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The 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies

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Event Oval, Diana Center
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  • Add to Calendar 2025-02-20 18:00:00 2025-02-20 20:00:00 The 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies The Africana Studies Department at Barnard College Presents The 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies: "All Geography Is Within Me" featuring Edwidge Danticat Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Travel-Dusted Tracks   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 eighteen 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 in-person.      Event Oval, Diana Center Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public
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The Africana Studies Department at Barnard College Presents The 2025 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies:


"All Geography Is Within Me" featuring Edwidge Danticat
Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Travel-Dusted Tracks
 

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 eighteen 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 in-person.