Basque Literature, Basque Country If you would like to know about Basque literature, this is your site. In this Web site you will find information about different aspects of Basque literature: a brief history of Basque literature, catalogues about Basque writers, works and their translations, interesting links or news about Basque literature. The site is coordinated by Professor Marijo Olaziregi from the Basque University. Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about Basque language literature.
Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva, Basque Country The Center of Studies on Collective Identity is based at the Department of Sociology 2, University of Basque Country (Basque Autonomous Community). It offers an online publication on comparative collective identity.
Euskal Kultur Erakundea, Basque Country The Institute of Basque Culture was founded in 1990 in Iparralde (Northern Basque Country), to support the language and culture of the Basque Country by participating in projects initiated by individuals and non-profit organizations.
Eusko Bibliographia, Basque Country Under the heading of Eusko Bibliographia you can find over 100,000 unpublished documents that were collected together by the bibliographer Jon Bilbao over a 60 year period. The entries, covering the period between 1981 and 1994, can be consulted in Basque, Spanish, English and French.
Eusko Ikaskuntza, Basque Country The Basque Studies Society is a scientific institution of the Basque Country aimed at promoting the Basque culture since 1918. It offers among many other services a virtual library.
Hamaika Bide Elkartea was established in 2000 by a group of professors to study the Basque exile cultures.
Fundación Sancho el Sabio, Basque Country The Sancho el Sabio Foundation was created in 1955. Its archives hold one of the richest and most complete collections of documents related to Basque culture: printed matter dating from the 16th century, manuscripts from the 14th century, cartographic material from the 16th century, graphic material from the 19th century and other material on software deriving from new technologies.
Instituto de Estudios Vascos, Basque Country The Institute of Basque Studies of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Basque Autonomous Community) is an academic center dedicated specifically to the study of topics relating to the Basque Country.
Irargi, Basque Country Irargi is the Basque Autonomous Community Government's Centre for Basque Documentation. This unique online database holds over 450,000 historical documents on the Basque Country.
Labayru Euskal Kulturaren Erakundea, Basque Country The Labayru Institute of Basque Culture is a private institution founded in 1970. Among its aims is that of offering services in matters relating to the language and culture of the Basque Country. It has a specialized library on Basque subjects with some 50,000 titles.
The Basque Studies Library, NV, USA The Basque Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, offers the most comprehensive database on Basque studies outside the Basque Country. The book and periodical collections number approximately 50,000 volumes.
The Basque Studies Program, ID, USA The Basque Studies Program at Boise State University is a multi-disciplinary course of advanced study that involves all aspects of the language, culture and history of the Basque people.
The Cenarrusa Center for Basque Studies, ID, USA The Cenarrusa Center for Basque Studies (CCBS) was founded in 2003 to preserve, educate and connect the Basque community and the rest of the world through research, projects and educational opportunities for all. The Cenarrusa Center is a joint project between educators, business and cultural groups from the Basque community in Boise, Idaho and works with Boise's Basque Museum and Cultural Center.
The Center for Basque Studies, NV, USA The Center for Basque Studies is based at the University of Nevada, Reno. For 40 years the Center has been on the forefront of Basque interdisciplinary research outside the Basque Country.
The Society of Basque Studies in America, USA The Society of Basque Studies in America is a non-profit organization, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, dedicated to the study and dissemination in America of Basque culture, tradition, customs and folklore.
Comparative Research & Education
Border Crossings, USA Border Crossings is a cultural studies experiment in hypertextual relationships by Karla Tonella of the University of Iowa that explores the common ground between Cyborgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Diaspora, La Frontera, Border Incidents and Other Borders.
Cultural Education <> Cultural Sustainability, Israel Cultural Education <> Cultural Sustainability (CE<>CS) refers to the educational efforts of groups to sustain their socio-historical heritage in the face of globalizing or nationalizing assimilatory power or other hegemonic homogenizing forces. CE<>CS is an international network of professors from around the world studying how ethnic groups living outside their original homelands maintain their language, customs, values, and traditions.
