Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2025

Author Showcase hosted by poet Andrew Smith (Sunfrog) 8:00pm - 10:00pm

ASA Members Business Meeting 3:00pm - 3:45pm

DeRossett Railroad Section House Tour/Mines 10:00am - 2:00pm

Exhibit Hall and Silent Auction Set Up 10:00am - 5:30pm

Registration Set Up 10:00am - 2:00pm

Poster Set Up 12:00pm - 6:00pm

Burgess Falls Guided Hike 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Exhibit Hall and Registration Open 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Opening Reception 4:00pm - 5:00pm

ASA Conference Opening Ceremonies, In Memoriam, and Awards, music from Doug Van Gundy 5:00pm - 7:00pm

The Gifts of Poet Bill King 8:00am - 9:15am

Memoir and Memoirists 9:30am - 10:45am

Dark Skies in Appalachia Part 1: Literature, Poetry, and Place 9:30am - 10:45am

Tourism 9:30am - 10:45am

Teaching African American Music History in High School and Postsecondary Classrooms across Appalachia 1:00pm - 3:00pm

All About Moonshine 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Student Health Coalition —Taking Measure of Student Activism, 50 Years Later: Wh... 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Empowering Appalach... 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Transforming Education for First Generation, Low Income and Rural Students: The... 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Appalachian Englishes 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Afternoon Snack Break 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Rachel Rodriguez Latin Country Music Performance 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Special Collections Committee Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Drawing Environmental Justice Connections Between in Appalachia and the India 8:00am - 9:15am

Finding Our Appalachian Voices in the North 8:00am - 9:15am

Medical Histories 8:00am - 9:15am

After All, the Water Will Come: Flooding and Resilience in Appalachia 8:00am - 9:15am

Authors-Meet-Critics: Power and Just Transition: The Struggle for a Post-Coal Fu... 8:00am - 9:15am

Be a Man: Healthier Masculinity in the Mountain South 8:00am - 9:15am

Transforming the Foundry: Planning the Resurrection and Reuse of an Historic but... 8:00am - 9:15am

Widows and Orphans: Four Appalachian Poets Explore Loss and Hope 8:00am - 9:15am

Black Geographies in Appalachia 8:00am - 9:15am

Recovering the History of Resistance to Slavery in Appalachia: The Greenup Count... 8:00am - 9:15am

Academic Success in the Heart of Appalachia 8:00am - 9:15am

Community Remembrance Projects in East Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia" Conve... 9:30am - 10:45am

Adolescence Meets Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Ethical, Practical Techn... 9:30am - 10:45am

Traditional & Independent Research in Smyth County, Virginia 9:30am - 10:45am

Appalachian Disasters! ASA Special Collections Committee Disaster Response Resou... 9:30am - 10:45am

New Directions in Twentieth Century Appalachian Labor History 9:30am - 10:45am

Barking Up the RighTree: How to Implement a Therapy Dog Reading Program in Rural... 9:30am - 10:45am

Appalachia Rural Education and Queer Identities: Voices from Rural and (Out)Root... 9:30am - 10:45am

Mountain Justice Summer 2005 — 20 Year Reflections 9:30am - 10:45am

The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) Initiative: Building... 9:30am - 10:45am

Camp Happy Apalachee 12:15pm - 1:30pm

Teaching Appalachia Beyond Appalachia 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Jean Ritchie Memoir, Ron Rash Works by a Fiddler, Cultural Exchange Between Zuni... 1:30pm - 2:45pm

A Classroom for the Community: The UT Appalachian Justice Research Lab 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Howdy Ya'll: Voices from the Hills a Video Documentary 1:30pm - 2:45pm

What the Water Reveals and How We Heal 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Writing Appalachian Women’s History 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Jappalachia: The Oft-Neglected Intersections Between Appalachia and Japan 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Exploring Appalachia through History, Performance, Belief, and Storytelling 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Sacred Places and Historical Preservation: The Central Appalachia Churches Proje... 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Who Owns the Land? Addressing Heirs’ Property in Rural Tennessee and Beyond 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Appalachia 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Veins of Controversy: The TVA Pipeline and Appalachia's Future? 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Recovering the History of Resistance to Slavery in Appalachia: The Greenup Count... 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Land & Livelihoods in Transition: Mapping Dispossession and Resistance 3:00pm - 4:15pm

