The past is never dead. It's not even past
By Kirsten Cather This article first appeared in The Conversation. The original can be accessed here. Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has long been a favorite of the international press. In a 1966 edition of Life magazine, he was called “Japan’s Dynamo of Letters” and “the Japanese Hemingway.” Appearing on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in August 1970, […]
On March 7th, 1826, HMS Blonde rescued six emaciated survivors from the wreck of the Frances Mary. They included two women: the captain’s wife and Ann Saunders, a young woman hired to serve her. They had spent twenty-two days adrift, crowded in the main top of the half-submerged wreck, kept afloat by its load of […]
From the editors: In 2021, Not Even Past launched a new collaboration with LLILAS Benson. Journey into the Archive: History from the Benson Latin American Collection celebrates the Benson’s centennial and highlights the center’s world-class holdings. In April 1985, the historic trial of the military juntas that had ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1982 began […]
Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (BBC, 2021, 7 hours in 6 parts). Meet Adam Curtis. Age: 66. Gender: Male. Race: White. Place of Birth: Dartford, UK. Marital Status: Unknown. Education: Oxford. Profession: Well . . . , here is where things get a bit complicated. […]
In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference initiated a conversation on archives with Latin American perspectives and practices. The conference took place on February 24-25. Archives, broadly speaking, are sites where the collection, organization, and processing of documents and objects have preserved memories or […]
From the editors: Not Even Past joins the wider University of Texas community in our horror at the recent mass shootings in Atlanta. We express our solidarity with the messages and statements below and have included details of important events and workshops focused on confronting anti-Asian racism. The events in Atlanta cannot be separated from […]
The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of writers, both graduate students and faculty. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing all of their published content across the magazine together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
By Jesse Ritner Passing Red Hill, we turned onto Colorado Route 133. Ahead of us towered Mount Sopris, an almost 13,000 foot volcano. 133 shoots towards the Elk Mountain Range, a row of peaks frequently topping 12,000 feet, but Sopris still looks immense in comparison. Casting its shadow over the quaint town of Carbondale, it […]
Not Even Past is delighted to congratulate Sandy Chang and Gabrielle Esparza,the winners of the 2021 Lathrop and Perry prizes. The awards are for the best PhD dissertation (Lathrop) and MA thesis (Perry) in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Lathrop Prize: Sandy Chang, “Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British […]
By Tiana Wilson This article first appeared in Perspectives on History. The original can be accessed here. It’s been nearly a year since COVID-19 forced many states to shut down and more than a year since I last stepped into an archive. As a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, I […]