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SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society\nThe new research Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University will host its inaugural conference\, “Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society\,” convening a select group of historians\, museum curators\, and other experts in the field. \nThe conference will feature a headliner conversation tomorrow at 4.30 pm\, Fri. Oct. 14 on the “History of Race and Guns in America” featuring guests Kathleen Belew (Northwestern University)\, Darrell A. H. Miller (Duke University School of Law)\, and Karen Attiah (columnist for The Washington Post ). The conversation will be moderated by Richard Galant (Managing Editor\, CNN Opinion). \nOn Friday afternoon and Saturday\, panel discussions will be held on a variety of topics. (A full schedule of talks and panels is pasted below – It also may be found under “Schedule” on the Center’s website or you can upload it using the QR code on the attached printable schedule). \nThe event is free and open. Registration for boxed lunches is closed but walk-ins are welcome and encouraged. Students are encouraged to come and participate; there are student presentations during the event as well as presentations about a current exhibition on artist’s books related to guns and gun violence now at Olin Library\, curated by Director of Special Collections and Archives\, Suzy Taraba. \nAudience members are welcome to join any session they would like. \nFor more information about the Center for the Study of Guns and Society and gun history courses\, student research and related initiatives at Wesleyan\, please visit the Center website or contact Jennifer Tucker\, Founding Director (jtucker@wesleyan.edu); Joseph Slaughter\, Associate Director (jslaughter@wesleyan.edu) or Kris McQueeney\, Administrative Assistant (kmcqueeney@wesleyan.edu). For Communication related questions\, please email Lauren Rubenstein (lauren.h.rubenstein@gmail.com). \nOctober 14–15\, 2022 \nClick here to see photos of the event. \n\nEvent Highlights:\nThe conference featured a headliner event\, “A Conversation on History\, Race\, and Guns in America” between Kathleen Belew (Northwestern University)\, Darrell A. H. Miller (Duke University School of Law)\, and Karen Attiah (Washington Post columnist on international affairs\, culture and human rights issues). Richard Galant (Managing Editor\, CNN Opinion) will moderate. \nIn addition\, panel discussions were held on topics including: \n\nMuseums and Firearms History\nGuns in Visual\, Design and Material Culture\nStudent Research Presentations\nGuns in Colonial and Antebellum America\nQuantifying Arms Lethality in Historical Perspective\nNineteenth-Century Contexts of Gun Rights & Regulations\nGod and Guns: Faith and Firearms in American History\nHistorical Perspectives on Guns in Contemporary Society\n\n\nConference Schedule\nFriday\, October 14\, 2022\n11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Conference Registration\nFayerweather\, 1st floor \nNoon–1 p.m. Welcome Lunch\nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor \n1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks\nOlin Library\, Smith Reading Room\nNicole Stanton (Wesleyan University)\nJennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University) \n1:30–2:30 p.m. Session 1: Museums and Firearms History\nOlin Library\, Smith Reading Room\nModerator: Leah Glaser (Central Connecticut State University)\nPanelists:\nAlex MacKenzie (Springfield Armory National Historic Site\, Springfield\, Massachusetts)\nAmy Glowacki (Coltsville National Historic Park\, Hartford\, Connecticut)\nDanny Michael (Buffalo Bill Center of the West\, Cody\, Wyoming)\nJackie Loveland (John Moses Browning House\, Ogden\, Utah) \n2:30–2:45 p.m. Break \n2:45–3:30 p.m. Session 2: Guns in Visual\, Design and Material Culture\nOlin Library\, Smith Reading Room\nModerator: Jesse Nasta (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nSuzy Taraba (Wesleyan University)\n“Artists Fight Back: Exhibiting Violence in Society”\nGlenn LaVertu (Parsons\, The New School for Design)\n“They Come Alive: The Design and Philosophy of the Gun”\nJennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)\n“The Interlocked Histories of Photography and Guns in Nineteenth-Century New England and the Atlantic World” \n3:30–4 p.m. Session 3: Student Research Presentations\nOlin Library\, Lobby\nModerator: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nCarlotta Gidal ’23\nLatonya Smith ’24\nAlex Trufinescu ’23\nLucia Voges ’23\nEmma Tuhabonye ’23 \n4–4:30 p.m. Break and Walk to Beckham Hall \n4:30–6 p.m. Headliner Event: “A Conversation on History\, Race\, and Guns in America”\nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor\nModerator: Richard Galant (CNN Opinion)\nPanelists:\nKaren Attiah (Washington Post)\nKathleen Belew (Northwestern University)\nDarrell A.H. Miller (Duke University School of Law) \nSaturday\, October 15\, 2022\n8:45–9 a.m. Continental breakfast\, coffee and registration\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor \n9–10:30 a.m. Session 5: Guns in Colonial and Antebellum America\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor\nModerator: Crystal Feimster (Yale University)\nPanelists:\nDavid J. Silverman (George Washington University)\n“The First American Gun Crisis”\nKevin Sweeney (Amherst College)\n“Guns in the Cultures of Eighteenth-Century America”\nSaul Cornell (Fordham University)\n“Abolitionism\, Armed Self-Defense\, and Firearms Regulation in Antebellum America” \n10:30–10:45 a.m. Break \n10:45–11:15 a.m. Session 6: Quantifying Arms Lethality in Historical Perspectives\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor\nDiscussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)\nPresenter: Christopher A. Lawrence (The Dupuy Institute)\n“Evolution of Weapons and Warfare” \n11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 7: Nineteenth-Century Contexts of Gun Rights & Regulations\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor\nModerator: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nJonathan Obert (Amherst College)\n“The Economic Origins of American Gun Rights”\nTracy L. Barnett (University of Georgia)\n“Men and Their Guns: The Culture of Self-Deputized Manhood in the South\, 1850–1877” \n12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons lounge area\, 3rd floor \n1:30–3 p.m. Session 8: God and Guns: Faith and Firearms in American History\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor\nModerator: Joseph Slaughter (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nKatherine Carté (Southern Methodist University)\n“Religion\, Guns\, and Violence in Revolutionary America”\nMichael J. McVicar (Florida State University)\n“White Conservative Evangelicals and Firearms in the Late Twentieth Century”\nJenny Wiley Legath (Princeton University)\n“‘This House Protected by the Good Lord and a Gun’: Remarks on the Recent History of Guns and Religion in the U.S.” \n3–3:15 p.m. Coffee Break\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor \n3:15–4:45 p.m. Session 9: Historical Perspectives on Guns in Contemporary Society\nUsdan University Center\, Daniel Family Commons\, 3rd floor\nModerator: Sean McCann (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nDemetrius L. Eudell\n“Carceral Connecticut Project: The History of Race\, Violence\, and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley”\nJoshua Aiken (Yale University)\n“The Social Life of Gun Control: Handguns\, Violence\, & Disorders in the 1960s & 70s”\nBrennan Gardner Rivas (Texas Christian University)\n“Military Disarmament and the Role of Reconstruction Historiography after Bruen” \n4:45–5 p.m. Conference Wrap-Up\nModerators: Jennifer Tucker\, Joseph Slaughter \n5 p.m. Refreshments
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/fall-2022-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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