University of Nevada, Reno. Center for Basque Studies
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Basque in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity and Globalization Conference in Reno, Nevada Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BAQ101
Scope and Contents
The collection compiles documentation, programs, press news, papers given at the conference, abstracts of those papers, and a list of presenters at the international conference entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization” hosted in the summer of 1998 at the University of Nevada, Reno hosted and attended by nearly eighty scholars.
Dates:
6-9 July, 1998
Center for Basque Studies Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0534
Abstract
In 1967 a small Basque studies program was established within the social sciences division of the Great Basin Institute. Originally established to study the Basques as an integral part of the sheep industry that had influenced the development of the Intermountain West, over time (and since incorporated officially into the University of Nevada, Reno), the Center for Basque Studies has become the leading research and educational institute of its kind outside the European Basque homeland. The...
Dates:
1984-2007