Scottish Association for the Study of America

Seventh Annual Conference


SASA: The Scottish Association for the Study of America was formed in 1999 to encourage and facilitate the study of America in Scotland. The conference is designed to provide a forum for Americanist postgraduate students and faculty to share and discuss their research.

The Seventh Annual Conference was organised by Catherine Callard and hosted by the School of History, University of St. Andrews on Tuesday 8th November 2005.

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Panel 1: Religion, Ideology and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century America

Vassiliki Karali, University of Edinburgh

The Church of England in the Mother Country and the Chesapeake Colonies: Structure, Strength and Ideology during the long Eighteenth-Century

Hannah Spahn, Free University, Berlin

"Beyond example in the history of man"? Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Exemplary Enlightenment History

Kirsten Phimister, University of Edinburgh

The Debate over Religious Freedom in the Old Dominion, 1786-1788

Chair: Dr. Frank Cogliano, University of Edinburgh


Panel 2: The US and Contemporary History

Jeffrey Farley, University of Glasgow

Jazz and the Development of an Aural Culture

Dr. Duncan Sim, University of Stirling

Exploring Expatriate Identity: Scots in the United States

Christopher McKinlay, University of Glasgow

Hate Crime in the American Radical Right

Chair: Prof. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, University of Edinburgh

Panel 3: Defending Empires, Constructing Nations

David Watson, University of Dundee

Savages in your Neighbourhood: The British Army, Native Americans and their Interactions on the post-Seven Years War Colonial Frontier

Frazer McGlinchey, University of Edinburgh

Whither the Republic? The evolution of the United States in theory and practice

Chair: Stuart Salmon, University of Stirling


Panel 4: Gender Perspectives on Adolescence, Motherhood And Activism

Rachael McLennan, University of Glasgow

Showing the Fly the Way Out of the Bottle, and Adjusting as an Earthworm: Female Adolescents as Philosophers and Revolutionaries in Joyce Carol Oates's I'll Take You There, Sylvia Path's The Bell Jar, and Toni Cade Bambara's 'Sweet Town'

Jennifer Black, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Building the League of Women Voters: South Carolina as a Case Study

Chair: Dr. Zoe Colley, University of Dundee

Keynote Address

Professor Susan Manning,

Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

"Characterless Women": A Transatlantic Phenomenon?

Panel 5: Perspectives on African-American Protests, Politics and Inter-racialism

Catherine Maddison, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Beyond Black Power: African American Protest and Politics, 1965-1975

Dr. Mark Ellis, University of Strathclyde

Interracial Cooperation and Social Science: The Contribution of Thomas Jackson Woofter, Jr.

Kevern Verney, Edge Hill College of Higher Education

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): A Historiographical Perspective, 1909-1925

Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Glasgow


Panel 6: Reading Tensions and Constructions in Ante-bellum America

Clare Elliott, University of Glasgow

Looking Thro the Eye: Reading Blake, Emerson and Whitman

Ben Schiller, University of Edinburgh

Black Self/White Other: [Re]Constructing Identities in the Letters of African-American Slaves

Gary Smith, University of Dundee

The Brothers' War - Sectional tensions in a Civil War Family

Chair: Dr. Adrian Hunter, University of Stirling


Conference Papers

All submitted papers given at the 2005 Conference are available online

Funding

The Seventh Annual SASA conference was supported by the British Association for American Studies (of which organisation SASA is a national affiliate).


Conference 2007

The Eighth Annual SASA conference was held at the University of Edinburgh on 2 March 2007.


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