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SUMMARY:Fall 2025 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society\nThe Center for the Study of Guns & Society is pleased to announce its 4th annual fall conference at Wesleyan University in Middletown\, CT. Historians\, museum professionals\, legal scholars\, public health experts\, as well as public historians and other experts in the field\, will come together to explore topics in the social and cultural history of firearms and ballistics. \nConference starts at 11am on Friday and concludes at 6pm on Saturday. \nFor more information\, contact Deidre Goodrich\, program coordinator\, at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu. \nClick below for articles about this conference. \n2025 Conference Info
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/fall-2025-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:CSGS Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference: “Current Undergraduate Research on Guns & Society: Then and Now”\nThe Center for the Study of Guns & Society will host its third annual one-day undergraduate research conference on Friday\, April 25\, 2025\, 10am – 3pm\, in the Smith Reading Room\, Olin Library at Wesleyan University. Coffee and check-in start at 9:30am. \nThe conference will feature original\, cross-disciplinary research by undergraduate students from Wesleyan University and Amherst College. \nConference special guests will be Deborah Azrael\, PhD\, Director of Research\, and Matthew Miller\, MD\, MPH\, Co-Director\, of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. \nRegistration is now closed. \nContact Deidre Goodrich\, CSGS program coordinator at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu for more information.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/spring-2025-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Guns and Society\nFriday\, October 18 – Saturday\, October 19\, 2024 \nWesleyan University\, Middletown\, CT \nThe Center for the Study of Guns & Society is pleased to announce its 3rd annual fall conference. Scholars\, museum curators\, and students from around the country will gather for two days of discussions on a wide range of historical topics related to firearms. \nFor more information\, contact Deidre Goodrich\, program coordinator\, at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu. \n\nFriday\, October 18\, 2024\nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor (55 Wyllys Avenue) \n9:30 – 11 am  Walking Tour: Middletown and the Birth of Arms Manufacturing (Optional) \nHosted by the Middlesex Country Historical Society. Join us for a walking tour of historic High Street and learn how the history of guns runs right through Wesleyan University’s campus. $10 per person. \n11 am – 4:30 pm   Conference Check-In \n11:30 am – 1:30 pm   Lunch and Panel Discussion \n12 pm   Welcome Remarks \nNicole Stanton\, Provost\, Wesleyan University \nJennifer Tucker\, Founding Director\, Center for the Study of Guns & Society\, Wesleyan University \n12:10 – 1:25 pm Session 1: Current Legal Cases on Guns in the U.S. \nModerator: Richard Galant (Now It’s History) \nPanelists: \nAlinor Sterling (Koskoff Koskoff and Bieder)\nKelly Sampson (Brady)\nLeigh Rome (Giffords) \n1:30 – 2:30 pm   Session 2: Gun Violence and Health: Epidemiology\, Economics\, and Community Perspectives \nModerator:  Kelly Roskam (Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions) \nPanelists: \nMatthew Miller (Northeastern Univ. / Harvard Firearm Injury Prevention Center)\n“Recent Work on the Epidemiology of Firearm Injury in the U.S.” \nRebecca Johnson (Milliman)\n“Healthcare Cost Journey for Survivors of Firearm Injuries” \nRichard Glover (Long Island University School of Social Work)\n“Safer Schools & Communities: A Comprehensive Collaborative Model” \n2:30 – 2:45 pm   Break \n2:45 – 3:45 pm   Session 3:  Gun History in an Age of Originalism \nModerator: Thomas Wolf (Brennan Center for Justice at NYU) \nPanelists: \nJack Rakove (Stanford University\, Emeritus)\n“The Hollow Promise of Originalist Jurisprudence” \nMark Frassetto (Everytown for Gun Safety)\n“History in Post-Bruen Second Amendment Litigation” \nKelly Roskam (Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions)\n“The Handful of Historical Laws in Second Amendment Litigation” \nIan Ayres (Yale Law School)\n“The Coming Assault on Federal Gun Restrictions” \n3:45 – 4:30 pm   Session 4: CSGS Research Updates \nModerator: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan) \nHistorical Gun Laws Across Five States \nBrennan Gardner Rivas (Wesleyan)\nEvan Turiano (Wesleyan) \nGun Data Across Media\, Innovation\, Gun Violence\, Incidents\, and Advertisement: Methods and Research \nMaryam Gooyabadi (Wesleyan’s QAC) \n4:30 – 5 pm   Session 5: Lethality Studies \nModerator: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan) \nPanelists: \nStephen Hargarten (Medical College of Wisconsin)\nIain Overton (Action on Armed Violence) \n5 – 5:15 pm   Break \n5:15 – 6:30 pm   Session 6:  Gunplay and Movies: A Conversation and Audience Discussion with Hollywood Armorer/Weapons Master Harry Lu\nModerator: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan)\n“Reenacting Justice” Presentation: Glenn LaVertu (Parsons School of Design / Wesleyan visiting instructor)\nDiscussion Facilitators:\nRyan Linkof (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art)\nMichael Slowik (Wesleyan Film Studies) \n6:45 – 7:45 pm   Reception at Center for the Study of Guns & Society (Horgan House\, 77 Pearl St.) \nDrinks and light appetizers \nDinner on your own \nSign up for a group dinner or use our restaurant guide. \nSaturday\, October 19\, 2024 \nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor (55 Wyllys Avenue) \n8:30 – 9 am   Continental Breakfast and Check-In \n9 -10:30 am   Session 7: Early American History \nModerator: Evan Turiano (Wesleyan) \nPanelists: \nJen McCutchen (University of St. Thomas)\n“‘She Kept a Gun to Defend Herself as Well as Her Husband Did’: Women and Firearms in the 18c. Native South” \nHolly Brewer (University of Maryland)\n“Gun Regulations in Context” \nKevin Sweeney (Amherst College)\n“The Production and Marketing of Firearms Used in Eighteenth-Century America” \nSaul Cornell (Fordham University)\n“Common Law Limits on Firearms: Surety Laws in Historical Context” \n10:30 – 10:45 am   Break \n10:45 am – 12:15 pm   Session 8:  Nineteenth-Century Studies of Guns and Culture \nModerator:  Roberto Saba (Wesleyan) \nPanelists: \nRandy Roth (The Ohio State University)\n“How Did Changes in Firearms Technologies and in the Uses of Existing Technologies Change the Character and Incidence of Violence in the U.S. in the 19th Century?” \nBrennan Gardner Rivas (Wesleyan)\n“The Revolver Must Go: Regulating Guns in Texas” \nKate Birkbeck (Yale University)\n“The Redemption of the Arms Trade 1873-1875” \nLK Bertram (University of Toronto)\n“The Calamity Club: Sex Workers and Madams as Gun Owners in the ‘Wild’ West\, 1863-1914” \n12:15 – 1:30 pm   Lunch \n1:30 – 2:30 pm   Session 9: Interpreting Firearms in Museums \nModerator: Leah Glaser (Central Connecticut State University) \nPanelists: \nAlex MacKenzie (Springfield Armory National Historic Site / Coltsville)\n“Layering Interpretation on Technical Collections” \nRyan Linkof (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art)\n“A Narrative Device: Guns and Visual Storytelling” \nKen Cohen (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)\n“Exhibition Strategies for Firearms at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History” \nKelly Fellner (Springfield Armory National Historic Site / Coltsville)\n“Capturing Coltsville in the City of Hartford” \n2:30 – 3:30 pm   Session 10:  The History of Guns and Religion in the U.S. \nModerator: Brennan Gardner Rivas \nPanelists: \nJoseph Moore (Kennesaw State University)\n“The Gun Disciples of Christ” \nGregory Mixon (University of North Carolina – Charlotte)\n“Multiple Hats: Late Nineteenth Century African Americans\, the Militia\, and the Community” \nJoseph Slaughter (CSGS Associate Director\, Wesleyan)\n“Death Stalked Close: Fundamentalism and Firearms” \n3:30 – 3:45pm   Break \n3:45-4:45 pm   Session 11: Guns in 20th Century History—Concretizing and Abstracting Guns \nModerator: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University) \nPanelists: \nTerrence Witkowski (California State University\, Long Beach)\n“Toy Guns and Social Unease in American History” \nAndrew McKevitt (Louisiana Tech University)\n“Dr. Grady’s Crusade: The Cold War Origins of Gun Rights Radicalism” \nJustin A. Joyce (Washington University in St. Louis)\n“Joystick Justice: Video Games and American Gun Violence” \n4:45 pm   Conference wrap-up and brief preview of upcoming events \nJennifer Tucker and Joseph Slaughter \n5 – 6 pm   Closing Reception \nClick here to read post-conference article. \nClick here to see conference photos.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/fall-2024-conference/
