Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston
Saturday, October 17, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Pettengill Hall, Bates College, Lewiston
and free for high school students) includes:
- A copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Lectures and small group discussions
- Lunch and coffee breaks
CEUs ($20) will be available for teachers. Please bring
a check made out to University of Southern Maine.
Zora Neale Hurston was an enigma. She was associated with, but deeply skeptical of, the Harlem Renaissance. She opposed the New Deal, yet participated in the Florida Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Her fiction is imbued with folklore, while her anthropological fieldwork retains a literary sensibility. Though Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, has been required reading in classrooms for more than 25 years, she died 60 years ago in poverty and obscurity.
Join us for “Looking for Zora,” and explore the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.
Registration
If you would rather send in your information and check by regular mail, please print this page (styled for easy printing) and mail to: Maine Humanities Council, 674 Brighton Avenue, Portland, ME 04102; otherwise, please fill out the forms below (PayPal at the end).
For more information, you can download the schedule: as a word document or as a pdf.
This program was made possible through the We The People initiative, a program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
