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Join us in celebrating the life and success of Frances E.W. Harper by helping to transcribe her records and preserve her enduring legacy! By joining the transcribe-a-thon, you will make Harper’s letters, essays, newspaper pieces, and published writing fully searchable and freely available worldwide.
07.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Join us in celebrating the life and success of Frances E.W. Harper by helping to transcribe her records and preserve her enduring legacy! By joining the transcribe-a-thon, you will make Harper’s letters, essays, newspaper pieces, and published writing fully searchable and freely available worldwide.
07.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Celebrating Frances E. W. Harper's rich & prolific life continues with UC Berkeley's Americanist Colloquium. Join the virtual #Harper200 Read-a-Thon on Tues., 10/21 at 11am PST/2pm MST/2pm EST. Want more details or learn how to host your own readathon? Visit: coloredconventions.org/read-harper-...
21.10.2025 03:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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!
01.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
01.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
24.09.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Register here: bit.ly/write-on-site-25-26!
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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
24.09.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Sign up here: bit.ly/write-on-site-25-26!
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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!
26.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0You can also check out these exhibits individually on the official #DigBlk Instagram!
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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!
26.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0REFRESH 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...
“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...
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!
11.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣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/
