News and Upcoming Events
News and Upcoming Events
December 3rd, 2025
We will host the 1st UC Basque Conference at UCLA. This first meeting will serve to gather scholars in the UC system and beyond with any specific interest in Basque topics. We would like to make this first meeting as inter/trans-disciplinary as possible.
The current momentum of Basque Studies demands a more creative approach to the discipline and this will be the main goal of this first event. We will be more than happy to incorporate new members to our group as well.
More details about this conference can be found in the CFP.
UCLA
Prof. Allmendinger’s book is out!
Tongues of Settlement has been published by University of Nebraska Press and you can find it here.
“Blake Allmendinger’s decision to focus on Basque American literature in its broadest dimension rather than just on Basque American authors allows Tongues of Settlement to cover a wider variety of authors, regardless of their nationality or the language they use in their books. This choice is useful to explore some of the most meaningful cultural and literary transfers between the American West and the Basque Country.”—David Río, author of Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature
Congrats Blake!
May 1st, 2025
Prof. Vila’s book is out!
Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State edited by PM Press is available here.
“Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State is a compelling and essential contribution to punk scholarship, highlighting the empowering and revolutionary nature of Spanish punk culture. David Vila Diéguez charts a historical analysis of the development of Spanish punk culture following the Francoist dictatorship, documenting music, zines, and scene culture. He contextualizes Spanish punk culture within a broader framework of cultural studies and anarchist studies and draws upon theorists such as Walter Benjamin, along with work from subcultural scholars Crucially, this book elevates anticapitalist and antineoliberal actions that coordinate and calibrate across contemporary intersectional social movements and politics. Engaged agency and direct action reverberate throughout this book, making it an essential text.”
—Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, coeditor of the Punk and Anarchism book series, director of the Anarchist Studies Research Program, SUNY Cortland
Zorionak David!