CCNY
2/13/2025

Langston Hughes Student Symposium

The 46th Annual Langston Hughes Festival commences Thursday, February 13, 2025 with a Student Symposium at 12:30pm in Aaron Davis Hall. The Student Symposium will create a vibrant and interdisciplinary space where students can explore the resonances between Hughes’ and Gay’s writings, addressing themes such as race, gender, queer sexualities, migration, cultural erasure, poverty, Harlem and its communities, the environment, the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance, and Haiti and its diaspora. The Student Symposium is free to attend.

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The 46th Annual Langston Hughes Festival commences Thursday, February 13, 2025 with a Student Symposium at 12:30pm in Aaron Davis Hall. The Student Symposium will create a vibrant and interdisciplinary space where students can explore the resonances between Hughes’ and Gay’s writings, addressing themes such as race, gender, queer sexualities, migration, cultural erasure, poverty, Harlem and its communities, the environment, the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance, and Haiti and its diaspora. The Student Symposium is free to attend.