09.00-09.30 Registration, lobby of Hetherington Research Club, tea and coffee
09.30-11.00 Colonial Contact, Transatlantic Talk (Belfry Room)
Chair:
Tommy Sweeney (University of Dundee), ‘Devilry in the Chesapeake: Gender, Race, Religion and English Concepts of the American Indian, 1607-1622’
Kurt Klotz, (University of Glasgow), ‘The Indian-Fighters and “Used Up” Men of Jacksonian America: Analyzing Disarticulate Identity in Poe’s “The Man That was Used Up”’
Clare Elliott, (University of Glasgow), ‘Transatlantic Romantic Affinities: Emerson, Carlyle and Blake’
U.S Foreign Policies (First Floor)
Chair:
David Model (Seneca College, Toronto), ‘Impugning the normative paradigms of U.S Foreign and Defence policy’
Adam Burns (University of Edinburgh), ‘“Too Far, Too Fast?” William H. Taft and the Question of Philippine Independence’
Mohammad Agharebparast (Islamic Azad University, Iran), ‘Petro-policies of the United States and its effects on the US Unilateralist Foreign Policy’
11.00-11.30 tea and coffee break
11.30-12.30 Recording the Political (Belfry Room)
Chair:
Craig Gauld (University of Glasgow), ‘The Law of What Can Be Said: The Archive and Democracy in Neo-Conservative America’
Nadja Janssen (University of Sussex), Commentary, The Public Interest, and the Birth of Neoconservatism
Twentieth Century Cultural Revisionings (First Floor)
Chair:
Jeff Farley (University of Glasgow), ‘The Music Industry and the Revision of American History in the 1940s’
Joanne Hall (University of Nottingham), ‘Queering the Hobo in Side Tracks’ Revision of Sister of the Road’
12.30-13.30 Lunch (First Floor)
14.45-15.45 Terms of Dissent in Contemporary American Politics (First Floor)
Chair
Sandy Livingston (University of Aberdeen), ‘Trust Me. Jesus Would Go to War Too! The Southern Baptist Voter and the Political Process’
Matthew Tomiak (King’s College), ‘The Legitimacy of Dissent: The Seattle 1999 WTO Demonstrations, the American Media and the Nature of Political Protest in the USA before September 11 2001’
Imagined Cultural Landscapes (Belfry Room)
Chair:
Ruth Hawthorn (University of Glasgow), ‘John Fante’s “My Dog Stupid” and the Significance of Suburbia’
John Armstrong (University of Glasgow), ‘“I am the creature / from the north atlantic”: Monstrous Manifestations of Capitalism in the Work of Edward Dorn’
15.45-16.15 tea and coffee break
16.15-17.15 Race, History, and Politics (First Floor)
Chair:
Kevern Verney (Edge Hill University) ‘Every Man Should Try: John L. LeFlore and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mobile, Alabama, 1926-1956’
Mark Newman (University of Edinburgh), ‘The Catholic Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, and Desegregation, 1946-73’
Critical Reassessments (Belfry Room)
Chair:
Peter Garratt (University of Edinburgh), ‘Death of a Pragmatist: Richard Rorty and the Idea of an American Intellectual Tradition’
Scott Duguid (University of Edinburgh), ‘Norman Mailer and the Talmudic Interpretation of American History’
17.15-17.45 AGM (First Floor)
To be held at the Hetherington Research Club, 13 University Gardens, University of Glasgow (D6 on the enclosed map). For information on travel to the University of Glasgow, see http://www.gla.ac.uk/visitors/
and for information on accommodation see http://www.cvso.co.uk/accommodation/hotels/hot_summary.htm