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SAS 2016 WV

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2016
Thursday, April 7th
5:30 PM

REGISTRATION

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

6:00 PM

Welcome Reception

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

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

8:30 PM

SAS Reception After Party

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

Friday, April 8th
7:30 AM

Refreshments Available

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

REGISTRATION

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

8:00 AM

Exhibition Hall

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

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

Invited Installation of Art

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
Courtney Childers, Marshall University
Michael Gallimore, Marshall University
Paige Elizabeth Grimaldi, Marshall University
Kaitlyn Marie Hartford, Marshall University
Lydia Marie Lake, Marshall University
Ashley Joelle Loftis, Marshall University
Kayla Marie Shapley, Marshall University
Ashley Taylor, Marshall University
Eryn Wilson, 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

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
Hillary M. Adams, West Virginia Autism Training Center, Marshall University
Dr. Eugenia Webb-Damron, Marshall University Graduate College
Olivia Spradlin, University of Kentucky

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

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
Allison S. Perrett, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)
C. Matt Samson, Davidson College
Jonathan W. Malone, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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

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

10:00 AM

BREAK

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

10:30 AM

Appalachian Culture and Higher Education

Roundtable

Appalachian Culture and Higher Education: Cultural Traits that Hinder Academic Success

Marty Laubach, Marshall University
Kristi McLeod Fondren, Marshall University
Robin Conley, Marshall University
Meg Stone, 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

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
Christina Cheadle, Washington and Lee University
Chris White

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

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

Talk with the Artists: Anthropological Perspectives of "Life and Art"

Organized Session

Meet the Artists

Tanya Cheyanne Abbett, Marshall University
Courtney Childers, Marshall University
Michael Gallimore, Marshall University
Paige Elizabeth Grimaldi, Marshall University
Kaitlyn Marie Hartford, Marshall University
Lydia Marie Lake, Marshall University
Ashley Joelle Loftis, Marshall University
Kayla Marie Shapley, Marshall University
Ashley Taylor, Marshall University
Eryn Wilson, 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

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

LUNCH (On Your Own)

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

1:30 PM

Ethnographies of Violence

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
Katie Terhune, Randolph-Macon College
Alexandra Sims, Randolph-Macon College
Ashlie M. Prain, Valdosta State University
Robin Conley, Marshall University
Amanda Louise Smythers, Marshall University

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

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
Heidi Dennison
Alexis R. Kastigar
Samantha Harvey
Jake Farley

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

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
Madelyn Momchilov, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
H. Lyn White, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Ross van der Harst, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Shela Van Ness, 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

3:00 PM

BREAK

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

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
Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University
Cat Pleska, Marshall University
Laura Harbert Allen, Independent Producer and Multimedia Maker

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

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
Kimberly Blake, Miami University - Oxford
Daniel McClurkin, Miami University - Oxford
Seth Boda, 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

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
Gail Patton, Unlimited Future, Inc.
Ben Gilmer, Refresh Appalachia
Bill Woodrum, Robert C. Byrd Institute

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

5:00 PM

BREAK (On Your Own)

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

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

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

Saturday, April 9th
7:00 AM

REGISTRATION

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

7:30 AM

Refreshments Available

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

8:00 AM

Exhibition Hall

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

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

Invited Installation of Art

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
Courtney Childers, Marshall University
Michael Gallimore, Marshall University
Paige Elizabeth Grimaldi, Marshall University
Kaitlyn Marie Hartford, Marshall University
Lydia Marie Lake, Marshall University
Ashley Joelle Loftis, Marshall University
Kayla Marie Shapley, Marshall University
Ashley Taylor, Marshall University
Eryn Wilson, 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

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
Cheryl DiBartolo, Wake Technical Community College
Nick Freidin, Marshall University

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

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
Bethany A. Zaiman, Mary Baldwin College
Matthew J. Richard, Valdosta State University
Scott London, Randolph-Macon College
Kristen Klaaren, Randolph-Macon College
Francissca Kang, Davidson College

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

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
Colleen M. Truskey, The College of William and Mary
Carrie B. Douglass, University of Virginia
Brian A. Hoey, Marshall University

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

9:30 AM

Poster Sesssion: Saturday Morning

Poster

Kula Creations: Analyzing Material Culture in a Kula Trade Simulation

Madelyn Momchilov, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Louis Brill, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
H. Lyn White Miles, 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

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
Kristy Henson, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Jude Bumgardner, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Jonathan W. Malone, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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

10:00 AM

BREAK

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

10:30 AM

Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center: Community Synergy By Design

Organized Session

Walk and Talk Panel

Peter Massing, Marshall University
Hanna Kozlowki-Slone, Marshall University
Phoebe Patton Randolph, Edward Tucker Architects
Hayson Harrison, Marshall University
Sandra Reed, 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

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

12:00 PM

LUNCH (On Your Own)

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

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

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
Hannah G. Howard, Washington and Lee University
Chant'e T. Glass-Walley, Washington and Lee University
Shawn C. Caton, Washington and Lee University
Bowen H. Spottswood, 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

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
Bruce Decker, Collective Impact
Breanna Shell, City of Huntington, West Virginia

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

3:00 PM

BREAK

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

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
Tiffany Clark, Valdosta State University
Rebecca L. Upton, DePauw University
John Walden MD, Marshall University School of Medicine

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

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
Harley D. Walden, Marshall University
Valerie Jones, Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va.

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

5:00 PM

BREAK (On Your Own)

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

5:30 PM

Keynote Reception

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

6:30 PM

Keynote Banquet & Address

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