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The èצӰÏñ Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Iberian Studies Program and Language Center together with the Basque Country's Society of Basque Studies (Eusko Ikaskuntza) and the Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture present:

The Legal Status of the Basque Language Today: One Language, Three Administrations, Seven Different Geographies and a Diaspora

Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, 4th Floor

PROGRAM

1:00 PM
Opening Remarks: Dr. Joan Ramon Resina, Chair, Department of the Spanish and Portuguese

1:05 PM-1:15 PM History of the International Day of Euskara
Mr. Josemari Velez de Mendizabal, General Manager Eusko Ikaskuntza, Basque Studies Society

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Session I
Dr. Juan Cobarrubias, Seton Hall University
Dr. Xabier Irujo Ametzaga, University of Nevada, Reno
Dr. Iñigo Urrutia, University of the Basque Country

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Break (coffee, tea)

2:45 - 3:45 PM Session II
Dr. Gloria Totoricagüena, Director, Basque Global Initiatives
Honorable Justice Michel Bastarache, Retired, Supreme Court of Canada

3:45 - 4:30 Round Table Discussion with conference participants
Moderator: Dr. Eva Prionas, Coordinator, èצӰÏñ Special Language Program

4:30 - Distribution of complementary copies of CD publication The Legal Status of the Basque Language Today: One Language, Three Administrations, Seven Different Geographies and a Diaspora (Gloria Totoricagüena and Iñigo Urrutia, Editors)