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GABRIEL URZA (Writer / Portland State University): "Different Places, Different Stories: How Laxalt and Diaspora Writers Speak to Two Different Readers”

GALA KNÖRR (Artist): “The Spirit of Laxalt’s West in the Construction of a Contemporary Art Exhibition”

JUAN LEKUE (Writer / Zaraobe Institutua): “Dos perspectivas vascas: de Laxalt a Solitude”

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)

DAVID RIO (UPV/EHU): “Robert Laxalt and the Land of His Ancestors: A Basque-American Perspective”

MARI JOSE OLAZIREGI (UPV/EHU): “Nevadako mendiak gogoan: Robert Laxalt eta Bernardo Atxaga solasean”

MONIKA MADINABEITIA (Mondragon Unibertsitatea / Etxepare Euskal Institutua): “1959: Before and After”

MARTIN ETCHART (Writer / Phoenix College): “The LaXalt-Factor: On Influence, Immigrants, and Identity”