Published on
July 16, 2018
Video length
1 mins
A conversation between Danjuma Gibson, associate professor of pastoral care at Calvin Theological Seminary, and Christina Edmondson, dean of intercultural student development at Calvin College.

They discussed key themes related to Gibson's publication Frederick Douglass, a Psychobiography: Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

The public event included time for questions from the audience and was cosponsored with the Vocational Formation office at Calvin Theological Seminary.

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