Saturday 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM Visit Cincinnati and Urban Appalachian Neighborhoods from the Top of Carew Tower (pre-registration required)
Saturday 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions 6
Diversity and Inclusion:
6.1 - Panel (Taft)
Black Appalachian History
Convener: Wilburn Hayden
“Emancipation Day: Gallia County, Ohio,” William Isom II (East Tennessee PBS)
“Spreading our Wings—Black Huntingtonian Progress during the Era of ‘Benevolent Segregation’,” Cicero M. Fain (College of Southern Maryland)
“Preserving Culture and Worship: The Black Church in Appalachia,” Franklyn Charles and Aaron Atkins (Ohio University)
6.2 - Performance (Grand B)
Women of Appalachia Project: Artists Confronting the Stereotype
Convener: Kari Gunter-Seymour
Kari Gunter-Seymour (Ohio University), Natalie Sypolt (Pierpont Community and Technical College), Sarah Diamond Burroway (Ohio University-Southern Campus), Renée K. Nicholson (West Virginia University), Sherrell Wigal (Independent Poet), Vicki Pritchard (Storyteller), and Maggie Herlenesky (Storyteller)
6.3 - Panel (Bluegrass B)
Critical Approaches to Appalachian Identity Politics
Convener: Stephen Pearson
“The Land Studies of the Conqueror: Terra Nullius and the ‘Just Transition’," Stephen Pearson (Independent Researcher)
“Blackout: Race, Gender and Historical Erasure in Appalachian Coal-Mining,” Derrick Thomas (Wright State University)
Economic Development:
6.4 - Panel (Grand A)
Tourism and Economic Development
Convener: Shaunna L. Scott
“Exploring the Connections between Community Cultural Development and Sustainable Tourism in Appalachia,” Neda Moayerian and Max Stephenson Jr. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“‘Mining’ the Future while Preserving the Past: The Challenges of Reconciling Economic Development via the Hatfield McCoy Trail System with Historic Preservation in Southern West Virginia,” Dana Stoker Cochran (Radford University)
“One Election Away? An Appalachian Kentucky Town's Struggle to Diversify its Economy After Coal,” Shaunna L. Scott (University of Kentucky), Stephanie M. McSpirit (Eastern Kentucky University), and J. Jared Friesen (Manchester University, Indiana)
6.5 - Workshop (Cabana A)
Methodologies in Data Collection, Management, in Analytics for Studying Land Ownership in Appalachia
Jacob Meadows (Appalachian State University)
6.6 - Panel (Council)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Downtown Revitalization
Convener: Sky Marietta
“Downtown Revitalization in the Promise Zone,” Shane Barton, (University of Kentucky)
“First Impressions: A Tool for Communities,” Melissa Bond (University of Kentucky)
“Tactical Urbanism Goes Rural,” Ryan Sandwick (University of Kentucky)
“Beyond Downtown: A Regional Approach to the Creative Economy,” Sky Marietta (University of Kentucky)
Education:
6.7 - Panel (Portico)
Teaching Appalachia to Build Bridges Across Identities: One Example from a University in the Appalachian Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Convener: Josh Iddings
“Teaching Me: The Vulnerability in Teaching My Home,” Josh Iddings (Virginia Military Institute)
“Unknown Roots: Finding a Part of Myself in Appalachia,” Emma Quirk (Virginia Military Institute)
6.8 - Panel (Colonnade B)
Teaching Beyond the Borders of ‘Traditional’ Curriculum: Using Appalachian Literature and Studies in a High School ELA Classroom
Convener: Jessica Salfia
“Teaching Rhetoric through the Lens of Appalachian Studies,” Jessica Salfia (Berkeley County Schools, West Virginia)
Student Presentations of Research Studies, Art Projects, and Writing Projects, Spring Mills High School Eleventh Grade Students (Berkeley County Schools, West Virginia)
6.9 - Roundtable (Hoosier)
Students of Graduate Appalachian Studies: We Make the Road by Walking
Convener: Christopher McCloud
