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Category Archives: Conference Panels
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October 10 – 11, 2025 How have U.S. gun regulations evolved since the beginning of 2025? How did governments in early modern Europe address the emergence of firearms 250 years…
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Friday, October 10 Sessions Wesleyan Alumni: Notes from the Field Moderator: Richard Galant (“Now It’s History”) Panel: Patricia Logan-Greene ’99 (University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work ) Nick Suplina ’00 (Everytown for Gun…
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Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts third-annual conference at a pivotal moment in the national conversation about firearms An opening panel on current legal cases, Alinor Sterling…
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Moderator: Sean McCann (Wesleyan University) Panelists: Demetrius L. Eudell (Wesleyan University): “Carceral Connecticut Project: The History of Race, Violence, and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley” Joshua Aiken (Yale University):…
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Moderator: Joseph Slaughter (Associate Director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society) Panelists: Katherine Carté (Southern Methodist University): “Religion, Guns, and Violence in Revolutionary America” Michael J. McVicar (Florida…
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Moderator: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University) Panelists: Jonathan Obert (Amherst College): “The Economic Origins of American Gun Rights” Tracy L. Barnett (University of Georgia): “‘Men and Their Guns: The Culture of…
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Discussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan) Christopher Lawrence (The Dupuy Institute, VA): “Evolution of Weapons and Warfare” (Photos by Czarina Yuffa.)
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Moderator: Crystal Feimster (Yale University) Panelists: David J. Silverman (George Washington University): “The First American Gun Crisis” Kevin Sweeney (Amherst College): “Guns in the Cultures of Eighteenth-Century America” Saul Cornell…
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Moderator: Jennifer Tucker (Founding Director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society, and Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan) Presenters: Carlotta Gidal (CSS, ’23) Latonya Smith (CS and ECON, ’24)…
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