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Santa Barbara, CA.  The University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) has taught classes on Basque language and culture for years: an area of Basque studies that is developing nicely under the direction of Dr. Viola Miglio.  Today, with the support of the Etxepare Basque Institute, the center also includes a Basque language and culture lectureship.

Over the next two days, Basque studies will be featured during the Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium being celebrated at USBC, that will include a talk by the director of the Promotion of Euskera from the Etxepare Basque Institute, Mari Jose Olaziregi, entitled, “Iberian Studies Within/Beyond the Peninsula: The Current Situation and Desiderata.”

Following, as part of the “Basque Studies” panel other presenters will participate including Diana Palenzuela, Unai Nafarrate, and the Basque-Californian expert Begoña Echeverria.  Echeverria is also one of the members of the Basque musical trio Noka who will also perform a concert to close the symposium.

The program for the Basque Studies panel that will take place the day after tomorrow:

Panel IV: Basque Studies/Iberian Studies

• 12:15pm “Of Harlots and Whores: Constructions of Female Sexuality in a Basque Old Testament” – Begoña Echeverria (UC, Riverside).
• 12:40pm “Retos y obstáculos de la educación bilingüe en el País Vasco” – Diana Palenzuela (Etxepare Basque Institute, UCSB).
• 1:00pm “Style and Language among Basque Youth” – Unai Nafarrate (UCSB).
• 1:20pm Q & A

Complete program here.