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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.”

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. 

UT Austin’s LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum, are hosting the symposium “Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy.”

“Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940–1978,” opens at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 11.

“The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece,” which will be on view at the Blanton Museum of Art starting Dec. 12, is an exhibition of more than 40 unbound pages from one of the most celebrated French illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

The Blanton Museum of Art has announced that it will begin construction of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” in October. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 31, and the building is expected to open to the public in late 2016 or early 2017.