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New Course on Gender and Basque Culture Coming Winter 2022!

Are you interested in questions related to gender and cultural representation? Then C LIT 186B / SPAN 183B Gender in Basque Culture is the right fit for you. Using Basqe culture as a case study, in this course we will explore the way in which cultural artifacts reflect, influence, reveal, resist, and contest particular beliefs abut gender and sexuality. We will analyze a wide range of literary and cultural text and films in dialogue with seminal essays in feminism and queer studies. The course is taught in English; no knowldge of Basque is required.

Basque Courses @ UCSB Fall 2021

Have you heard about the Basque? Would you like to learn more about their history and culture and how they relate to the history and culture of other minoritized ethnic groups? If so, this fall we are offering two courses that will broaden your knowledge on this subject: SPAN 153E Basque Studies and SPAN 154A Basque Language & Culture (beginners level). Questions? Please contact Dr. Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas at eezkerravegas@ucsb.edu.

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“Aboard Cabrillo's Galleon: Basque Explorers and Historical Fiction”

Guest speaker: Christine Echeverria Bender

Talk by Basque American author Christine Echeverria Bender on her book, Aboard Cabrillo's Galleon (2013).

UNESCO International Mother Language Day: Language and Identity (4th edition)

Guest speakers: Carole E Chaski, Executive Director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence (ILE), and Maria Carreira (Cal State Long Beach)

“Icelandic Literature in a Global Context

Guest speaker: Icelandic novelist and poet Sjón

"Iberian Studies Within/Beyond the Peninsula: The Current Situation and Desiderata"

Guest speaker: Maria Jose Olaziregi (EHU-UPV / Etxepare Basque Institute)

Plenary lecture as part of the UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium that took place on May 16-17.

UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium

Guest speakers: Various

Syposium sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Portuguese Studies, the Barandiaran Chair of Basque Studies, the Xunta de Galicia, the College of Letters and Science and the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UCSB and the UC Systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Linguistics Department, and the Department of Feminist Studies.

UNESCO International Mother Language Day (3rd edition): Language and Survival in the Americas

Guest speakers: Roberto Strongman (Acting Director, Center for Black Studies, UCSB), Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine), Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California, Riverside)

Concert of the Basque American musical group NOKA

Concert in celebration for the first year of Basque Courses at UCSB through the Etxepare Basque Institute.

UNESCO International Language Day (2nd edition): Protecting Identity and Language

Guest speakers: Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland, Claudia Parodi-UCLA), Fernand De Varennes (Linguapax Laureate), Iñigo Urrutia (EHU-UPV), and Pierre Foucher (University of Ottawa), among others.