Center for BasqueISSN: Studies 1537-2464 Newsletter Center for Basque Studies N E W S L E T T E R
Center welcomes Gloria Totoricagüena
New faculty member Gloria Totoricagüena started to really compare and analyze their FALL began working at the Center last spring, experiences, to look at the similarities and having recently completed her Ph.D. in differences between that Basque Center and 2002 Comparative Politics. Following is an inter- Basque communities in the U.S. So that view with Dr. Totoricagüena by editor Jill really started my academic interest. Al- Berner. though my Master’s degree was in Latin American politics and economic develop- NUMBER 66 JB: How did your interest in the Basque ment, the experience there gave me the idea diaspora originate and develop? GT: I really was born into it, I’ve lived it all my life. My parents are survivors of the In this issue: bombing of Gernika and were refugees to different parts of the Basque Country. And I’ve also lived the whole sheepherder family Gloria Totoricagüena 1 experience that is so common to Basque identity in the U.S. My father came to the Eskerrik asko! 3 U.S. as a sheepherder, and then later went Slavoj Zizek lecture 4 back to Gernika where he met my mother and they married and came here. My parents went Politics after 9/11 5 back and forth actually, and eventually settled Highlights in Boise. So this idea of transnational iden- 6 tity, and multiculturalism, is not new at all to Visiting scholars 7 me. It has really been my whole existence.
Ikasi 2002 9 Living with different languages was another Dr. Gloria Totoricagüena Liburutegitik 10 aspect of our multicultural identity. My par- ents spoke to each other in Basque, and to for a Ph.D.—to compare contemporary Studies Abroad in the older children in Spanish. Then later my Basque diaspora communities all around the the Basque Country 11 parents spoke Basque to our youngest sister, world, and look at their development, the so we learned Basque at that time. It was a politics of the Basque Country, and their Online classes offer! 12 trilingual household, very much a trans- institutional relations. national identity. JB: Tell us about the research you did for My academic interest started when I lived in your Ph.D. dissertation, in Latin America Uruguay on a Rotary Club International and other places. Graduate Scholarship. I earned a Master’s GT: I was awarded the Ph.D. from the Lon- degree from the University of the Republic don School of Economics and Political Sci- in Montevideo in 1986. I was working there ence. My research involved a comparison of on a degree in Latin American politics and various Basque diaspora communities, so I economics, but I spent all of my free time at was researching Basques in the United A semi-annual publication of the Center for Basque Studies, the Basque Center, the Euskal Erria. I knew States, Belgium, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, University of Nevada, Reno there were Basque communities that existed and Australia, and in the end had visited Reno, NV 89557-0012 in other countries, but when I actually met over fifty Basque communities—I have the people at the Basque Center in Montevideo and spent time there, then I (continued on p. 2) 1 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter almost a thousand anonymous questionnaires homeland government, and then compare completed by Basques. So I have enormous that to Greek, Indian, Jewish, etc. communi- amounts of quantitative and qualitative data ties and how they deal with their homeland to compare those Basques: What do they do governments. In order to understand the to maintain their identity? What is their Basque diaspora, it has to be compared to language ability? How often do they cook something else. Though each ethnic diaspora Basque food? Has their Basqueness ever entails a unique history and experience, helped them get a job, or get a scholarship? there are many that are comparable. So we What political parties do they vote for in look at trade diasporas, at colonial diasporas, their own host society and also what parties at political, economic, exile diasporas, etc. do they vote for in the Basque Country? Etc. Because many Basques have dual citizen- I’m also investigating specific sociological ship, they can register to vote in Basque studies, like the roles of gender and misin- Country elections. We have approximately formation affecting Basque migration, as 33,000 Basques who live outside of the well as explanations of ethnic identity main- Basque region that are qualified to vote in