Sasa Programme 2009

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’