All Program Dates
February 4, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
February 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 4, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Registration
Tuition for this course is $200. Members receive exclusive discounts on our programs and courses. Not a member? Learn more.
Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email rsvp@rosenbach.org.
A welcome email from the instructor three weeks before the course begins. Zoom links will be sent for the course one week before the first meeting.
All online courses are recorded and these recordings are available to watch up to thirty days after the entire course has ended.
Description
One of the most creative and intellectually productive eras in African American history, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was fueled by the contributions of African Americans in music, art, and literature. Informed by the Rosenbach’s Langston Hughes and Alaine Locke holdings, during the four sessions of this course, we will read and discuss works by four prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and intelligentsia: Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Instructor
Historian and scholar Dr. Michele L. Simms-Burton, a former professor of African-American studies at Howard University, leads discussions that examine the creators and the works that came alive during the Harlem Renaissance, a period whose influence continues to be felt.