AppalAsian Musicians Gathering 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Academic Histories 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Appalachian Identity: Us 3:00pm - 4:15pm

The World We Live in and the Words We Write: Life and Art in Eastern Kentucky 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Academic Kinship: Reviving Appalachian Studies with Interdisciplinary Connection 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Building a Community Safety Toolkit for Family and Domestic Violence with the Ea... 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Film Studies 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Appalachian Identity: Others 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Swannanoa and Blanket Town: The Rise and Fall of an American Mill Town 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Networking Technological Gaps in Academic and Activist Endeavors 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Dark Skies in Appalachia Part II: People and the Sky 4:30pm - 5:45pm

STEM Education 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Using the Future Creating Workshop Method to Engage Communities in Utopian Think... 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Appalachian Identity: New Media 4:30pm - 5:45pm

The Bilbreys Performance 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Water Center Open House 9:30am - 10:45am

Posters Open 8:00am - 5:30pm

Registration, Exhibit Hall, and Silent Auction Open 8:00am - 5:30pm

Morning Snack Break 10:00am - 11:00am

Y’ALL WORKSHOP 11:00am - 12:15pm

POSTER SESSIONS 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Plenary 1 11:00am - 12:15pm

Keynote: John Gaventa- “Rural Appalachia in Global Context: Reimagining a Just a... 6:30pm - 7:45pm

International Connections Committee Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Trauma and Co-Creativity in Appalachia 8:00am - 9:15am

Music and Musicians 9:30am - 10:45am

The Mountain Fiesta: Cultivating Comunidad in Central Appalachia 9:30am - 10:45am

Embodied Making: A (Re)Considered Narrative of Place and Identity 9:30am - 10:45am

Featured Panel: “Latino Influence on Country Music" 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Agricultural History and Science 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Schools and Health Care 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Transitions and Representations: Women Rewriting the Rural Landscape 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Environmental Injustices and Community Resilience in Western North Carolina afte... 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Justice and Memory on the Landscape: Examples from Community Organizations in Ke... 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Imaginary Appalachia and the Assumed Rural Experience of the Appalachian Woman:... 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Rural Imaginary 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Appalachian Life in Fiction and Film 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Politics and Policy 3:00pm - 4:15pm

A Reading from Women Speak, Volume Ten 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Celebrating and Sustaining Appalachian Foodways: AConversation with the 2025 App... 4:30pm - 5:45pm

A Way to Dance: A Reading and Discussion with Cathryn Hankla and Her Students 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Archiving and Storytelling 4:30pm - 5:45pm

A Reading from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Volume 27: Appalachian Fusion 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Appalachian Center Directors’ Meeting 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Future Places 8:00am - 9:15am

Faith Histories 8:00am - 9:15am

Environmental Sciences 8:00am - 9:15am

Writing the New Appalachia: A Reading and Discussion with Appalachian Memoirist... 9:30am - 10:45am

Never Been out of the County: Short-Term Study Abroad Programs for Appalachian S... 9:30am - 10:45am

College Transitions 9:30am - 10:45am

High Water is Hell, Brothers and Sisters! 9:30am - 10:45am

Perspectives on Appalachia with the University Press of Kentucky 11:00am - 12:15pm

Health Outcomes 11:00am - 12:15pm

A Reading from Appalachian Lit Authors 11:00am - 12:15pm

Literature: Genre...

Mining Perspectives 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Regional Appalachian Perspectives on Narrative Fictional Film Strategies 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Writers of Appalachia 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers Performance 10:00am - 11:30am

Morning Snack Break 10:00am - 11:00am

Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers 10:00am - 11:30am

Education Committee Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Journal of Appalachian Studies Editorial Board Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Creating Change for Resilient Community Water Systems in Central Appalachia 8:00am - 9:15am

Sites of Memory: History, Storytelling, and Undermining the Erasure of BIPOC in... 8:00am - 9:15am

Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains Writing Works... 8:00am - 9:15am

Folklore 8:00am - 9:15am

Gas Build Outs in the Tennessee River Valley: A Continuing of Exploitation of Pe... 8:00am - 9:15am

Coalition Building through the Arts in Rural Appalachian Communities 8:00am - 9:15am

Leveling the Playing Field: To be Heard and Seen 8:00am - 9:15am

Reimagining the Small Press in Appalachia: The Red Branch Review 9:30am - 10:45am

