Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2025

Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2025

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

10:00am CDT

DeRossett Railroad Section House Tour/Mines Roaden University Center (RUC) Registration Set Up Roaden University Center (RUC) Exhibit Hall and Silent Auction Set Up Roaden University Center (RUC)

12:00pm CDT

Poster Set Up Roaden University Center (RUC)

1:00pm CDT

Burgess Falls Guided Hike Roaden University Center (RUC)

2:00pm CDT

Exhibit Hall and Registration Open Roaden University Center (RUC)

3:00pm CDT

ASA Members Business Meeting Laboratory Science Commons

4:00pm CDT

Opening Reception Stonecipher Hall

5:00pm CDT

ASA Conference Opening Ceremonies, In Memoriam, and Awards, music from Doug Van Gundy Stonecipher Hall

8:00pm CDT

Author Showcase hosted by poet Andrew Smith (Sunfrog) Jere Whitson Building

7:00am CDT

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Meeting Henderson Hall International Connections Committee Meeting T.J. Farr Hall Special Collections Committee Meeting Henderson Hall

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 The Gifts of Poet Bill King Bartoo Hall Trauma and Co-Creativity in Appalachia T.J. Farr Hall Academic Success in the Heart of Appalachia Henderson Hall Posters Open Roaden University Center (RUC) Registration, Exhibit Hall, and Silent Auction Open Roaden University Center (RUC)

9:30am CDT

Water Center Open House Prescott Hall 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 Community Remembrance Projects in East Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia" Convener: Eric Fields, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Henderson Hall The Mountain Fiesta: Cultivating Comunidad in Central Appalachia T.J. Farr Hall Barking Up the RighTree: How to Implement a Therapy Dog Reading Program in Rural Appalachian Schools Henderson Hall Embodied Making: A (Re)Considered Narrative of Place and Identity T.J. Farr Hall

10:00am CDT

Morning Snack Break Roaden University Center (RUC)

11:00am CDT

Plenary 1 Stonecipher Hall Y’ALL WORKSHOP Roaden University Center (RUC)

12:15pm CDT

Lunch on your own Camp Happy Apalachee Henderson Hall

1:00pm CDT

Featured Panel: “Latino Influence on Country Music" T.J. Farr Hall Teaching African American Music History in High School and Postsecondary Classrooms across Appalachia Bartoo 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 Howdy Ya'll: Voices from the Hills a Video Documentary Henderson Hall Transitions and Representations: Women Rewriting the Rural Landscape T.J. Farr Hall Writing Appalachian Women’s History Henderson Hall A Classroom for the Community: The UT Appalachian Justice Research Lab Henderson Hall Environmental Injustices and Community Resilience in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene T.J. Farr Hall Sacred Places and Historical Preservation: The Central Appalachia Churches Project Henderson Hall Who Owns the Land? Addressing Heirs’ Property in Rural Tennessee and Beyond Henderson Hall

3:00pm CDT

POSTER SESSIONS Roaden University Center (RUC) 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 A Reading from Women Speak, Volume Ten T.J. Farr Hall The World We Live in and the Words We Write: Life and Art in Eastern Kentucky Henderson Hall Veins of Controversy: The TVA Pipeline and Appalachia's Future? Henderson Hall AppalAsian Musicians Gathering Henderson Hall Building a Community Safety Toolkit for Family and Domestic Violence with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Appalachian Justice Research Center Henderson Hall Transforming Education for First Generation, Low Income and Rural Students: The First2 Network Approach Bartoo Hall

4:00pm CDT

Afternoon Snack Break Bryan Fine Arts Building Rachel Rodriguez Latin Country Music Performance Bryan Fine Arts Building

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 A Way to Dance: A Reading and Discussion with Cathryn Hankla and Her Students T.J. Farr Hall Swannanoa and Blanket Town: The Rise and Fall of an American Mill Town Henderson Hall Networking Technological Gaps in Academic and Activist Endeavors Henderson Hall Using the Future Creating Workshop Method to Engage Communities in Utopian Thinking Henderson Hall

