Coming Up in ELC:
Scholarship Application: Summer 2022
- Application available online HERE
- Submission Deadline: Monday, April 18 at 5 p.m.
- Two (2) scholarships are typically awarded: one for AEP and one for ELP
- Award will cover $1,700 towards intensive tuition for the Summer I 2022 (10–week) session in either AEP or ELP.
Continuing Student Applications
- For Summer 2022
- Application available online HERE
- We would love to see you again!
Upcoming Social Events:
Talk Time
- Practice your English conversation skills with native English speakers!
- Tuesday, April 12
- 4:30-5:30 p.m.
- In Person: BEN 1.108
Boats on Barton
- Join your friends at the English Language Center in one of the most popular activities to do in Austin!
- Friday, April 15
- 5-6 p.m.
- Meet at Zilker Boat Rental
- 2101 Andrew Zilker Road, Austin, TX 78746.
The Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center is well-known around the world as an outstanding humanities research center. Right here on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, the HRC’s incredible collections contain millions of writings, rare books, photographs, and works of art.
- Admission is free!
- Hours:
- Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: Noon-5 p.m.
Closed Mondays
- Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
- 300 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712
Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses:
- On display until July 17
- James Joyce was a famous Irish author and poet. He is remembered as one of the most influential writers in the 20th century. He wrote in the modernist style and experimented with the English language.
- His most famous book, Ulysses, is “considered a landmark work of literary modernism.”
- “This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the book’s publication and investigates the important and largely unacknowledged role of women in realization of his famed masterpiece.”
- Read more about this exhibition.
Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird:
- Frida Kahlo was a self-taught artist and painter living in the early 20th century.
- She is one of the most famous modern Mexican artists.
- Her life and many struggles continue to inspire women, Latinos, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people.
- HRC has one of Kahlo’s best-known self-portraits.
- Read more about Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait.
The Niépce Heliograph:
- Made in 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. 12 years before the photograph was invented!
- “It is the earliest photograph produced with the aid of the camera obscura known to survive today.”
- “He tried an array of chemicals, materials, and techniques to advance the process he ultimately called héliographie, or ‘sun writing.'”
- “He inserted the plate into a camera obscura and positioned it near a window in his second-story workroom. After several days of exposure to sunlight, the plate yielded an impression of the courtyard, outbuildings, and trees outside.”
- Niépce called these ghostly pictures “points de vue.”
- Read more about The Niépce Heliograph.
- And, if you need a reminder (like I did) of what a camera obscura is, check out this simple explanation.
The Gutenberg Bible:
- “In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the Bible in Latin.”
- The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed with a printing press to mass-produce books.
- The printing press “helped change how information traveled in Europe and, later, the world.”
- HRC has one of only twenty surviving copies in the world!
- You can read more about it and browse the digitized pages of this nearly 600-year old book.
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