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48th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference | Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee | March 20 - 22, 2025.
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Saturday, March 22
 

7:00am CDT

Appalachian Collegiate Research Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
Farr 305
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  ASA Meeting

7:00am CDT

Education Committee Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall
HENDERSON HALL 216
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall
  ASA Meeting

7:00am CDT

Journal of Appalachian Studies Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall
Henderson 214
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall
  ASA Meeting

8:00am CDT

Appalachian Musicians and Influence
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 201A
Convener: Jim Clark, Barton College - Emeritus
  • "The Voices Behind a Voice: Tracing African American Influence in the Singing Style of Frank Proffitt," Olivia Phillips, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • "A Fiddlin' Fit: Frazier Moss, Master Fiddler of the Upper Cumberland," Jim Clark, Barton College - Emeritus

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Creating Change for Resilient Community Water Systems in Central Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 214
Convener: Deborah J. Thompson, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Creating Spaces of Mutual/Social Learning and Action, Undoing Entrenched Inequities through a Collaborative Research Project on Community Water Systems in Two Counties of Central Appalachia,” Maria Bareli, LiKEN Knowledge
  • “Water Inequalities and Extractive Developmental Pathways: Analyzing Water System Challenges in Two Central Appalachian Communities," Madison Mooney, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Toolkits for Community Engagement and Water Resilience in the Face of Climate Change," McKensi Gilliam, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Toolkits for Community Engagement and Water Resilience in the Face of Climate Change," Natasha Moore-Howell, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "LiKEN’s Theory of Change and Points of Leverage for Disrupting Vicious Cycles," Deborah J. Thompson, LiKEN Knowledge

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Environmental Sciences
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117
Convener: Alexander Miele, LSU
  • "Geographic Variations in U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Incidents: Misalignment Between Administrative Boundaries and the Appalachian Region," Jacob Hileman, West Virginia University
  • "Linking Streamflow Trends with Land Cover in a Southern USA Water Tower," Alexander Miele, LSU
  • "Sustainable Methodologies for Degradation of PET-based Microplastics along the Tennessee River," Kyle Murphy, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Faith Histories
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 307
Convener: Summer King, University of Mississippi
  • "The Potential of Religion in Appalachian Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Bethlehem Farm," Julius Malin, University of Basel
  • "Hearing from Our Own Home: Reading the Pastoral Letters of Catholic Committee of Appalachia as a Model for Synodality," Abigail Rosys, Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry
  • "He Shall Take Up Serpents: The Spread of Pentecostal Snake Handling through Southern Appalachia, 1909-1932," Summer King, University of Mississippi

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Folklore
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 305
Convener: Rebecca Proffitt, East Tennessee State University, Reece Museum
  • "Ritual Remembrance: Material Culture as Historical Document," Rebecca Proffitt, East Tennessee State University, Reece Museum
  • "Captivity, Myth, and Memory: Examining the Origins and Cultural Significance of Hungry Mother State Park," Elise Johnson, Appalachian State University
  • "‘Around the Old Ore Knob Today’: Exploring Labor, Environment, and Memory in a Western North Carolina Ballad," Trevor McKenzie, Appalachian State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Future Places
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 111
Convener: Marti Wagnon, Virginia Tech
  • "'This Place Knows How to Dream': King Coal as Thirdspace Vision of Appalachia's Future," William Nash, Middlebury College
  • "Between Heaven & the High Country: Constructing Religious Space in the Southern Appalachian Landscape," Ella Adams, Appalachian State University
  • "Beyond the Tall, Tall Trees: Reimagining Technology, Digital Literacy, and the Physical Landscape of Rural Appalachia," Marti Wagnon, Virginia Tech
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Gas Build Outs in the Tennessee River Valley: A Continuing of Exploitation of People and Land in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 114
Convener and Presenter: Brig Ortner, SAGE TN
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Leveling the Playing Field: To be Heard and Seen
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 004
Convener: Cat Pleska, Marshall University
  • "I'll Always Be That Georgia Girl: Burn," Sara Henning, Marshall University
  • "She is Among so Many Silent Heroes," Cat Pleska, Marshall University
  • "Billie Lee," Nathan Rucker, Marshall University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Sites of Memory: History, Storytelling, and Undermining the Erasure of BIPOC in Northern Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 304B
Convener: Kenton Butcher, Bucknell University
  • "Outside the Mainstream: Black Self-Publishing in Appalachian Ohio," Kenton Butcher, Bucknell University
  • "‘Eww, these apples suck, de donde son?’: Latinx Storytelling in Rural Pennsylvania," Elena Perez-Zetune, University of Texas at Austin/Bucknell University
  • "Race and Reputation: Black Appalachian Soldiers in the United States Colored Troops," Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Women’s History
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 203
Convener: Allen Fletcher, University of Kentucky
  • "Beyond ‘Fotched-On’ Women: School Reform and Gendered Politics in Progressive Era Appalachia," Allen Fletcher, University of Kentucky
  • "Schooling Us: Generations of Educating Appalachian Women," Leslie Cook, Appalachian State University
  • "Carrie Buck and the Ongoing Fight for Reproductive Freedom," Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • "Recipes and Remedies of Rural Appalachian Midwives and Families: Examination through the Lens of Racism and A Superstitious Belief System," Kristen Montgomery, East Tennessee State University
SPONSORED BY TENNESSEE TECH WOMEN’S CENTER
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

