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Flair Symposium

Gabriel García Márquez as “Cinematic Scribe and Muse”: Q&A with Jason Borge

October 27, 2015 - Jason Borge

Jason Borge

Jason Borge is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin. Borge will moderate Friday’s, October 30,  panel “Cinematic Scribe and Muse” during the Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy symposium.

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Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Flair Symposium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Legacy, Latin American literature, literature, Nobel Prize, Religion

Gabriel García Márquez como “Guionista de Cine y Musa”: Con Jason Borge

October 27, 2015 - Jason Borge

Jason Borge

Jason Borge es profesor en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Borge será el moderador del panel “Guionista de Cine y Musa” del viernes, Oct. 30, durante el simposio Gabriel García Márquez: Vida y Legado.

[Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez como “Guionista de Cine y Musa”: Con Jason Borge

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Flair Symposium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Legacy, GGM symposium Spanish, Latin American cinema, Latin American literature, literature, Religion

“Gabo the Storyteller”: Q&A with Gabriela Polit

October 27, 2015 - Gabriela Polit

Gabriela Polit

Gabriela Polit is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin. She will moderate Thursday’s, October 29, “Gabo the Storyteller” panel at the Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy symposium. Polit’s current research focuses on the often-dangerous work of journalists [Read more…] about “Gabo the Storyteller”: Q&A with Gabriela Polit

Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Flair Symposium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Legacy, GGM symposium, Latin America, literature, Religion, storytelling

Fall symposium to explore American cultural life during Civil War

April 21, 2014 - Alicia Dietrich

Cultural Life During Wartime, 1861-1865

The Ransom Center announces the 11th Flair Symposium, “Cultural Life During Wartime, 1861–1865” to take place September 18–20.

The symposium is organized in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s upcoming fall exhibition, The Making of Gone With The Wind, which opens September 9. In the 75 years since the film’s release, Gone With The Wind and the novel that inspired it have helped shape the way many Americans understand and remember the Civil War.

The symposium looks back to the nineteenth century to examine the cultural world of Union and Confederate painters, photographers, musicians, theater companies, and writers. The songs, images, poems, books, and plays that appeared between 1861 and 1865 offer a nuanced perspective on the Civil War that challenges later narratives, both fictional and historical.

Historians, literary critics, musicologists, and art historians will gather in Austin to discuss the works of well-known figures such as Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Frederick Douglass, as well as works related to “Rose’s War,” an 1865 slave insurrection, and the 1864 “Siege of Atlanta.” Panelists will also reflect on the expanding Civil War canon and the legacy of the war’s cultural productions.

Deborah Willis, professor and chair of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will deliver the keynote address, which is co-sponsored by the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Civil War, Cultural Life During Wartime 1861–1865, Deborah Willis, Flair, Flair Symposium, Frederick Douglass, Gone with the Wind, Louisa May Alcott, Rose's War, Seige of Atlanta, The Making of Gone With The Wind, Walt Whitman

Phil Patton offers reading recommendations relating to “Visions of the Future”

August 30, 2012 - Jennifer Tisdale

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In conjunction with the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, the Harry Ransom Center hosts “Visions of the Future,” the tenth biennial Flair Symposium. The Flair Symposium honors the ideals set forth by Fleur Cowles and her landmark Flair magazine.

From November 1-3, the Ransom Center will bring together historians, architects, industrial designers, and visionaries in the fields of science fiction, film, theater, and future studies to explore the ways the future has been imagined over time.
Author and curator Phil Patton will moderate one of the symposium panels, “Motorways in the Twentieth Century and Today.”

Patton is the author of Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway, Autodesign International, and Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things that Made America. He has worked on several exhibitions, serving as Curatorial Consultant for Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century (The Museum of Modern Art, 1999) and Co-Curator for Cars, Culture, and the City (Museum of the City of New York, 2010). He writes for The New York Times and teaches at the Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts.

Below are some of Patton’s reading recommendations relating to the symposium theme. Mentioned authors Paul Daniel Marriott and Tom Vanderbilt are also panel participants for “Motorways in the Twentieth Century and Today.”

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"Magic Motorways" (Random House, 1940) by Norman Bel Geddes.
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"The Power Broker: Robert Moses & the Fall of New York" (Knopf, 1975) by Robert Caro.
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"The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today" (Knopf, 2010) by Ted Conover.
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"Space, Time, & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition" (Harvard University Press, 1941) by Sigfried Giedion.
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"Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory" (HarperCollins, 2010) by Peter Hessler.
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"Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines" (John Wiley and Sons, 1997) by Paul Daniel Marriott.
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"Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century" (MIT Press, 2010) by William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird and Lawrence D. Burns.
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"Speed Limits" (Skira, 2009) by Jeffrey T. Schnapp.
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"Traffic Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" (Knopf, 2009) by Tom Vanderbilt.

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, Flair Symposium, HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, I have seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, John Wiley and Sons, Knopf, Lawrence D. Burns, MIT Press, Motorways in the Twentieth Century, Norman Bel Geddes, Paul Daniel Marriott, Peter Hessler, Phil Patton, Random House, Robert Caro, Sigfried Giedion, Skira, Ted Conover, Tom Vanderbilt, Visions of the Future, William J. Mitchell

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