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Speaking up for Arab Americans
What Assistant Professor Germine Awad experienced after Sept. 11, 2001 altered the focus of her research on prejudice and discrimination.
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Papers of Judge Filemon B. Vela Donated to the Benson Latin American Collection
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas Libraries announces the opening of the personal archive of noted jurist, civic leader and education advocate
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“The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” Collection Donated to Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson relating to their careers and their work on the original Broadway production and film of “The Best Little Whorehouse in…
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Change by design
In five weeks, teams of students from the School of Architecture designed and built four unique projects for East Austin residents.
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LBJ School and College of Fine Arts Announce New Arts Management Portfolio Program
The University of Texas at Austin has created a new graduate portfolio program in Arts and Cultural Management and Entrepreneurship sponsored jointly by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the College of Fine Arts.
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Archive of “Rebel Without a Cause” Director Acquired by the Harry Ransom Center
The archive of film director Nicholas Ray (19111979), best known for his film, “Rebel Without a Cause,” has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Ransom Center Exhibition Explores Greenwich Village Bohemian Culture Through Bookshop Door
The Harry Ransom Center’s exhibition “The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 19201925” showcases how one artifact, in this case a door from a Greenwich Village bookshop in the 1920s, can serve as a starting point to reconstruct the history of a time and place.
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Ransom Center Exhibition Explores Forces Behind Censorship in United States Between Two World Wars
“Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, reveals the rarely seen “machinery” of censorship in the United States between the two world wars.
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Web Exhibition Explores History, Connections Between Visitors to Greenwich Village Bookshop
The Harry Ransom Center’s Web exhibition “The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 19201925” uses a door from a bookshop owned by Frank Shay in Greenwich Village in the early 1920s as an entryway into the lives, careers and relationships of New York bohemians of that era.
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Lee Chesney Appointed as Interim Chair of the Department of Art and Art History
The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Associate Professor Lee Chesney as interim chair of the Department of Art and Art History, effective Sept. 1, 2011. Chesney will retain the position as the search for a department chair continues.
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Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be Displayed at Ransom Center Beginning July 6
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, 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). The painting will be on display beginning July 6, which is Kahlo’s…




