International workshop - Virtual mode
June 6, 2022

Nowadays, Basque Studles are at a crossroads. They have traditionally been considered as a field that encompasses a broad set of scholarly disciplines. That is, they are all those objects/subjects of study that are related to the Basque. Behind this common thread lies a conventional container focus: Basque studies continue to favor mostly the multidisciplinary approach. As a consequence, they are seen as the sum of different disciplines with a common fine thread-and, sometimes, a shared mission-, with researchers who do not necessarily work in a coordinated or integrated manner. As a result, Basque studies have barely interna) coherence.

In this Workshop, we aim at finding a way out of this crossroads by taking into consideration the "trans" perspectives used in current area studies, ethnic studies and cultural studies.

What possibilities do these perspectives open-up for Basque studies? Is it possible to analyze these studies from transdisciplinarity and transnationalism to translocality and transculturalism, among other types of "trans• perspectives? Moreover, is it possible to promote comparative studies between area studies and across regions and stateless nations? What are the challenges and possibilities, but also the limitations and difficulties of the "trans• turn in Basque studies?

Work dynamics

We are inviting proposals for papers of twenty-minute length.

Send abstracts of up to 1000 words with CVs by May 20, 2022.

Contact

• Aitor Anduaga | a.anduaga@ikerbasque.org
• Julieta Gaztañaga | julieta.gaztanaga@conicet.gov.ar