harry ransom center

The 1920’s are often seen as a golden age of literature and art.

On our side of the Atlantic, there was Greenwich Village, the physical home of much of the intellectual and artistic ferment in America in the 20’s.

Event: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, hosts The David Foster Wallace Symposium.

“The King James Bible: Its History and Influence,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates that four centuries after its first printing, the King James Bible (1611) remains one of the most influential books in the English language.

Harry Ransom Center curator Danielle Sigler said when developing her own curator’s tour of the “Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored” exhibition that took place Thursday night, she did not want her guided discussion to be as boring as a laundry list.

It’s time once again for another amazing installment of THE
ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW, Austin’s premiere event for learning and laughter
combined with all the excitment of a variety show.

Each month, a clutch of volunteering writers are given assignments
picked from a REAL LIVE encyclopedia.

Stand-up comics, writers of
fiction, page & stage poets and some miscellaneous weirdos will share
their takes on the topics at hand!

You’ll learn true things and some things that are… less true.

This
is the way school should have been run!

The emergence of digital and online textbooks will not limit the value of bookstores in Austin, Steve Bercu, the owner of BookPeople, said Thursday.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents "Go West!

Representations of the American Frontier," an exhibition exploring the pioneering American West as both a physical terrain and an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche.

The personal archive of publisher, author and artist Fleur Cowles has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

Event: Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, leading Brazilian businessman and chairman of the São Paulo-based ethanol giants Cosan and Raízen, will give a talk on energy security in the Americas.

The talk is part of the "Faces of the Americas/Rostros de las Américas" series presented by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at Austin.

When: 6 p.m., Oct. 20

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs.

WHEN: Various dates throughout November and December.