{"id":11690,"date":"2026-04-30T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=11690"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:57:03","slug":"wayward-mythography-zora-neale-hurston-and-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/wayward-mythography-zora-neale-hurston-and-ancient-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wayward&#8217; Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u2018Wayward\u2019 Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7F5lUxdvzMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for the Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture with Justine McConnell, McMillan-Stewart Fellow at Harvard University and Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King\u2019s College London. McConnell&#8217;s lecture, \u201c\u2018Wayward\u2019 Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece,\u201d will be followed by a conversation co-moderated by Monica Miller (Africana Studies, Barnard) and Rosa And\u00fajar (Classics, Barnard). The event will conclude with a Q&amp;A with audience members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Named in honor of Natalie Boymel Kampen\u2014pioneering feminist scholar and beloved professor of Art History and Women\u2019s Studies who passed away in 2012\u2014this annual lecture celebrates research in women\u2019s history and feminist scholarship. Also presented as part of Barnard\u2019s ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/zoracentennial.barnard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">centennial celebration of Zora Neale Hurston<\/a>, McConnell\u2019s work examines how women of the Harlem Renaissance interwove ancient Greek and Roman mythmaking into their own modern narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture with Justine McConnell, McMillan-Stewart Fellow at Harvard University and Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King\u2019s College London. McConnell&#8217;s lecture, \u201c\u2018Wayward\u2019 Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece,\u201d will be followed by a conversation co-moderated by Monica Miller (Africana Studies, Barnard) and Rosa And\u00fajar (Classics, Barnard). The event will conclude with a Q&amp;A with audience members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11691,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-11690","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11690\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}