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2014
Friday, March 28th
12:30 PM

Session 2.01 History, Labor, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

From “Pockets of Poverty” to Potential Prosperity in Appalachia: Connecting Mass Media Narratives of Poverty Stereotypes to Authentic Appalachia through Photovoice

From “Pockets of Poverty” to Potential Prosperity in Appalachia: Connecting Mass Media Narratives of Poverty Stereotypes to Authentic Appalachia through Photovoice

Gloria So, Elon University

Harris Hall 139

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.01 History, Labor, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

"No Greater Calling": The Legacy of Walter Reuther

Sandra Czernek, West Liberty University

Harris Hall 139

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.01 History, Labor, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

Poultry: the New Frontier of Appalachian Labor, Environment, and Industrial Relations in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia

Chelsea Elmore, Marshall University

Harris Hall 139

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.01 History, Labor, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

The Not So "Roaring Twenties": Wheeling, WV's Immigrant Coal Miners, Unionism, and Radicalism, 1924-1931

William H. Gorby, West Virginia University

Harris Hall 139

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.01 History, Labor, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

“To Make Plain The Issue”: The Life and Work of West Virginia Mine War Journalist Winthrop D. Lane

Rebecca J. Bailey, Northern Kentucky University

Harris Hall 139

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.02 Activism and Organizing

Panel

Convener: Katey Lauer

Our Water, Our Future: The State of the Mountaintop Removal Movement

Katey Lauer
Teri Blanton, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Bill Price, Sierra Club Environmental Justice
Erin Savage
Donna Branham

Drinko 138

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.03 Architecture and Visual Arts

Panel

Convener: Chris D. Dockery, University of North Georgia

Creative Inquiry in Appalachian Studies: The Case for Arts Based Research

Creative Inquiry in Appalachian Studies: the Case for Arts Based Research-"Heirloom Seedkeepers & Their Stories"

Creative Inquiry in Appalachian Studies: the Case for Arts Based Research-"Heirloom Seedkeepers & Their Stories"

Creative Inquiry in Appalachian Studies: the Case for Arts Based Research- "Higher Ground: Foglights"

Creative Inquiry in Appalachian Studies:- the Case for Arts Based Research-"Elk Knobb Community Arts Project"

Chris D. Dockery, University of North Georgia
Kaitlynn Brackett, University of North Georgia
Robert Gipe, Southeastern Kentucky Technical & Community College
Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University

Corbly Hall 244

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.04 Stereotypes and FIlm

Panel

Convener: Serena Frost, Virginia Tech

“Booze, Fast Cars, and Outlaws: The ‘Cool Factor’ of Appalachia in Film”

Serena Frost, Virginia Tech
Bethany Melson, Virginia Tech
Kathy Combiths, Virginia Tech

Smith Hall 335

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.05 Film Representation

Film

Convener: Erica Locklear, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Place, Race, and Gender in Appalachian Film from The Dollmaker to Cold Mountain: The Unwhite Migrant Gertie and Mammy Ruby, the Land-Lovers, and the Mutant Cannibals

The Legacy of Land in Appalachian Films

Half Bear, the Other Half Cat: Appalachian Women, Race, and Film

“Hideously deformed inbred hillbilly cannibals”: The Cultural and Racial Politics of Contemporary Slasher Films

Erica Abrams Locklear, University of North Carolina at Asheville
John Inscoe, University of Georgia
Meredith McCarroll, Clemson University
Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech
Anna Creadick, Hobart William Smith Colleges

Harris Hall 303

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.06 Health and Mental Health

Panel

Convener: Nicole Schnopp-Wyatt, Lindsey Wilson College

Training Appalachians to Counsel Appalachians: Best Practices for Mental Health Counseling

Cultural Factors Affecting Counseling Appalachians

Best Practices from a Multicultural Perspective

Educating Mental Health Professional Counselors

An Appalachian Case Study

Nicole Schnopp-Wyatt, Lindsey Wilson College
Lovonne Fleming-Richardson, Lindsey Wilson College
Durand Warren, Lindsey Wilson College
Crystal Trout, Lindsey Wilson College

Jenkins Hall B10

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.07 History and Activism

Panel

Convener: Tammy Stachowicz, Davenport University

Melungeon Scholarship: Known Realities and Imagined Possibilities

The Johnson Family

View of a Legend

When Melungeon Studies Met Its Waterloo

Social Movements and Melungeons Today

Tammy Stachowicz, Davenport University
Joanne Pezzullo
Darlene Wilson
William Isom, Hands Off Appalachia

Harris Hall 138

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.08 History and National Resources

Panel

Convener: Ann Kingsolver, University of Kentucky

Kentucky Coal Camp Documentary Project of the UK Appalachian Center: An Interactive Website

Ann E. Kingsolver, University of Kentucky
Shane Barton, University of Kentucky
Zada Komara, University of Kentucky
Sherry Ferguson
Trudy Walters Daniels
Jimmy Waters

Drinko Library 349

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.09 Linguistics and Social Sciences

Panel

Convener: Paul E. Reed, University of South Carolina - Columbia

Intersection of Appalachian Speech and Culture

Best Practices in Representing Appalachian Speech

Ethnography, Stance, and Appalacian Migrants in Detroit

Who was Appalachia's First Linguist?

