MAY 2008 BASQUE STUDIES SYMPOSIUMS

Mikel Irujo Amezaga,
Member of the European Parliament with the Greens/European Free Alliance Group
 

Dr. Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe

Researcher at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of SpeakingThrough the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada

Dr. Xabier Irujo Amezaga
 on the Ancient Basque Laws

Assistant Professor at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of the forthcoming Basque Legal Systems

The Basque Studies Symposium is the first of what we hope will be a series of conferences on Basque Studies, which this year focuses mainly on linguistics and literature considered from broad perspectives - there will be papers that will capture the interest of a varied audience, addressing a number of topics: from Basque syntax and words, to language policy and rights, to the status of women authors, to contemporary Basque literature and projecting the identity of a small nation onto a global scene. The symposium is free and open to anyone interested in the subject and does not require registration. For further information please contact Prof. Viola Miglio at miglio@spanport.ucsb.edu

>9:00 Opening Remarks: David Marshall, Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, UCSB
>9:15 Ricardo Etxepare, Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Bayonne, France. Title: "Syntactic Variation in Basque: an Atlas Project"
>9:50 Xabier Irujo, University of Nevada, Reno.  Title: "Language Rights in the Basque Country"
> 10:25 Julen Manterola Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  Title: “Is Basque an Agglutinative Language?”
> 11:10 José Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: "Basque Words" 
> 11:45 Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland, College Park.  Title: "Could Agreement Markers SYNCHRONICALLY Derive from Determiner Clitics?"
> 13:15 Mari Jose Olaziregi, University of Nevada, Reno/ University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  Title: "Basque Literature Today"
> 13:40 Estibaliz Ezkerra, University of Nevada, Reno.  Title: "Basque Voices from the Diaspora"
> 2:00-3:00 Rountable: Literature and Translation.  Basque Writers:
AURELIA ARKOTXA, MARIASUN LANDA & MIREN AGUR MEABE

The event is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Comparative Literature Program, The Linguistics Department (UCSB), IKER/CNRS Basque Texts and Language Study Center (Bayonne, France), as well as the University of Nevada, Reno, and Boise State University