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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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