HARPER AT 200
Frances E. W. Harper at 200: Commemorating Her Life and Legacy
Frances E. W. Harper
September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911
The year 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins’s birth. The Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk is hosting a slate of exciting scholarly and arts programming and community events to commemorate Watkins’s life and legacy. Events include:
- A symposium to be held Sept. 19–21, 2025
- A major performance of dance, poetry, and original music with events to be held in the places she lived and worked
- A major digital exhibit
- K-12 and college curricula
- Our Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon featuring Harper’s papers with a Harper birthday cake bake off
- and more!
Stay tuned for updates throughout the year.
Have a Frances E. W. Harper event to add to our Harper events page? Let us know at digblk@psu.edu.