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2014
Saturday, March 29th
2:30 PM

Session 8.01 Come to the Table: Academics and Activism

Panel

Convener: Rebecca Adkins Fletcher Ohio University- Southern Campus

Come to the Table III: The Intersection of Activism and Academics in Appalachian Studies

Rebecca Fletcher
Amelia Kirby, Appalachian Citizens' Law Center

Drinko Library 349

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.02 Natural Resources

Paper

Convener: Carrie N. Kline, Talking Across the Lines

“Coal Keeps the Lights On”: The Culture of Coal in Eastern Kentucky

Brenda H. Abbott, University of Massachusetts

Corbly Hall 244

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.02 Natural Resources

Paper

Convener: Carrie N. Kline, Talking Across the Lines

Talking Across the Lines on the Oil and Gas Rush

Carrie N. Kline Ms., Talking Across the Lines

Corbly Hall 244

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.02 Natural Resources

Paper

Convener: Carrie N. Kline, Talking Across the Lines

The Dislocation of Side Effects: Fracking Wastewater Disposal in Appalachian Ohio.

Bernhard S. Debatin, Ohio University

Corbly Hall 244

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.02 Natural Resources

Paper

Convener: Carrie N. Kline, Talking Across the Lines

The Necessity for Protecting These Mountain Forests": The Appalachian National Park Association and the Fight for a Southern Appalachian Forest Reserve

Emma C. Topor, Warren Wilson College

Corbly Hall 244

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.03 Education

Paper

Convener: Roberta Campbell

African American Studies in Appalachia: Teaching Literature about Slavery and Jim Crow along the Mason-Dixon Line

Sandra M. Cox, Shawnee State University

Harris Hall 446

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.03 Education

Paper

Convener: Roberta Campbell

Building New Connections to Old Memories: Accessing Northern Appalachian History through Digital Storytelling in the College Writing Classroom

Christina Fisanick, California University of Pennsylvania

Harris Hall 446

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.03 Education

Paper

Convener: Roberta Campbell

Cultural competence in Appalachia: Teaching and Learning

Evelyn Brewer, East Tennessee State University

Harris Hall 446

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.03 Education

Paper

Convener: Roberta Campbell

The Influence of Participation in an Appalachian Literature Course on College Student Perceptions of Appalachian Culture

Ashley Hopkins, Ohio University

Harris Hall 446

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.04 Environmental Ecology

Panel

Convener: Kara Rogers Thomas, Frostburg State University

Foodways , Wildcrafting, and Natural Products: Creating Sustainable Systems in Western Maryland

Kara Rogers Thomas, Frostburg State University
Frostburg Students

Harris Hall 136

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.05 Environment and Ecology

Paper

Convener: Roy Silver, Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College

Mingling with the Bees: Examining Socio-Natural Encounters of Female Beekeepers in Kentucky

Sarah Watson, University of Kentucky

Corbly Hall 467

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.05 Environment and Ecology

Paper

Convener: Roy Silver, Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College

“Think Ocean to Ocean”: George Scarbrough, Han-shan, and The Tao of Tennessee

Rob Merritt, Bluefield College

Corbly Hall 467

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.05 Environment and Ecology

Paper

Convener: Roy Silver, Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College

“War Has Done Fearful Work Here”: An Environmental Analysis of the American Civil War in Jefferson County, West Virginia”

Ryan C. Bixby, University of Akron

Corbly Hall 467

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.06 Foodways and Nutrition

Paper

Convener: Robert Carl DeMuth, Indiana University - Bloomington

Company Towns as Rural Food Deserts: Old Solutions to a Modern Dilemma

Robert Carl DeMuth, Indiana University - Bloomington

Corbly Hall 268

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.06 Foodways and Nutrition

Paper

Convener: Robert Carl DeMuth, Indiana University - Bloomington

"I had a hunger to listen": The Motif of Canning in Appalachian Literature"

John C. Crocker, University of South Carolina - Union
Amanda B. Covington, Winthrop University

