MEREDITH CONTI

Upcoming and Recent Talks

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• "Haunting the Stage: Dark Tourism, Lieux de Mémoire, and the
  Immortal Death of Abraham Lincoln at Washington D.C.'s Ford's
  Theatre," Scholars@Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. May 2020.
  UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows Talk.  

• "American Girls, American Guns: Nineteenth-Century
  Sharpshooting Acts and the Character of Western Womanhood,"
  Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, IL. March 2020.

• "Where He Fell: Macabre Tourism and the Immortality of
  Abraham Lincoln at Washington D.C.'s Ford's Theatre," Arlington, VA. November 2019.

• "Whiteness and Transgressive Womanhood in the Sharpshooting Performance of Annie Oakley and Lillian Smith," UB Gender Institute/Feminist Research Alliance Workshop, Buffalo, NY. November 2019.

• "Bullets Over Broadway: Firearms and the Spectacle of National Identity in the U.S. American Musical," UB Humanities Institute New Faculty Lecture Series, Buffalo, NY. May 2019.

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Recent Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

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• Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship. Supported by the Ransom Distinguished Fellowships Endowment. 2019-2020.

• Buffalo Bill Center of the West Residency Fellowship. 2019-2020.

• University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship. 2019-2020.

• University at Buffalo Gender Institute Faculty Research Award. 2019. 

• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Research Fellowship. 2018.

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Engagements Cancelled or Postponed Due to COVID-19

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• "Fish's Gun(s): The Revised Rules of the Range in the 2019 Oklahoma! Revival," Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Detroit, MI. August 2020. 

• "Outlaw Encounters: Guns, Gender, and U.S. American Belonging in The CiviliTy of Albert Cashier and Gun & Powder," Song, Stage, and Screen XV Conference. June 2020.