DOCTORADO-LITERATURA-2023-Imágenes vascas en la literatura americana - Doctoral School

I International Symposium: Basque images in american literature: lectures on the centennial of Robert Laxalt’s birth

Date: October 2-3, 2023
Place: Degrees Hall. Faculty of Arts. Vitoria-Gasteiz

15.00 h.: OPENING
15.05-15.45 h.: GABRIEL URZA (Writer / Portland State University): "Different Places, Different Stories: How Laxalt and Diaspora Writers Speak to Two Different Readers”
15.45-16.30 h.: GALA KNÖRR (Artist): “The Spirit of Laxalt’s West in the Construction of a Contemporary Art Exhibition”
16.30-17.00 h.: COFFEE BREAK
17.00 -17.45 h.: JUAN LEKUE (Writer / Zaraobe Institutua): “Dos perspectivas vascas: de Laxalt a Solitude”
17.45-18.30 h.: EDURNE AROSTEGI (Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno / Basque Museum and Cultural Center, Boise). "'It took courage alright': Depictions of Therese Alpetche Laxalt in the Literature of Robert Laxalt" (online)
18.45 h.: ROUND TABLE (Elkar Kanpus): “The Literary Connection Between the Basque Country and the American West”. PARTICIPANTS: MARTIN ETCHART, JUAN LEKUE, MONIKA MADINABEITIA & GABRIEL URZA CHAIR: DAVID RIO

9.00-9.45 h.: DAVID RIO (UPV/EHU): “Robert Laxalt and the Land of His Ancestors: A Basque-American Perspective”
9.45-10.30 h.: DAVID LARAWAY (Brigham Young University): "Opening Lines: Robert Laxalt and the Phenomenology of Place”
10.30-11.00 h.: COFFEE BREAK
11.00-11.45 h.: MARI JOSE OLAZIREGI (UPV/EHU): “Nevadako mendiak gogoan: Robert Laxalt eta Bernardo Atxaga solasean”
11.45-12.30 h: MONIKA MADINABEITIA (Mondragon Unibertsitatea / Etxepare Euskal Institutua): “1959: Before and After”
13.00-13.45 h: MARTIN ETCHART (Writer / Phoenix College): “The LaXalt-Factor: On Influence, Immigrants, and Identity”
13.45 h.: CLOSING OF THE SYMPOSIUM