8:00am CDT

Montañitas Reimagined
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 309
Convener: Amy Price Azano, Virginia Tech
  • Amy Price Azano, Virginia Tech
  • Estela Diaz Knott, Lua Project
  • Dave Berzonsky, Lua Project
  • Luna Berzonsky, Lua Project

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Performance

8:00am CDT

The Brownsville Project: Recovering Remnants of an Appalachian African-American Community
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 205
Convener: Clory Jackson, The Brownsville Project
  • Clory Jackson, The Brownsville Project
  • Caroline Hann, Creative Partner, The Brownsville Project

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Performance

8:00am CDT

Voices of Nature: Creative Writing Among Appalachian Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 106
Convener: Heather Richmond, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Held in the Howl," Heather Richmond, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Relinquished," Christopher Fairchild, Tennessee Tech University
  • "The Water Wept as the Ducks Said Goodbye," Jaden Mullins, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Performance

8:00am CDT

Coalition Building through the Arts in Rural Appalachian Communities
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 108
Convener: Krystal Brooke Carter, Independent Scholar
  • Krystal Brooke Carter, Independent Scholar
  • Lacy Snapp, East Tennessee State University
  • Becks Lipshultz, Appalachian State University
  • LB Prevette, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

8:00am CDT

Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains Writing Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 316
Convener and Presenter: Amy Le Ann Richardson, Independent
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Workshop

8:00am CDT

Exhibit Hall, Registration, Posters, Editors’ Showcase, Silent Auction Open
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 5:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
RUC Multipurpose Room, first and second floor lobbies 
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 5:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  On Campus Event

9:30am CDT

iMakerSpace Open House
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Volpe Library
VOLPE LIBRARY, Third Floor
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Volpe Library 1100 N Peachtree Ave, Cookeville, TN 38501
  On Campus Event

9:30am CDT

Affrilachia: Testimonies - A Visual, Poetic, and Historical Journey through Southern Appalachia's Black Communities
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 308
Convener: Maia A. Surdam, Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education
  • Chris Aluka Berry, Independent
  • Kelly Elaine Navies, Independent
  • Maia A. Surdam, Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Appalachian Health Disparities are a Local Expression of Global Worsening of Health Disparities
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 304B
Convener: Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic
  • "Worsening Disparities in Cancer Outcomes in Appalachian Eastern Kentucky," Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic; Kennedy Sabharwal, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • "Disparity as a Manifestation of Environmental Destruction: The Impact of Mineral Extraction on Cancer Care Across the Globe," Elijah Baker, Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee
  • "Excess Smoking Related Cancer Deaths in Eastern Kentucky Continue to Persist Despite Improving Survival Rates Elsewhere in The United States," Lauren Slone, Asbury University; Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Appalachian Queer Pedagogy as Space of Resistance and Resilience: Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent in Rural Spaces
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 114
Convener: Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • Josh Thompson, Virginia Tech
  • Amy Price Azano, Virginia Tech
  • Daniel Vandeberg, Roanoke City Public Schools
  • Justin Smith, Farm to Feed (Nonprofit)

