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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: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.
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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 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 2026 Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Historical and Current Perspectives on Guns and Society is the 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference hosted by the Center for the Study of Guns & Society.
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/spring-2026-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Olin Library’s Smith Reading Room
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SUMMARY:CSGS Fall 2027 Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:CSGS is pleased to announce that its fall research conference\, “Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society\,” will return on October 8-9\, 2027\, at Wesleyan University. The conference convenes historians and scholars for two days to share their work and discuss firearms history and its contemporary impacts on media\, culture\, race\, law\, religion\, and public health. The 2027 conference will screen One Morning in Buffalo\, the story of John Elmore and Kristen Elmore-Garcia\, who were featured on a 2025 conference panel\, “Guns and the Courts.”
URL:https://gunsandsocietycenter.com/event/csgs-fall-2027-research-conference/
LOCATION:Wesleyan University\, Fayerweather\, Beckham Hall\, 55 Wyllys Ave\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
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