Category: Ackerman Center

From a translation of a sprawling, 464-page Romanian novel to a study on the automobile as conceptual art, faculty from the School of Arts and Humanities have recently produced research on a wide range of topics. Translation of ‘Blinding’ Dr. Sean Cotter, associate professor of translation studies and literature, has translated Blinding (Archipelago Books), a novel written by Romanian […]

Faculty members who are also published authors were the focus of a recent McDermott Library celebration. The  6th Annual Faculty Author Reception recognized 16 writers and nine editors of books published during the last academic year. Dr. David Patterson (left) celebrates publication of his book A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad with Dr. […]

Generous support from several donors recently helped furnish the new home of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies. The new center contains a media room, a secondary site for the Arnold A. Jaffe Holocaust Library Collection and a computer lab — all of which make studying one of the most important and tragic periods in […]

By Office of Media Relations | April 28, 2011 With a new exhibition in France, Dr. Frank Dufour, assistant professor of sound design in UT Dallas’ Arts and Technology (ATEC) program, has officially gone global. “Acoustic Shadows: An Exploration of Sense of Space” is an experimental interactive sound installation Dufour created alongside wife Kristin Lee through the entity […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies has moved into a new home on the UT Dallas campus. Its new suite, on the fourth floor of the Jonsson Academic Center, hosts a media room, computer lab and lending library, which is “always full of students studying,” according to Pfister. On Sunday, April 3, at 4 p.m., the […]

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth was interviewed on KERA’s “Think” program on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. She was promoting her new book, When the Danube Ran Red, an extraordinary and moving account of Ozsváth’s own experience of the Holocaust.