Best Practices in Accurately Representing AppalachianSpeech

Ethnography, Stance, and Appalachian Migrants in Detroit

Paul E. Reed, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Bridget Anderson, Old Dominion University
Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina

Harris Hall 443

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.10 Literature and Poetry

Panel

Convener: Scott Goebel, Bad Branch Institute

The Poetics of Richard Hague

“Necessary Lives”: How Richard Hague transforms body and soul into poetic maps in Alive in Hard Country. Marianne Worthington, University of the Cumberlands.

'Common Wounds’: 40 Years of Richard Hague’s Poetry. Chris Green, Berea College.

Beauty’s Million Species’: Nature and Poetic Diction in the Poetry of Richard Hague

Scott Goebel -Convener, Bad Branch Institute
Marianne Worthington, University of the Cumberlands
Michael Henson, Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative
Chris Green, Berea College

Drinko Library 402

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.11 Music

Panel

Convener: Elizabeth Fine, Virginia Tech

Rising Appalachia: Shaping the Appalachian Imaginary through Music, Materiality, and Activism

“Materiality and the Appalachian Imaginary in the Music Videos of Rising Appalachia”

—“How the Soundscape of Rising Appalachia Transcends the Borders of a ‘Filthy Dirty South’”

"Musical Mashups and A Capella Performance in Rising Appalachia”

—"Rising Appalachia and Global Perspectives on Traditional Appalachian Music”

Elizabeth Fine, Virginia Tech
Michael Saffle, Virginia Tech
Jordan Laney, Virginia Tech
Brittany Walker, Virginia Tech

Harris Hall 234

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.12 Religion, Race and Ethnicity

Panel

Convener: Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University

Religious Minorities in (New) Appalachia: The Challenges of Diversity

Muslims in Appalachia: Finding Faith, Home, and Voice

Orthodoxy in Appalachia

Cherokee Spirituality: Appalachia’s First Religion And Its Syncretism With The Judaeo-Christian Traditions

Challah in the Holler: Jews in Appalachia

Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University
Jared Gallamore, Appalachian State University
Karen Russo, Appalachian State University
Rachel Simon, Appalachian State University
Lucy Ballard, Appalachian State University

Harris Hall 137

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.13 Literature and Poetry

Reading

Convener: Marc Harshman,

The Appalachian Writing Series from Bottom Dog Press

Marc Harshman
Jeanne Brynner
Hilda Downer
Sandee G. Umbach
Karen Ktorba
Larry R. Smith, Bottom Dog Press

Jennkins Hall 100

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.14 Folklore and Folkways

Panel

Convener: Kevin Cordi, Ohio Dominican University

Reviving Jack Tales and Appalachian Folk Ballads in the Classroom

Kevin D. Cordi, Ohio Dominican University
Timothy "Bim" Wlker, Ohio Dominican University

Crobly Hall 464

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.15 Gender and Sexuality

Panel

Convener: Anna Terman, Pennsylvania State University

Appalachia Revisited Panel 1: Transformations in Understanding Identity and Language

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Globalization and the Performative Expressions and Reception of Affrilachian Identity

Gender and Political Subjectivity in northwestern North Carolina

Intersectionality and Appalachian Identity

Continuity and Change for English Consonants in Appalachia

Anna R. Terman, Pennsylvania State University
Yunina Barbour-Payne, Texas A & M University - College Station
Amanda Zeddy, University of California - Santa Barbara
Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University

Harris Hall 302

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.16 Natural Sciences and Activism

Discussion

Convener: Mary Cromer, Appalachian Citizen's Law Center

Academia/Activism: A Dialogue

Mary Cromer, Appalachian Citizens' Law Center
Sarah Carmichael, Appalachian State University
Elizabeth Sanders, Appalshop
Alice Jones, Eastern Kentucky University

Corbly Hall 117

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.17 Music, Race and Ethnicity

Music

Convener: Everett Lilly, University of Charleston - Beckley

Bluegrass Music: An Appalachian Asset

Everett Lilly, University of Charleston-Beckley

Smith Hall 154

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Session 2.18 Appalachian Veterans

