United States… Transatlantic Destinations
-Agathe Alexandre: The French Colongy of San Juan. Explorations and Political Questions in Río de la Plata (1853-1857)
-Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga: Emigration of Basque Women to the United States between 1880 and 1940. A Process of Empowerment and Emancipation
-Haizpea Abrisketa: The Impact of the Loss of Basque Soldiers in the Spanish Army during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898).
-Maryse Esterle: The Reconstructed Past: The Writings of Descendants of Pyrenean Emigrants, a Subjective Re-appropriation
12:00-12:30 Debate
14:00-16:30 Session 5 From the Pyrenees to the Pacific: Basque Diaspora, images and Traces
-Hernán Otero: History of French Emigration to Argentina
-Oscar Alvarez Gila:The Micro geography of Basque Immigration in Argentina through Associations: The Euskal Echea Mutual Aid Society
-Jesús Alonso Carballés: The Memory of the Indians in the Urban Space of the Basque-Spanish Country: Symbolic and Commemorative Policies
-Carlos Estela Vilela: Images of Basque Emigration to Peru
-Isabelle Tauzin-Castellanos: Basque villas, Latin American spas, Emigrants and Immigrants 1890-1930.
16:30 - 17:30 Debate – Presentation by EMILA: From Emigration in Latin America to the Migratory Crisis: The Forgotten History of New Aquitaine in the XIX-XXI Centuries
17: 30-19: 00 Film-Debate
-Beñat Çuburu -Ithorotz : Parole de Basque (Documentary)
Co-organization Beñat Çuburu (IUT Bayonne) - Isabelle Tauzin (U. Bordeaux Montaigne)
-More information, here
-Contact: emila@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
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