Friday 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Urban Appalachian Migration: East/Lower Price Hill Tour (pre-registration required)
Friday 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 3
3.1 - Performance (Colonnade B)
Profits and/or Prophets from the Mountains
Convener: Karen Salyer McElmurray
Karen S. McElmurray (West Virginia Wesleyan College), Karen Spears Zacharias (Central Washington University), Danielle Kelly (West Virginia University at Parkersburg), and Bill King (Davis and Elkins College)
3.2 - Panel (Taft)
The Impact of Women on the Visual and Performing Arts in Appalachia
Convener: Barb Howe
“The Story of Sr. Mary Agnes Gubert: How Did a ‘Caged Songster’ Acquire National Fame?,” Barb Howe (Independent Historian)
“‘Lily May, the Mountain Gal’: The Female Country Musician as Comic Strip Heroine, 1936-1937,” Ivan M. Tribe (University of Rio Grande)
“Newgrass Woman: The Transformation of Female Sound and Space in Appalachian Music,” Sophia Enriquez (The Ohio State University)
“Linda (1929): Giving Voice to a Silent Appalachian Film,” Larry Sean Kinder (Western Kentucky University)
3.3 - Roundtable (Cabana B)
Stay Together Appalachian Youth: 10 Years of Youth Organizing in Appalachia
Lou Murrey and Olivia Lowrey (STAY Project)
3.4 - Panel (Pavilion B)
Ulster and Appalachia: Exploring Scots-Irish Connections
Convener: Ron Roach
“Exploring Cultural Heritage Interpretation in Ulster and Appalachia,” Ron R. Roach (East Tennessee State University)
“Landscape, Heritage, and Identity in Ulster and Appalachia,” Liam Campbell (Ulster University)
“Exploring Musical Borders,” Jane B. MacMorran (East Tennessee State University)
3.5 - Panel (Cabana A)
Speech and Image: Reality vs. Myth in Appalachia
Convener: Jennifer Cramer
“Initiating the Young Appalachians’ Living Language (YALL) Corpus,” Jennifer Cramer and Mark Richard Lauersdorf (University of Kentucky)
“Evil or Dumb?: Examining Common Media Stereotypes and Student Perceptions of Appalachia,” Lora E. Smith (Indiana University)
“From a Stage to the Page: Maintaining Orality in Written Collections of Appalachian Fairy Tales,” Stacy Sivinski (Notre Dame)
“Poststructural, Post-Qualitative Methodologies: Using Ethnography to Tell Poststructural Tales of ‘Local Food’,” Karen Adele Lemke (Appalachian State University)
3.6 - Roundtable (Grand A)
Appalachian Arts in the Queen City
Convener: Susan G. Pepper
Susan G. Pepper (Independent Musician and Songwriter), Ma Crow (Independent Musician), Omope Carter Daboiku (Homeside Cultural Programming), Jean Dowell (Independent Singer and Songwriter), Russ Childers (Independent Musician), Dale Farmer (The Mountain Minor), and Mike Oberst (Independent Musician)
3.7 - Panel (Colonnade A)
Re-Evaluating Images of Appalachia
Convener: Laura L. Morris
“Living in Harmony: New Deal Photographs of Music-Making in West Virginia,” Jason Hartz and Carissa Massey (Adrian College)
“James Roy Hopkins: A Primitivist in Appalachia?,” Joy L. Gritton (Morehead State University)
“Appalachia and Beyond: The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project, 1975-1977,” Roger May (Independent Photographer)
“Changing Perceptions of Appalachia: Stuck in the Past or Moving Towards the Future?,” April Dye (Carson Newman University)
3.8 - Panel (Grand B)
Conversation with the Authors and Editors of the 2016 Weatherford Award Winning Books
Convener: Chris Green
Crystal Wilkinson (Berea College), Patrick O’Dowd (University Press of Kentucky), Abby Freeland (West Virginia University Press), Steven E. Nash (East Tennessee State University)
3.10 - Workshop (Portico)
The Abortion Monologues: Storytelling as a Tool for Reproductive Justice
Convener: Stacie Sexton
Stacie Sexton (Kentucky Health Justice Network), Kacy Johnson (Independent Production Stage Manager), David Austin (Independent Artist, Musician and Promoter)
3.11 - Workshop (Pavilion A)
Harm Reduction Workshop: Naloxone, Syringe Exchange, and Social Justice
Convener: Lesly-Marie Buer
Lesly-Marie Buer (Tennessee Department of Health East Region) and Adam Reilly (Caracole, Cincinnati)
3.12 - Panel (Council)
Documenting Black Cemeteries in SWVA
Convener: Willie Dodson
“The Ike Shade Cemetery in Haysi, Virginia and the beginning of the SWVA Black Cemetery Collective,” Willie Dodson (Appalachian Voices)
“The Collier Slave Cemetery in Jonesville, Virginia,” Amy Clark (University of Virginia Wise)
“Documenting Black History in Appalachia,” William Isom (East Tennessee PBS)
“Searching for Grandma in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Norton, Virginia,” Terran Young (Highlander Center)
3.13 - Panel (Statesman)
Appalachian-Carpathian Mountain Initiative
Convener: Kathryn Engle
Kelsey M. Wagner, (Appalachian State University), Theresa Burriss (Radford University), and Kathryn Engle (University of Kentucky)