tenance. How is it that five or six genera- the homeland elections, and help elect the tions later, for example in Peru and Argen- Basque parliament and president, and also tina and Uruguay, these descendants of vote in local elections. Basques still maintain an identification with Basqueness? It’s an emotional and psycho- JB: Is that common to other ethnic groups? logical connection, and even if they don’t GT: No, it’s not. Armenians are just begin- physically go back to the Basque Country, A poster from the Basque Studies ning that, and a few they do it virtually Library collection promoting the other diasporas are all the time. Basques Kresala Basque dance troupe. just now thinking utilize the Internet [Banco Guipuzcoano,1973] about it. Because that “How is it that...these and look at various introduces entirely descendants of Basques still web sites—it’s a unique sets of issues, virtual return to the The Center for Basque Studies having people that maintain an identification homeland. They get Newsletter is a semi-annual don’t live in your with Basqueness?” a more realistic view publication sent free of charge country and don’t pay of what’s happening to any interested person. If you taxes, vote for demo- in the homeland. would like to receive the cratic governments and for your representa- Until recently the image has generally main- newsletter in paper format, tives. To me, this is most interesting because tained a folkloric, mythical idea of an agri- please send your name and I’m a political scientist. It just introduces cultural Basque Country of the early postal address to: many other questions of representation. For 1900s… example, in the Armenian diaspora, their Center for Basque Studies / 322 communities outside of Armenia have their JB: The Center was criticized for maintaining University of Nevada, Reno own political parties; they actually have that image, with a slide show we produced in Reno, NV 89557-0012 diaspora political parties, and they elect a the 1970s on the Old Country that focused on person from the diaspora that then goes to old-style farming, the rural existence. Or e-mail us at: [email protected] live in Armenia and becomes a full member GT: But that’s typical for diasporas to think of the parliament—representing the diaspora of it that way because, depending on what The newsletter is also available wishes. It’s an example of non-state actors generation they are from, that’s what they’ve electronically, in a printable and transnational politics. heard about. Unless a person immigrated in format. If you would like to the last few years, they’re not going to give receive the newsletter in JB: What are you working on currently? you a description of the metro in Bilbao, electronic format, thus saving GT: After completing my Ph.D., that ener- Basque aerospace engineering, the Basque printing and postage costs, getic push still continues, and I have several International Physics Research Center in please let us know your e-mail ongoing projects that I’m working on simul- Donostia, etc. Those grandparents are going address. taneously. Most of them have to do with to give you the image that they had, and they transnational communities as non-state ac- didn’t emigrate from the cities. They emi- Please visit our web site: tors. I’m a political scientist with an empha- grated from rural areas so their reality was sis in sociology, so my kind of research really the baserri (Basque farmstead). basque.unr.edu investigates trends in existing state system/ world order. So for politics, it’s important JB: Many people still have that image of the because sometimes those diasporas are con- Old World. That’s one thing the Center is Produced by Center for Basque sidered threats to the existing political order. trying to do now, to update the image and Studies, University of Nevada, show the arts, technology, the modern world. I also take a look at institutional politics and GT: Exactly. In the 90s I was asked to orga- Reno. Jill Berner, editor. relations between diaspora communities and nize and coordinate several educational The University of Nevada, Reno is an Equal their homelands, also comparing among group studies in the Basque Country. For Opportunity / Affirmative Action, ADA institu- diasporas. So we look at how Basque com- three consecutive summers I took different tion. 11/02 10,000. munities around the world relate with their groups—teenagers, university students, and 2 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter senior citizens—and I told them I would do it psychology of it. They define