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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
All submitted papers given at the 2005 Conference are available online
The Seventh Annual SASA conference was supported by the British Association for American Studies (of which organisation SASA is a national affiliate).
The Eighth Annual SASA conference was held at the University of Edinburgh on 2 March 2007.