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:CSGS Second Annual Undergraduate Research Conference\nCSGS hosted its second annual Undergraduate Research Conference on April 26\, 2024\, in the Frank Center for Public Affairs on the Wesleyan campus. \nThe day-long conference featured undergraduate students from Wesleyan and Trinity College presenting original research on guns and society using mixed media. \nCSGS founding director Jennifer Tucker shared how the conference theme\, “Historical and Current Perspective on Guns and Society\,” reflects a broad range of research topics. The students’ research supports the Center’s mission of learning from each other across disciplines and fostering connections between academics\, artists\, data science researchers\, and communities at large. \nArtist and “Reenacting Justice: Guns in America” co-instructor Glenn LaVertu shared clips from short films that students created as part of the course. LaVertu collaborated with the students on a video/installation titled Taking Aim (Reenacting Justice)\, 2024\, currently on display in Wesleyan’s Olin Library. \nThe student videos are original scripted stories\, conceived as “reenactments” of shootouts and showdown scenes from Western films such as High Noon (1952) and Tombstone (1993)\, with a superimposed contemporary context. In each video multiple ideas and viewpoints about the gun debate in America are addressed\, thus the title: Taking Aim. \nTaking Aim (Reenacting Justice)\, 2024\, artist Glenn LaVertu\nOne example: Chloe Goorman ’24 and Fisher Hirsch ’26 address masculine vs. feminine tropes found in American Westerns\, while exploring the notion that gun ownership and use was not unfettered in the “Wild West.” Their short film can be viewed here. \nA special guest at the conference\, Cameron McWhirter\, Wall Street Journal reporter and co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15\, sat for a conversation with Wesleyan Professor Peter Rutland. Together\, they dissected the narrative of the AR-15\, a symbol of American culture and political division. \nPeter Rutland and Cameron McWhirter\nIn the book\, McWhirter and co-author Zusha Elinson unraveled the gun’s evolution from military use in Vietnam to its civilian market surge. They highlighted the AR-15’s paradoxical design—optimized for combat yet easily wielded by novices\, resulting in catastrophic mass shootings. \n“The profit margins were so tempting that all the gun companies eventually jumped in\,” said McWhirter. “That has left our country with an enormous problem of 20 to 25 million AR-15s.” \nReflecting on their investigation\, McWhirter recognized the interplay of technology and society\, emphasizing the need for nuanced discourse amid ideological divisions. \n“It’s a story about how technology pulls society to places it’s not prepared to be\,” shared McWhirter.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/spring-2024-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter 2023 Museum Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Theories\, Practices\, and Pedagogies of Contested Histories in Museum Exhibits\nIn December 2023\, CSGS brought together 21 museum professionals for a workshop that explored a wide range of possibilities and challenges of museum curatorship with historical firearm exhibits. Funded in part by the New England Humanities Consortium\, this event exemplifies the center’s mission of fostering and supporting new collaborations between universities and museums. \nParticipants discussed the complexities of presenting firearms in their historical context while acknowledging contemporary society’s complex relationship with guns today. They raised a range of questions including: How are guns and their histories exhibited and narrated? Do museums have special ethical responsibilities in public history? What roles do museum visitors play in creating understandings of the past? What is the nature of the relationship between history and museums? What role\, if any\, do public exhibitions of firearms collections serve in today’s gun debate? \nThey also broadened the conversation to include teaching complex histories to students\, engaging communities with a process of memorialization\, and embracing a multifaceted approach to historical interpretation that goes beyond “both sides.” \nCSGS\, in partnership with Coltsville National Historical Park in Hartford\, continues to explore these\, and other\, questions through joint projects that grapple with the complicated history of firearms manufacturing. Tucker also joined colleagues on a panel titled “Interpreting the History of Firearms at Museums and Historic Sites: A Public History Conversation\,” at the National Council on Public History Conference in April 2024\, and the Connecticut League of Museums Annual Conference in June 2024.