Fall 2023 Conference Agenda

11:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.  Conference Check-In

11:30 a.m.—1 p.m.  Lunch

1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Dean of Social Sciences/Professor of Religion
Jennifer Tucker, Director, Center for the Study of Guns and Society/Professor of History

1:30—2:30 p.m. Session 1: Museums and Firearms History
Moderator: Leah Glaser (Central Connecticut State University)
Panelists:
Kelly Fellner (Springfield Armory National Historic Site)
Nathan Jones (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK)
David Kennedy (United States Marshals Museum, Fort Smith, AR)
Francesca Liuni (Rhode Island School of Design)
Steven Lubar (Brown University)

Jennifer Tucker (Center for the Study of Guns and Society)

2:30—2:45 p.m.  Break and Student Poster Sessions

2:45—3:15 p.m. Session 2: Data Sources for Firearms History
Moderator: Maryam Gooyabadi (Quantitative Analysis Center)
Panelists: Students from the Quantitative Analysis Center and the Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” summer research

3:15—3:30 p.m.  Break and Student Poster Sessions

3:30—4:30 p.m. Session 3: Use and Abuse of History in Second Amendment Litigation
Moderator: Darrell A.H. Miller (Duke University School of Law)
Panelists:
Andrew Canter (U.S. District Court-Greater Jackson Mississippi Area)
Brian DeLay (University of California Berkeley)

Brennan Rivas (Texas Christian University)

4:30—5:30 p.m. Session 4: How Journalism, the “first draft of history”, Informs the Gun Debate

Moderator: Richard Galant (CNN)

Panelists:
Karen Attiah (Washington Post)
Fairriona Magee (The Trace)
Mike McIntire (The New York Times)

Iain Overton (Action on Armed Violence)

5:45 p.m.  Dinner

7 p.m. Session 5: Film Screening: “Good Guy with a Gun” (2023), College of Film and Moving Image (Powell Theater), 301 Washington Terrace

Welcome and introduction by Randall MacLowry, producer/director/editor, The Film Posse, Inc.

Followed by audience discussion with filmmaker/director John Mossman.

Saturday, October 14, 2023
Fayerweather, Beckham Hall, 2nd floor (55 Wyllys Avenue)

9 a.m.  Conference Check-In and Breakfast

9:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m. Session 6: Guns in Colonial and Antebellum U.S.
Moderator: Kevin Sweeney (Amherst College)
Panelists:
Antwain Hunter (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Jonathan Obert (Amherst College)
Lindsay Regele (Miami University)

10:45—11 a.m.  Break

11 a.m.—12 p.m. Session 7: Policy Implications of a Lethality Index
Moderator: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)
Panelists:
Stephen Hargarten (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Chris Lawrence (The Dupuy Institute)
Darrell A.H. Miller (Duke University School of Law)

Noon—1:30 p.m.  Lunch

1:30—2:45 p.m. Session 8: God and Guns: Faith in Firearms History
Moderator: Joseph Slaughter (Associate Director, Center for the Study of Guns and Society/Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University)
Panelists:
Major Jessica Dawson (United States Military Academy at West Point)
Michael Grigoni (Wake Forest University)
Jenny Legath (Princeton University)

2:45 p.m.—3 p.m.  Break

3—4:15 p.m. Session 9: Guns in Later 19th Century U.S. History and Law
Moderator: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University)
Panelists:
Brian DeLay (University of California Berkeley)
Caroline Light (Harvard University)

Brennan Rivas (Texas Christian University)

4:15—4:45 p.m. Session 10: Roundtable on Current and Future Initiatives
Moderator: Jennifer Tucker and Joseph Slaughter
Panelists:
Stephen Hargarten (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Matthew Miller (Northeastern University, Harvard Firearm Injury Prevention Research)
Renee Romano (Oberlin College)

4:45 p.m. Closing Reception

6 p.m. Departure

Questions? Contact Deidre Goodrich at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.2856.