themselves as with the stipulation that we would see Irish or as Armenian even if they have lost today’s Basque Country. That was the name the language, even if they don’t practice Eskerrik asko! of the program, “Gaurko Euskal Herria,” their religion. And that raises one of the Eskerrik asko! Today’s Basque Country. I focused on the questions of my research, which is, How do new architecture, the latest artistic exhibits, we define “being Basque”? Do you have to Donation to CBS the extension of the port of Bilbao, the new speak euskera to be Basque? Do you have Endowment Fund airport, the metro, trying to give another to have Basque ancestry to be Basque? Do perception, an actualized perspective, of what you have to have lived in the Basque Coun- The Center for Basque Studies received a it’s like to live in the Basque Country now. try? Do you have to be an activist, do you recent donation of $25,000 from Peter and have to promote Basque culture and politics Freda Cenarrusa for our endowment fund. Yet when many Basques go to the Basque and history? And there’s no “correct” an- This fund was established to provide Country for the first time, they want to see swer for any of that. support for our research and publication the family farmhouse. For a lot of the people activities. We are honored by and deeply appreciative of the Cenarrusas’ generosity I’ve interviewed, that’s the first thing they JB: In light of these many ties that you and faith in our mission to promote want to do when they make their first trip have with the Basque Country, are you awareness of Basque culture. Eskerrik back to the Basque Country. They want to go working on any projects with Basque col- asko! directly to the ancestral farmhouse, and for a leagues, and how will they contribute to the lot of them just touching those walls is, the Center’s goals? way they have described it to me, a very GT: I think it’s essential that the CBS not Ahmanson Foundation spiritual experience. They feel like they have become academically isolated. We’re physi- contributes to CBS a true connection, a bonding, with their an- cally far away, but travel is cheaper, safer, cestors. It’s really interesting. They didn’t faster, and also because of the Internet we The Ahmanson Foundation, frequent sup- want to see the metro but I made them go… can maintain contact with colleagues in the porters of the Center’s activities, contrib- seven provinces, and to me that’s absolutely uted $15,000 to our endowment fund which JB: I wonder if that’s a uniquely Basque essential. I’m collaborating with Eusko will allow us to sustain several ongoing thing. Ikaskuntza, the Society for Basque Studies, projects. We give our heartfelt thanks to the GT: In the Basque culture, you know, the and we’ve just initiated a new segment Foundation. name comes from the house, the family iden- called KOSMOpolita that is part of their tity comes from the house. So maybe it’s an weekly electronic bulletin, Euskonews innate factor. I’ve interviewed hundreds of
CBS’ Kate Camino and Lisa Corcostegui “Happiness after 9/11” were two of the nine Americans representing seven Basque dance groups who were chosen to participate in Gaztemundu 2002, a special Zizek holds Ph.D. degrees in Philosophy session focusing entirely on Basque dance. (Ljubljana) and in Psychoanalysis (Univer- The Gaztemundu program, sponsored by the sity of Paris). A cultural critic and philoso- Office of Relations with Basque Collectivi- pher who is internationally known for link- ties in the department of Foreign Affairs of ing key psychoanalytical and philosophical the Basque Government, has been held for concepts to social phenomena such as pop several years as a way to bring young people culture and political fantasies, Zizek effects from the Basque diaspora to Euskadi to ex- a Lacanian and Hegelian reading with em- perience their ancestral homeland. Since phasis on the metastases of enjoyment and dance is one of the major vehicles by which imagination. many Basque youth in the diaspora express their ethnic identity, the goal of this year’s His publications include The Sublime Object program was to promote contact among of Ideology (Verso, 1989); Looking Awry: dance groups from various countries, provide Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture dance instruction, and inform participants of (MIT Press, 1991); The Indivisible Remain- resources available on Basque dance. der (Verso, 1996); The Metastases of Enjoy- ment (Verso, 1996); The Plague of Fantasies (Verso, 1997); The Ticklish Subject (Verso, Slavoj Zizek 1999).