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/winter-2023-museum-workshop/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society\nThe Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts an annual conference in the fall. Scholars\, museum curators\, and students from around the country gather for two days of discussions on a wide range of historical topics related to firearms. \nThanks to The New England Humanities Consortium\, Wesleyan’s College of Film and the Moving Image\, and Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts Creative Campus Initiative for their conference support. \nThe Fall 2023 conference was held at Wesleyan University on October 13–14\, 2023. \n\nConference registration is closed but you are welcome to join us. Contact Deidre Goodrich at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu with any questions. \nFriday\, October 13\, 2023\nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor (55 Wyllys Avenue)\n11:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.  Conference Check-In \n11:30 a.m.—1 p.m.  Lunch \n1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks\nMary-Jane Rubenstein\, Dean of Social Sciences/Professor of Religion\nJennifer Tucker\, Founding Director\, Center for the Study of Guns & Society/Professor of History at Wesleyan University \n1:30—2:30 p.m.  Session 1: Museums and Firearms History\nModerator: Leah Glaser (Central Connecticut State University)\nPanelists:\nKelly Fellner (Springfield Armory National Historic Site)\n“Expanding the Audience Beyond the Museum”\nNathan Jones (Independent Curator\, former Curator at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum\, Oklahoma City\, OK)\n“Re-introducing Firearms to Their Social Contexts”\nDavid Kennedy (United States Marshals Museum\, Fort Smith\, AR)\n“The United States Marshals Museum: When a ‘Gun Exhibit’ is Not About the Guns”\nFrancesca Liuni (Rhode Island School of Design)\, Steven Lubar (Brown University) and\nJennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)\n“Lessons From Teaching a Course on Exhibit Designs for the Coltsville National Historical Park” \n2:30—2:45 p.m.  Break and Student Poster Sessions\n2:45—3:15 p.m. Session 2: Data Sources for Firearms History\nPresenter: Maryam Gooyabadi (Assistant Professor of the Practice in Quantitative Analysis\, Quantitative Analysis Center\, Wesleyan University)\n3:15—3:30 p.m.  Break and Student Poster Sessions \n3:30—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)\nPanelists:\nAndrew Canter (U.S. District Court-Greater Jackson Mississippi Area)\nBrian DeLay (University of California\, Berkeley)\nBrennan Rivas (Historian & Independent Scholar) \n4:30—5:30 p.m.  Session 4: How Journalism\, the “First Draft of History\,” Informs the Gun Debate\nModerator: Richard Galant (CNN)\nPanelists:\nFairriona Magee (The Trace)\nMike McIntire (The New York Times)\nIain Overton (Action on Armed Violence) \n5:45 p.m.  Dinner\n7 p.m. Session 5: Film Screening: “Good Guy with a Gun” (2023)\, College of Film and Moving Image (Powell Theater)\, 301 Washington Terrace\nWelcome and introduction by Jennifer Tucker\, Wesleyan University\, and Randall MacLowry\, The Film Posse/Wesleyan University\nAudience discussion with filmmaker/director John Mossman and actor David Stobbe follows the film. \nSaturday\, October 14\, 2023\nFayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 2nd floor (55 Wyllys Avenue)\n9 a.m.  Conference Check-In and Breakfast \n9:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m. Session 6: Guns in Colonial and Antebellum U.S\nModerator: Kevin Sweeney (Amherst College)\nPanelists:\nJonathan Obert (Amherst College)\n“Bifurcation in the Nineteenth Century U.S. Small Arms Industry”\nAntwain Hunter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\n“‘To Restore Their Guns to Them Again’: Firearms\, Race\, and Community in North Carolina\, 1840-1861”\nLindsay Schakenbach Regele (Miami University)\n“Guns and Westward Expansion”\n10:45—11 a.m.  Break \n11 a.m.