The School of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Department of History invite you to a seminar on:
Monday, March 14, 2022: 11:00am – 1:00pm: “Guns: Culture, Economy and Regulation in the Age of Empire”
This seminar examines the ways in which questions of political economy, race, colonialism and the standard of civilization influenced the processes and practices of gun innovation, production and transfer in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Location: Murphy Auditorium, Kent State Fashion Museum
Reception to Follow: KSU Museum Lobby
Speakers:
Brian DeLay
The Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at the University of California at Berkeley, Brian DeLay is now at work on a monograph entitled "Shoot the State: Arms, Capitalism, and Freedom in the Americas Before Gun Control,” under contract with W.W. Norton. DeLay received his PhD from Harvard University in 2004 and taught for five years at the University of Colorado, Boulder before taking a position at Berkeley. where He is author of a number of articles and essays, co-author of the U.S. history textbook Experience History (McGraw-Hill), and author of the award-winning War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale University Press), won prizes from several different scholarly organizations. He has served as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, and has received fellowships from the ACLS, the American Philosophical Society, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and other organizations.
Priya Satia
The Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History Professor of History at Stanford University, Priya Satia’s scholarship explores the material and intellectual infrastructure of the modern world within the context of the British empire. Her work examines the origins of state institutions, military technologies, and ideas and practices of development in order to understand how the imperial past has shaped the present and how the ethical dilemmas it posed were understood and managed. Along with two other award-winning monographs and essays in published in prestigious venues like the American Historical Review Past and Present, and Annales, Satia’s Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Penguin Press/Duckworth, 2018) won the 2019 Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize, the Wadsworth Prize in Business History, and the AHA's Jerry Bentley Prize in world history. It was also a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in History and shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
Neil Cooper
Professor Neil Cooper is Director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University. He has published over 50 books, edited books and articles that have been widely cited. Professor Cooper was formerly editor of the refereed journal International Peacekeeping. He is currently an associate editor of the Economics of Peace and Security Journal and a member of the editorial board of the journal Critical Studies on Security. He has a BA (Hons) in Politics and Sociology from York University in the UK, an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent in the UK, and a PhD, also from Kent. He currently teaches a course on the international arms trade and has undertaken extensive research on the history of arms trade regulation.