Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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
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’
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’
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’