Sixteenth Annual Conference of the
Scottish Association for the Study of America
7 March 2015
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh
Meadows Lecture Theatre / G.15 /G.16 / McMillan Room
Please pre-book at: http://goo.gl/4ab1cZ
9.00-9.15 Registration (Jim McMillan Room, First Floor)
9.15-10.45 Panel 1: Greater Connections (G.16, Ground Floor)
Chair: Marina Moskowitz
‘A Story of Benign Neglect’?: The United States’ First Contact with Habsburg Austria 1776-1778
Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh
‘Like patriots of old we’ll fight, our heritage to save’: The Americanisation of Irish cultural diaspora during the American Civil War
Catherine Bateson, University of Edinburgh
‘The Charge of Murdering a Husband’: Conflict between the Courts and Public Opinion over the Death Penalty in England and America
Rian Sutton, University of Edinburgh
Panel 2: Analogy in American Literature, 1850-1900
Chair: Owen Dudley-Edwards (G.15, Ground Floor)
Melville’s ‘Black Legend’: Spanish America’s ambivalent place in the articulation of US American exceptionalism
Nicholas Spengler, University of Edinburgh
‘He Bides in Hell and is Content’: Feudal Slavery and Antebellum Injustice in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Brian Wall, University of Edinburgh
‘Agrope among alien forces’: alchemical transformations and capitalist transactions in Edith Wharton’s The Touchstone
Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh
10.45-11.00 Tea/Coffee (Jim McMillan Room, First Floor)
11.00-12.30 Panel 3: Opportunities and Crises in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
(G.16, Ground Floor)
Chair: Blair Smith
Capturing the Katydids: The purpose and practice of Civil War history in the Confederate Veteran
Robin Bates, Newcastle University
‘Ready to Hoist the Stars and Stripes’: Sovereignty and Independence Day in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898
Madison Heslop, University of Edinburgh
Bubonic Plague in New Orleans, 1914: An Initial Survey of the Victims
Bruce Baker, University of Edinburgh
Panel 4: Social and Political Issues in the 1960s and 1970s
(G.15, Ground Floor)
Chair: Mark Newman
‘Social Psychiatry or Socialist Psychiatry? The Politics of Preventive Mental Health Care
Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde
Order or Justice? Republicans and the Urban Crisis, 1965-1968
Mark McLay, University of Edinburgh
The Juvenile Justice System in the 1970s
Erin Lux, University of Strathclyde
12.30-13.15 Lunch (Jim McMillan Room, First Floor)
13.15-13.45 AGM (Meadows Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor)
13.45-15.15- Panel 5: New Perspectives on the Civil War (G.16, Ground Floor)
Chair: David Silkenat
Covenanter Antislavery and Patriotic Republicanism: Alexander McLeod and the Ideology of Reformed Presbyterian Opposition to Inhuman Bondage
Daniel Ritchie, University College Dublin
The Ancient Veil and the Modern Pedestal: The Roman in America
Jared Jodoin, University of Edinburgh
‘When the Fires Burned Too Close to Home: Southern Women and the Dislocations of the Home-front in the American Civil War.’
Susan-Mary Grant, Newcastle University
Panel 6: Media and Performance in US History (G.15, Ground Floor)
Chair: Mark Ellis
The Clown Suicides: The Death and Cinematic Afterlife of Marceline Orbes and Francis ‘Slivers’ Oakley, New York’s Superstar Clowns, 1905-1927
Darren Reid, Coventry University
Beyond Capitalist Realism: Long Waves, Cultural Realignment, and Middle-class Crisis
Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick
This Is America: HBO’s Crime Dramas and American Identity
Fraser McCallum, University of Glasgow
15.15-15.30 Tea/Coffee (Jim McMillan Room, First Floor)
15.30-17.00 Panel 7: Old and New National Security Threats in the 1970s and 1980s
(G.16, Ground Floor)
Chair: Matt Ward
Karamanlis, Ford and the US Arms Sales Embargo on Turkey, 1974-1975
Athanasios Antonopoulos, University of Edinburgh
Another Vietnam? US Policy towards Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979-1990.
Hilary Francis, University College London
‘Atomic Ayatollahs’: The “Islamic Bomb” in American News Media, 1979-1991
Malcolm Craig, University of Edinburgh
Panel 8: Themes in American Postwar Rhetoric (G.15, Ground Floor)
Chair: Robert Mason
Uneasy Pluralism: Anti-Communism and Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1947-1962
Jennifer Vannette, Central Michigan University/University of Strathclyde
LBJ’s Presidential Rhetoric
Ben Quail, University of Strathclyde
17.00-18.00 Plenary Lecture: ‘An American Maroon in the Age of Revolution’
(Meadows Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor)
Nathaniel Millett, St. Louis University/University College London
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