Join our longtime satellite partner Dr. Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social on the Feb. 21 for the “Sanctuaries of Struggle: The Colored Conventions and the Black Church as Social Movement" symposium.
Schedule and more info: www.facebook.com/events/75634...
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We're thrilled for the 9th annual Douglass Day global transcribe-a-thon: a day of collective action for Black history! We'll transcribe records of the Colored Conventions movement—3K docs on deck!
100+ groups are hosting events, including 10 Penn State campus libraries ▶️ douglassday.org/penn-state/
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Get your Douglass Day 2026 stickers now!
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Graphics 2026 – Douglass Day
Our amazing Douglass Day 2026 stickers are now available for purchase and download! Click the link below and don't miss out on them!
22.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 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
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
The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project
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 📌 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 📌 0
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
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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
22.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
19.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
19.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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...
13.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...
11.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Ohio Digitization Interest Group: informal discussion group open to all w/ interest in cultural heritage digitization, description, access, digital preservation. We meet 6x a yr, half in person/half virtual. Free meetings since 2005! https://ohiodig.org
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Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Indexed in Web of Science.
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HADES at University of Melbourne (Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars) unite around inclusive, diverse and ethical approaches to digital research in HASS fields, and the crucial link between teaching & research https://go.unimelb.edu.au/x4ip