On September 16, Slavoj Zizek presented the first lecture in our fall series, Politics “Slavoj Zizek, the Giant of after 9/11 – Part 2, a series of four lec- tures. One of the key intellectuals of Eu- Ljubljana…provides the best rope, Zizek is a senior researcher at the intellectual high since Institute of Sociology, University of Deleuze’s Anti-Oedipus.” Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been a visit- American delegates including (in top row): K. ing professor at several American universi- Voice Literary Supplement Camino (left) and L. Corcostegui (2nd from ties, including Columbia, Princeton, New right) at meeting with the Lehendakari (center). School for Social Research–New York, and [photo courtesy of L. Corcostegui.] University of Michigan. Currently he is The 38 participants included 24 from Argen- also a professor of philosophy and psycho- Zizek, Judith Butler, and Ernesto Laclau tina, 9 from the U.S., 2 from Uruguay, and 1 analysis at the European Graduate School recently engaged in a passionate dialogue on each from Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he con- central questions of contemporary philoso- Participation was extended to directors of ducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. phy and politics which resulted in their book dance groups in the individual Basque clubs. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. The Kate Camino, office manager of the Center, With humor and examples from popular topics discussed range over the theoretical represented Reno’s Zazpiak Bat Basque culture interlaced throughout the lecture, dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universal- Club dancers, and Basque Studies Ph.D. Zizek discussed changes in our perceptions ism-versus-particularism debate, the strate- student Lisa Corcostegui, of Zenbat Gara of truth and reality after 9/11, and the role gies of the left in a globalized economy, and dance troupe, was invited as a dance special- of intellectuals in this changed society. The the relative merits of the Hegelian legacy, ist and researcher. audience enjoyed his description of what he felt are the requirements for happiness, post-structuralism and Lacanian psycho- analysis for a critical social theory. During the two week program, participants based on his experience living in Eastern met with dance masters from the various Europe: material needs must be fulfilled, Prof. Zizek’s visit was sponsored by the Basque regions and attended dance practices but not completely, so that people feel Center for Basque Studies and the Hilliard of several troupes. The trip included visits to gratitude for what they do have; there must Committee, University of Nevada, Reno. For the headquarters of Bizkaia’s Euskal be a higher authority, such as government, more information on the series, phone Dantzarien Biltzarra, Arteleku in Loiola, the to blame things on; and there must be an- 775.784.4854. headquarters of Nafarroa’s Euskal other place to dream about, where life is Dantzarien Biltzarra, and the Herri perceived as being better. Many of his Musikaren Txokoa in Oiartzun. A highlight anecdotes used Hollywood films and televi- was a meeting with the Lehendakari (Basque sion programs as illustrative devices. president) Juan Jose Ibarretxe and other Basque government officials in Vitoria. 4 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter
Politics after 9/11 – part 2 Joxe Mallea leads Richard Kearney Lecture Basque aspen carving hikes Basque researcher Joxe Mallea, who has recorded thousands of tree carvings made by The Center for Basque Studies presented a (transnational). The nation is too large for Basque sheepherders in the nearby Sierra, lecture by Richard Kearney, “Towards a New local participatory democracy, and too offered field trips this fall to view these Postnational Paradigm in British-Irish Rela- small for postnational/transnational iden- arborglyphs. Through the Community Ser- tions,” on October 24 at the University of tity, yet still is important to one’s identity. vices Division of Truckee Meadows Com- Nevada, Reno. Richard Kearney is a Profes- In 1998, Irish citizens were given the munity College in Reno, three sessions of sor of Philosophy at University College choice to call themselves either British or Basque Aspen Carving Hikes were held. Dublin and visiting professor at Boston Col- The public was invited to “hike the splendor lege (since 1988). He is one of Ireland’s of the high Sierra and discover the most influential intellectuals, whose work is Picassoesque art” carved by Basque sheep- at the cutting edge of European philosophy. herders on aspen trees. In addition, he is a well-known Irish political and cultural critic. He has received many On September 28, participants explored awards and citations, among them the Kanpo Handia in the Genoa Peak area, a American Library Association award in center of sheep activities overlooking Lake 1989. Tahoe. On October 12, hikers went north of Truckee, California to the