{"id":23558,"date":"2022-03-18T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=23558"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:49:12","slug":"2022-moffat-lecture-to-feature-harvard-professor-dr-caroline-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/2022-moffat-lecture-to-feature-harvard-professor-dr-caroline-light\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Moffat Lecture to feature Harvard professor Dr. Caroline Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University Department of History will present the 2022 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture, featuring Dr. Caroline Light, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer at the Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, \u201cWhose Castle?: The Weaponization of Self-Defense,\u201d will take place Monday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will draw from Light\u2019s 2018 book, <em>Stand Your Ground. <\/em>Dr. Greta Rensenbrink, the chair of Marshall\u2019s\u00a0 Department of History, says Light\u2019s insights help to place the difficult issue of gun violence into historical context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer brilliant book has gotten a lot of attention because it addresses issues of gun violence and lethal self-defense that we can\u2019t ignore today,\u201d Rensenbrink said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a great example of how history can help up address current problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rensenbrink says she is glad that Light\u2019s appearance on Marshall University\u2019s campus is finally coming to fruition after being cancelled in the spring of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s long awaited, but maybe even more relevant today,\u201d Rensenbrink said.<\/p>\n<p>Light is also the author of <em>That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. <\/em>The book illustrates the experiences of southern Jewish assimilation. Light\u2019s research explores histories of citizenship and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public and a reception will follow the lecture.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Department of History will present the 2022 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture, featuring Dr. Caroline Light, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer at the Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":23559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cola","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23560,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions\/23560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}