The schedule is arranged by session and events (listed at the top of each entry). The session or event title is a hyperlink that will take you to complete details. For sessions, this includes full information on the individual contributions of participants such as titles, bios, and abstracts.
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Thursday, April 7th | ||
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5:30 PM |
Organized Session Registration & Information Table Southern Anthropological Society Location: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Huntington - Lobby Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Activism 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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6:00 PM |
Performance Musical Performance College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Location: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Huntington, Riverside Cafe Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Activism 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
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7:30 PM |
FIELD TRIP: Tour of the Keith Albee Theatre Organized Session Tour of the Keith Albee Theatre Southern Anthropological Society Location: Meet @ Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Huntington - Lobby Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture Keywords: Historic Preservation 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
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8:30 PM |
Organized Session Big Rock and the Candy Ass Mountain Boys BRATCAMB Location: Black Sheep Burrito and Brews - 1555 3rd Ave. Huntington, WV Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Activism 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM |
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Friday, April 8th | ||
7:30 AM |
Organized Session Coffee, Tea, Water & Pastries Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Food and Nutrition 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
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7:30 AM |
Organized Session Registration & Information Table Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Activism 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
Organized Session Exhibitors and Silent Auction Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Rhododendron Room Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Activism 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
Invited Graphical Presentation Poster Sharing Stories of Reinvention and Reinvestment in the Local Jocelyn Taylor, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby, Monitors Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and Innovation; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Advocacy, Community, higher education, humanitarianism 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
Organized Session Art and Life: An Exhibition of Work by Visual Art Majors in Marshall University's School of Art & Design and College of Arts and Media Tanya Cheyanne Abbett, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Dogwood Room Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Arts and Crafts, Folklore, and Storytelling; Media, Journalism, and Popular Culture; Place, Landscape and Spatial Studies Keywords: Activism, Aesthetics, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Material Culture 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
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8:30 AM |
Integrating, Empowering and Caring for Our Diverse, Local Communities for the Common Good Organized Session Needs Assesment of Disability Service Providers within the San Fernando Region of Trinidad and Tobago. Becoming an Ally: How Communities can Empower and Embrace Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder The Work of Providing Care: Domestic Violence Service Provision Chloe A. Moore, Rhodes College Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Ethnicity, Race, Diversity, and Discrimination; Health and Medicine Keywords: Activism, Advocacy, Agency, Citizenship, Disability, Discrimination, Human Growth and Development, Violence 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Social Activism and Social Movements are Growing Green Organized Session Developing Cultural Context and Recognizing the Civic Professional: A Study of Home Gardening and Food Security in Rural Appalachia Agents of Change and the Local Food Movement Planting Trees and Shaping Consciousness in Guatemalan Environmentalism Liza Dobson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Agriculture, Food, and Land Use; Environment, Energy, Natural Resources, and Conservation; Travel, Tourism, Recreation, and Sports Keywords: Activism, Agriculture and Agrarian Systems, Applied Anthropology, Community, Ecology and Environment, Place, Religion, Social Movements 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Youth Leadership in Action: Creation of a 4-H Heritage Quilt Trail Workshop Youth Leadership in Action: Creation of a 4-H Heritage Quilt Trail Julie A. Tritz, West Virginia University Extension Service Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Place, Landscape and Spatial Studies Keywords: Heritage, Youth 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Organized Session Refreshments Available - Break Between Sessions College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Food and Nutrition 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
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10:30 AM |
Appalachian Culture and Higher Education Roundtable Appalachian Culture and Higher Education: Cultural Traits that Hinder Academic Success Marty Laubach, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center Tracks: Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Applied Anthropology, Culture, Education, higher education, Mobility, Rural Anthropology 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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10:30 AM |