Tahoe National His Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Cul- Forest for a four-mile walk. The October 28 ture, Philosophy (Routledge, 1997) has be- group explored some of the five hundred come the defining cultural and political work carvings found on Peavine Mountain. on contemporary Ireland. He is also well known for his works on philosophy. His best- known work is The Wake of Imagination Richard Kearney (Hutchinson, Routledge, 1988), and he has published many other books, including Poet- Irish, or both, an attempt at a transnational ics of Imagining (Harper Collins, 1991) and solution to the identity question. Kearney Poetics of Modernity (Humanities Press, stated that even though there is a sharing of 1995). He is editor of Continental Philoso- identity as members of the European phy in the Twentieth Century and co-editor of Union, people still need their regional Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates identities. in Philosophy. Richard Kearney is also a novelist and a poet, whose work has been This presentation was part of a series of translated into several languages. four lectures, Politics after 9/11 – Part 2, which will continue throughout the semes- Kearney’s public activities include member- ter. Assistance was provided by the Hilliard ship on the British-Irish Council Advisory Committee and the Department of History, Academic Board; participation with the In- University of Nevada, Reno. Udaleku participants practice playing the ternational Opsahl Commission in creating a txalaparta, a Basque percussion instrument. proposal for Northern Ireland’s future as a Forthcoming lectures will include Minoo [photo by L. Corcostegui] European Region; and collaboration in the Moallem, chair of Women’s Studies at San National Forum for Peace and Reconcilia- Francisco State University, speaking No- Basque Music Camp, tion. He has served as a speechwriter for vember 21 on “Modernist Tropes, Basque Music Camp, Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, and as Postmodern Encounters: Gender and Fun- “Udaleku,” held in a national representative of Ireland at a num- damentalism after 9/11,” and Joseph A. Reno ber of international political and cultural Massad, professor of Arab politics and forums. intellectual history at Columbia University, The annual N.A.B.O.-sponsored Basque who will speak on “Racism, Nationalism, Music Camp, known as “Udaleku,” was In his lecture, Kearney stated that our iden- and Settler-Colonialism: The Persistence of hosted by the Reno Basque Club this year tity definition is widening, and discussed the the Palestinian Question,” on December 5. and led by CBS Program Assistant Kate triple model of identity: regional (the local For more information, please contact the Camino. Some seventy Basque-American neighborhood), nation-state, and global Center at 775.784.4854 or
Pedro Oiarzabal, Ph.D. student at the Totoricagüena (continued from p. 3) Highlights Center, has published a review of Paddy Woodworth’s book Dirty War, Clean identity. One doesn’t necessarily have to be During Fall 2002 at UNR we are offering: Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish living in one of the seven provinces to be Basque Cultural Studies in a Global Democracy (Cork University Press, 2001) Basque. Frame, co-taught by Joseba Gabilondo in ASEN, Studies in Ethnicity and and Joseba Zulaika; Basque Diaspora Nationalism 2:1 (2002) (European Also, I’ve been working with Amaia Studies, by Gloria Totoricagüena; and Institute, London School of Economics Basterretxea, director of the Museo Second-Year Basque Language by Linda and Political Science). Etnográfico in Bilbao, and we are discuss- White. ing researching the other half of Basque Joseba Zulaika was interviewed by Basque migration. We have focused, with Bill Joseba Gabilondo and Joseba Zulaika daily newspaper Egunkaria regarding the Douglass’ leadership, on those who de- participated in the Iberia 2002 Interna- Center’s latest activities. The full-page parted, but we have not conducted the re- tional Seminar Series VI, “The Uses of article appeared in the May 5 issue. search on those who stayed. And of course History in Spanish Cultural Studies,” at the migration of those people leaving Duke University May 3–5. Zulaika Joseba Gabilondo presented a lecture May equally affects those who stayed. It affects presented “Anthropologists, Artists, 9 at the University of California, Santa their families, their villages, their econo- Terrorists: The Basque Holiday from Barbara, on “Minority Languages in the mies, their psychology, their sociology—the History.” Gabilondo spoke on “The Hispanic World from the Renaissance to whole development. So a proposal for a Spanish Uses of Basque History: On the Globalization: Euskara, Nahuatl, and the future project is to begin the same kind of Spanish Real and its Ghostly State in Atlantic Internet,” sponsored by the oral history project that we have here, but Globalization (On Oteiza, Juaristi, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. carry