5:00pm CDT

Appalachian Center Directors’ Meeting T.J. Farr Hall

6:30pm CDT

Keynote: John Gaventa- “Rural Appalachia in Global Context: Reimagining a Just and Sustainable Future” Stonecipher Hall

8:00pm CDT

The Bilbreys Performance Off Campus

7:00am CDT

Appalachian Collegiate Research Meeting T.J. Farr Hall Education Committee Meeting Henderson Hall Journal of Appalachian Studies Editorial Board Meeting 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 Montañitas Reimagined T.J. Farr Hall The Brownsville Project: Recovering Remnants of an Appalachian African-American Community T.J. Farr Hall Voices of Nature: Creative Writing Among Appalachian Students T.J. Farr Hall Coalition Building through the Arts in Rural Appalachian Communities Henderson Hall Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains Writing Workshop Henderson Hall Exhibit Hall, Registration, Posters, Editors’ Showcase, Silent Auction Open Roaden University Center (RUC)

9:30am CDT

iMakerSpace Open House Volpe Library 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 After the Flood Documentary Short Screening Henderson Hall High Water is Hell, Brothers and Sisters! Bartoo Hall Writing the New Appalachia: A Reading and Discussion with Appalachian Memoirist Jennifer McGaha Bartoo Hall Abolition Now: A Digital Participatory Project for Images of Study and Struggle T.J. Farr Hall African American History and Culture in the Upper Cumberland Henderson Hall Community-Based Participatory Archiving with Historic Brownsville Descendants Henderson Hall Embracing and Celebrating Appalachian Heritage through Storytelling, Art, & Place-Based Reflection Henderson Hall Publishing in Appalachian Studies Henderson Hall Rebellious Educators: P-12 Educators Sharing Stories of Joy as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia Henderson Hall Reimagining the Small Press in Appalachia: The Red Branch Review Henderson Hall The Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project Henderson Hall Wielding and Disrupting Power: The Emotional Labor of Collaborative, Restorative Relationships with Dispossessed Community Partners for #MoreMountainStories T.J. Farr Hall Never Been out of the County: Short-Term Study Abroad Programs for Appalachian Students at Two-Year Colleges Bartoo Hall

10:00am CDT

Morning Snack Break Bryan Fine Arts Building Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers Performance Bryan Fine Arts Building Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers Bryan Fine Arts Building

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 A Reading from Appalachian Lit Authors Bartoo Hall We Dwell on These Mountains: Diverse Voices of Appalachia Showcase T.J. Farr Hall Higher Education in an Appalachian Context Henderson Hall Investigating Retail Theft in Sullivan County Tennessee - A Project of the Appalachian Justice Research Lab Henderson Hall From Appalachia to the Andes: Virtual Field Trips, Language Learning, and Making Place-Based Connections Henderson Hall

12:00pm CDT

Close of Silent Auction; Winning Auction Items Pick Up Roaden University Center (RUC)

12:15pm CDT

Lunch on Your Own Off Campus

1:00pm CDT

Plenary 2 Stonecipher 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 Dark Skies in Appalachia Part III: Musical Star Streams Henderson Hall Local History T.J. Farr Hall Night Skies Henderson Hall Roundtable on Disability in Appalachia Henderson Hall Agency, Fiber Work, and the Appalachian Woman Henderson Hall Community Stories to Policy Action: A Digital Storytelling Workshop Henderson Hall Envisioning Appalachia: Defining Ourselves for Ourselves T.J. Farr Hall Preserving Rural Voices: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Oral History Projects in East Tennessee Henderson Hall Regional Appalachian Perspectives on Narrative Fictional Film Strategies Bartoo Hall

3:30pm CDT

Afternoon Snack Break Roaden University Center (RUC)

4:00pm CDT

Appalachian Center for Craft Tour Roaden University Center (RUC)

5:00pm CDT

Newcomer’s Reception Roaden University Center (RUC) Publishers Reception and Book Signing Roaden University Center (RUC)

7:00pm CDT

Memorial Gym Memories Community Event Memorial Gym