Starting today, University of Nevada Reno’s Center for Basque Studies will host, every Thursday till November 20, a lecture by an expert on Basque topics. Ranging from ecodesign management in Basque companies to sheepherding and from migration to architecture, twelve scholars will show different aspects of the Basque culture. Regarding the variety of topics, Iker Saitua, organizer of this set of conferences, told Euskalkultura.com that “as Caro Baroja said, tradition and modernity coexist in Basque history.”
Reno, NV. Up to six lecturers are visiting scholars from other institutions such as the University of Oregon (Nagore Sedano), Public University of Navarre (Magdalena Romera), and the University of the Basque Country (Beñat Landeta, Anjel Errasti, Gorka Elordieta, and Andoni Elezcano). The other six lecturers will be Sandra Ott, Joseba Zulaika, Xabier Irujo, Ziortza Gandarias, Amaia Iraizoz, and Iker Saitua, all of them from UNR.
“Each of us will present a part of our current researches,” said the organizer. “Our main goal is to interact with people and, this way, make Basque culture better known in the English speaking academic world.” That is why Saitua is trying to attract attendees from other departments and, also, from outside the university: “As a historian, I believe history should be explained to society. Researchers are part of this society, we don’t live in an ivory tower,” he said.
All the conferences of the Center for Basque Studies will be held at the Basque Conference Room, 305 (Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, UNR), at 5pm. Access will be free. Please see the program below:
September 11th:
NAGORE SEDANO (University of Oregon):
“WIP: Translation of Therese Laxalt’s Old French and Basque Poems”
September 18th:
IKER SAITUA (University of Nevada, Reno):
“Delegitimized Graziers: Basque Sheepherders, Cattle Owners, and Public Land Use Problems in Nevada, 1890-1934”
September 25th:
SANDRA OTT (University of Nevada, Reno):
“German Interest in Basque Ethnicity, Culture, Language and Homeland”
October 2nd:
BEÑAT LANDETA (University of the Basque Country):
“The Management of Ecodesign in Basque Companies. A Necessary Commitment”
October 9th:
JOSEBA ZULAIKA (University of Nevada, Reno):
“Bilbao and the Labyrinth: Architecture, Politics, and the Subject”
October 16th:
ANJEL ERRASTI (University of the Basque Country):
“The Rise and Fall of the Mondragon Cooperative Fagor”
October 23th:
MAGDALENA ROMERA (Public University of Navarre) and GORKA ELORDIETA (University of the Basque Country):
"The impact of social factors on language transfer. The prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque”
October 30th:
XABIER IRUJO (University of Nevada, Reno):
“778”
November 6th:
ANDONI ELEZCANO (University of the Basque Country):
“An Imagined Country: The Basques Through the Film Sinfonía vasca (1936)”
November 13th:
ZIORTZA GANDARIAS (University of Nevada, Reno):
“Basque exiled in South America: Their contribution to the Basque literature”
November 20th:
AMAIA IRAIZOZ (University of Nevada, Reno):
“An Introduction to the Study on Basque Return Migration in Navarre"
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