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Art: Retrospectives
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 305
Convener: Joy Gritton, Morehead State University
  • "A Retrospective of the Art of Bonita Skaggs-Parsons," Joy Gritton, Morehead State University
  • "Sullivan’s Universe: Appalachian Folk Culture, Art, and Infinite Systems of Worlds and Wonders," Ali Printz, Temple University/Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • "Quilting for Community Recovery: A Trauma-Informed Textile Mapping Approach for Post-Hurricane Appalachia," Fabio Andres Tellez, North Carolina State University; Isabel Arteaga-Arredondo, Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia)
  • "‘Everything is different, but it’s all the Same’; Arts-Based Graduate Projects After Helene," Robert McCormac, Indiana University; Matt Groce, Wake Forest University
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Carceral States and Criminality
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 309
Convener: William Hal Gorby, West Virginia University
  • "Addressing the Problems at Moundsville: The Expansion of West Virginia's Corrections System During a Period of Economic Restructuring," William Hal Gorby, West Virginia University
  • "Of Prisons and Place: Abolition & Education in Appalachia," Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University
  • "Constructing ‘Legality’: Comparing and Contrasting the Evolution and Economic and Cultural Legitimization of Appalachian Moonshiners and the Mexican Cartels," Lucy Coleman, Appalachian State University
  • "The History of Opioids in Appalachia: Just What the Doctor Ordered, Cultural Rebellion, or State-Corporate Crime?" Carl Root, Eastern Kentucky University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

9:30am CDT

College Transitions
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117
Convener: Africa Hands, University at Buffalo
  • "‘My Grandmother Recommended I Apply’: College Information Seeking among Appalachian Students," Africa Hands, University at Buffalo
  • "Rank Strangers: Using Liminality to Conceptualize College Transition for Rural Appalachian Students," David Adams, University of Cincinnati
  • "The Influences That Facilitate the Development of a Sense of Calling among Undergraduate Women Raised and Educated in Appalachia," Lindsay Monihen, Shawnee State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Gender and Other Intersections
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 203
Convener: Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University
  • "Trans Banjos and Gay Guitars: LGBTQ+ Resilience in Contemporary Appalachian Music" Cassie Dawn Ball, Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • "‘Here I Am’: The Prosthetic Memory of Dolly Parton in Dumplin," Travis Rountree, Western Carolina University
  • "Discussing and Confronting Stereotypes: Narratives of Appalachian Fathers," Aran Garnett-Deakin, Virginia Tech
  • "‘Oh, that I Could Have Lived Like I Wanted to—’: A Small-Town Diarist's Isolation," Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University
SPONSORED BY TENNESSEE TECH WOMEN’S CENTER.
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Literary Outsiders and Canon-Making
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 106
Convener: Matthew D. Sutton, Morehead State University
  • "The Rhetoric of Subversion in Mountain Path by Harriette Simpson Arnow," Gisele Sigal, Pau University - UPPA - France
  • "Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: The Great Lost Appalachian Novel?," Matthew D. Sutton, Morehead State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Pipelines, Pathways, and Potential: Workforce Development as a Positive Force for Thriving People and Communities in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 214
Convener: Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, High Rocks
  • "Introduction to the High Rocks Theory of Change," Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, High Rocks

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

9:30am CDT

Power of Stories
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 216
Convener: Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • "The Devil's Pulpit and Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures," E.J. Wade, Independent; Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • “Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead and the Discourse of Disaster in Appalachia,” Jeannie Dalporto, University of Charleston
  • “Tell Me about Your Bad Guys: Fathering in Anxious Times,” Michael Dowdy, Villanova University
  • "Acorns and Atoms: Nuclear Weapons, Exploitation, and Erasure in Appalachia," Emily Strasser, Tufts University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

9:30am CDT

After the Flood Documentary Short Screening
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 004
Convener and Presenter: Ali Gautier, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Performance

9:30am CDT

High Water is Hell, Brothers and Sisters!
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 327
Convener and Presenter: Jared Hamilton, M.A.R.S. Collective
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Performance

9:30am CDT

Writing the New Appalachia: A Reading and Discussion with Appalachian Memoirist Jennifer McGaha
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 111
Convener and Presenter: Jennifer McGaha, Independent
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Performance

9:30am CDT

Abolition Now: A Digital Participatory Project for Images of Study and Struggle
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 201A
Convener and Presenter: Vivian Swayne, University of Tennessee Department of Sociology
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