Other

Convener: Bob Henry Baber, Glenville University

WV Veterans Legacy Project

Bob Henry Baber

Science Hall 276

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

2015
Friday, March 27th
11:30 AM

Session 2.01 Appalachian Studies

Paper

Integrating Music into a Graduate Level Appalachian Studies Course for Social Work Students

Lonnie R. Helton, Cleveland State University
Shirley M. Keller, Youngstown State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.01 Appalachian Studies

Paper

Wednesday Night Music: Traditional Music at Clinch Valley College, 1974

Rich Kirby, Appalshop
Helen M. Lewis, Retired

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.01 Education

Paper

Institutionalizing Bluegrass in Higher Education

Nate Olson, East Tennessee State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.01 Education

Paper

"That's the way I've always learned": The Transmission of Traditional Music in Higher Education

Alexandra Frank, East Tennessee State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.02 Coal and labor

Paper

“Broken Promises, Broken Lives”: Narratives of Corporate Greed and Corruption Among the United Mine Workers of America and Environmental Activists in the Coalfields of Appalachia

Julie A. Shepherd-Powell, University of Kentucky

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.02 Economic Conditions

Paper

A Consideration of Ranciere's Ideas on "Politics" and Protest

Glenna H. Graves, Lindsey Wilson College

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.02 Environment

Paper

“United We Stand, Divided We May Be Dammed:” Grassroots Environmental Activism and the TVA

Savannah Paige Murray, Wofford College

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.03 Literature

Paper

Denise Giardina's "Theological Writing": What Do We Do With Good King Harry?

Bill Jolliff, George Fox University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.03 Literature

Paper

Flannery O’Connor, Hillbilly Novelist

Jimmy D. Smith, Union College - Barbourville

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.03 Literature

Paper

The Christ-Abandoned Landscape of Nothing Gold Can Stay

Martha G. Eads, Eastern Mennonite University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.03 Literature

Paper

“The language of elms . . . a song unmatched”’: Dementia and Rootedness in Charles Dodd White’s A Shelter of Others

Thomas A. Holmes

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.04 Appalachian Studies

Paper

Mapping Un-Appalachia

Christopher A. Miller, Radford University
David Doherty, Radford University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.04 Architecture

Paper

BackPacked Architecture: The Appalachian Trail and its "Primitive Huts"

D Jason Miller, Appalachian State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.04 Environment

Paper

Geospatial Modeling the Destruction of Kayford Mountain: Volume Modeling MTR Extraction & TanGeoMS Terrain Analysis of Multiple Return LIDAR Data

Ryan W. Thomson, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.04 Recreation

Paper

The Art (and Science) of Placing a New Trail

Tina Delahunty, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Samaneh Tabrizi, Dawson Geophysical

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.05 Arts: The Book as Art in Appalachia

Panel

“Farm School": Recalling Meaning & Memory of the Lynn Bachman School

“Unega nole Gigage, An Outdoor Artists Book”

"Trampoline"

“Selections from Elegy for Ira H./Exit from Appalachia, An Artists Book”

Chris D. Dockery, University of North Georgia
Frank Brannon, SpeakEasy Press
Jeff Marley, Southwestern Community College - Sylva
Robert Gipe, Southestern Kentucky Community & Technical College
Forrest Johnson, Independent Poet

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.06 (Appalachian Studies) 2014 Appalachian College Student Survey: Methods and Results

Panel

ARC Response

Kostas Skordas, Appalachian Regional Commission

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.06 (Appalachian Studies) 2014 Appalachian College Student Survey: Methods and Results

Panel

More brain drain or new horizon in post-collegiate residence in Appalachia? Outlining the goals of the 2014 Appalachian College Student Survey

Sampling Appalachia: networking strategies and data analysis

ARC Response

Student Response and Audience Discussion

William Schumann, Appalachian State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.07 Music: Documenting and Interpreting Appalachian Music

Panel

"The Role of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the Intersection of Written and Oral Traditions in Appalachia"

I've Rambled This Country Both Early and Late: Alan Lomax in Appalachia, 1933–1983

"Looking for 'Sourwood Mountain'"

"Radio and the Blue Ridge"

Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
Ron Pen, University of Kentucky
Nathan Salsburg, Curator of The Alan Lomax Archive
Stephen Wade, Independent Scholar
Joe Wilson, Executive Director [retired], National Council for the Traditional Arts

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.08 Music

Performance

Appalachian Wind: A Faustian Tale for Oboe

Heather N. Killmeyer, East Tennessee State University

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Session 2.08 Music

Performance

Live music performance of Acoustic Blues

Richard L. Rushing III, The Folk School of Chattanooga

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM