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:15532-32d067822b13a92f5983c2284dcb9936@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260527T125552Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T210000 SUMMARY:Day 1: 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 symposiu m’s theme\, “Frances E.W. Harper 200: Looking Back\, Moving Forward\,” e vokes her kinetic activism and extraordinary creativity across decades\, genres\, and movements.  Frances Harper was the most prolific African A merican writer of the nineteenth century. She wrote and published collec tions of poetry\, short stories\, serialized fiction\, essays\, and now canonical novel\, Iola Leroy. Her writing is infused by her commitment a nd advocacy for Black women: as a leading abolitionist orator\, suffragi st\, and as an activist in political movements including Colored Convent ions\, women’s rights\, and temperance.\n\nFeatured speakers at the symp osium will address Harper’s diverse canon\, Harper’s activism in Black f eminist networks\, how we must reconstruct Harper’s legacy\, and offer n ew perspectives in Harper studies.\n\nFor more details: https://events.l a.psu.edu/event/frances-e-w-harper-200-looking-back-moving-forward/ 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–Sunday , September 21, 2025.

The symposium’s theme, “Frances E.W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” evokes her kinetic activism and extr aordinary creativity across decades, genres, and movements.  Frances Har per was the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth cent ury. She wrote and published collections of poetry, short stories, seria lized 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 movemen ts 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 Ha rper’s legacy, and offer new perspectives in Harper studies.

For m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/franc es-e-w-harper-200-looking-back-moving-forward/

URL:https://coloredconventions.org/harper-200-symposium/friday-schedule/ LOCATION:Eisenhower Auditorium, Conference Room END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR