# Event Details - **Event Name**: Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat: In Conversation.About this EventBlack Study(ies) at Columbia University- 2026 Zora Neale Hurston LectureJamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat: In ConversationOur Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture honors the intellectual fierceness and talents of the singular anthropologist, novelist, and essayist Sister Zora—therefore also honoring our long Black intellectual tradition and its connection to Columbia, and Harlem. A complex figure, Zora Neale Hurston began her career as a Columbia University doctoral student in anthropology at Columbia University. Her inimitable ‘spyglass’ and sensibilities have forever shifted the literary and anthropological landscapes: demonstrated by her novels Jonah’s Gourd Vine, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, for example; ethnographic and folkloric works, Mules and Men, and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica; her extraordinary autoethnographic work, Dust Tracks on a Road; short story collections, including Spunk; plays, and essays, like “Pet Negro System.”Jamaica Kincaid is the 2026 Mellon Arts Project Artist-in-Residence in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. The globally acclaimed author of numerous widely taught and translated novels and essays— including Annie John; Lucy; The Autobiography of My Mother; A Small Place, and See Now Then— the Antiguan–American novelist’s profound intellectual and cultural influence extends far beyond literature, into art, cultural studies, and political thought. She is a professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.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. Her most recent essay collection, We're Alone, published in 2025, joins her previous acclaimed works: including Create Dangerously; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak, a National Book Award finalist; Claire of the Sea Light; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; as well as seven books for children and young adults; and a travel narrative, After the Dance.Presented in collaboration by Institute for Research in African-American Studies-Columbia University ; African American & African Diaspora Studies Department -Columbia University ; Africana Studies Barnard College; Institute for the Study of Sexuality Gender-Columbia University; Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race -Columbia University, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society-Columbia University; Columbia University School of the Arts https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/a1362da0-1070-11f1-b205-49d23285143a-rimg-w1200-h675-dcc7e2f7-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a1618360-1070-11f1-b205-49d23285143a-rimg-w1200-h676-dc1b1b1e-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/black-studyies-at-columbia-university-2026-zora-neale-hurston-lecture/100001982708916743 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library - **lat**: 40.8146271 - **long**: -73.9409189 - **full address**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/958f4d4d4e22eec3671efeec52fde2de0fbb95bbffa63c2ed28d79aad05742d9-rimg-w700-h350-dca8a8a8-gmir.jpg?v=1771821143 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture being held? - **A:** Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture takes place on Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture? - **A:** Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture is organized by African American & African Diaspora - Columbia U. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Black Study(ies) at Columbia University 2026 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/958f4d4d4e22eec3671efeec52fde2de0fbb95bbffa63c2ed28d79aad05742d9-rimg-w700-h350-dca8a8a8-gmir.jpg?v=1771821143", "startDate": "2026-03-06", "endDate": "2026-03-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/black-studyies-at-columbia-university-2026-zora-neale-hurston-lecture/100001982708916743", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "515 Malcolm X Boulevard", "postalCode": "10037", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.8146271", "longitude": "-73.9409189" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat: In Conversation.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-06", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/black-studyies-at-columbia-university-2026-zora-neale-hurston-lecture/100001982708916743" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/black-studyies-at-columbia-university-2026-zora-neale-hurston-lecture/100001982708916743", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "African American & African Diaspora - Columbia U", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/african-american-and-african-diaspora-columbia-u/24638672", "description": "\"We are embarking on an agenda to highlight and sustain the centrality of the arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies and its broader intellectual community. 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