Please join us for visiting scholar Carole Emberton's public presentation, "Guns! What Are They Good For? Utility and Meaning in American History" at the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday, February 25, at 6 p.m.. Emberton's lecture will trace the evolving cultural and political histories around guns in American history, giving context for our current exhibition, UNLOADED, which focuses on the contemporary discourse around firearms.
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Guns! What Are They Good For?: Utility and Meaning in American History
Thursday, February 25, 2016
6 p.m.
Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College
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Carole Emberton is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Buffalo. Her research focuses on the Civil War era, with focus on how violence shapes our social, political, and cultural worlds both past and present. Her first book, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Beyond Redemption merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction.
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All Handwerker Gallery events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.; Thursday, 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.; and weekends, noon to 5.00 p.m.. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays unless otherwise specified for an event but can accommodate group or class visits by appointment.
For further information or individuals with disabilities requiring parking accommodations, please contact Mara Baldwin at mbaldwin@ithaca.edu or 607.274.3548. Please make requests for accommodations as far in advance as possible.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20160224152626149