it out over there with the families that Savater, and M. Azurmendi).” The stayed. We can house duplicates of the conference was sponsored by Romance Sandra Ott presented a paper on the secular tapes here in Reno. Then we have both Studies and the Duke in Madrid Program. and spiritual roles of Basque priests in sides of the story, and can match them up. Iparralde (1934-1943) at an international Linda White recently published a second conference on “Religion et Montagne en Also, there is a Basque Government project explanatory text and workbook for the Europe de l’Antiquité a Nos Jours” in titled Urazandi, meaning “Basques across Basque language. White’s Manual and Tarbes, France, May 30–June 2. The co- the seas.” The Basque Government chose Workbook for Learning Basque at Home. organizers were the University of the fifteen most significant Basque commu- Basque C102 is designed for use with the Toulouse, University of Paris (Sorbonne), nities around the world and funded a second-semester online Basque language and Centre de Recherches d’Histoire project to research and write a book for class offered through the University of Moderne at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en each one, covering the history of migration Nevada’s Department of Continuing Sciences Sociales in Paris. to those areas, the creation of their institu- Education, at
Visiting scholars Totoricagüena Basque Lecture Series selected to contribute research papers to The Center sponsors an ongoing Basque Sebastián, director of the Instituto Vasco de Euskonews & Media Lecture Series featuring presentations by Criminología in San Sebastián, president of many of our visiting scholars, thus giving the the International Association of Criminolo- Dr. Gloria Totoricagüena has been selected faculty, staff, students, and fellow visitors a gists, August 19: “Algunas cuestiones by the Eusko Ikaskuntza–Society of Basque chance to learn about each others’ research controvertidas de la legislación antiterrorista Studies in Donostia to prepare articles projects. For the past several months we española.” about Basques in the United States for their have been informed by a varied group of latest addition to the Euskonews and Media scholars: Alberto Alday, Ph.D. candidate in Anthro- electronic journal. You can read this re- pology, University of Deusto, August 27: “El search in English at www.euskonews.com Andoni Alonso, Universidad de Extremadura, mito del ‘mayorago’ como origen de la —in issue 184, click on the Enter button May 13: “Basque Cyberculture.” emigración.” and scroll down the left side, then click on KOSMOpolita. The article is listed there as Janine Soper, Ursinus College, Pennsylva- José Larrañaga, Journalism School, Univer- “Andrak: Women.” nia, June 25: “Grids, Curves, and Narratives: sity of the Basque Country–Leioa, August Systems of Interference in Gehry’s 29: “‘Empresa Vasca’: programa de A previous article, “Basques Around the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.” información económica y empresarial World: Generic Inmigrants or Diaspora?” (ETB).” appeared in issue 73. Dr. Totoricagüena John Bieter, Ph.D. student in History, Boston also has articles posted in issues 119 and College, June 26: “An Asset and Not a Li- Jenaro Guisasola, Physics Dept., University 121. Euskonews and Media is a scholarly ability: The United States Supreme Court of the Basque Country, September 10: “La electronic journal posted by the Eusko Case of Omaechevarria versus State of compleja tarea de enseñar ciencias.” Ikaskuntza every Friday, and you may sign Idaho.” up on their web site to automatically re- Iker Etxano, Ph.D. student from the Dept. of ceive it each week. Ander Gurrutxaga, Dept. of Sociology, Uni- Applied Economics, University of the versity of the Basque Country, and former Basque Country, September 12: “Desarrollo Vice Minister in the Department of Educa- rural sostenible en la Comunidad Autónoma Basque Memories tion of the Basque Government, July 8: Vasca (CAV).” Project featured in “Dilemas del nacionalismo.” El País Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz, Ph.D. student Olatz González Abrisketa, Ph.D. candidate from the Dept. of Sociology, University of The Spanish newspaper El País featured an in Sociology, University of the Basque Coun- the Basque Country–Bilbao, September 26: article on the Basque Memories Project try, July 16: “Apuntes antropológicos sobre “Los usos de la política: la promesa de l@s being carried out by the Center for Basque el juego vasco de pelota.” idiotas.” Studies in Reno and by the Basque Mu- seum and Cultural Center of Boise, Idaho. Marián Martínez de Pancorbo, Dept. of Zo- Gaizka Larrañaga, Ph.D. candidate in the Dr. Gloria Totoricagüena of the Center was ology and Cellular Dynamics, University of Philosophy Department, Universidad interviewed by journalists during her recent the Basque Country–Vitoria, July 17: “El Complutense de Madrid, October 3: “Sobre trip to Euskadi, and stated that “At the parentesco genético entre Vascos, melancolía y nostalgia: contar la vida y vivir Center for Basque Studies, we have some Georgianos y Bereberes.” la tradición.” 