Confronting Addiction: From Personhood to Policy Organized Session Alcoholics Anonymous: The Formation and Reformation of Self Hoarding: Anthropological perspectives on creating the self through consumption Huntington as a Learning City: How to Solve our Opiate Epidemic Abigail Shepherd, Valdosta State University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Health and Medicine Keywords: Activism, Addiction, Community, Conflict and War, Disability, housing, Identity, Life History 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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10:30 AM |
FIELD TRIP: Tour of the Heritage Farm & Museum (A Smithsonian Affiliate) Organized Session Tour of the Heritage Farm and Museum (A Smithsonian Affiliate) Southern Anthropological Society Location: Meet @ Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture Keywords: Advocacy, Archaeology, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Material Culture, Ceramics, craft, Education, Folklore, Historic Preservation, Labor and Work, Native Americans, Tourism, United States 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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10:30 AM |
Talk with the Artists: Anthropological Perspectives of "Life and Art" Organized Session Meet the Artists Tanya Cheyanne Abbett, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Confernece Center - Dogwood Room Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Arts and Crafts, Folklore, and Storytelling; Media, Journalism, and Popular Culture Keywords: Activism, Aesthetics, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Material Culture, Visual Anthropology 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Executive Council Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society Organized Session SAS Executive Council Meeting & Lunch Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Big Sandy Room Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Activism 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Organized Session Enjoy One of Huntington's Many Fine Downtown Restaurants City of Huntington Location: Huntington's Downtown Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Food and Nutrition 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Organized Session Rape Myths, 'Regret Sex', and Retaliation: Sexual Assault on a College Campus in Ethnographic Perspective Educated to Kill: An Ethnography of Southern Rural Hunters Narratives and Experiences of Trauma: The language of veterans' combat stories We Promise Not to Cry: Overcoming Sexism in STEM Fields Scott London, Randolph-Macon College Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Gender, Sexuality, and LGBTQ Studies; Language, Communication, Literature, and Rhetoric Keywords: Conflict and War, Discourse, Ethnography, Gender, Linguistic Anthropology, Masculinity, Narrative, Trauma, Violence 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Huntington 101: A Holistic Perspective of Huntington, WV from Past to Present Organized Session From Industrialism to Tourism: A look at cultural and financial changes in Huntington, West Virginia Fair Trade as a means to Connect Locals around the World The Culture of Socioeconomics: Transforming the House into the Home Communicative Elements in Two Cultural Anthropology Courses Punks or City Planners? : An ethnographic study in community building through local music scenes Hannah Smith Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Agency, Consumerism, Ethnography, higher education, History, Music and Sound 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Kula, Evolution, and Moral Panic: How Emotion Trumps Reason on the Journey to the Common Good Organized Session ‘Quasi-Kula’: Demonstrating Reciprocity Strategies in a Kula Trade Active Learning Simulation How Emotion Trumps Evidence in Evolution Science Education in Southeast Tennessee Supermax Prisons, and the Common Good. Louis Brill, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Religion, Ritual, and Spirituality; Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Art and Material Culture, Bureaucracy, Civil society, Cultural Politics, Discrimination, Education, Evolution, Legal and Political Anthropology, Markets, Prisons, Reciprocity, Religion, Science 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Organized Session Refreshments Available - Break Between Sessions College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Food and Nutrition 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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3:30 PM |
Betwixt and Between: Experiencing (Ongoing) Crises of Contaminated Water in West Virginia Roundtable Betwixt and Between: Experiencing (Ongoing) Crises of Contaminated Water in West Virginia Brian A. Hoey Ph.D., Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Environment, Energy, Natural Resources, and Conservation Keywords: Activism, Disaster, Ecology and Environment, Engaged Anthropology, Public Anthropology, Public Policy 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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3:30 PM |
Ethnographies of Public Religion Organized Session Sharing the Sacred: A Tradition of Mormon Public Education in Kirtland, Ohio “Are You a Catholic Bahá'í or a Protestant Bahá'í?": Articulations of Faith in Post-Troubles Belfast Religiosity in Japan: Negotiating a Secularizing World James Stuart Bielo, Miami University - Oxford Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 Tracks: Fieldwork and Methodology; Religion, Ritual, and Spirituality Keywords: creativity, Ethnography, Faith, Identity, Religion 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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3:30 PM |
Huntington Local: A Social Enterprise Approach to the Local Food Economy Organized Session Discovering Local Food Refresh: Workforce Training with Compassion Local Food Corridor and Regional Impact Lauren Kemp, Unlimited Future Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Agriculture, Food, and Land Use Keywords: Agriculture and Agrarian Systems, Collaboration, Food and Nutrition, Social Movements 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
