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Barnard College - Diana Event Oval
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Date

Feb 20 2025

Time

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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In-Person

The 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies

“All Geography Is Within Me”:
Following in Zora Neale Hurston’s Travel-Dusted Tracks
by Edwidge Danticat ’90

The Africana Studies Department at Barnard College Presents the 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies, by Edwidge Danticat ’90. Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She received her B.A. in French literature from Barnard College and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University. She is the author of 18 books, including, most recently, the essay collection We’re Alone. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and a two-time National Book Critics Circle Prize winner. Her next book, Watch Out for Falling Iguanas, is forthcoming from Akashic Books in the summer of 2025.

Q+A to follow. Open to the public. This event will be held in person.

Event Oval, Diana Center