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Through the Lens of Austen
English professor Janine Barchas has collaborated with the Vislab to put her research on display for students to time travel through the eyes of 19th century author Jane Austen.
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UT Austin Professor Launches Time-Travel Portal To 18th-Century Shakespeare Gallery
The Shakespeare Gallery has been digitally reconstructed by The University of Texas at Austin — just as it looked in 1796, when novelist Jane Austen took lodging around the corner while visiting London’s sites
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Ostracized Children Use Imitation To Fit In, Study Finds
The threat of ostracism influences children to imitate group behaviors as a means of re-affiliating, according to psychologists at UT Austin.
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Stekler’s Archives Reveal Intersection of Film and Politics
Professor Paul Stekler recently donated his film archives to the Briscoe Center for American History. He reflects on his long career documenting “American political anthropology.”
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Joystick Not Required
A new vanguard of creative video game and mobile app developers is on the rise, thanks to the UT Game and Mobile Media Applications (GAMMA) Program.
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9 Reasons UT Austin Loves the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
From Shakespeare at Winedale to archaeology in Greece, here are nine reasons UT loves the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities on their 50th anniversary, as their chairs visit campus.
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Strange Pilgrims: The Art of Installation
A recent collaboration with The Contemporary Austin, called Strange Pilgrims, is drawing art lovers to campus.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: NEA and NEH Mark 50th Anniversary with Conversation Between Respective Chairs at The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin will host a conversation with National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William D. Adams to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the NEA and NEH.
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Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be Displayed at Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940).
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Harry Ransom Center’s World-Renowned Photography Collection Energized By New Acquisitions
The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions” Feb. 9 to May 29, 2016, featuring photography from the art form’s post-war expansion to its central position in contemporary art.
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Book on Medieval Syrian Shrines Takes Grand Prize at UT Austin Hamilton Book Awards
Stephennie Mulder at UT Austin has been named the $10,000 grand prize winner of the 2015 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for her work “The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence.”
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Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy
To mark the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, international scholars, journalists, filmmakers and former colleagues of García Márquez gathered Oct. 28-30 on campus to discuss his global influence. Look back at highlights from the symposium.