Organized Session Take a Break City of Huntington Location: On your own Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Activism 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
Marshall Sociology & Anthropology Authors Book Signing Organized Session Come Meet the Authors Marshall University Department of Sociology & Anthropology Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Rhododendron Room (Exhibit Hall) Tracks: Language, Communication, Literature, and Rhetoric; Migration, Mobility, Immigration, and Demographic Studies; Place, Landscape and Spatial Studies; Travel, Tourism, Recreation, and Sports Keywords: Commodification, Demographics, Discourse, Engaged Anthropology, Ethnography, gentrification, Identity, Linguistic Anthropology, Migration, Immigration and Diasporas, Personhood, Social Justice, Tourism 5:00 PM - 8:00 AM |
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6:00 PM |
"Shop, Sip & Stroll" in Downtown Huntington Organized Session "Shop, Sip & Stroll" Cabell Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau Location: Meet @ Holiday Inn Lobby Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Activism, Food and Nutrition 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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Saturday, April 9th | ||
7:00 AM |
Organized Session Registration & Information Table Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Activism 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
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7:30 AM |
Organized Session Coffee, Tea, Water & Pastries Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Food and Nutrition 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
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8:00 AM |
Organized Session Exhibitors and Silent Auction Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Rhododendron Room Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Activism 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
Invited Graphical Presentation Organized Session Sharing Stories of Reinvention and Reinvestment in the Local Jocelyn Taylor, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby, Monitors Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and Innovation; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Advocacy, Community, higher education, humanitarianism 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
Organized Session Art and Life: An Exhibition of Work by Visual Art Majors in Marshall University's School of Art & Design and College of Arts and Media Tanya Cheyanne Abbett, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Dogwood Room Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Media, Journalism, and Popular Culture; Place, Landscape and Spatial Studies Keywords: Activism, Art and Material Culture 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM |
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8:30 AM |
Archaeology: It was Then ... it is Now, and Forever Organized Session Plantation Archeology and Industrial Slavery in Western Virginia “Archaeology Right Now!” Bringing live, local archaeology into the online classroom. The Three Tenses in Historical Preservation: Preserving the Past in the Present for the Future – a case study in a mid-Ohio Valley town Robert F. Maslowski Dr., Marshall University South Charleston Campus Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Archaeological and Biological Anthropology; Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: African American, Archaeology, History, Learning, North America, Pedagogy, Technology 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Crossing Bridges: Identity Formation and Change Organized Session Irish-American Identity Formation in Savannah, Georgia: Intersections of the Global and the Local She Finds Her Voice: Challenging Church Gender Roles and Purity Culture Otherness in the Contemporary World Talking About Race: Crossing Boundaries through Dialogue Groups in South Africa Negotiating Gyeol: The Tug of War between Authenticity and Intersectionality in the Context of Lesbian Identity in Korea Barbara Hendry, Georgia Southern University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Ethnicity, Race, Diversity, and Discrimination; Gender, Sexuality, and LGBTQ Studies; Religion, Ritual, and Spirituality; Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Agency, Asia, Cultural Politics, Ethnicity, Gender, Globalization, Identity 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Migrating Identities: Defining Selves, Others, and Places Organized Session Experiencing the postcolonial museum: Space, (re)presentation, and praxis in the Latino New South project Multicultural Festivals and Conceptions of Diversity in American Communities Bullfights Banned in Catalonia 2012. Catalonia votes to leave Spain 2015. Rebounds and Reversals: Where will be American’s Next ‘Local’ Marlene Arellano, Davidson College Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 Tracks: Migration, Mobility, Immigration, and Demographic Studies Keywords: Identity, Mobility, Multiculturalism, Museum Anthropology, Nationalism, Performance and Festivals, Representation, Social Change 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:30 AM |
Poster Sesssion: Saturday Morning Poster Kula Creations: Analyzing Material Culture in a Kula Trade Simulation Madelyn Momchilov, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Location: Big Sandy Conference Center Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Art and Material Culture, Pedagogy 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
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9:30 AM |
Poster Sesssion: Saturday Morning Organized Session Percentage of Land Suitable for Archaeological Shovel Testing in West Virginia, 2015 Digitization and replication of Fort Ancient human remains used as a research and teaching tool A Case Study of The Gajang Jubu in Baton Rouge The Culture of Whitewater Kayaking - an ethnographic research Sarah E. McGee, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Dogwood Room Tracks: Archaeological and Biological Anthropology; Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and LGBTQ Studies; Science and Technology Keywords: Applied Anthropology 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Organized Session Refreshments Available - Break Between Sessions College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Food and Nutrition 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