ESCR Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, UK The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS, University of Oxford) provides a strategic, integrated approach to understanding contemporary and future migration dynamics across sending areas and receiving contexts in the UK and EU.
ESCR Transnational Communities Programme, UK The Program (1997-2002, University of Oxford) involves 19 projects undertaken throughout the world to broaden our understanding of the new and increasingly significant place of globe-spanning social networks in labor, business and commodity markets, political movements and cultural flows.
Irish Diaspora Studies, UK Irish Diaspora Studies is the online home of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at the University of Bradford (Yorkshire, England). It focuses on the world-wide, scholarly, inter-disciplinary study of the Irish Diaspora, and its social, linguistic, economic, cultural and political causes and consequences.
Migrations in History, USA Migrations in History explores the nature and complexity of the movement of peoples, cultures, ideas, and objects. Drawing from the vast and interdisciplinary collections of the Smithsonian Institution's museums, libraries, and archives, this site features the stories and artifacts of migration -what happens when people move, what they take with them, what they leave behind, and how they make their new place home.
Red Internacional Migración y Desarrollo, México The International Network on Migration and Development proposes to establish a bridge between the research and academic sectors and the governmental and non-governmental sectors in order to develop common initiatives to support the migrant community, particularly in the American continent. Its journal is "Migración y Desarrollo".
Social Theory, UK David Gauntlett, Professor at the Media School, University of Bournemouth, studies the ways in which individuals use media products in the construction of their own narratives of the self, and self-identity. This website is a fantastic and a creative way to address the meaning of identity.
Transcultural Studies Research Circle, USA The Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle was founded in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It addresses issues of intercultural contact and cultural practices in global and historical perspective.
The Centre for Migration Studies, N. Ireland The Centre for Migration Studies was established in 1998 at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh. It consists on three elements: The Library, the Irish Emigration Database Project, and the Masters degree in Irish Migration Studies (Queen's University of Belfast), taught since 1996. It focuses on the peoples of Ireland worldwide migrations.
The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Netherlands ERCOMER is a European research centre with a strong interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context. It is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It hosts a virtual library.
The Irish Centre for Migration Studies, Ireland The Irish Centre for Migration Studies is based at the National University of Ireland, Cork. It promotes the study of historical and contemporary migration, to and from Ireland, within a comparative international framework, using new information and communication technologies.
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, USA The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc., is the only nationwide organization dedicated to the advancement of Armenian studies and culture through America’s foremost institutions of higher education and through a multifaceted program in support of research, scholarship, and publications. Its Library holds a collection of over 20,000 books and diverse materials. It also publishes the Journal of Armenian Studies.
The Zoryan Institute, Canada and USA The Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation was established in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1982, and The Zoryan Institute of Canada, Inc., was incorporated in Toronto in 1984, as a non-profit research institute. They combine to form an international academic and scholarly center devoted to the documentation, study, and dissemination of material related to the life of the Armenian people in the recent past and the present.
Oral Histories - Memories
Basque Songs in the United States This unique collection of six songs forms part of a group of field materials documenting Francisco Etcheverry, Matias Etcheverry, and Antoinette Erro performing Basque music on September 11, 1940, in Fresno, California. The recordings were collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell.
Immigrant Journeys, USA Immigrant Journeys is an innovative website for collecting stories of how people came to the United States.
Life Narratives, Ireland The Irish Centre for Migration Studies (National University of Ireland, Cork) provides an excellent archive of interviews made to both Irish emigrant and to those who stayed in Ireland in the 1950s as well as in the contemporary times.
Living Voices - Voces Vivas, America The National Museum of the American Indian's (Smithsonian Institution, US) Living Voices project is a collection in English and Spanish of Native American and Native Hawaiian experiences in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the USA.
Oroitzapenak, Boise, USA The Basque Museum and Cultural Center of Boise, Idaho, stores a substantial collection of interviews made to Basque people in the American West. The interviews are available online.
Oroitzapenak, Reno, USA Oroitzapenak is the Center for Basque Studies' Oral History/Memory website (University of Nevada, Reno). It is a collection of interviews made to Basques in the American West. The interviews are available online.
Journals
Basque Studies Electronic Journals Collection, USA The Basque Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Reno provides an online collection of over 40 journals and news on Basque studies and related areas.
Diaspora, Canada Diaspora is a journal of transnational studies published by the University of Toronto Press and the Zoryan Institute. It is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’
Global Networks, UK Global Networks is a journal of the University of Oxford, devoted to the social scientific understanding of globalization and transnationalism.
Hispania Nova Hispania Nova is a journal that focuses on contemporary history issues and offers a wide variety of articles and book reviews on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Public Culture, USA Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by the Duke University Press.
Spaces of Identity, Austria Spacesofidentity.net is a multidisciplinary international web-journal dedicated to issues of tradition, cultural boundaries and identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a peer-reviewed journal and is published quarterly.
Society of Basque Studies in America, USA The Journal of the Society of Basque Studies in America is a collection of articles covering various areas of Basque scholarship, including history, literature, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, art and other areas of related interest.
The Basque Database, USA The Basque Database was created in 2005 at the University of Nevada, Reno Basque Studies Library. It provides access to information about Basque topics written or produced after 1994. Core journals are indexed completely while other journal articles appear in the database when they fit the scope of the database. Formats included are articles, books, chapters of edited books, dissertations, and other publications. Included are Basque-related videos and DVDs, musical recordings, maps, and other media. Whenever permission has been obtained, the database includes the full text of articles and papers.
Basque Cultures in the World
Baskonia Americana, Basque Country Baskonia Americana is a TV documentary of ninety episodes on diaspora Basques in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It is produced by the Basque Public Radio and Television, EiTB.
Buber's Basque Page, USA This site was the first one to introduce Basque culture to the Internet. It contains nearly 1,000 pages and receives about 16,000 hits per day.
Euskaldiaspora, USA Euskaldiaspora is our sister site. It is basically a hypertextual experiment on the Basque diaspora and its online associations.
Euskalkultura, Basque Country Euskalkultura is an online newsletter that provides news and general information about the Basque diaspora and its cultures.
EuskoSare, Basque Country EuskoSare is a project of the Basque Studies Society, launched in September 2005, with the objective of supporting a communications and cooperation network for the Global Basque community. EuskoSare is already functioning through the work of many people and organizations around the world that are endeavoring to strengthen ties and multiply interactions to assist in the growth of this community.
Euskal Fundazioa, Basque Country The Basque Cultural Foundation's web site contains information about the Basque Country and the Basque people worldwide. It offers a searchable database of over 35 journals on Basque subjects.
Federación de Entidades Vasco Argentinas, Argentina The Federation of Basque-Argentinean Associations, Eusko Argentinar Bazkun Alkartasuna, was established over fifty years ago. A great meeting place for Basques and non-Basques in Argentina and around the world.
Haritz, Poland This imaginative website -from Łódź, Poland- offers us a great display of Basque cultural related contents in four languages: English, French, German and Polish. It is a superb introduction to a Basque virtual world.
Ibaizabal Basque Publishing House, Basque Country Since its beginning in 1990 Ibaizabal represents a creative space in the culture industry, focusing its work on education, Euskera – the Basque language, and Basque culture, with a firm commitment to a philosophy of innovation and excellence.
North American Basque Organizations, USA NABO was established in 1973 as the federation of Basque clubs in the USA. Its main goal is to promote Basque heritage in North America.
8 Probintziak Elkartea, Basque Country The 8th Province Association's goal is to support the relationship between Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, and the Basque diaspora.
