Time: 11:00 AM EASTERN

Location: ONLINE (link available on our website closer to the event)

Participants:

• Prof Jack Kaufman-McKivigan (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) 

• Prof Mark Christian (City University of New York)

Description: This program brings together two leading scholars of Frederick Douglass for a wide-ranging conversation about new research and evolving perspectives on his life and legacy. Professor Mark Christian, author of Frederick Douglass: A Life in American History (Bloomsbury, 2025), will discuss his forthcoming book and, in dialogue with Professor Jack Kaufman-McKivigan, explore fresh insights into Douglass’s activism, writings and historical impact. Together they will reflect on Douglass as a global thinker, a strategist of freedom and a figure whose relevance has not diminished with time. This discussion offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from scholars whose work continues to shape how Douglass is studied and remembered in both academic and public life.