Corbly Hall 268

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.06 Foodways and Nutrition

Paper

Convener: Robert Carl DeMuth, Indiana University - Bloomington

Salt Rising Bread: Keeping the Tradition Alive

Susan Brown

Corbly Hall 268

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.07 History, Politics, and Government

Paper

Convener: Betsy Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Grapevine Telegraph’ and cross-fertilization: the antebellum black experience at White Sulphur Springs, VA

Cicero M. Fain III, College of Southern Maryland

Corbly Hall 333

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.07 Politics and Government

Paper

Convener: Richard P. Mulcahy

“A Stench in the Nostrils of Decency”: The South Mountains in the 1920s

Kevin W. Young, University of Georgia

Corbly Hall 333

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.07 Politics and Government

Paper

Convener: Richard P. Mulcahy

His Lowest Hour: Michael Musmanno, Roy Harris, and the Issue of Communist Subversion in Pittsburgh

Richard P. Mulcahy

Corbly Hall 333

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.08 Health, Mental Health, Poverty and Activism

Paper

Convener: Marianna Footo Linz, Marshal University

Helping and Shaming the Homeless: Experiences from a Service Learning Course in Appalachia

Mich Yonah Nyawalo, Shawnee State University

Harris Hall 236

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.08 Health, Mental Health, Poverty and Activism

Paper

Convener: Marianna Footo Linz, Marshal University

Homelessness and Underhousing Appalachia

Bethany F. Wellman, Marshall University

Harris Hall 236

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.08 Health, Mental Health, Poverty, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Marianna Footo Linz, Marshal University

"I came to help:" Refelctions of Early, Mid, and Late Career Rural Appalachian Healthcare Providers

Marianna Footo Linz
Thomas Linz, Marshall University
Bethany Wellman
Kellee Boster, Marshall University

Harris Hall 236

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.08 Health, Mental Health, Poverty, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Marianna Footo Linz, Marshal University

Welcome to the Hotel Appalachia: Prevalence and Treatment of Prescription Drug Use in the Appalachian Culture

Leslee N. Browning, Marshall University

Harris Hall 236

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.08 Health, Mental Health, Poverty, and Activism

Paper

Convener: Marianna Footo Linz, Marshal University

What is Fatalism? A Conceptual Evaluation of Fatalism and Its Outcomes In Rural Appalachia

John P. Van Horn Jr, Marshall University

Harris Hall 236

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.09 Environment and Ecology

Discussion

Convener: Theresa L. Burriss, Radford University

Imagining and Acting On Possibilities for Reforesting Abandoned Mountaintop Removal Sites:

A Collaboration Between Green Forests Work, Radford University, and the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative

Theresa L. Burriss, Radford University
Rick Roth, Radford University
Christine Small, Radford University
Nathan Hall, Green Forests Work
Patrick Angel, OSMRE: ARRI
Chris Wilson, Radford University
Taylor LaPrade, Radford University
Victoria Curtis, Radford University

Harris Hall 134

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.11 History

Panel

Convener: Jack Wright, Writer, Producer, Performer

Sexual Secrets of a Company Store: Are They True and if so How Do We Report Them?

Jack Wright, Convener -Writer/Producer/Performer
Michael Kline, Talking Across Boundaries
David Mould, Ohio University-Professor Emeritus

Harris Hall 234

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.12 Gender and Sexuality

Panel

Convener: Linda Spatig, Marshall Univerisyt

Readings and Reflections on "Thinking Outside the Girl Box": Teaming up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia

Linda Spatig, Marshall University
Layne Amerikaner, People for the American Way
Shelley Gaines
Ric MacDowell
LeAnne Olson, Mountwest Community College
Cassi Adkins
Ashley Williams

Corbly Hall 117

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.13 Environment and Ecology

Film

Convener: Elizabeth Marshall Stephens, University of California - Santa Cruz

Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story

Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story

Elizabeth Marshall Stephens, University of California, Santa Cruz

Drinko Library 402

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.14 Music Education

Music

Convener: Rebecca Hill, Davis and Elkins College

Davis and Elkins Appalachian Ensemble

Student Ensemble Present String Band Music and Percussive Dance Styles of Appalachia

