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Distinguished professor Oscar Brockett, 87, a leading theatre historian, died on Nov. 6. His colleagues in the Department of Theatre and Dance and the College of Fine Arts reflect on his achievements and say they are fortunate to have known him.

Event: Filmmaker Melissa Eidson will speak at The University of Texas at Austin following a screening of her film “No Son Invisibles: Maya Women and Microfinance,” a documentary showing the transformative power of microfinance for Maya women in Chiapas, Mexico.

Actress Meryl Streep met with University of Texas at Austin Theatre and Dance students and divulged what she was really thinking in a scene of “The Deer Hunter.”

Event: Join Landmarks for an after-party on Austin’s east side with special guest David Ellis.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer and actor Spalding Gray (1941-2004).

Theatre history scholar and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Oscar G. Brockett died on Nov. 7 in Austin, Texas, at the age of 87 due to complications following a massive stroke.

Music Professor Eugenia Costa-Giomi is conducting musical cognition research on infants, and she’s found that babies pay better attention to characteristics of music than adults do.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance hosts one of the most influential and prolific actors of the last 35 years in “A Conversation with Meryl Streep.” In a presentation led by Professor Fran Dor

As a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Leadership Lecture Series, Roy Spence discusses his purpose-based leadership philosophy and what businesses can do to survive the “economic winter.”

“When I Rise,” a Dolph Briscoe Center for American History documentary film about African-American mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad, has been nominated for a prestigious International Documentary Association (IDA) award in the Music Documentary category.

Event: “Losing Faith” is an exhibition of recent work by TJ Hunt, a studio art senior, and Landon O’Brien, a studio art alumnus, investigating artistic identity through re-contextualization.