African American History and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 316
Convener: Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Black Union Soldiers of the Upper Cumberland," Troy D. Smith, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Cookeville's Historic West End," Linda Irby, Northeast School Retired Teachers and Putnam County NAACP
  • "West End Oral History Project," Krystal Akehinmi and Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Race Relations in Cookeville," Carl Owens, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Community-Based Participatory Archiving with Historic Brownsville Descendants
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 205
Convener: K. Melchor Hall, SAEDi Collective
  • K. Melchor Hall, SAEDi Collective
  • Clory Jackson, The Brownsville Project
  • Cheryl Jefferson Page, SAEDi Collective
  • Teniqua Pope, SAEDi Collective

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Embracing and Celebrating Appalachian Heritage through Storytelling, Art, & Place-Based Reflection
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 106B
Convener: Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University
  • Brittany Beeker, Clemson University
  • Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Publishing in Appalachian Studies
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 308
Convener: Meredith McCarroll, Journal of Appalachian Studies
  • "Publishing in Journal of Appalachian Studies," Meredith McCarroll, Journal of Appalachian Studies
  • "Getting Published in Appalachian Journal," Jessica Cory, Appalachian Journal
  • "Publishing with West Virginia University Press," Marguerite Avery, West Virginia University Press
  • "Publishing with University Press of Kentucky," Abby Freeland, University Press of Kentucky
  • "Publishing with University Press of Kentucky," Margaret Kelly, University Press of Kentucky
  • "Publishing in Literary Journals," Marianne Worthington, Still: The Journal

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Rebellious Educators: P-12 Educators Sharing Stories of Joy as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 307A
Convener: Adam Jordan, College of Charleston
  • "Making the Road: Clarifying ‘Rebellious Education,’" Adam Jordan, College of Charleston
  • "Authenticity as Resistance: The Case of Two Teachers from Southern Appalachia," Carrie Rogers, Western Carolina University
  • "To Dare Mighty Things: A Pedagogical Reflection on How Student-Driven Affirmative Communities Led to Joyful Learning and Amplifying Identities," Pete Locher, American University
  • "Loving Coalitions: Teaching and Forming Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community in the Classroom," Carrie Hart, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
  • "Outcries of the Silent Voices: A Resistance against ‘Bless Your Heart’," Allison Jones, Forsyth County Schools, Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Reimagining the Small Press in Appalachia: The Red Branch Review
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 108
Convener: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett, Carson-Newman University
  • "Red Branch Review: Background & Goals," Noah Soltau, Carson-Newman University
  • "The Red Branch Review: Literary Arts," Wesley Scott McMasters, Carson-Newman University
  • "The Red Branch Review: Visual Arts," Heather Hartman Folks, Carson-Newman University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

The Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 305
Convener: Ron Roach, East Tennessee State University
  • "Overview and Update on the Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project," Ron Roach, East Tennessee State University
  • "Update to the Online, Open-Access Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Part 2," Jeremy Smith, East Tennessee State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Wielding and Disrupting Power: The Emotional Labor of Collaborative, Restorative Relationships with Dispossessed Community Partners for #MoreMountainStories
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 205
Convener: Emily Satterwhite, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Virginia Tech
  • Sarah Plummer, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Virginia Tech
  • Emily Satterwhite, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Virginia Tech
  • Marti Wagnon, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Virginia Tech
  • Jacob Robinson, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, Virginia Tech

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Roundtable

9:30am CDT

Never Been out of the County: Short-Term Study Abroad Programs for Appalachian Students at Two-Year Colleges
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 307
Convener and Presenter: Jeff Wallace, Southern State Community College
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Workshop

10:00am CDT

Morning Snack Break
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
BRYAN FINE ARTS LOBBY 
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
  Break

10:00am CDT

Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers Performance
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
Bryan Fine Arts
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
  On Campus Event

10:00am CDT

Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
BRYAN FINE ARTS WATTENBARGER AUDITORIUM
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Bryan Fine Arts Building
  Performance

11:00am CDT

Appalachian Community
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 106B
Convener: Vonnia Davis, Independent
  • "Monuments in Black Appalachia: Community Engagement for Memory and Growth," Gregory Galford, Virginia Tech; Vonnia Davis, Independent
  • "There Was a Solid Community Here: The Development and Effects of Huntington, West Virginia’s Segregated Public Housing, 1938-1950," Jillian Kendall, West Virginia University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Appalachian Music
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 304B
Convener: Randal Williams, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Authenticity Meets the Sacred and Profane: Focus on Country Music," James Akenson, Tennessee Tech University; Randal Williams, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Art: Community Legacies
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 203
Convener: Katie Rodriguez, Appalachian State University
  • "Breaking the Mold: Clarifying Indigenous Appalachian Identities along the Upper New River," Katie Rodriguez, Appalachian State University
  • "Land Art in Appalachia: Maya Lin’s Open-Air Peace Chapel (1988-89) and Input (2004)," Heather Stark, Marshall University
  • "Public Art and Critical Literacies of Place: The Case of the Petrila Coal Mine in Romania’s Jiu Valley," Kai A. Schafft, Penn State University (co-authors, non-presenting, Iulia Salca, Transilvania University of Brasov, and Emelie Peine, University of Puget Sound)