—12 p.m. Session 7: Policy Implications of a Lethality Index\nModerator: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nStephen Hargarten (Medical College of Wisconsin)\nChris Lawrence (The Dupuy Institute)\nDarrell A.H. Miller (Duke University School of Law)\nJennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University) \nNoon—1:30 p.m.  Lunch \n1:30—2:45 p.m. Session 8: God and Guns: Faith in Firearms History\nModerator: Joseph Slaughter (Associate Director\, Center for the Study of Guns & Society/Assistant Professor of History\, Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nJessica Dawson (United States Military Academy at West Point)\n“Anti-Government Patriotism in the American Rifleman 1980-2023″\nMichael Grigoni (Wake Forest University)\n“Christian-Protectors: Notes from the Field”\nJenny Legath (Princeton University)\n“Pastoral Discourse Following the Uvalde School Shooting”\n2:45 p.m.—3 p.m.  Break \n3—4:15 p.m. Session 9: Guns in Later 19th Century U.S. History and Law\nModerator: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nBrian DeLay (University of California\, Berkeley)\n“How and Why to Count Winchesters in 1868”\nBrennan Rivas (Historian & Independent Scholar)\n“Going Armed: Nineteenth Century Views on Open-Carry”\nCaroline Light (Harvard University)\n“Where Gun Rights and Fetal Rights Collide” \n4:15—4:45 p.m. Session 10: Roundtable on Current and Future Initiatives\nModerators: Jennifer Tucker and Joseph Slaughter (Wesleyan University)\nPanelists:\nStephen Hargarten (Medical College of Wisconsin)\nMatthew Miller (Northeastern University\, Harvard Firearm Injury Prevention Research)\n“Summary of Current Projects Including Effects of Extreme Risk Protection Orders on Recipients”\nRenee Romano (Oberlin College)\n“Firearms Impact Project: Activating Exhibits to Address Gun Violence”\n4:45 p.m. Closing Reception \n6 p.m. Departure\nQuestions? Contact Deidre Goodrich at dgoodrich@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.2856. \nSee conference photos here.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/fall-2023-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Lessons from History on Domestic Violence\, Firearms\, and the Law
DESCRIPTION:One-Day Symposium\nFriday\, May 5\, 2023\nWesleyan University\, Middletown\, CT\nMansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies\, 343 Washington Terrace \nEvery month\, around 70 women in the U.S. are shot and killed by their partners. In fact\, firearms are used in the majority of domestic violence homicides today. \nHow has the proliferation of guns in U.S. homes shaped historical patterns of domestic (physical\, sexual\, and psychological) abuse? What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent Bruen decision on gun ownership for the domestic violence crisis? What will the likely role of history and historians be in a post-Bruen world where “historical analogy” is the primary test in deciding legal cases? \nThis one-day symposium convened leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of perspectives for a wide-ranging conversation about how firearms and domestic violence are entwined\, historically and today. \nMade possible through a generous contribution from the Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender. \n\nSymposium Schedule:\n9:30 a.m. Coffee and pastries \n10:00 a.m. Welcome by Wesleyan Provost Nicole Stanton and CSGS Founding Director Jennifer Tucker \n10:15–11:00 a.m. Originalism\, the Supreme Court\, the Texas Rahimi decision\, & History\, with Saul Cornell\, Reva Siegel\, and Kelly Sampson (Moderator: Kelly Roskam) \n11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Firearms and Domestic Violence in Historical\, Epidemiologic\, and Contemporary Perspective\, with Jackie Campbell\, Matthew Miller\, and Julia Weber.  (Moderator: Brennan Rivas) \n12:00­–1:00 p.m.  Boxed Lunches provided for registered participants. \n1:00–2:00 p.m. Historians and Legal Scholars on DV\, with Laura Edwards\, Elizabeth Pleck\, & Victoria Nourse (Moderator: Jennifer Tucker) \n2:00–3:00 p.m. Roundtable Panel discussion with Crystal Feimster\, Alicia Nichols\, & Kelly Sampson: “Rethinking Regulation in the U.S.: Why Gun Safety is a Reproductive Issue\, Too” (Moderator: Karen Attiah) \n3:00­­–4:00 p.m. Audience Discussion (Moderators: Karen Attiah and Jennifer Tucker) \n4:00 p.m.  