The Gun Trade from the US to Mexico: Ieva Jusionyte

Dinner/Speaker Event

Thursday, June 13, 2024

6:00PM

at the Hope Club

16 Benevolent Street

Providence RI

The Gun Trade

from the U.S. to Mexico

Our guest speaker is

Ieva Jusionyte

Ieva Jusionyte is a legal and medical anthropologist and the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. She is the author of three books, including multiple award-winning ethnography, Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2018) and, most recently, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (2024). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Fulbright Program and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. In addition to academic publications, Jusionyte has written for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone, and discussed her research broadly in the media, including on BBC and NPR. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence and the Research Network to Prevent Gun Violence in the Americas. She is also a certified EMT-paramedic who volunteered as emergency responder in Massachusetts, Florida, and Arizona.

Members and Their Guests $55.00 per person

Non-Members $65.00

Cocktails at 6:00 (cash bar)

Dinner served at 6:45 (June menu.pdf)

Presentation follows

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NOTE: Ieva's new book Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border is available at local bookstores (including Brown, Symposium, Books on the Square and RiffRaff) and online. Ieva will happily sign your copy at the event.