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Authors-Meet-Critics: Power and Just Transition: The Struggle for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 106
Convener: Gabe Schwartzman, University of Tennessee
Presenters:
  • Barbara Ellen Smith, Emerita
  • Philip Lewin, Florida Atlantic University
  • Rebecca Scott, University of Missouri
  • Cathy Kunkel, Independent
Authors’ Response 
  • John Gaventa, Institute for Development Studies
  • Gabe Schwartzman, University of Tennessee

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Constructions of Whiteness
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 305
Convener: Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University
  • "Rural Appalachian Social Studies Teachers Grappling with Whiteness," Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University
"Flotilla: Interrogating My White Ancestry," Melissa Helton, Hindman Settlement School
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Gender, Race, and Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 307A
Convener: Alana Anton, Radford University
  • "In Search of the Woman Robert Burns Plagiarized," E.J. Wade, Independent; Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • "Exploring Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Appalachia," Alana Anton, Radford University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Health Outcomes
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117
Convener: Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky
  • "Insuring Health, Ensuring Limits: A Praxiographic Approach to Health Insurance and Care Delivery for People with Disabilities in Appalachian Kentucky," Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky
  • "Diabetes Fatalism in Appalachia: A Concept Analysis," Karen Carver, East Tennessee State University
  • "‘It’s Generational Trauma’: The Importance of Historically Contextualizing Drug-Related Suffering Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Appalachian North Georgia," Anna Mullany, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Historic Events
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 316
Convener: Carson Benn, Lincoln Memorial University
  • "Nixon in the Mountains: A History of Twentieth-Century Conservatism through Two Kentucky Visits," Carson Benn, Lincoln Memorial University
  • "The Tennessee Valley Authority v. Appalachia: Exploring the Complicated and Exploitive History of the Tennessee Valley Authority within East Tennessee and Beyond," Madeleine Howe, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • "To Be a Good Soldier, Citizen, and Patriot: How Southern Military Tradition at UNG Upheld the Lost Cause in Post-Civil War Appalachia," Ariana Mohr, University of North Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

History and Higher Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 205
Convener: Douglas Sturgeon, Shawnee State University
  • "Remembering Mountain State College in Parkersburg WV," Douglas Sturgeon, Shawnee State University; Karen Koehler, Shawnee State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Knowledge Access
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 216
Convener: Kathryn Wisinger, Putnam County Library
  • "Johnson's Unfulfilled Promise: Accessibility to Higher Education in Appalachia during the War on Poverty," Zoe Davin, Connecticut College
  • "Rural Libraries and Their Influence in Appalachian Communities," Kathryn Wisinger, Putnam County Library
  • "Cyber Possibilities: Making Higher Education Accessible for Rural Appalachian Students," Kristen LeFevers, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Perspectives on Appalachia with the University Press of Kentucky
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 327
Convener: Laura Leigh Morris, Furman University
Reading and Discussions with:
  • Laura Leigh Morris, Furman University
  • Chris Aluka Berry, Aluka Stories
  • Kelly Elaine Navies, Independent
  • Karen Salyer McElmurray, Spalding University
  • Rae Garringer, Country Queers

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Pop Culture: Representation
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 114
Convener: J. M. L. Whittington, University of Central Florida
  • "Navigating the History and Evolution of Professional Wrestling in Appalachia," Caleb Brown, Appalachian State University
  • "From Carpet Capital to Soccer Town USA: ‘Monday Night Fútbol’ in Dalton, Georgia," Michael Dowdy, Villanova University
  • "Introducing Appalachian Game Studies: Fallout 76, Imaginative Geography, and Extractive Tourism," J. M. L. Whittington, University of Central Florida

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Re-writing the Appalachian Family: Households of Necessity, Households of Choice
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 004
Convener: Doug Van Gundy, West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Doug Van Gundy, West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Jamey Temple, University of the Cumberlands
  • Sara Henning, Marshall University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

