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Addressing today’s ethical challenges in cultural stewardship

January 14, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

“Ethical Challenges in Cultural Stewardship,” the 13th biennial Flair Symposium, takes place April 4-6, 2019, at the Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Addressing today’s ethical challenges in cultural stewardship

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Flair, Fleur Cowles, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Joyce Maynard

Fleur Cowles’s pieces of flair

January 26, 2016 - Suzanne Krause

Fleur Cowles rose from humble origins in New York to become a magazine editor and publisher as well as an avant garde member of high society. Within the Harry Ransom Center is a replica of Cowles’s London study. [Read more…] about Fleur Cowles’s pieces of flair

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Flair, Flair magazine, Fleur Cowles, Look magazine

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

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