BASQUE STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

University of California, Santa Barbara

May 14th, 2008

at the McCune Conference Room

on the 6th floor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building (see map at: http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/)

9:00 - 3:00

Coat of Arms of the town of Hondarribia by local painter Javier Sagarzazu

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

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Morning: Linguistics Session
8:45 - 9:00 Coffee and muffins

9:00 Opening Remarks by David Marshall, Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, UCSB

9:15 Ricardo Etxepare
Director of IKER - Basque Text and Language Study Center (CNRS), Bayona, France
Title: "Syntactic Variation in Basque: an Atlas Project"

9:55 Xabier Irujo
University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "Language Rights in the Basque Country"

10:35 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 Julen Manterola Agirre
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Title: “Is Basque an Agglutinative Language?”

11:25 José Ignacio Hualde
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: "Basque Words"

12:05-1:00 Lunch

Afternoon: Literature Session 'Minority Literatures in the Global Scene'

13:00 Mari Jose Olaziregi
University of Nevada, Reno/ University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Title: "Basque Literature Today"

13:30 Estibaliz Ezkerra
University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "Basque Voices from the Diaspora"

2:00-3:00 Roundtable: 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 (Bayona, France), as well as the University of Nevada, Reno, and Boise State University