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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 7d

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!

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 7d

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!

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 14d

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

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: DigBlk: Write-On-Sites - AM Sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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.

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 26

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!

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 26

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!

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

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”

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 11

“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...

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.'

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Aug 7

"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...

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.

Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Jun 11

Happening now!

Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Jun 11

📣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/

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Jun 11

📣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/

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