{"id":767,"date":"2017-03-02T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/03\/02\/interesting-conference-at-amhers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:31","slug":"interesting-conference-at-amhers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Conference At Amherst College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8724,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amherst.edu\\\/system\\\/files\\\/media\\\/Copeland%2520Proposal%2520%2520Guns%2520for%2520web.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4999,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gunculture2point0.wordpress.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gunculture2point0.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8725,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amherst.edu\\\/system\\\/files\\\/media\\\/Program%2520March17.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170911180603\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amherst.edu\\\/system\\\/files\\\/media\\\/Program%2520March17.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:50:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:50:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8726,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bostonglobe.com\\\/magazine\\\/2013\\\/04\\\/13\\\/greetings-from-new-england-gun-valley\\\/bnluvQAU7sgWyhe4x8FVgP\\\/story.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6943,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.accuratepress.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stlccw.com\\\/product-category\\\/books\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8727,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jpfo.org\\\/docs\\\/rossletter.txt&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250911004403\\\/https:\\\/\\\/jpfo.org\\\/docs\\\/rossletter.txt&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:50:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:50:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAmherst College in Massachusetts holds their annual Copeland Colloquium this Friday and Saturday. The colloquium brings in a number of scholars from around the country to discuss a theme or topic. Past topics have included the place of art, the future of the humanities, international development, and &#8220;castrophe and the catastropic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/system\/files\/media\/Copeland%2520Proposal%2520%2520Guns%2520for%2520web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This year&#8217;s theme<\/a> will be The Symbolic and Material Construction of Guns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Sponsored by the 2016-17 Copeland Colloquium, this<br \/>\nconference will explore the symbolic and culture<br \/>\nconstruction of guns (and other weapons), the way in<br \/>\nwhich the material culture of the weapon shapes quotidian<br \/>\nforms of violent interaction, and the narratives in which<br \/>\nwe embed the \u201cweapon as actor.\u201d We want to ask new<br \/>\nquestions about the symbolic value of guns and the<br \/>\nmeanings the weapons used in the making of day-to-day<br \/>\nviolence convey. How do those meanings take on a life of<br \/>\ntheir own in the minds of participants in violent encounters?<br \/>\nWhat kinds of symbols are guns, after all? Do they<br \/>\ncondense multiple other meanings into a token to be<br \/>\nexchanged in civic life or do they operate as metaphors,<br \/>\nsuggesting larger complexes of meaning?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally such a conference would be a bit esoteric even for me. However, among the presenters is my friend Prof. David Yamane of Wake Forest University who runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/gunculture2point0.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Culture 2.0 blog<\/a>. David&#8217;s topic will be &#8220;The First Rule of Gun-Fighting is &#8216;Have a Gun&#8217;: Technologies of Concealed Carry in Gun Culture 2.0&#8221;. Now that doesn&#8217;t so esoteric to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/system\/files\/media\/Program%2520March17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The conference program and schedule is here<\/a> along with a list of the other presentations. I have checked and the conference is open to the public. If you are in the western New England area this weekend, it might be worth a trip to Amherst for this conference.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it should not be too surprising that such a conference would be held at Amherst College for a couple of reasons. First, the location is just at the north end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/magazine\/2013\/04\/13\/greetings-from-new-england-gun-valley\/bnluvQAU7sgWyhe4x8FVgP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;gun valley&#8221;<\/a> which is that swath of firearms companies (Colt, S&amp;W, etc.) running from Hartford to Springfield. Second, fans of John Ross&#8217; <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuratepress.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unintended Consequences<\/a><\/i> know that the protagonist Henry Bowman was an Amherst grad <a href=\"http:\/\/jpfo.org\/docs\/rossletter.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as is Ross himself.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amherst College in Massachusetts holds their annual Copeland Colloquium this Friday and Saturday. 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