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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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