200 interviews with first-generation Basques. In Boise, we have around 400; in Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga, post-doctoral re- Edorta Jiménez, a writer who has authored San Francisco, about 50, and in other com- searcher in Political Science, University of several literary works in Basque, some of munities we are just starting. We continue the Basque Country, July 26: “Nacionalismo which have been translated into Spanish, with the task of interviewing the immi- y políticas de desarrollo e institucionali- October 17: “Ernest Hemingway y algunos grants first, and then will follow with the zación en Iparralde.” vascos: Bilbao, Cuba, Idaho.” first generation born in the U.S.” She ex- plained that the project will help demon- Joxemi Correa, Dept. of Education, Univer- Elixabete Imaz, Social Anthropology, Uni- strate “the maintenance of Basque identity, sity of the Basque Country, July 29: “Nuevas versity of the Basque Country, October 29: and how a new Basque-American identity tecnologías y educación no formal: museos “Interpretación del embarazo e imágenes de was developed.” online.” la maternidad en el País Vasco contemporáneo.” The article also appeared in the journal’s Iñaki Arrieta, Anthropology Dept., Univer- online version, CiberPaís, and in EITB’s sity of the Basque Country, August 13: Gabriel Gatti, Centro de Estudios sobre la “Euskadi Munduan” site. The Basque oral “Patrimonio cultural, museos etnográficos, y Identidad Colectiva, Dept. of Sociology, histories may be heard online on the CBS desarrollo rural.” University of the Basque Country, October site
7 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter th (Highlights, continued) Joseba Gabilondo published an article in Linda White attended the 56 annual the collection From Stateless Nations to RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Gloria Totoricagüena concluded a two-year Postnational Spain / De Naciones sin Literature Association) Conference project with Enciclopedia General estado a la España postnacional, edited October 11-13 in Scottsdale, Arizona Ilustrada del País Vasco Auñamendi to by S. Bermúdez, A. Cortijo Ocaña, and T. where she coordinated the session on research, analyze and publish information McGovern, published by the Society of “Asociación de Literatura Femenina, on Basques in the U.S. in the electronic Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, Letras Femeninas,” and gave a paper, edition of Auñamendi. About 800 pages 2002. His article was on “State Melan- “Novelist in Disguise: Mariasun Landa’s of text and 400 photographs of Basques cholia: Spanish Nationalism, Specularity Grown-up Books for Basque Children.” in the U.S. are available on the database and Performance. Notes on Antonio at
8 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter IKASI 2002 Formal presentation of a rousing success replica of Oñati
Excitement, enthusiasm, and laughter were She found out that the venue could hold forty- Monument three of the main ingredients for the first eight people, so soon that many signed up. IKASI program held in Reno, Nevada, June 26–29, 2002. Forty-eight members of the The program provided three “classes” a day Basque-American community came to Reno and offered an activity every evening as well. for IKASI, a three-day learning experience General culture, history, the Guggenheim for adults. Museum, Basque film, musical instruments, cooking, and Basque language were all on the agenda. Center Director Joseba Zulaika taught the Basque card game mus on Wednesday evening. On Thursday evening, Dr. Joseba Gabilondo hosted a Basque movie with subtitles and discussion. On Friday, the IKASI group was invited to watch the Udaleku camp- Nekane Oiarbide of the Basque monument ers demonstrate their newly ac- committee presents the monument replica to quired skills in dance and music. In CBS Director Joseba Zulaika. addition, the singing group NOKA presented a splendid session that combined female-centered folk In August we welcomed Nekane Oiarbide songs with information about the and friends to the Center, where she gave a Ikasi attendees Anita Izoco, John Jaimerena, hika, the informal mode of address in formal presentation of the replica of the and Teresa Leonis. [photos by L. White] Euskara. Group members Cathy Petrissans, Oñati Monument to the Basque Sheep- Andrea Bidart, and Begoña Echeverria herder and told of the history of the “The kids have Udaleku where they learn to blended their beautiful voices in haunting monument’s creation. The replica of the dance, sing, play Basque instruments, and harmony, and baby Amaia demonstrated how Euskal Artzaiari Monumentua / Monument speak a little Euskara,” said Anita Anacabe. effective a Basque lullaby could be by almost to the Basque Sheepherder, a sculpture “But for years, adults in the