11:00am CDT

Youth Engagement
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 201A
Convener: Newlin Humphrey, University of Alabama
  • "Battling Brain Drain: Perspectives of Public Library Youth Engagement in Rural Southern and South Central Appalachia," Newlin Humphrey, University of Alabama; Griffin Anderson, University of Alabama

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

11:00am CDT

A Reading from Appalachian Lit Authors
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 111
Convener: Damian Dressick, Appalachian Lit
  • "Wesley Scott McMasters Reads His Work," Wesley Scott McMasters, Carson-Newman University
  • "Laura Jackson Reads Her Work," Laura Jackson, Autumn House Press
  • "Willie Carver Reads His Work," Willie Carver, Independent
  • "Patrick McGinty Reads His Work," Patrick McGinty, Slippery Rock University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Performance

11:00am CDT

We Dwell on These Mountains: Diverse Voices of Appalachia Showcase
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 308
Convener: Justin Wymer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • Justin Wymer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • Sarah Einstein, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • Torli Bush, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Performance

11:00am CDT

Higher Education in an Appalachian Context
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 305
Convener: Michelle Boettcher, Clemson University
  • "The Rural Educators Academy: A Community Colleges of Appalachia Initiative," Michelle Boettcher, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

11:00am CDT

Investigating Retail Theft in Sullivan County Tennessee - A Project of the Appalachian Justice Research Lab
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 108
Convener: Wendy A. Bach, University of Tennessee Appalachian Justice Research Center
  • Imani Mfalme-Shu’la, Community Defense of East Tennessee
  • Kyra Martinez, Lecturer, University of Tennessee Department of Sociology

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

11:00am CDT

From Appalachia to the Andes: Virtual Field Trips, Language Learning, and Making Place-Based Connections
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 214
Convener: Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University
  • Sharon Jackson, Clemson University
  • Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Workshop

12:00pm CDT

Close of Silent Auction; Winning Auction Items Pick Up
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 6:15pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
RUC Multipurpose Room 
Close of Silent Auction. Pick Up Items by 6:15 
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 6:15pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  On Campus Event

12:15pm CDT

Lunch on Your Own
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:15pm - 1:30pm CDT
Off Campus
Lunch on Your Own
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:15pm - 1:30pm CDT
Off Campus
  Break

1:00pm CDT

Plenary 2
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm CDT
Stonecipher Hall
Stonecipher 113 & 126
Neema Avashia and Ann Pancake
“We're All We've Got: Fighting for Appalachia When Institutions Fail Us”
A conversation between Neema Avashia and Ann Pancake, who have produced major literary works advocating for the region.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm CDT
Stonecipher Hall 125 Wings Up Way, Cookeville, TN 38501
  Featured Event

2:30pm CDT

Literature: Genre and Style
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117
Convener: Moriah Silvers, University of Georgia
  • "New Critical Edition of Appalachian Novel This Day and Time by Anne W. Armstrong," Linda Behrend, Independent
  • "A Genre Reimagined: An Exploration of Rhetorical Style in Contemporary Appalachian Literature," Moriah Silvers, University of Georgia
  • "A Hotel Perched on a Hill: The Grove Park Inn in Recent Appalachian Fiction," Jimmy Dean Smith, Union Commonwealth University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Community Legacies
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 216
Convener: Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
  • "Peck’s Addition Revisited: Exploring Southwestern Ohio’s Appalachian Legacy through Public History," Matthew Smith, Miami University-Hamilton; Ashley Hopkins, Miami University-Hamilton
  • "Invisible Appalachia," Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Death Traditions
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 214
Convener: Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • "Cemetery Language in Western North Carolina," Bridget Anderson, Old Dominion University; Craig Winkelmann, Independent
  • "Appalachian Cultural Traditions Regarding Death, Dying, and Funerals," Adeline Rosenberger, University of North Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Disaster
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 309
Convener: Caleb Brown, Appalachian State University
  • "Possibilities and Challenges of Rural Disaster Response and Relief," Erin Eldridge, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Seth Hawkins, Wake Forest University
  • "Applying Environmental Justice Lessons from Non-Appalachian Natural Disasters to the Appalachian Context," Caleb Brown, Appalachian State University
  • "The Role of Public Educators in Climate Related Disaster Resilience: A Literature Review," Adam Jordan, College of Charleston; Kasey Jordan, College of Charleston
  • "Interacting Disasters: A Western North Carolina Case Study," Megan E. Hall, University of Kentucky