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10:30 AM |
Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center: Community Synergy By Design Organized Session Walk and Talk Panel Peter Massing, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 & MU Visual Arts Center Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Arts and Crafts, Folklore, and Storytelling; Community Life and Housing; Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and Innovation; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations; Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Aesthetics, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Material Culture, Historic Preservation, Material Culture/Materiality, Teaching, Visual Anthropology 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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10:30 AM |
Open Business Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society Organized Session Open Business Meeting Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Guyandotte Room Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Activism 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Organized Session Enjoy One of Huntington's Many Fine Downtown Restaurants City of Huntington Location: Huntington's Downtown Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Activism 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Civic Engagement and Service Learning: Reinvesting in the Local for the Common Good Roundtable Civic Engagement and Service Learning: Reinvesting in the Local for the Common Good Kristi Fondren, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Teaching 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Eating Local in Virginia: Taste, Community, and Healthy Living Organized Session Cheese To You: Redefining the Taste of Local Olive Oil Terroir and Import Locality in Cheese To You Brew Ridge Taps The Sacred Vocation: Buddy Power’s Christian Approach to Sustainable Farming Sascha L. Goluboff, Washington and Lee University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Agriculture, Food, and Land Use; Environment, Energy, Natural Resources, and Conservation; Health and Medicine Keywords: Commodification, Community, craft, Culture, Health, North America 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Facilitating Huntington's Reinvention and Reinvestment in the Local Workshop Working for a Common Good Huntington’s Renaissance: A Social Movement in Action Huntington’s Renaissance: Partnerships in Practice Brian A. Hoey, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements; Economic Conditions, Development, and Policy; Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and Innovation; Higher Education and Town & Gown Relations Keywords: Activism, Architecture/Built Environment, Civil society, Community, social capital, Social Change 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Organized Session Refreshments Available - Break Between Sessions College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Food and Nutrition 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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3:30 PM |
Improving Outcomes: From Global to Local Contexts, Biomedical and Traditional Approaches Organized Session Nurses as Mediators in the Madagascar Healthcare System Mayan Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine By Tiffany Clark Global Health at the Local Level: Innovative Approaches for Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Adolescent Girls in Botswana – Evidence from an Evaluation Study on Perceptions of Cross Generational Sex in an Urban Context How Bowdlerized Accounts Undermine Optimal Health Care Delivery in Amazonia and Appalachia Kaylie Tram, Davidson College Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 02 Tracks: Health and Medicine Keywords: Amazonia, Americas, Applied Anthropology, global health, Indigenous Peoples, Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Representation, Southern Africa 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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3:30 PM |
The Progressive History & Culture of Appalachian Education: Ethnography and Rural Schools Organized Session Introductory Comments: Doctoral Dissertation Research on the History and Culture of Rural Schools The Story of Holden Central School: An Ethnographic Look into Community, Education, and the "Rural" he Story of Edward Lee McClain High School: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the School's Role in the Culture of the Community Eric Lassiter, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 03 Tracks: Architecture, Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Material Culture; Teaching and Pedagogy Keywords: Art and Material Culture, Borders, Collaboration, Community, Education, History 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
Organized Session Take a Break Southern Anthropological Society Location: On your own Tracks: Activism, Resistance, Revolution, and Social Movements Keywords: Activism 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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5:30 PM |
Organized Session Musical Performance Honors College, Marshall University Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Lobby Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Activism 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
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6:30 PM |
Performance Keynote and SAS Awards Ceremonies Southern Anthropological Society Location: Big Sandy Conference Center - Azalea Room Tracks: Music, Dance, Performance, and Festivals Keywords: Tradition 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM |