CAMPUS EVENTS

HURSTON RESOURCES

NEA THE BIG READ

TEACHER'S GUIDE
 


This event is part of The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

Armstrong Atlantic State University
and Live Oak Public Libraries
host

Savannah Reads Hurston


Historical Context  |  About the Author |   Other Works/Adaptations
For Discussion   |  Further Resources  |  Credits


AASU CAMPUS EVENTS
April 9-13, 2007

April 9 - April 13
  Hurston Exhibit in Lane Library

7:00 p.m. on Monday, April 9, at the Armstrong Center
Keynote Address by Professor Valerie Boyd
(author of Wrapped in Rainbows:
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston)

12:10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, in Solms 110
Student-led discussion of
Their Eyes Were Watching God

7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, in University Hall 157
"Zora: Ethnologically Speaking"
Presentations from faculty in the Department of History
  Dr. Barbara Fertig discusses Zora Neale Hurston's
life and times as an anthropologist
"Will the Real Zora Neale Hurston Please Stand Up?"
  Dr. Catherine Adams will speak on
"“Folk’s Food and Furnishings: The Material Culture of Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
  Dr.   Learotha Williams, Jr., will speak on
" 'A world of no boundaries': Eatonville as a Refuge from Segregation."

7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, in Ashmore Auditorium
Dr. Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas, the Armstrong Masquers, and
the Armstrong Gospel Choir present
"Their Eyes Were Watching Syntax:
Examining the Double Jeopardy Implications
of African American Code Switching"

1:00 p.m. on Friday, April 13, in the University Dining Room (MCC)
Student Symposium
AASU students and alumnae read
papers on Zora Neale Hurston and
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Hurston's Garden: Looking for Literary Foremothers"