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Harper 200 Symposium: What a weekend! Frances E. W. Harper got her due-and in so many ways she who mixed her words and actions into a legendary rue was honored in ways worthy of her. Thanks to everyone who made this weekend special! For those who couldn't join, stay tuned for recordings coming soon!

Harper 200 Symposium: What a weekend! Frances E. W. Harper got her due-and in so many ways she who mixed her words and actions into a legendary rue was honored in ways worthy of her. Thanks to everyone who made this weekend special! For those who couldn't join, stay tuned for recordings coming soon!

Join us Friday 9/26 at 8:30 AM EST for this week's Feedback Friday session! This session will focus on strategies for getting great teaching evaluations from your students! Come and lend your experience to our community! #FacultyOfColor #BlackInTheIvory #BIPOCFaculty #FacultyDevelopment #digblk

Register here: bit.ly/write-on-site-25-26!

Join us Friday 9/26 at 8:30 AM EST for this week's Feedback Friday session! This session will focus on strategies for getting great teaching evaluations from your students! Come and lend your experience to our community! #FacultyOfColor #BlackInTheIvory #BIPOCFaculty #FacultyDevelopment #digblk

Sign up here: bit.ly/write-on-site-25-26!

Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward Headshots of all featured panelists. Presented by the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and the Africana Research Center.

We're just one month away! Here is a sneak peek at the 5️⃣ featured panels. More information at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
#Harper200 @ccp-org.bsky.social

Welcome to #DigBlk News! This paper highlights just some of the amazing, and informative, Colored Conventions Project Digital Exhibits. These exhibits allow us to take a step back into history and gain insight into various key events. Here are just 5 of the amazing exhibits you can explore!

You can also check out these exhibits individually on the official #DigBlk Instagram!

Welcome to #DigBlk News! This paper highlights just some of the amazing, and informative, Colored Conventions Project Digital Exhibits. These exhibits allow us to take a step back into history and gain insight into various key events. Here are just 5 of the amazing exhibits you can explore!

REFRESH FRIDAY! Please share with your folks through your channels. We'd love to be in community to commemorate Frances Harper.
INFO:
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
& digblk.substack.com/p/harper-200...
@c19americanists.bsky.social @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social  @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Panel 4 – New Perspectives in Harper Studies Sunday, Sept 21 • 3:00–4:30 pm -- Brigitte Fielder, “Children’s Nature Poetry and Harper in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries” -- Katherine Adams, “’The Threshold of a New Era’: Frances E. W. Harper and the Political Economy of Freedom” -- Robert Arbour, “The Air of Emancipation in Frances Watkins Harper’s Anti-slavery Poetry” -- Amardeep Singh, “Frances E. W. Harper’s Afropessimist Poetics” -- Moderator: Eunice Toh

Panel 4 – New Perspectives in Harper Studies
Brigitte Fielder
Katherine Adams
Robert Arbour
Amardeep Singh
Moderator: Eunice Toh

Full Sunday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Panel 3 – Reconstructing Frances Harper Sunday, Sept 21 • 11:30 am–1:00 pm -- Jim Downs, “‘I Became Acquainted with Her History’: Iola Leroy as the First Black History of Freed People during the Civil War and Reconstruction” -- Ariana Nadia Nash and Jacob Sloan, “Frances Harper’s Social Gospel: Radical Reconstruction & Radical Religion in Frances Harper’s ‘Moses: A Story of the Nile’” -- Lauren Barnes, “Rupturing Erasure: Reimagining Archival Practices through Frances Ellen Watkins Harper” -- Moderator: Courtney Murray Ross

Panel 3 – Reconstructing Frances Harper with
Jim Downs
Ariana Nadia Nash and Jacob Sloan
Lauren Barnes
Moderator: Courtney Murray Ross

Full Sunday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Panel 2 – Harper and Black Feminism Saturday, Sept 20 • 4:45–6:15 pm -- Sabrina Evans, “A Conversazione of Their Own: Placing Frances E. W. Harper in Community with Fellow Black Women Organizers” -- Nazera Sadiq Wright, “Frances E. W. Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia” -- Cora Anthony, “Where Credit is Due: Black Women Writers Cite Frances Harper, 1880-1900” -- Marlas Yvonne Whitley, “Frances Harper’s Black Feminist Reconfigurations” -- Moderator: Denise Burgher

Panel 2 – Harper and Black Feminism with:
Sabrina Evans
Nazera Sadiq Wright
Cora Anthony
Marlas Yvonne Whitley
Moderator: Denise Burgher

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Keynote Panel Saturday, Sept 20 • 2:15–4:35 pm --Martha S. Jones, “Orphaned: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Baltimore’s ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylum” -- Eric Gardner, “Frances Ellen Watkins, Ohio, and the Importance of the Local” -- Sherita L. Johnson, “Tracking Harper” (tentative title) -- Moderator: P. Gabrielle Foreman