Rebecca Hill, Davis and Elkins College

Smith Music Hall 107

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.15 Folklore and Folkways

Workshop

Convener: Bob Henry Baber, Glenville State College

Make A Memory Workshop--No Artist Left Behind

Bob Baber Henry, Glenville state College

Corbly Hall 104

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.16 Foodways and Nutrition

Workshop

Convener: Victoria LeBeaux, University of Kentucky

Food Systems Innovations: A Participatory Workshop

Victoria S. LeBeaux, University of Kentucky Appalachian Center

Corbly Hall 243

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.17 Environmental Ecology

Panel

Convener: Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky

Shannon Bell's "Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed": Author meets Critics

Shannon Bell's Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Author meets Critics

Dwight B. Billings, University of Kentucky
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, University of Kentucky
Vivian Stockman, OHVEC
Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Heather Lucaks, stanford university

Corbly Hall 464

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Session 8.18 Folklore and Folkways

Discussion

Convener: Susan G. Pepper

Ballad Round Table

Susan G. Pepper
Saro Lynch-Thomason
Elizabeth LaPrelle
Anna Roberts-Gevalt

Harris Hall 135

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

2015
Saturday, March 28th
4:00 PM

Session 8.01 Historic Sites

Paper

Exploring the Construct of "Dwelling Place” in the Oral Histories of The Carter Family Fold

Lora E. Smith, Indiana University - Bloomington

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.01 Music

Paper

"'Blind' Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary"

Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.01 Music

Paper

Fiddlin' Powers: A new chapter in the story of the great VA fiddler

Roy M. Andrade
Kris Truelsen, ETSU

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.01 Music

Paper

The Poplin Family Recordings: Locating Mountain Music in the South Carolina Flatlands

Amanda Lynn Stubley, Western University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.02 Education

Paper

Family Support and the Educational Aspirations of Female Youth in Appalachia

Leah K. Vance, University of Kentucky

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.02 Education

Paper

Rural Appalachian Poverty and barriers to 4 year Post-secondary education enrollment

Tiffany Arnold, Ohio University - Main Campus

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.02 Education

Paper

Singing for Their Supper: An Analysis of Appalachian Residency-Based Scholarships

Jane Jensen, University of Kentucky

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.02 Education

Paper

Students in Community Action: Service-Learning in the Mountains of Eastern Kentucky

Erin Presley, Eastern Kentucky University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.03 Mass Media

Paper

Dollywood: Pigeon Forge's Plastic Pastoral

Graham R. Hoppe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.03 Mass Media

Paper

Eye On Appalachia: Portrayals of the Mountain South in American Mass-Produced Woodcut Relief Prints, c.1870-1890

Kevin E. O'Donnell, East Tennessee State University
Kevin O'Donnell, East Tennessee State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.03 Mass Media

Paper

Many Mountains, Many Armies: Pop Culture’s Fascination with Appalachia during the Civil War

Allison E. Carey, Marshall University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.04 Environment

Paper

Back from California: The Late Antebellum Gold Rush and the National Mineral Economy in Appalachia.

Drew A. Swanson, Wright State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.04 Industry

Paper

The Legacy of John T. Wilder, East Tennessee’s Industrialist Entrepreneur

Steven Cox, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.04 Social Conditions

Paper

“River of Sorrow, Land of the Sky: The Asheville Flood of 1916”

Anthony DePaul Sadler, Appalachian State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.04 Women and Gender

Paper

"'By respectable people she was considered of a doubtful character': A Working-Class Marriage in an Appalachian River City"

Allison Fredette, Appalachian State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.05 Folklore

Paper

Appalachian Witchlore

James T. Chadwell, George Mason University
Tiffany T. Martin, Fairmont State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.05 Social Conditions

Paper

Cultural Resilience in Appalachia; A Deeper Look into the Benefits of Appalachian Cultural Values

Jamie Linscott, Amesville Elementary

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.05 Social Conditions

Paper

Globalization in Appalachia: Economics, Religion, Society

Bill T. Barrett, Mars Hill University
Levi C. Patterson, Mars Hill University
Jordan Phillips, Mars Hill University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.05 Women and Gender

