Upcoming Events

Conferences, Panels and CSGS Events

  • Spring 2023 Lessons from History on Domestic Violence, Firearms, and the Law

    One-Day Symposium Friday, May 5, 2023 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, 343 Washington Terrace Every 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. How has the proliferation of guns in...

  • Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference

    Wesleyan University, Fayerweather, Beckham Hall 55 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT, United States

    Friday, April 28, 2023 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Woodhead Lounge, Exley Science Center The 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. Undergraduate students, faculty, and staff presented on research topics in guns...

  • Fall 2022 Conference

    Wesleyan University, Fayerweather, Beckham Hall 55 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT, United States

    Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society The 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. The conference will feature a headliner conversation...