Center for Basque Studies

U.S. Basque scholar receives top Basque award

March 1, 2014

Center for Basque Studies Saved from Huge Budget Cut

June 10, 2011

The Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevado Reno has been spared from a state budget-cutting plan that would have eliminated all of its public funding. The cutback, which would have been about $500,000, or half the ...

Center for Basque Studies Could Lose All State Funding

May 4, 2011

The Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada Reno could lose all public funding under a budget-cutting proposal being considered by the state Legislature. A loss of public funding, officials at the center say,...

Basque History Explored in San Mateo Exhibit

April 8, 2010

In San Mateo County, like elsewhere in the Bay Area, Basque immigrants grabbed a piece of the American Dream by starting their own businesses. Many of these entrepreneurs became gardeners. Now, the history of Basques in San...

Translating Bernardo Atxaga

December 7, 2009

She didn't know it at the time, but when Nere Lete visited acclaimed Basque author Bernardo Atxaga, it would ultimately lead her to Idaho, where she's now a professor at Boise State University. On that day 18 years ago, Lete pi...

Basque Sheepherder Monument in Disrepair as It Nears 20th Anniversary

August 25, 2009

The battered statue on the scrub-covered plain in Reno has seen better days. The abstract work of art -- a shepherd carrying a lamb over his shoulders under a full moon -- Read More »...

Immigration Info Sought at Center for Basque Studies

August 21, 2009

Argitxu Camus Etchecopar, a postdoctoral researcher, is collecting the names of Basques who immigrated to California during the 18th and 19th centuries for a project sponsored by the Center for Basque Studies at the Universi...

New Location of Center for Basque Studies Inaugurated

July 27, 2009

By Nancy Zubiri Dozens of people attended the dedication of the new location of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada Reno. Read More »...

Center for Basque Studies

July 25, 2009

New Basque Studies Center Dedicated from Euskal Kazeta Basque News on Vimeo. ...