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Displacement
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 305
Convener: Katherine Everhart, UVA Wise
  • "Rural Displacement: Public Housing in Rural Southwest Virginia," Anngel Gallihar, UVA Wise; Katherine Everhart, UVA Wise
  • "Remember Me: Addressing Displacement and Collective Trauma Following the Construction of Fontana Lake," Ryan Floyd, Lander University
  • "The Death of the Hillbilly Ghetto?," Michael Maloney, University of Cincinnati

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Ecocriticism
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 203
Convener: Catherine Wilbur, University of Charleston
  • "Louise McNeill, Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shores," Catherine Wilbur, University of Charleston
  • "‘Insane and Acceptable all the Time and all the While, Hainted’: Postnatural Travel Narratives at the End of the World," Shelby Roberts, University of Kentucky
  • "...If the Crick Don’t Rise: Ann Pancake’s and Barbara Kingsolver’s Speculations of Flood Catastrophe Amid the Anthropocene," Danara Wallace, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Education: Resources
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 308
Convener: Megan Krupa, East Tennessee State University
  • "Developing Multidisciplinary Teachers: Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers in Southern Appalachia," Hongxia Zhao, University of North Alabama; Gary Padgett, University of North Alabama
  • "Narrative(s) of Appalachia: A Poststructuralist Examination of English Education Practices in a Southern Appalachian School District," Megan Krupa, East Tennessee State University
  • "Appalachian Dialects as a Tool for Student Engagement," Jenny Crisp, Dalton State College

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Labor
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 108
Convener: Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University
  • "Mountain Mothers, Summer Gardens, and 100 Years of West Virginian Food Preservation," Sarah Trautwein, Marshall University
  • "Whose Labor History?: A Counterstory of Labor History in Appalachia," Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University; Brandon Beck, Clemson University
  • "‘Come to Me, All You Who Labor, and I Will Give You Rest’: Post-Coal Industrial Identity in Appalachia as Shown through the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial," Jane M. Harris, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Mining Perspectives
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 307
Convener: Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
  • "An Historical Perspective on Mining in the Southern Appalachians and its Effects," Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
  • "Health and Extractivism in Central Appalachia," Meghan Albritton, Virginia Tech
  • "Stories from the Mines: Historical Memories of Westmoreland Coal," Adam Dean, Lincoln Memorial University; Stephanie Holyfield, Lincoln Memorial University
  • "The Social Lives of Energy Regimes," Nadia Smiecinska, UC Davis

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Nature and the Economy
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 305
Convener: Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University
  • "El Corazon del Arbol de Navidad (The Heart of the Christmas Tree)," Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University; Yolanda Adams, Appalachian State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Pedagogy: Approaches
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 201A
Convener: Ada Haynes, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Uplifting Appalachia-Exploring a Place-Based Pedagogy that Integrates Critical Thinking and Foundry-Guided Approaches," Ada Haynes, Tennessee Tech University; Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Tennessee Tech University; Gideon Eduah, Tennessee Tech University; Anna Doralies, Tennessee Tech University
  • "‘I was Appalachian Before it Was Even a Thing’: Raising Appalachian Awareness in Older Than Average Students," Henry Wilson, Independent
  • "Memoir Writing in English Composition=Power through Connection," Jill Anderson, Washington State College of Ohio

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Psychology
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 307A
Convener: Mary Jo Hedrick, East Tennessee State University
  • "Low-Cost Intentional Inclusionary Practices?: Evaluating Effectiveness of Recruiting Appalachian Caregivers for a Developmentally Focused Psychological Study," Tess Simpson, Maryville College; Mary Jo Hedrick, East Tennessee State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Writers of Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 327
Convener: Sylvia Shurbutt, Shepherd University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities
  • "Changing Landscapes, Changing Scholarly Approaches: The Work of Robert Gipe," Peter Thompson, University of New Brunswick; Timothy Di Leo Browne, Carleton University
  • "Historical Remembrance & Appalachian Identity in Ron Rash's The World Made Straight," Grace Buckner, Appalachian State University
  • "Fluidity and Found Family in Carter Sickels’ The Prettiest Star," Atticus Mason, University of North Carolina at Asheville
  • "Poetry All Around Us: The Work of West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman," Sylvia Shurbutt, Shepherd University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Panel

