Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2025

Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2025

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

8:00am CDT

After All, the Water Will Come: Flooding and Resilience in Appalachia Henderson Hall Authors-Meet-Critics: Power and Just Transition: The Struggle for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley Henderson Hall Be a Man: Healthier Masculinity in the Mountain South Henderson Hall Black Geographies in Appalachia Henderson Hall Drawing Environmental Justice Connections Between in Appalachia and the India Henderson Hall Finding Our Appalachian Voices in the North Henderson Hall Medical Histories Henderson Hall Recovering the History of Resistance to Slavery in Appalachia: The Greenup County Slave Revolt of 1829 and the Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative Henderson Hall Transforming the Foundry: Planning the Resurrection and Reuse of an Historic but Contaminated Industrial Site Henderson Hall Widows and Orphans: Four Appalachian Poets Explore Loss and Hope Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Adolescence Meets Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Ethical, Practical Technology Use in the Classroom Henderson Hall Appalachia Rural Education and Queer Identities: Voices from Rural and (Out)Rooted Henderson Hall Appalachian Disasters! ASA Special Collections Committee Disaster Response Resources Henderson Hall Dark Skies in Appalachia Part 1: Literature, Poetry, and Place Bartoo Hall Memoir and Memoirists Bartoo Hall Mountain Justice Summer 2005 — 20 Year Reflections Henderson Hall Music and Musicians T.J. Farr Hall New Directions in Twentieth Century Appalachian Labor History Henderson Hall The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) Initiative: Building and Sustaining Strong Transdisciplinary Partnerships to Foster Positive Change Henderson Hall Tourism Bartoo Hall Traditional & Independent Research in Smyth County, Virginia Henderson Hall

1:00pm CDT

Featured Panel: “Latino Influence on Country Music" T.J. Farr Hall

1:30pm CDT

Agricultural History and Science T.J. Farr Hall All About Moonshine Bartoo Hall Exploring Appalachia through History, Performance, Belief, and Storytelling Henderson Hall Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Appalachia Henderson Hall Jappalachia: The Oft-Neglected Intersections Between Appalachia and Japan Henderson Hall Jean Ritchie Memoir, Ron Rash Works by a Fiddler, Cultural Exchange Between Zuni Sacred Mountain and App State's Grandfather Mountain, and Live Music Henderson Hall Justice and Memory on the Landscape: Examples from Community Organizations in Kentucky T.J. Farr Hall Schools and Health Care T.J. Farr Hall Student Health Coalition —Taking Measure of Student Activism, 50 Years Later: What is the Long-Term Impact of Short-Term Student Involvement and Service in Appalachia? Bartoo Hall Teaching Appalachia Beyond Appalachia Henderson Hall What the Water Reveals and How We Heal Henderson Hall

3:00pm CDT

Academic Histories Henderson Hall Academic Kinship: Reviving Appalachian Studies with Interdisciplinary Connection Henderson Hall Appalachian Identity: Us Henderson Hall Appalachian Life in Fiction and Film T.J. Farr Hall Film Studies Henderson Hall Imaginary Appalachia and the Assumed Rural Experience of the Appalachian Woman: Challenging the Idea of a Homogenous Female Experience in Appalachia T.J. Farr Hall Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Empowering Appalachian Communities Bartoo Hall Land & Livelihoods in Transition: Mapping Dispossession and Resistance Henderson Hall Politics and Policy T.J. Farr Hall Recovering the History of Resistance to Slavery in Appalachia: The Greenup County Slave Revolt of 1829 and the Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative Henderson Hall Rural Imaginary T.J. Farr Hall

4:30pm CDT

A Reading from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Volume 27: Appalachian Fusion T.J. Farr Hall Appalachian Englishes Bartoo Hall Appalachian Identity: New Media Henderson Hall Appalachian Identity: Others Henderson Hall Archiving and Storytelling T.J. Farr Hall Celebrating and Sustaining Appalachian Foodways: AConversation with the 2025 Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellows T.J. Farr Hall Dark Skies in Appalachia Part II: People and the Sky Henderson Hall STEM Education Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Appalachian Musicians and Influence T.J. Farr Hall Creating Change for Resilient Community Water Systems in Central Appalachia Henderson Hall Environmental Sciences Bartoo Hall Faith Histories Bartoo Hall Folklore Henderson Hall Future Places Bartoo Hall Gas Build Outs in the Tennessee River Valley: A Continuing of Exploitation of People and Land in Appalachia Henderson Hall Leveling the Playing Field: To be Heard and Seen Henderson Hall Sites of Memory: History, Storytelling, and Undermining the Erasure of BIPOC in Northern Appalachia Henderson Hall Women’s History T.J. Farr Hall

9:30am CDT

Affrilachia: Testimonies - A Visual, Poetic, and Historical Journey through Southern Appalachia's Black Communities T.J. Farr Hall Appalachian Health Disparities are a Local Expression of Global Worsening of Health Disparities Henderson Hall Appalachian Queer Pedagogy as Space of Resistance and Resilience: Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent in Rural Spaces Henderson Hall Art: Retrospectives T.J. Farr Hall Carceral States and Criminality T.J. Farr Hall College Transitions Bartoo Hall Gender and Other Intersections T.J. Farr Hall Literary Outsiders and Canon-Making T.J. Farr Hall Pipelines, Pathways, and Potential: Workforce Development as a Positive Force for Thriving People and Communities in Appalachia Henderson Hall Power of Stories Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Appalachian Community Henderson Hall Appalachian Music Henderson Hall Art: Community Legacies T.J. Farr Hall Authors-Meet-Critics: Power and Just Transition: The Struggle for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley T.J. Farr Hall Constructions of Whiteness T.J. Farr Hall Gender, Race, and Appalachia T.J. Farr Hall Health Outcomes Bartoo Hall Historic Events Henderson Hall History and Higher Education T.J. Farr Hall Knowledge Access Henderson Hall Perspectives on Appalachia with the University Press of Kentucky Bartoo Hall Pop Culture: Representation Henderson Hall Re-writing the Appalachian Family: Households of Necessity, Households of Choice Henderson Hall Youth Engagement T.J. Farr Hall

2:30pm CDT

Literature: Genre and Style Bartoo Hall Community Legacies Henderson Hall Death Traditions Henderson Hall Disaster T.J. Farr Hall Displacement Henderson Hall Ecocriticism T.J. Farr Hall Education: Resources T.J. Farr Hall Labor Henderson Hall Mining Perspectives Bartoo Hall Nature and the Economy T.J. Farr Hall Pedagogy: Approaches T.J. Farr Hall Psychology T.J. Farr Hall Writers of Appalachia Bartoo Hall