The 36th annual MELUS conference will be held in New Orleans on March 23-27, 2022. Featured sessions on Zora Neale Hurston include: Hurston and Religion: Voodoo, Christianity, and Atheism by Michelle Jones, Aurora University Hurston on the Horizon: One Writer’s Un-silencing of Black Female Voices… Read More »MELUS 2022 – 36th Annual Conference in New Orleans
To sustain and expand the work of the summer institute, Hurston the Horizon hosted a series of public webinars through the Zoom teleconferencing platform in the fall of 2021. The Afterlife of a BiographyOct 1, 2021 at 12:00 PM CDTA conversation with Valerie Boyd, the… Read More »Public Webinars
This summer, 25 scholars selected for an NEH Summer Institute will convene for an educational research collaboration hosted by The Project on the History of Black Writing at the University of Kansas. They won’t come to Lawrence, as is their custom, but “Hurston on the… Read More »Virtual institute connects scholars to explore, celebrate work of Zora Neale Hurston
The 32nd Annual Zora Neale Hurston® Festival of the Arts and Humanities opens with a virtual birthday party in honor of the 130th Birthday of famed Eatonville native and Harlem Renaissance writer, folklorists and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston. It all happens January 7, 2021 from… Read More »Happy Birthday Zora – ZORA! Festival
Examining our past can provide clues on how to avoid problems we’ve already encountered. For Zora Neale Hurston scholar and associate professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Ayesha Hardison, there are similarities in the themes of Hurston’s work and social uprisings happening… Read More »Ayesha Hardison on KU’s Unwinding Podcast
// Tuesday, July 13, 2021 // 2:00 – 3:30 pm CDT // Zoom // A panel of national scholars will discuss ongoing recovery projects on Zora Neale Hurston and new projects devoted to sustaining her legacy. N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director for the Association to Preserve… Read More »The Living Legacies
Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is in no danger of being forgotten any time soon. Although overlooked at the time of its publication, it has since come to be considered a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The novel will serve… Read More »Teaching Zora Neale Hurston to the Black Lives Matter generation