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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 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 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
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
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”
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.
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.
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Headshots and book covers. Dr. Jane Rhodes: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century, New Edition" book Dr. Nneka D. Dennie: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist" book
Author headshot and book cover. "Book Launch: Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist" Edited by Dr. Nneka D. Dennie. Oxford University Press.