REDISCOVERING THE LIFE
& TIMES OF
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
OCTOBERĥ
A public event to observe and assess the
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scholarly edition of Life and Times of Frederick
Douglass, the third and most inclusive autobiography
by the 19th century’s best-known African American. Douglass (1818-1895), a runaway slave,
rose to become an internationally recognized orator, reformer, journalist, and diplomat.
Thursday, October 4
6:00 - 7:00 PM PREFACE
Keynote Address
Did Othello Lose His Voice? Douglass as
Revisionist Autobiographer
David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of
American History, Yale University and Director of
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance & Abolition
A public reception follows the address.
Friday, October 5
8:30 - 9:15 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:15 - 9:30 AM INTRODUCTION
Welcome
David Pfeifer, Director, Institute for American
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM SECOND PART
Moderator: L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown
State University
Douglass, Garrison, and the Original
Intent of the Founders
Wilson J. Moses, Ferree Professor of American
History, Pennsylvania State University
Frederick Douglass’s Constitution
Paul Finkelman, John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor
of American Legal History, Duke University Law
School and President William McKinley Distinguished
Professor of Law, Albany Law School
Seed-Time and Harvest Time: Natural
Law and Rational Hopefulness in
Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times
Peter C. Myers, Professor of Political Science,
University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
12:15 - 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
Thought, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
“We Must Become Mechanics”:
Editing Life and Times
Robin Condon, Textual Editor, Institute for American
Thought, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
9:30 - 10:45 AM FIRST PART
Moderator: Jane Schultz, IUPUI
“To Understand … A Man Must Stand
Under”: The Progressive Turn of the
Epigram in Douglass’s Life and Times
Deborah McDowell, Director, Carter G. Woodson
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University of Virginia
Frederick Douglass in Images
John Stauffer, Professor of English and African and
African American Studies, Harvard University
Frederick Douglass and Thomas Auld:
Reconsidering the Reunion Narrative
Robert S. Levine, Professor of English, University of Maryland
1:30 - 2:45 PM THIRD PART
Moderator: Monroe H. Little, IUPUI
“Mr. Douglass Must Share … Our
disappointment.” Life and Times: A Book
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Julie Roy Jeffrey, Professor of History, Goucher College
Stalwart Douglass: Life and Times as
Political Manifesto
John R. Kaufman-McKivigan, Mary Gibson O’Brien
Professor of History; Director, Frederick Douglass Papers
Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times:
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of Literature
Kenneth Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service
Professor, University of Chicago
3:00 - 4:00 PM APPENDIX
Plenary Session
John R. Kaufman-McKivigan will moderate a discussion
session for all participants and the audience.
All events are held in the IUPUI Campus Center, CE 450, 420 University Blvd., Indianapolis
For information or to RSVP: [email protected]
Hosted by the Frederick Douglass Papers, Institute for American Thought, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
Co-sponsored by the IU School of Liberal Arts IUPUI and its English and History Departments, the IUPUI Arts and
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