Tent reception and drinks \nSpeakers\nHistorical Research\nLaura F. Edwards\, a legal historian at Princeton University and the author of five books about legal and gender history in the United States. \nCrystal Feimster\, associate professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History and the Programs of American Studies and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is a prize-winning historian whose academic focus is on racial and sexual violence in 19th and 20th century U.S. history. \nElizabeth Pleck is professor emerita of history and human development and family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an expert on the history of the family and legal\, political\, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. \nLegal Research\nSaul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University\, and the author of two prize-winning works in American legal history. \nVictoria Nourse\, Ralph Whitworth Professor of Law at Georgetown University and central staff drafter of the 1994 Violence against Women Act and the Brady Bill. \nKelly Sampson is Senior Counsel and Director of Racial Justice at The Brady Center in Washington\, D.C and the author of The Right Not To Be Shot: Public Safety\, Private Guns\, and the Constellation of Constitutional Liberties\, published in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Policy. \nReva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. \nPolicy Research\nAlicia Nichols\, LSW\, the Director of Innovation at the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) and Deputy Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms. \nJulia Weber\, JD\, MSW\, Firearms and Domestic Violence Policy Consultant. \nPublic Health Research\nJacquelyn C. Campbell\, professor and the Anna D. Wolf Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Scholars program. \nMatthew Miller\, Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University\, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, and Co-Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. \nModerators\nKaren Attiah\, columnist at The Washington Post writing on international affairs\, culture\, and human rights issues. \nBrennan Rivas\, historian and independent scholar. \nKelly Roskam\, director of law and policy at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. \nJennifer Tucker\, associate professor of history at Wesleyan University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/spring-2023-lessons-from-history-on-domestic-violence-firearms-and-the-law/
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SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 28\, 2023 \nWesleyan University\, Middletown\, CT\nWoodhead Lounge\, Exley Science Center \nThe Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosted its inaugural one-day Undergraduate Research Conference\, with participation from students at Wesleyan University\, Amherst College\, and Trinity College\, on April 28\, 2023. \nUndergraduate students\, faculty\, and staff presented on research topics in guns and society related to history\, religion\, literature\, visual arts and material culture\, public health and medicine\, museums/public history/memorialization\, business\, theater\, film and media\, government\, policy\, engineering/design\, manufacturing\, law\, anthropology\, lethality\, environmental history\, animal studies\, psychology\, and/or other relevant scholarly fields. \nThe event was organized by Prof. Scott Gac (American Studies and History at Trinity)\, Prof. Jonathan Obert (Political Science at Amherst)\, and Prof. Jennifer Tucker (History at Wesleyan). Special guests included a curator from the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution\, Washington\, D.C.) \nSee photos of the event here. \n\nConference Agenda\nSchedule\nOverview\n9:30 a.m. coffee/registration \n10:00 a.m. Welcome and Panel One Sessions/Poster Sessions \nNoon–1 p.m. Lunch \n1–3 p.m. Panel Sessions/Poster sessions \n3:00 p.m. Conference wrap up \n3–5 p.m. Walking tour of Middletown\, refreshments\, and tour of Middlesex County Historical Society collections with Director Jesse Nasta (Wesleyan) \nDetailed Schedule\n10:00 a.m. Welcome from Center for the Study of Guns & Society Founding Director Jennifer Tucker \n10:05 a.m. Panel/Poster Sessions on Current Research/Teaching \nBrief presentations on current research projects and courses. \nPanelists\nProf. Scott Gac (Trinity)\nProf. Jonathan Obert (Amherst)\nProf. Joseph Slaughter (Wesleyan)\nProf. Maryam Gooyabadi (Wesleyan)\nKate Birkbeck (Yale\, Department of History\, graduate student) \n10:30–11 a.m. Guns in Movies/TV/Visual Storytelling \nProf. Avner Shavit (Visiting Faculty in Jewish Studies at Wesleyan)\, on Hollywood and independent movies. \nPeter Mullen (History major at Wesleyan)\, on the role of documentary films. \nProf. Jennifer Tucker (History faculty at Wesleyan)\, on “Entertainment media as silent partners: A short history of product placement of guns in Hollywood movies.” \n11:00–11:20 a.m. Panel presentation: Current student research on gun patents in the Quantitative Analysis Center (Moderator Prof. Maryam Gooyabadi\, Wesleyan):\nVeronica Goss\, Jake Gala\, Simin Liu\, Patton Yin\, and Xiran Tan \n11:20 a.m.