After the Flood Documentary Short Screening 9:30am - 10:45am

Embracing and Celebrating Appalachian Heritage through Storytelling, Art, & Plac... 9:30am - 10:45am

Pipelines, Pathways, and Potential: Workforce Development as a Positive Force fo... 9:30am - 10:45am

The Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project 9:30am - 10:45am

African American History and Culture in the Upper Cumberland 9:30am - 10:45am

Rebellious Educators: P-12 Educators Sharing Stories of Joy as Resistance in the... 9:30am - 10:45am

Appalachian Health Disparities are a Local Expression of Global Worsening of Hea... 9:30am - 10:45am

Publishing in Appalachian Studies 9:30am - 10:45am

Community-Based Participatory Archiving with Historic Brownsville Descendants 9:30am - 10:45am

Appalachian Queer Pedagogy as Space of Resistance and Resilience: Creativity, Un... 9:30am - 10:45am

Power of Stories 9:30am - 10:45am

Investigating Retail Theft in Sullivan County Tennessee - A Project of the Appal... 11:00am - 12:15pm

Re-writing the Appalachian Family: Households of Necessity, Households of Choice 11:00am - 12:15pm

From Appalachia to the Andes: Virtual Field Trips, Language Learning, and Making... 11:00am - 12:15pm

Higher Education in an Appalachian Context 11:00am - 12:15pm

Knowledge Access 11:00am - 12:15pm

Pop Culture: Representation 11:00am - 12:15pm

Appalachian Community 11:00am - 12:15pm

Appalachian Music 11:00am - 12:15pm

Historic Events 11:00am - 12:15pm

Roundtable on Disability in Appalachia 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Community Stories to Policy Action: A Digital Storytelling Workshop 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Night Skies 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Dark Skies in Appalachia Part III: Musical Star Streams 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Agency, Fiber Work, and the Appalachian Woman 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Community Legacies 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Labor 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Displacement 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Death Traditions 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Preserving Rural Voices: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Oral History Projects i... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Memorial Gym Memories Community Event 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Lunch on Your Own 12:15pm - 1:30pm

Exhibit Hall, Registration, Posters, Editors’ Showcase, Silent Auction Open 8:00am - 5:30pm

Close of Silent Auction; Winning Auction Items Pick Up 12:00pm - 6:15pm

Afternoon Snack Break 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Appalachian Center for Craft Tour 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Newcomer’s Reception 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Publishers Reception and Book Signing 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Plenary 2 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Appalachian Collegiate Research Meeting 7:00am - 8:00am

Women’s History 8:00am - 9:15am

Voices of Nature: Creative Writing Among Appalachian Students 8:00am - 9:15am

The Brownsville Project: Recovering Remnants of an Appalachian African-American... 8:00am - 9:15am

Montañitas Reimagined 8:00am - 9:15am

Appalachian Musicians and Influence 8:00am - 9:15am

Carceral States and Criminality 9:30am - 10:45am

Art: Retrospectives 9:30am - 10:45am

Literary Outsiders and Canon-Making 9:30am - 10:45am

Abolition Now: A Digital Participatory Project for Images of Study and Struggle 9:30am - 10:45am

Wielding and Disrupting Power: The Emotional Labor of Collaborative, Restorative... 9:30am - 10:45am

Gender and Other Intersections 9:30am - 10:45am

Affrilachia: Testimonies - A Visual, Poetic, and Historical Journey through Sout... 9:30am - 10:45am

Art: Community Legacies 11:00am - 12:15pm

Gender, Race, and Appalachia 11:00am - 12:15pm

We Dwell on These Mountains: Diverse Voices of Appalachia Showcase 11:00am - 12:15pm

Youth Engagement 11:00am - 12:15pm

Constructions of Whiteness 11:00am - 12:15pm

History and Higher Education 11:00am - 12:15pm

Authors-Meet-Critics: Power and Just Transition: The Struggle for a Post-Coal Fu... 11:00am - 12:15pm

Disaster 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Psychology 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Education: Resources 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Nature and the Economy 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Local History 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Ecocriticism 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Envisioning Appalachia: Defining Ourselves for Ourselves 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Pedagogy: Approaches 2:30pm - 3:45pm

iMakerSpace Open House 9:30am - 10:45am