BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250915T151227EDT-8535GUGIL7@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250915T191227Z DESCRIPTION:'A Good Woman With a Gun: U.S. Mythologies of Race\, Gender\, a nd Self-Defense\,' Seminar (Registration Required)\n\nPlease register for this event by sending an email to charmaine.nelson [at] mcgill.ca (Charmai ne Nelson).\n\nDr. Caroline Light\, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer\, Studies of Women\, Gender and Sexuality\, Harvard Univer sity\n\nAbstract: What accounts for the rhetorical power of the recurring trope of the self-possessed\, heroic\, and implicitly white “good woman wi th a gun\,” and against whom is she presumed to defend herself? This talk will explore some of the early iconography by which the armed white woman became a symbol of virtuous and vulnerable nationhood while addressing the intersecting racial and gender logics that contributed to a national idea l of what historian Barbara Cutter calls “innocent violence” in the name o f collective self-defense.\n\nBio: Caroline Light is the Director of Under graduate Studies in the Program in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard. She has a doctorate in history\, and her work explores the way s in which race\, gender\, and region shape collective (mis)memory and arc hival silence. Her first book\, That Pride of Race and Character: the Root s of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Press\, 2014) discusses how gendered and racialized performances of elite\, white cultural capita l served as a critical mode of survival for a racially liminal community o f southerners. Her recent book\, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press\, 2017) tracks the his tory of lethal self-defense in the U.S.\, from the duty to retreat to the “shoot first\, ask questions later” ethos that prevails in many jurisdicti ons today.\n\nPublic Lecture: Thursday\, January 10th\, 2019: 4:00pm\, Art s W-215\n Seminar (registration required): Friday\, January 11th\, 2019: 9: 00 am to 11:00am\, Arts W-220\n\nSponsors:\n Prof. Jason Opal\, Chair Histo ry and Classical Studies ϲ University\n Prof. Charmaine A. Nelson\, Ar t History and Communication Studies\, ϲ University\n Prof. Alanna Thai n\, Director\, IGSF\, ϲ University\n DTSTART:20190111T140000Z DTEND:20190111T160000Z SUMMARY:'A Good Woman With a Gun: U.S. Mythologies of Race\, Gender\, and S elf-Defense' Seminar (Registration Required) URL:/igsf/channels/event/good-woman-gun-us-mythologies -race-gender-and-self-defense-seminar-registration-required-292986 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR