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Press Preview and Symposium Will Celebrate Opening of Gabriel García Márquez Archive
The Harry Ransom Center hosts a Oct. 21 news media preview for the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Blanton Museum of Art Presents “Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978”
“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.
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Blanton Museum of Art Presentation Offers a Rare Look at One of History’s Most Celebrated Medieval Manuscripts and Includes Medieval Arms and Armor
“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.
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Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research
Online users can now travel back in time to the medieval world by clicking through a collection of international research on the first digital platform of its kind from UT Austin.
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Cunningham-Kruppa to Lead Preservation and Conservation Efforts at Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center announces the appointment of Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa as associate director and head of the Preservation and Conservation Division.
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Blanton Museum of Art Announces Groundbreaking for Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” and Organizes Symposium with Leading Kelly Scholars
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.
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“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” Guides Visitors through 400 Years of the Bard on Paper and on Stage
On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin presents the exhibition “Shakespeare in Print and Performance,” commemorating the enduring legacy, longevity and relevance of the most frequently performed and most venerated English playwright.
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Ransom Center Accepting Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
The Ransom Center invites applications for its 2016–2017 research fellowships. More than 50 fellowships will be awarded for projects that require substantial onsite use of the Center’s collections, supporting research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
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Ransom Center to Acquire Archive of Kazuo Ishiguro
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at UT Austin, is acquiring the archive of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Just the Start of the Tour at The Ransom Center
The End of the Tour, a new film recounting the final days of David Foster Wallace’s promotional tour for his groundbreaking novel Infinite Jest, is one of the most-buzzed-about indie films to hit theaters this summer. And it has UT Austin connections you may not be aware of.
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Genders Differ Dramatically in Evolved Mate Preferences
Men’s and women’s ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at UT Austin.
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NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will make many of the first books printed in the Americas available for the first time in digital full-text format, thanks to innovations in optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
