SASA TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, MARCH 6, 2009

Provisional Schedule

10:00-10:30 REGISTRATION Dalhousie 2F11

10:30-11:00 SASA AGM Dalhousie 2F15

11:00-12:45
Session 1: Turning Points in Politics Dalhousie 3G05
Aaron Winter, (Abertay University) ‘Civil Rights, Obama and White
Supremacy in America’
Simon Howe (University of Dundee) Executive-Legislature relations
during the Kennedy Era
David Model (Seneca College) The Anonymous Member of the
Interhamwe: Bill Clinton’s Complicity in the Rwandan Genocide

Session 2: The Frontier and Backcountry in Early America Dalhousie

2F15
Rusty Roberson (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Historiography of the
Southern Backcountry’
Darren Reid (University of Dundee) ‘The Impact of Violence on Early
Kentucky’
Blair Smith (University of Dundee) ‘The Kentucky Long Hunter’

12:45-1:30 LUNCH Dalhousie 2F11

1:30-2:45
Session 3: Environmental Transformations Dalhousie 3G05
Sharla Chittick (University of Glasgow) ‘Pride and Prejudice, Practices
and Perceptions: Exploring the “Water World” of the Acadian
Wabanaki’
Catriona Paul (University of Dundee) ‘The Significance of Horse
Culture on the Early Kentucky Frontier’

Session 4: The Progressive Era Dalhousie 2F15

Adam Burns (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Colonial Conundrum:
William H. Taft and Irish Self-Determination after WWI’
Kasia Debrowska (University of Lodz) ‘The Deweyan conception of
liberalism as a turning point in American political philosophy.’
2:45-3:00pm COFEE Dalhousie 2F11

3:00-4:15
Session 5: Violence and Change Dalhousie 2F15
John Stewart (University of Dundee) ‘The Extent of Gun Ownership in
Early America’
Harry Laver (Southeastern Louisiana University) ‘The Turning Point
of the American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh and Ulysses S. Grant’

Session 6: Personal Reflection and Construction Dalhousie 3G05

Ben Marsh (University of Stirling) Amity, ‘Enmity, and Emotions in
the Recollections of Elizabeth Johnston, Georgia Loyalist’
David Anderson (University of Swansea) ‘Memories for Sale:
Nostalgia and the Construction of the Old South in post-Civil War
Plantation Reminiscences’

4:15-5:30
PLENARY LECTURE Dalhousie 3G05
Professor Michael Parrish (University of California, San Diego) ‘Religion, Law
and Society in America: Past and Present’