Eloise Garmendia Bieter Chair: Igor Leturia

Promoted by the Etxepare Basque Institute, the Eloise Garmendia Bieter Chair at Boise State University (BSU) has announced that this year´s visiting researcher, PhD in computer scientist Igor Leturia Azkarate, will participate in the World Languages International Conference on Cultural Studies.

Organised by Boise State University and the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, the second annual World Languages International Conference on Cultural Studies will offer a comprehensive programme from September 14 to 16. Igor Leturia will give a talk entitled ‘Past, Present and Future of Translation Technologies for Basque’. Continuing with his research at the Chair, his talk will deal with Basque and translation technologies, focusing mainly on machine translation and the automatic transcription and subtitling tool ADITU. The complete conference schedule is available here.

As part of the Chair, Leturia will be lecturing at the Basque Studies at Boise State University and at the Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition, on 21 September he will give two talks on his research on the Chair at the PhD Colloquium of Computer Science at Boise State University and at the Boise Basque Museum in Boise.

To bolster the international presence and visibility of Euskara and Basque studies, the Etxepare Basque Institute promotes Basque study chairs at renowned international universities. The Basque language and culture chairs encourage specialized education (mainly at the postgraduate level) and academic research in Basque studies. The chairs are organized through placements for specialized teachers, artists or creators at the partner universities. Inaugurated in 2015, the Eloise Garmendia Bieter Chair promotes studies and research in Basque language and culture. This Chair is named after the mother of David H. Bieter – mayor of Boise, Idaho, until 2020 and the only Basque-speaking mayor outside the Basque Country – for her prominent role in the community and commitment to Basque culture.