2:30pm CDT

Dark Skies in Appalachia Part III: Musical Star Streams
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 004
Convener: Lee Bidgood, East Tennessee State University
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Tim Stafford," Tim Stafford, East Tennessee State University
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Danny Schmidt," Danny Schmidt, Independent
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Wild Ponies," Wild Ponies, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Performance

2:30pm CDT

Local History
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 205
Convener: Skye McFarland, McKinney Center
  • "Living Here: A Portrait of Jonesborough Tennessee," Skye McFarland, McKinney Center

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Performance

2:30pm CDT

Night Skies
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 304B
Convener: Cassandra Wade, Independent
  • "Star-Sown: Creative Explorations in Ecological and Astrological Confluences: Moon in the Thighs, the Undertakers’ Almanac," Leslie Bohn, Independent
  • "The Soil, the Spirit, and the Stars," Cassandra Wade, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Performance

2:30pm CDT

Roundtable on Disability in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 307A
Convener: Mack Thompson, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Mack Thompson, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Justin-Ray Dutton, Wake Forest University
  • Courtney Johnson, Just Keep Stimming, Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
  • Alexandria Knipp, Mountain Association
  • Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Rachel Stallard, Care Collective of Southwest Virginia, Cumberland Mountain Mutual Aid, Patchwork Kinfolx

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Roundtable

2:30pm CDT

Agency, Fiber Work, and the Appalachian Woman
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 205
Conveners: Carlee Bradbury, Radford University; Morgan Gilbert, Southwest Virginia Community College
  • Morgan Gilbert, Southwest Virginia Community College
  • Carlee Bradbury, Radford University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Workshop

2:30pm CDT

Community Stories to Policy Action: A Digital Storytelling Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 114
Convener: Bishop Marcia Dinkins, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Bishop Marcia Dinkins, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • NitaJade, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Milan Bush, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Shana Goggins, Black Appalachian Coalition

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Workshop

2:30pm CDT

Envisioning Appalachia: Defining Ourselves for Ourselves
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall
FARR 106
Conveners and Presenters:
  • Mary Linscheid, Independent
  • Torli Bush, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
T.J. Farr Hall 11 William L Jones Dr, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
  Workshop

2:30pm CDT

Preserving Rural Voices: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Oral History Projects in East Tennessee
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
HEND 106B
Convener: Melissa Comer, Tennessee Tech University
  • Kristen Pennycuff Trent, Tennessee Tech University
  • Melissa Comer, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
  Workshop

2:30pm CDT

Regional Appalachian Perspectives on Narrative Fictional Film Strategies
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 111
Convener and Presenters: Chet Pancake, Temple University
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
  Workshop

3:30pm CDT

Afternoon Snack Break
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
RUC Upstairs Lobby 
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  Break

4:00pm CDT

Appalachian Center for Craft Tour
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
Meet Shuttle Bus at RUC, Dixie Ave. Entrance 
Join us for a hands-on experience at the Appalachian Center for Craft Offsite Excursion!
Guests will have the chance to see skilled artists demonstrate traditional and contemporary craft techniques, including:
  • Woodturning – Alexandra Mavrikis
  • Coil Built Pottery – Darby Lewis
  • Rag Rug Weaving – Bethany Larson
  • Glass Blowing – Sarah Montrond
  • Enameling on Copper – Talia Tax
This is a great opportunity to engage with artists and explore Appalachian craftsmanship in a unique setting!


Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  Off Campus Event

5:00pm CDT

Newcomer’s Reception
Saturday March 22, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
RUC, Tech Pride Room
Steering committee members will be in attendance for a meet and greet. Visit the publisher’s reception and book signing while you are here which will be ongoing at the same time and place.
Saturday March 22, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  Featured Event

5:00pm CDT

Publishers Reception and Book Signing
Saturday March 22, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
RUC, Tech Pride Room
Sponsored by the University Press of Kentucky
Mingle, enjoy light refreshments, and get your books signed. All conference attendees are welcome.
Saturday March 22, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Roaden University Center (RUC)
  Featured Event

7:00pm CDT

Memorial Gym Memories Community Event
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Memorial Gym
James Akenson, Megan Atkinson, Dan Ealey, and Randal D. Williams
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Memorial Gym W 8th St, Cookeville, TN 38501
  On Campus Event
 
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