May 20, 2010, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMore than 60 research fellowships awarded The Ransom Center has awarded more than 60 research fellowships for 2010–11. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials. The scholars, almost half of whom will be coming from abroad,… read more
May 19, 2010, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital CollectionsMedieval and early modern manuscripts collection now accessible online The Ransom Center has launched an online database for its medieval and early modern manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000 digital images and can be accessed via the Ransom Center’s website. The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating from the eleventh to the seventeenth… read more
May 18, 2010, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA new home for "Finnegans Wehg" Walter Wetzels, an emeritus professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, recently donated a German translation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to the Ransom Center. He shares a bit of his history with the text. It must be more than 50 years ago… read more
May 11, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, FilmNo wire hangers: Costumes in Robert De Niro collection receive a set of custom padded hangers In a scene from the 1995 film Heat, Robert De Niro storms into Ashley Judd’s hotel room, grills her for answers, and knocks a line of wire hangers off the rack. According to Ashley Judd, detail-oriented director Michael Mann chose those particular metal hangers for just the right visual and… read more
May 10, 2010, Filed Under: Research + TeachingDoctoral theses of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss acquired by the Ransom Center The Ransom Center has acquired the manuscripts of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s major and minor doctoral theses. The typed theses, annotated with handwritten corrections, were presented by Lévi-Strauss at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1948 upon completion of his doctorate in humanities. Lévi-Strauss’s major thesis, “Les structures élémentaires de la… read more
May 4, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyManuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton Museum of Art The Blanton Museum of Art’s current exhibition Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries features works from the Ransom Center’s photography collections. Blanton Associate Curator of Latin American Art Ursula Davila-Villa discusses the life and work of Álvarez Bravo. One of the most fascinating aspects of photography is how images change… read more