Keynote Panel with:
Martha S. Jones
Eric Gardner
Sherita L. Johnson
Moderator: P. Gabrielle Foreman

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Panel 1: Harper’s Canon: Short Fiction, Radical Poetics, and Oratory Saturday, Sept 20 • 11:30 am–1:00 pm -- Brandi Locke, “Spiritual Beauty: Auratic Race Womanhood and Literary Experimentation in Frances Harper’s ‘The Two Offers’” -- Melissa J. Lingle-Martin, “The ‘earnest’ and ‘restless eye of Agitation’ and Monumental Vision in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s ‘The Triumph of Freedom–A Dream’” -- J.P. Sloan, “Bitter Shrieks of the Dispossessed: Black Noise and the Activist Poetics of Frances E.W. Harper’s ‘The Slave Mother’” -- Leslie K. Dunlap, “‘Weep for Your Sons’: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Appraisal of White Women”

Panel 1: Harper’s Canon: Short Fiction, Radical Poetics, and Oratory with:
Brandi Locke
Melissa J. Lingle-Martin
J.P. Sloan
Leslie K. Dunlap

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward Headshots of all featured panelists. Presented by the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and the Africana Research Center.

We're just one month away! Here is a sneak peek at the 5️⃣ featured panels. More information at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
#Harper200 @ccp-org.bsky.social

Coming to Eisenhower Auditorium at PSU on September 19!

The Artistry and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper brings Harper’s legacy to life for a new generation—reclaiming history, honoring resilience, and celebrating artistic activism.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW: cpa.psu.edu/events/franc...

The (not so) secret Philly history of ‘The Gilded Age’ LisaGay Hamilton plays Philadelphia poet, author, and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 'The Gilded Age.'

“If you are talking about Philadelphia in this era & the work of women, you just have to mention Harper, you just have to.”—Dr. Sherita L. Johnson interview w/ the Philly @inquirer.com discussing Frances E. W. Harper's portrayal in “The Gilded Age." #Harper200
www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

Flyers for symposium: Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825-2025. Friday, Sept. 19-Sunday, Sept. 21. Eisenhower Auditorium and Foster Auditorium. Hosted by the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and The Africana Research Center. Learn more and register at bit.ly/harper-200-symposium or by scanning the QR code.

"Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Family,
We are excited to be hosting an in-person symposium on September 19-21–just days before Frances Harper’s 200th birthday. We invite you to attend in person!"
#Harper200
Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/digblk/p...

Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward - Colored Conventions Project

SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at:
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Just getting started now with -

"Digital Blackness: Collective Care, Community & Co-Creation Through the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and Carceral Algorithms"

With Deja Workman, Eden Mekonen, and Denise Burgher!

at the @ach.bsky.social virtual conference. Come through! #BlackDH

Happening now!

📣Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel at #ACH2025 today (06/11) at 7p ET!📣

Panel will feature presentations from #DigBlk’s @dejaworkman.bsky.social, @weygudey.bsky.social‬, & @dburgher.bsky.social, and chaired by @jimccasey1.bsky.social‬.

Register at ach2025.ach.org/en/

CFP-ACH 2025 Special Session #166: What the NEH ODH has Inspired After the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities, how do we move forward? From 1965 to 2025, the NEH was the nation's largest public funder of the humanities. In the noise of this m...

If the dismantling of the ODH has impacted your work, sign up to give a lightning talk during the "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired Session" by Monday, June 9th: bit.ly/ach-inspirat...

#DigBlk will be presenting/facilitating at 2 #ACH2025 sessions!
Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel on Wed 06/11 @7p ET, on @douglassday.bsky.social, @ccp-org.bsky.social & #THiCC projects & the "What the NEH ODH Has Inspired" Special Session w/ @scholarslab.bsky.social on Fri 06/13 @11:30a ET!

It's a @digblk.bsky.social x @scholarslab.bsky.social joint!

Did the illegal closure of the NEH impact your work?

Come share at the ACH conference next week. Then let's think together about what comes next.

Here at CBDR, our work is driven by teams of smart, talented, and dedicated students. Meet Keon, a #digblk scholar and PHD candidate working with the Colored Conventions Project. In addition to being a history research scholar at CBDR, he is a Bunton-Waller Fellow! Thank you Keon for all your work!

Here at CBDR, our work is driven by teams of smart, talented, and dedicated students. Meet Keon, a #digblk scholar and PHD candidate working with the Colored Conventions Project. In addition to being a history research scholar at CBDR, he is a Bunton-Waller Fellow! Thank you Keon for all your work!