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Following yesterday’s format, the second session of the World Congress of Basque Communities Abroad, will begin with various talks in the morning, focusses primarily on Euskera (Euskera Munduan, celebrating 25 years in Argentina, and the Mintzanet program); Memoria Bizia that gathers oral testimonies of members of Basque communities; and gender equality in Basque clubs.  In the afternoon members of the Advisory Council will be elected, and several books on the Diaspora will be presented.  

Vitoria-Gasteiz.  Here is the program for Thursday, October 8:

Thursday

09:00 Euskara Munduan (Joseba Erkizia, director of HABE)

09:30 Presentation of the Mintzanet project (Ritxi Lizartza, “Mara-Mara”)

09:45 Debate

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 “Memoria Bizia” program to collect oral testimony of Basque emigration (Pedro Oiarzabal, Universidad de Deusto)

12:00 Debate

12:30 “Lidership for Equality” (Maitane Urbieta, Eraberria Aholkularitza)

13:00 Debate on the role of women in Basque centers

14:00 Lunch

15:30 Election of representatives to the Advisory Council

BOOK PRESENTATIONS:

16:30 Biographical Encyclopedia of Basques in the American West (Koldo San Sebastián)

17:00 Papers from the Seminar on Basque Emigration to Cuba (William Douglass)

17:30 The Basques in Antioquia During the Reign of the Habsburgs 1510-1700 (John Ricaurte)

18:00 Identity and Structure of Basque and Navarrese Emigration to Latin America in the 16th-21st Centuries (José Manuel Azcona)