To sustain and expand the work of the summer institute, Hurston the Horizon will host a series of public webinars through the Zoom teleconferencing platform. The Afterlife of a BiographyOct 1, 2021 at 12:00 PM CDTA conversation with Valerie Boyd,… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More »Teaching Zora Neale Hurston to the Black Lives Matter generation