September 28, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingQ&A with John Pipkin: Stellar finds from facts and family fragments of sibling astronomers The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (Bloomsbury), a new novel by former Ransom Center fellow John Pipkin, offers readers a view into a world of scientific inquiry and political upheaval in late-eighteenth-century Ireland.
September 28, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsHoudini speaks to the living The trick is to bring Houdini back. Show him to us. Let us hear him speak, watch him make his magic, feel his presence among us, let Houdini live again!
September 26, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsPolitics, perception, and precious details: Q&A with poet Naomi Shihab Nye Award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads from her work for the Ransom Center’s 2016 Burnshaw Lecture.
