America is still reeling from last month’s Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. The largest single-perpetrator mass shooting in the nation’s history has left politicians, pundits, and everyday people reaching for answers. Our struggle to understand Orlando has often relied on tired frames and rhetoric – simplistic narratives about religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and terror. But the event itself resists these frames and demands we rethink our assumptions and understanding of the different kinds of violence existing in contemporary America.
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the NYU Center for Religion and Media invite you to an evening panel conversation about these issues on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016. "A Conversation on Masculinity, Religion, and Gun Violence" brings together scholars working on gun violence, religious violence, and gender and sexuality. Beginning with a conversation and then opening the floor public discussion, this event will bring together scholarly and journalistic perspectives to reflect on the Pulse shooting itself, public responses to it, and the landscape going forward.
Our panelists are:
The event conversation runs 7-10PM on 7/19. The Brooklyn Commons is located at 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217. More information on the event can be found here: http://bit.ly/29xyMPB. For logistics purposes, RSVPs to info@brooklyninstitute.com prior to the event are appreciated, but not necessary.
Sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the NYU Center for Religion and Media.
Mehammed Mack, an Assistant Professor of French Studies at Smith College. He works on issues related to immigration, gender and sexuality in France, and his first book, "Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture" will be released by Fordham University Press this fall.
Patrick Blanchfield, a freelance journalist and academic. His work on guns and American culture has appeared in The New York Times, n + 1, The Trace, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere.
Suzanne Schneider, the Director of Operations of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. A social and cultural historian, her book manuscript, "The Schoolroom and the Sacred: Religious Education and Mass Politics in Mandate Palestine," explores the relationship between religious traditions and political activism in the modern era. Suzanne is currently working on a new book about religious violence and the social contract in the modern Middle East.