Friday 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM “Writing the Region” Writers’ Workshop, The Mercantile Library (pre-registration required)
Friday 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 5
5.1 - Workshop (Portico)
National Endowment for the Arts Grants Workshop
Jennie Terman (National Endowment for the Arts)
5.2 - Performance (Council)
Divine Right’s Trip Revisited, The Hero Journeys from Cincinnati to Kentucky
Convener: Susan L. F. Isaacs
“Reading Divine Right, The Hero's Journey,” Gurney Norman
“Gurney Norman’s Divine Right’s Trip: The Journey from Liminality to Awareness,” Susan L. F. Isaacs (Independent Scholar and Writer)
5.3 - Panel (Taft)
Contemporary Rhetoric in Appalachian Literature
Convener and Respondent: Jessica Cory
“‘Even Eco-tourism Has its Limits’: The Rhetoric of Disgust in International Travel Writing About Appalachia,” Katherine Ledford (Appalachian State University)
Robert Gipe’s Trampoline and Appalachian Ecofeminism,” Jessica Cory (Western Carolina University)
“Graphic Appalachia: Identity Transformed,” Stewart Plein (West Virginia University)
5.4 - Roundtable (Cabana B)
Scholar Activism in Appalachia
Convener: Ricki Draper
Laura Rigell (Alumni of Swarthmore College), Nick Mullins (LiKEN), Bill McCabe (Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards), Ricki Draper, Hannah Gillespie, Christian Huerta, and Azariah Connerly (Appalachian State University)
5.5 - Panel (Statesman)
Roots and Branches in Appalachian Music: Influences and Legacies
Convener: Ted Olson
“The Carter Family: A Musical Family’s Continuing Influence on Today’s Appalachian Musicians,” Melissa R. Keyser, Nathan D. Kiser, Thomas G. Albert, and Annuet B. Soehnlen (Morehead State University)
“W. C. Handy: Overlooked Appalachian Visionary,” Ted Olson (East Tennessee State University)
“Excerpts from Hoppin’ Possums: Steps from the Green Grass Cloggers,” Leanne E. Smith (East Carolina University)
5.6 - Panel (Colonnade B)
Rural-Urban Community Building From Kentucky to Ireland
Convener: Robert Gipe
“Harlan & Covington: A Rural-Urban Creative Placemaking Collaboration,” Robert Gipe (Southeast Community and Technical College), Cate Becker (BLDG), and Alexia Ault (Southeast Kentucky Revitalization Project)
“Creative Visioning and Community Building in Rural-Urban Ulster,” Mary Kerrigan (Heritage Streets Alive 2015 and Derry-Donegal Heritage Landscapes Alive)
5.7 - Panel (Pavilion A)
Borders Real and Imagined: How Change Impacts the Psyche of the Appalachian People
Convener: Silas House
“Change Reaction: The Original Highlander Folk School,” Emily Masters (Berea College)
“Reconstructing Identity: Leaving vs. Staying in Appalachia,” Robert Renner (Berea College)
“City vs. Country Living,” Rhea Carter (Berea College)
5.8 - Performance (Cabana A)
Running with Whiskey: A Multimedia Performance Exploring Place, Identity, and Extractive Industry
Convener: Marc Harshman
Marc Harshman (Poet Laureate of West Virginia) and Doug Van Gundy (West Virginia Wesleyan College)
5.9 - Performance (Colonnade A)
Traditional Appalachian Toys
William Field and Megan Epperson (Pine Mountain Settlement School)
5.10 - Panel (Cardinal)
Perspectives on Disability and Mental Illness Through Literature
Convener: Elizabeth Glass
“Disability in Darnell Arnoult's Novel Sufficient Grace, Elizabeth Glass (University of Louisville)
“A Path in the Shape of Their Bodies”: Intersections of Disability Studies and Appalachian Studies,” Brent W. Cline (Spring Arbor University)
“Colors in the Minds of Appalachian Women,” Lucy Lansing (Furman University)
5.11 - Panel (Pavilion B)
Examining Discourse and Dialect as Representations of Culture
Convener: Gary Vaughn
“‘Highfalutin’ Language and Sigogglin Learnin’: Stitching Together My Appalachian Heritage and My Education,” Gary Vaughn (University of Cincinnati)
“Everybody’s Ignert ‘Bout Some’en: The Influence of Dialect on Education in the Ozarks,” Sharon Burns (University of Cincinnati Clermont College)
“Non-Prestige Dialect Teachers & Prestige Dialect Students: A Qualitative Review,” Matt Prater (Virginia Polytechnic University and State University)
