Press Releases
2009
- "Making Movies" Exhibition Explores the Filmmaking Process From Behind the Scenes
- "¡Viva! Mexico's Independence" Exhibition Marks Anniversaries
- Scholar's Fitzgerald, Hemingway Materials Donated To Harry Ransom Center
- Author Jayne Anne Phillips's Papers Acquired By Harry Ransom Center
- Harry Ransom Center Encourages Community To Read Edgar Allan Poe As Part of The Big Read
- Harry Ransom Center Receiving Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
- Ransom Center Receives Big Read Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
- Frida Kahlo Biographer Hayden Herrera To Speak at the Harry Ransom Center
- Harry Ransom Center Presents "Orientalist Silents" Film Series
- More than 50 Research Fellowships Awarded by the Harry Ransom Center
- "Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works" Exhibition Examines Evolution of Astronomy
- De Niro's Film Materials Collection Opens at Ransom Center
- Actress Ann Savage's Collection Acquired by Harry Ransom Center
- Ransom Center Hosts Marathon Reading of Shake-speares Sonnets
- Online Collaborative "Rubáiyát" Complements Harry Ransom Center Exhibition on Persian Poem
- Harry Ransom Center's Web Exhibition Explores Work of Novelist Sanora Babb
- African, African-American and Native-American Literature Collection Acquired By Harry Ransom Center
- Artist Ed Ruscha To Speak As Part of Harry Ransom Lectures
- Ransom Center Receives NEH Grant To Preserve Papers of Morris Ernst
- Azar Nafisi To Speak As Part of Harry Ransom Lectures
- Performance of Music Composed By Anthony Burgess To Be Webcast
- Harry Ransom Center Director Discusses Importance of Writing in Washington, D.C.
- Harry Ransom Center Presents "Rubáiyát Film Series" in Spring
- Harry Ransom Center Holds Archive of 2008 Costa Book of the Year Award Winner
- Frida Kahlo's "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" To Be Displayed at Ransom Center Beginning Cinco de Mayo
- Harry Ransom Center Presents the Harry Ransom Lectures
2008
- Ransom Center's Exhibition Celebrates Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe
- New Online James Joyce Checklist Tracks Materials Relating to Author
- Harry Ransom Center Holds Papers Of 2008 National Book Award Winner
- Collection of Ezra Pound Materials Acquired by Harry Ransom Center
- 2008 Flair Symposium Webcast: "Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives and Institutions"
- "The Persian Sensation: 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' in the West" Explores Popularity of Poem's Translation
- Fritz Henle Photography Exhibition Finds Beauty in Ordinary Subjects
- University Co-op Sponsors Harry Ransom Lectures in Humanities
- Harry Ransom Center Receiving Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
- "A Cabinet of Drawings" Exhibition Explores Drawing as Art Form in Various Stages
- "The Mystique of the Archive" Explores Archives and Culture Surrounding Archives
- More than 50 Fellowships Awarded By the Harry Ransom Center
- Photojournalist Documents Gangs in the Wake of El Salvadoran Civil War
- Scroll Manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" in Texas through June 1
- Ransom Center Acquires 77 John Steinbeck Letters
- Harry Ransom Center Acquires Two Unpublished Letters by Tennessee Williams
- Ransom Center, Region XIII Team Up for Teaching Workshops
- Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Prize-winning Writer Jim Crace
- Harry Ransom Center Celebrates National Photography Month
- Harry Ransom Center Acquires Rare Plantin Polyglot Bible
- Video from "The Mike Wallace Interview" Available Online on April 4
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts "Beat Film Series" at Alamo Drafthouse
- Registration Opens for 2008 Flair Symposium, Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives and Institutions"
- Harry Ransom Center Offers Online Beatnik Questionnaire in Conjunction with Exhibition "On the Road with the Beats"
- Playwright, Writer and Director David Mamet To Visit Campus to Work with Students
- Through the Lens Clearly — Icons and Images
- Harry Ransom Center Introduces New Web Site
- Playwright David Mamet to Speak at The University of Texas at Austin
2007
- Norman Mailer Papers Open to Researchers, Students and Public on January 3
- Ransom Center Acquires Tim O'Brien Archive
- "Inside El Salvador" Chronicles Daily Salvadoran Life during Civil War from 1979 to 1983
- Materials Related to Poet Dara Wier Acquired By Harry Ransom Center
- Poets Dara Wier and James Tate To Speak at the Harry Ransom Center
- Harry Ransom Center Presents "An Evening With the Rude Mechanicals"
- Exhibition Examines Interplay of Jess's Art with the Written Word
- "On the Road with the Beats" Exhibition Explores The Work, Culture and Figures of the Beat Generation
- Harry Ransom Center Announces Application Process for Research Fellowships
- Harry Ransom Center Holds Archive of Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing
- Harry Ransom Center Displays Notable Author Rejection Letters
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Actors From The London Stage for Poetry on the Plaza
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts "Robert De Niro Film Series"
- Ransom Center Hosts Discussion with Playwright Tony Kushner
- Ransom Center Displays Unseen Materials Related to American Playwright Arthur Miller
- Ransom Center Introduces Photography Exhibition: "Dress Up: Portrait and Performance in Victorian Photography"
- Ransom Center, Region XIII Team Up For Teaching Workshops
- Fifteen Participants Selected for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Vernacular Paleography
- Database of Literary Copyright Information Available To Researchers
- Forty-eight Fellowships Awarded By The Harry Ransom Center
- Samuel Beckett Materials Acquired By Harry Ransom Center
- Ransom Center Acquires David Mamet Papers
- Introduction of "Teaching the American 20s," Online Materials for K-12 Educators
- Deep Throat Materials from Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate Papers Open for Research at Ransom Center
- Publication Celebrates History of Harry Ransom Center
- Installation "Joe Ely: Bonfire of Roadmaps" Offers Insight to Musician's Life on the Road
- Robert De Niro Costumes to be Exhibited at The University Co-op
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts "Robert De Niro Film Series"
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Mellon Institute in Spanish Paleography
- "The American Twenties" Exhibition Explores Decade's Cultural and Social Changes
2006
- Harry Ransom Center Celebrates 50th Anniversary In 2007
- Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Preserve and Catalog Ransom Center's French Materials
- Harry Ransom Center hosts conversation with author Norman Mailer
- Harry Ransom Center Announces Application Process for Research Fellowships
- Ransom Center Acquires Arnold Newman Archive
- Materials Related to Filmmaker Woody Allen Acquired by Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
- Ransom Center Announces Curator of Photography
- Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Writer Alan Furst
- Beginning Sept. 5 "Norman Mailer Takes On America"
- Feliks Topolski's portraits of Britain's twentieth-century greats exhibited together for first time
- Registration opens for 2006 Flair Symposium, "The Sense of Our Time: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict"
- Robert De Niro Donates Collection of Film Materials to Harry Ransom Center
- Ransom Center Receives Publications Design Awards
- Web exhibition celebrates centennial of Samuel Beckett
- Dr. Janine Barchas presents "Technologies of Innovation: The Visual Exuberance of Eighteenth-Century Print Culture"
- Events Celebrate Acting Teacher Stella Adler and the American Theater
2005
- Discovery and restoration of "Beyond the Rocks," A lost Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino silent film
- "Technologies of Writing" Examines the History and Style of Writing
- Best-selling author Simon Winchester Opens the 2005 Texas Book Festival
- Ransom Center Announces Application Process for Research Fellowships
- Ransom Center Announces Executive Curator of Photography and Visual Collections
- "The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age" Opens Jan. 31
- Ransom Center's Conservation Department Celebrates 25 Years of Service
- Introduction of "Teaching Gutenberg," Online Materials for K-12 Educators
- Ransom Center Holds Works of Three Authors on Longlist for 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
- Symposium Examines and Celebrates French Writer Raymond Queneau
- Ansel Adams Legacy Prints Exhibited at Ransom Center
- Herzstein Charitable Foundation Makes $800,000 Gift to Ransom Center
- Exhibition of Rare Photos Commemorate 60th Anniversary of End of World War II in Europe
- Ransom Center Receives Publications Design Awards
- Ransom Center Acquires Norman Mailer Archive
- "The Muse in Motion: Travel Literature through the Centuries" Opens April 5 at Ransom Center Galleries
- Ransom Center Displays Items from Cartography Collections in "Images of the World: Maps, Globes and Atlases"
- Ransom Center Celebrates National Poetry Month in April
- "In Flight": The Guild of Book Workers Presents Wright Brothers Exhibition
- "Place: Photographs of Environment and Community" Opens April 19 at Ransom Center Galleries
- Ransom Center introduces extensive Web publication on photojournalist David Douglas Duncan
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Brit Noir Film Series
- Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers Open to Researchers and Public
- Ransom Center Commemorates 550th Anniversary Printing of the Gutenberg Bible with CD-ROM
2004
- Ransom Center Acquires Newly Discovered Evelyn Waugh Letter to Graham Greene
- Fashion Photographer George Platt Lynes's Work Exhibited at Ransom Center
- "Shooting Stars: The Golden Age of Hollywood Portraiture, 1925-1950"
- Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Noted American Novelist Don DeLillo
- "Miguel Covarrubias: Mexico's Renaissance Man"
- Selina Hastings, Biographer of Evelyn Waugh, Speaks at Harry Ransom Center
- Public Book Sale on Friday, Sept. 24
- Exhibition Celebrates the Centennial of Mexican Artist Miguel Covarrubias
- Centennial of Authors Greene, Waugh Recognized in Ransom Exhibition
- Walker Evans and James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Ransom Center Travel Materials Featured at ABIA
- UT's Ransom Center Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
- Ransom Center Partners with Library of America In Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial
- Ransom Center Displays Rare Copy of "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"
- Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Legendary Acting Teacher Stella Adler
- Cambridge Fellow and Manuscripts Scholar de Hamel to Offer Pforzheimer Lecture
- Go Out and Look: The Photography of Russell Lee
- 20 x 20: Twenty American Poets of the Twentieth Century
- Collaborative Spirit: Prints, Presses, & Deluxe Artists' Books
- Photography's Turning Point: The Journal Camera Work
- New Version of the WATCH (Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders) File
- Perpetrator of Book Theft at Harry Ransom Center Sentenced
- "PHOTO NOMAD" By David Douglas Duncan: Archive of Renowned Photojournalist
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