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New Book Reveals the University of Texas at Austin’s Hidden Treasures
In the first thorough account of the collections at UT Austin, a new book spotlights more than 80 collections — some familiar and others virtually unknown outside their fields of research — acquired since the university’s inauguration in 1883.
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Kuhn to Lead Library Division at Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, announces the appointment of Jim Kuhn as associate director and Hobby Foundation Librarian.
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Award Supports Digitization of More Than 24,000 Images from the Gabriel García Márquez Archive
The Harry Ransom Center will digitize more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive, offering new perspectives on the author’s work and life.
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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).