community have dropping off to sleep. created by Nestor Basterrechea as a “sister felt the need for a time of their own, pared monument” to the one located in Reno, down to fit the schedules of those who have White told us, “We used to do Elderhostel Nevada, had been shipped to Reno earlier to work for a living.” The Center for Basque programs on a Basque theme and every year this year, as was reported in our last issue. Studies, in conjunction with North American the program was full. But only two or three Ms. Oiarbide was the Project Coordinator Basque Organizations, Inc., decided to for the committee created for the construc- launch IKASI to fill that need. The tion of the monument. response was spectacular! The Oñati piece is the stylized form of a Originally, Anita Anacabe and John tree, representing the families of the de- Ysursa began throwing out ideas for scendants of sheepherders in the Americas. an IKASI program at a meeting of The thirty-foot-high sculpture is located the Advisory Board for the Center in near the Basque city of Oñati in Urrintxo. the summer of 2001. When Linda The corresponding work in the U.S., dedi- White heard the idea, she volun- cated in 1989, depicts in modern style a teered to coordinate the test program herder in solitude guarding his flock. It is for the following summer. Ysursa located at Rancho San Rafael Regional and White brainstormed during an- Park in north Reno. other Advisory Board meeting in February 2002, and White began We once again extend our heartfelt thanks booking conference rooms, lining up instruc- NOKA singers Begoña Echeverria, Andrea to the Committee and to Ms. Oiarbide for tors and making plans. The initial cap on Bidart, and Cathy Petrissans lead a sing-along. the gift of the sculpture replica and for their attendance was set at forty people. work on behalf of the project. of the participants would be Basque. It was “We were hoping for forty, but we thought enjoyable, but it wasn’t the same as present- we might get thirty or so,” said White, “We ing this information for Basque-Americans. really had no idea. Within three weeks of the One of the greatest joys of doing IKASI was announcement via the N.A.B.O. and Center seeing the depth of feeling each session websites, and via e-mails to Basque Clubs, generated in our attendees. We are already we had forty-three who wanted to attend.” planning for IKASI 2003.” 9 Center for Basque Studies Newsletter Basque Liburutegitik: From the Basque Library Government signs by Marcelino Ugalde collaboration The Basque Studies Library was one busy There was an increase in circulation totals, collaboration place this past summer and fall! We assisted including in-house use and interlibrary loan agreement an unusually large number of visiting schol- totals. Even with increased web traffic and ars and graduate students. Topics researched increased access to full-text information, included pelota vasca, psychology of the ILL/document borrowing requests continue An agreement of collaboration has been Basque language, museology, the to be significant. signed by the General Administration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, philosophy, Basque Autonomous Community—including Basque missionaries in Japan, and the Collection Development the General Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Basque connection to Ernest Hemingway. The Basque Library acquired the Julio the Presidency of the Government; the Goyen Aguado Library from Buenos Aires, Department of Education, Universities, and We were excited to introduce the new Argentina, a collection of over 700 books, Research; and the Department of Culture— Basque Film Archives web site and data- periodicals, pamphlets, and documents re- and the Center for Basque Studies of the base. Many thanks to Araby Greene, Web lated to Basques in Argentina and Europe. University of Nevada, Reno. Development Librarian, and Kathryn We also received a significant number of Etcheverria, Basque Catalog Librarian, for publications gratis from the ten Basque insti- The object of the Agreement, which will their assistance on this project. About 121 tutions with which we have established ma- provide economic assistance to the Center in videos and DVDs have been cataloged and terial exchange agreements. the amount of $95,000 annually, is to added to the database. Recently, the Basque promote the knowledge of Basque heritage Library received the second shipment of Public Relations & Outreach and culture, and to promote closer ties cinematographic materials from the Ninety library tours (to 232 people) were between the Basque people and other Euskadiko Filmategia / Filmoteca Vasca, given last year. Thirty-eight visiting Basque cultures. containing 86 videos, 33 DVDs and 15 scholars and graduate students were in resi- books. A note for film collectors: through dence at the Center and library receiving To this end, the Agreement will fund four Facets Multimedia at
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