BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15555-a9dd769100577e437bddf4ca04b5c7a3@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260417T115117Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T200000 SUMMARY:Day 2: Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium DESCRIPTION:\nAs part of its year-long programming\, the Center for Blac k Digital Research\, joined by Penn State’s Africana Research Center\, w ill convene an in-person symposium on the week of her two-hundredth birt hday\, Friday\, September 19–Sunday\, September 21\, 2025.\n\nThe sympos ium’s theme\, “Frances E.W. Harper 200: Looking Back\, Moving Forward\,” evokes her kinetic activism and extraordinary creativity across decades \, genres\, and movements.  Frances Harper was the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century. She wrote and published coll ections of poetry\, short stories\, serialized fiction\, essays\, and no w canonical novel\, Iola Leroy. Her writing is infused by her commitment and advocacy for Black women: as a leading abolitionist orator\, suffra gist\, and as an activist in political movements including Colored Conve ntions\, women’s rights\, and temperance.\n\nFeatured speakers at the sy mposium will address Harper’s diverse canon\, Harper’s activism in Black feminist networks\, how we must reconstruct Harper’s legacy\, and offer new perspectives in Harper studies.\n\nFor more details: https://events .la.psu.edu/event/frances-e-w-harper-200-looking-back-moving-forward-3/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

As part of its year-long programming, the Center for Black Digital Research, joined by Penn State’s Africana Research Center, will convene an in-person symposi um on the week of her two-hundredth birthday, Friday, September 19–Sunda y, September 21, 2025.

The symposium’s theme, “Frances E.W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” evokes her kinetic activism and ext raordinary creativity across decades, genres, and movements.  Frances Ha rper was the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth cen tury. She wrote and published collections of poetry, short stories, seri alized fiction, essays, and now canonical novel, Iola Leroy. Her writing is infused by her commitment and advocacy for Black women: as a leading abolitionist orator, suffragist, and as an activist in political moveme nts including Colored Conventions, women’s rights, and temperance.

Featured speakers at the symposium will address Harper’s diverse canon, Harper’s activism in Black feminist networks, how we must reconstruct H arper’s legacy, and offer new perspectives in Harper studies.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/fr ances-e-w-harper-200-looking-back-moving-forward-3/

URL:https://coloredconventions.org/harper-200-symposium/saturday-schedule/ LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR