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BSU, Boise State University began its Basque Studies workshops this Saturday and Sunday. They will be offered throughout the spring to students in different disciplines and departments like Basque, History, Anthropology, Sociology and Gender.  The workshop entitled, “Being American and Basque” taught by Dr. John Ysursa was the first of the 2016 session. 

Boise, ID.   As Dr. Nere Lete, director of the Basque Studies Minor at BSU, told EuskalKultura.com, this successful initiative gathers several hundred students and participants to the diverse two-day sessions, Saturday and Sunday. Its 2016 program began last weekend with the workshop entitled, “Being American and Basque,” taught by Dr. John Ysursa.  This particular workshop dealt with the reality of the people and the Basque-American community from different points of view.

Over the coming weeks the following workshops will take place:

• February 20-21: Basque Culture Through Cinema taught by Nere Lete
• February 27-28: Modern Basque Politics: Repression or Secession? Taught by Dave Lachiondo
• March 5-6: "Intro to Basque Language" taught by Izaskun Kortazar
• March 12-13: "Basque History of the World" taught by John Ysursa
• April 2-3: "Genocide Studies, Introduction" taught by Xabier Irujo
• April 2-3: "Lekuak - The Basque Places of Boise, Idaho" with  Margaret (Meggan) Laxalt Mackey [it will be a walking class, in the streets of Boise]

Students who participate in these workshops will earn one credit for each workshop completed.

-For more information: BasqueStudies.BoiseState.edu