Oihane Ibarguren
Oihane Ibarguren Egibar (Zestoa, 2000) is a social educator and anthropologist. She earned her degree in Social Education from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2022, with a Bachelor’s thesis entitled Building Inclusion through Theatre: Intervention with People with Autism Spectrum Disorder at Gautena in Azpeitia. In this project, she designed and implemented theatre workshops to explore the potential of art as a tool for community inclusion for people with autism. After observing the positive outcomes of the intervention, she promoted the continuation of the program at Gautena, where she worked as an educator for two years.
In the same year, she began a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology at UPV/EHU, which she completed in 2024 with the thesis Circular Conflict in a Public Square: A Taurine Ethnography of Zestoa. This research analyses the bullfighting festivities of her hometown as a site of both collective and individual conflict and marked the starting point for the line of research she is currently developing in her doctoral dissertation.
Since May 2025, Oihane has been a predoctoral researcher in the Section of Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology at UPV/EHU, within the Doctoral Programme in Feminist and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Social Change Research Group (GAIT) and of the visual laboratory Atmosfera, where she continues her ethnographic work on the symbolic and affective conflicts linked to the bullfighting traditions of Zestoa. Her aim is to understand the diverse voices, experiences, and tensions that shape this phenomenon, contributing new tools for its critical and contextualised analysis.
Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she took part in the organisation of the 27th Conference of the Ankulegi Association of Anthropology, entitled Anthropology and Cinema: Between Experimentation and Collaboration (March 2025).