Paper

Duly Recorded: The Life and Ledger of Virginia Ross Dailey

Donald E. Davis, Independent Scholar

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.06 Education

Panel

Changing Campuses to be Better Community Partners: Institutional Strategies for Effective Engagement with Appalachian Communities

Alice Jones, Eastern Kentucky University
Felix M. Bivens, Empryean Research
Beth Vanlandingham, Carson-Newman College
Jim Peterman, Sewanee University
Julia Metzker, ENGAGE, Georgia College's Quality Enhancement Plan

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.07 Literature

Panel

Contemporary Appalachian Fiction from Bottom Dog Press

Larry R. Smith, Bottom Dog Press
Julia Watts
Charles Dodd White
Joseph G. Anthony

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.08 Literature: Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 18: The Dead

Panel

Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 18, The Dead by Scott Goebel (first presenter)

Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 18, The Dead by Melissa Helton (second presenter)

Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 18, The Dead by Joshua Jones (third Presenter)

Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 18, The Dead by Marianne Worthington (Fourth Presenter)

Pauletta Hansel, Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative
Scott Goebel
Melissa Helton
Joshua Jones
Marianne Worthington

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.09 Appalachian Studies

Paper

Flatalachia Follow-Up: Results of Bringing Appalachian Studies to Flatland Eastern North Carolina

Leanne E. Smith, East Carolina University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.09 Appalachian Studies

Paper

Many Media Options

Ruth B. Derrick, Radford University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.09 Education

Paper

“I did not know I was Appalachian!” Teaching Appalachia through the voice of women.

Janis E. Rezek, WVU Tech

4:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 8.10 Arts

Panel

The Elk Knob Art and Planning Project

Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University
Cheryl Laws, Appalachian State University
Kenny Logsdon, Appalachian State University
Brittany Means

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.11 Environment

Panel

Protecting Land & Water in Appalachian Alabama

Hands Off Appalachia! in Alabama

The Fight For Shepherd Bend

William Isom II, Hands Off Appalachia
Natilee A. McGruder, McGruder & Associates
Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.12 Appalachian Studies: Creative Student Responses to Appalachian Culture, History, and Cinematic Representations

Panel

Creative Student Responses to Appalachian Culture, History, and Cinematic Representations

“Appalachian Cultural Identity: A Reflection on the Dying Coal Industry and Its People”

“The Women of My Appalachia”

“Picking Apart Bluegrass”

Walter E. Squire, Marshall University
Hannah Leport, Marshall University
Hannah Smith, Marshall University
Kayla Hager, Marshall University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.13 (Appalachian Studies) 2015 Weatherford Award Winners

Roundtable

Weatherford Award Winners

Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech
Chris Green, Berea College

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.14 (Archives) Many Mountains, Much News: Digitizing Appalachia’s Historic Newspapers

Panel

Many Mountains, Much News: Digitizing Appalachia’s Historic Newspapers

Stewart Plein, West Virginia University
JoAnne Deeken, Univerity of Tennessee
Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
Errol Somay, Library of Virginia

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.15 Economic Conditions

Roundtable

Internal Colony--Are You Sure? Defining, Theorizing, Organizing Appalachia

Mary Anglin
Dwight Billings
Silas House
Cathy Kunkel
Ada Smith
Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Steve Fisher, Emory and Henry College

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.16 Music

Workshop

Mountain Born: Jean Ritchie's Musical Voice

Margaret M. Folkemer, independent researcher, Dearest Home

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.17 Urban Appalachians

Roundtable

Bluegrass in Diaspora: The role of music community in Urban Appalachian communities

Jeffrey Gaver, Wittenberg University
Fred Bartenstein
Curtis W. Ellison, Miami University - Hamilton

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.18 Archives

Roundtable

Archiving Appalachia

Laura Smith, East Tennessee State University
Jennifer Bingham, East Tennessee State University
John T. Fleenor Jr., East Tennessee State University
Selena Harmon, East Tennessee State University

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 8.19 Literature

Performance

Sound(ing) Ground: Writers on Exile and Authenticity

Karen S. McElmurray, West Virginia Wesleyan College

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM