Faces of Migration: The Grand Budapest Hotel
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tuesday, April 10 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of M. Gustave,...
View Article50 Years Since Prague Spring: Czechoslovak Dreams and Cold War Realities
This panel offers a retrospective examination of the 1968 Czechoslovak “Prague Spring”, or what the LBJ administration labeled the “Czechoslovak crisis.” Panelists Dr. Mary Neuburger, Professor of...
View ArticleThe Littlefield Lectures: Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction (Day 1)
On February 26-27 2018, The History Department at the University of Texas at Austin was pleased to welcome Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at...
View ArticleThe Littlefield Lectures: The Van and the Rear: Abolitionist Roots of Radical...
On February 26-27 2018, The History Department at the University of Texas at Austin was pleased to welcome Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at...
View ArticleOf How a Hopi Ancient Word Became a Famous Experimental Film
by Montserrat Madariaga The theater is at its full capacity. The musicians are in place as the orchestra conductor starts to wave his arms in time with the image on the screen. There, little red dots...
View ArticleThe Miseducation of Cameron Post (Dir: Desiree Akhavan, 2018)
by Chris Babits The culture wars have roared back to life in recent years, with the practice of “conversion therapy” taking center stage. Fourteen states have banned gender identity therapies and...
View ArticleDazed and Confused (Dir: Linklater, 1993)
by Ashley Garcia Borrowing its title from Led Zeppelin’s first album, Richard Linklater’s classic film Dazed and Confused continues to resonate with filmgoers and critics decades after its release....
View ArticleMonroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018)
By Tiana Wilson On September 15, 2018, I attended Monroe, winner of the Austin Playhouse’s Festival of New Texas Plays, staged at the Austin Playhouse. The playwright, Lisa B. Thompson based the piece...
View Article“The Reddest of the Blacks”
By Sean Guillory Lovett Fort-Whiteman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1889 and died in a Stalinist labor camp sometime after 1938. The son of a former slave, a graduate of Tuskegee University,...
View ArticleAyka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018)
by Lilya Kaganovsky A longer version of this review was originally published on KinoKultura In the second season of BBC America’s TV show Killing Eve, we are introduced to a new villain, whom Eve...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel
By Candice Lyons In one of the final scenes of Jeymes Samuel’s gripping 2021 Black Western The Harder They Fall, androgynous outlaw Cuffee (played by Danielle Deadwyler) says a teary goodbye to her...
View ArticleUnlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with...
by Eduardo H. Gorobets Martins In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in...
View ArticleThe Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory...
by Clifton Sorrell III In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to...
View ArticleDigital Archive Review: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology...
by Brittany Erwin The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology—often called the Penn Museum— contains an extensive collection of objects originating from “ancient Egypt,...
View ArticleRadical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project
by May Helena Plumb In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to...
View ArticleCounter Archives and Archives of Resistance
by Anahí Ponce In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better...
View ArticleThe Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An...
by Eden Ewing In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better...
View ArticleCoding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the...
by Haley Schroer In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better...
View ArticleThe New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature
by Shery Chanis In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better...
View ArticleHumanizing Great Mother Russia: “Ekaterina” on Amazon Prime
by Isabelle S. Headrick Our family’s choice for evening relaxation requires striking the delicate balance between pseudo-highbrow (for the historian) and light (for the trauma therapist). As a result,...
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