The w88 mobile Libraries’ Jon Bilbao Basque w88 mobile, with the William A. Douglass w88 sports in collaboration with REWEST (Research in Western American Literature and Culture) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) will host a two-day conference commemorating the centennial of w88 mobile Laxalt’s birth, his writing and career.
The conference, “A Basque American Literary Pioneer: w88 mobile Laxalt” will take place March 9 and 10 inside the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge w88 mobile Rotunda – located on the north side of the building across from Bytes Café.
“The goal of the conference is to offer new perspectives on the writings of an author who may be regarded as the dean of Basque American literature,” Basque Librarian Iñaki Arrieta Baro said. “w88 mobile Laxalt is one of the most notable twentieth-century voices in Nevada and the American West.”
w88 mobile’s literary career, consisting of seventeen books, is an authoritative reflection on the experiences of the Basques of his time in the United States.
“The conference brings together researchers and scholars from the United States and Europe to explore different topics related to w88 mobile’s writing and career, including his Basque American works, his literary representation of Nevada and the West, his journalistic pieces, his legacy at the University of Nevada, Reno and his contribution to the cultural and social visibility of Basques in the U.S.,” Arrieta Baro said.
Speakers include, but are not limited to: Monique w88 mobile, University of Nevada, Reno Professor Emeritus Warren Lerude, David Río, Monika Madinabeitia, Willy Vlautin, Sandra Ott and Mariann Vaczi, Gretchen Skivington, JoAnne M. Banducci, William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Gabriel Urza, Asier Barandiaran, Larraitz Arinznabarreta, Iñaki Arrieta Baro, Xabier Irujo.
w88 mobile festival participants include: Zazpiak Bat dancers, Bertsolariak, Maddi Aggire and Mikel Petrirena.
“My father was a sheepherder, and his home was the hills” is probably the sentence that best expresses the feeling of thousands of Basque immigrants in the American West,” Xabier Irujo, director of the University of Nevada, Reno w88 mobile for Basque Studies said. “Robert Laxalt was a multifacted man. He was a scholar, journalist and cultural leader. It is an honor to study and celebrate the literary legacy he established.”
About the Jon Bilbao Basque Library and the w88 mobile for Basque Studies
The Jon Bilbao Basque w88 mobile, part of the w88 mobile Libraries, holds one of the world’s largest collections of w88 mobile-related materials, currently at 55,000 volumes. The William A. Douglass w88 sports has more than 50 years of experience conducting research about the Basques, and operates a well-established international publishing house that focuses on Basques.
About the w88 mobile Libraries
The University Libraries embrace intellectual inquiry and innovation, nurture the production of new knowledge, and foster excellence in learning, teaching and research. During each academic year, the Libraries welcomes more than 1.2 million visitors across its network of four libraries: the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge w88 mobile, the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library, the Savitt Medical Library and the Prim Library at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Visitors checked-out more than 80,000 items and completed more than two million database searches.