– Noon Headline Talk \nShannon Perich (Curator\, Div of Science and Industry\, Smithsonian Museum of American History): “Hunting for History Through Photography” (Chair/Moderator: Jennifer Tucker) \nA conversation about the role of museums and history and working at the Smithsonian Museum of American History\, as well as new projects related to guns\, visual and material culture\, and violence. \nLUNCH \n1–3 p.m. Panels and Presentations by Undergraduate Researchers \nLaura Braithwaite (Amherst): “Girls Got Guns: Women and Gender in Gun Advertisements” \nThomas Lyons (Wesleyan\, History): “Visual Arguments in Harper’s Weekly on the Role of Firearms in Reconstruction-era Society” \nLance Duncan (Amherst\, Economics): “Understanding the Relationship between Individualism\, Nationalism\, and Guns in American Culture\, Media\, and Law.” \nSophie Laurence (Amherst\, Political Science): “From Memes to Mayhem: How the Construction of Internet Narratives Led to an Insurrection” \nWilliam Gannon (Wesleyan\, History): “The History and Legacy of the M1 Garand” (Wesleyan) \nKeysha Matthews (Trinity\, American Studies): “Race and Guns: How the Philando Castile Case changed attitudes for Black Americans” \nTrisha Mohan (Trinity\, History and Political Science): “The Growth in Female Gun Ownership and its Implication for Women’s Safety” \nPei Pei (Amherst): “Breaking Down the Doors of Trust: Police Militarization and Its Influence on Gun Ownership in the United States” (Case Study on Los Angeles) \nImagen Walters (Wesleyan\, Psychology): “Bias in Self-Defense Court in Relation to Firearms” \nBriana Rodriguez Castillo (Wesleyan\, College of Social Studies): “Triggered: The Consequences of Red Flag Laws on the “Mentally Ill” and Civil Liberties” \nEvan Steinberg (Wesleyan\, Government): “Momentum amicorum curiae historicae: The Importance of Historical Amici Briefs in Bruen“ \nFaith and Firearms course (lightning rounds)\, with Prof. Joseph Slaughter:\nAkhil Joondeph\, Erin Byerly\, Caroline Jenkins\, Declan Derfler-Murphy\, Ted Greenberg \nCaitlin Doherty (Trinity\, Public Policy/Law and Human Rights): “The Impact of Community Violence Intervention Organizations in Preventing Gun Violence” \nMaggie Amaral (Trinity\, American Studies and Hispanic Studies): “What Happens After? The Presence of PTSD in Victims of Mass Shootings Years Later” \nBéatrice Duchastel de Montrouge (Brown University\, American Studies and the History of Art and Architecture): “Je me souviens”: An Evolving Public Memory on the Montréal Massacre\, as Shown Through the Place du 6-Décembre-1989” \nJoshua Jacobs (Biology) and Scott Alexander (Urban Studies) (Trinity): “Mapping Correlates of Gun Violence in Hartford” \nJoshua Jacobs (Trinity\, Biology): “Connecticut Provider’s Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Use of Extreme Risk Protection Orders” \nPanel on the Coltsville/National Park Service Collaboration with RISD and Brown as part of the Carceral Connecticut (Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times”) project:\nFiona O’Reilly\, Valerie Gottridge\, Carolyn Neugarten\, Tamara Pilson\, Sophia Molina\, and Emilia Thornton with Bryan Winston (project leader)\, Paul Szymaszek (project advisor)\, and Jennifer Tucker (faculty director). \nColtsville’s Community Volunteer Ambassador\, Joseph Driesenga\, will represent Coltsville at the event and provide materials about internships and summer jobs. \nSteve Machuga (IT\, Wesleyan): “My Life with Guns” \n3:15-3:30 Wrap up and questions with audience. \n3:30–5:00 p.m. Tour of Middlesex County Historical Society led by Director Jesse Nasta\, followed by a river walk with Italian ices.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/spring-2023-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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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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