“Cooperative Strategies for Community Sustainability,” Christopher R. McCloud (Appalachian State University)
“Community Outreach and Arts Programming,” Ellie Dudding (Appalachian State University)
“Appalachian Progressivism through Baseball,” Josh McClenney (Appalachian State University)
“From Study Abroad to Graduate Sustainability,” Takahiro Omori (Appalachian State University)
“Highlighting Appalachian Community and Culture,” Emma Parrish (Appalachian State University)
“Music Studies - Appalachian Hip-Hop,” Korick Sisomphone (Appalachian State University)
Environmental Sustainability:
6.10 - Panel (Statesman)
Fighting Back to Build a Better Life
Convener: Nick Mullins
“Coal, Climate, and Environmental Backlash: The Political Ramifications of Environmental Activism in Appalachian Coalfields,” Nick Mullins (Activist)
“Appalachia Reconstructed: Law, the Environment, and Systemic Regional Reform,” Nicholas F. Stump (West Virginia University College of Law)
“The Promotion of Justice Will Cost Us Something: Jesuit Radicalism and the Option for the Poor in Appalachia in the 1970s and Beyond,” Michael J. Iafrate (University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto)
“Ecojustice as a Paradigm for Sustainability, Community, and Diversity in Appalachia,” James Addington (Ohio University)
6.11 - Workshop (Colonnade A)
Healing Ourselves & the Earth: Ecotherapy as Practice
Valerie Radu (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
6.12 - Panel: (Pavilion A)
Music, Environment, and Community Resilience: Stitching Lessons” from Bluff Mountain
Convener: Kathryn Newfont
“An Insider’s View of Organizing an Environmental Music Festival,” Rodney Sutton (Joe Shannon's Mountain Home Music)
“We Can Go Home Again: The Fight to Save Bluff Mountain,” Hannah Furgiuele (Independent Photographer)
“Bluff Mountain ‘Soundscape’ Project,” Emma Kiser (University of Kentucky)
“Living Forest and Community Commons: Bluff Mountain in Historical Perspective,” Kathryn Newfont (University of Kentucky)
Health:
6.13 - Panel (Cabana B)
Food and Health in the Region
Convener: Bethany L. Fulton
“Appalachian Foodways: Engaging Ethnography in Nutrition Education,” Nicole Musgrave (Western Kentucky University)
“Shifting Subsistence Effects of Food Production Mode on Sharing and Social Capital in Eastern Kentucky,” Helen Wasielewski (Arizona State University)
“The Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Citric Acid Drinks on the Oral Health of Residents in Central Appalachia and the Legal Interventions that would Impact Purchasing,” Priscilla Harris (Vanderbilt Law School)
6.14 - Panel (Pavilion B)
Telling the Dark Stories: Authors Read From and Discuss How They Crafted their Work on Opioids in Appalachia
Convener and Respondent: Marianne Linz
Wendy Welch (Graduate Medical Education Consortium), Deborah Gold, and Michael Henson (Independent Writer)
6.15 - Panel (Buckeye A)
Localizing Health: Intervention and Prevention Efforts in Appalachia
Convener: Michael Topmiller
“Developing Participatory and Interactive Community-Based Intervention for Appalachian Communities,” Laura Kate Huse and Jessica Wendorf Muhamed (Florida State University)
“All Access EKY: Full-Spectrum Birth Control in Appalachia Kentucky,” Stacie Sexton and Marcie Crim (Kentucky Health Justice Network)
“Appalachian Research Day, Come Sit on the Porch,” Frances Feltner (University of Kentucky)
“Applying the Strategic Prevention Framework in Appalachian & Rural Communities: Lessons Learned and Hope for the Future,” Tessa Miracle (Interact for Health/Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services)
Migration:
6.16 - Panel (Buckeye B)
The Struggle to Stay: Inside Appalachia
Convener: Jessica Lilly (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Glynis Board (West Virginia Public Broadcasting), Benny Becker (WMMT/Ohio Valley Resource), Liz McCormick (West Virginia Public Broadcasting), Reid Frazier (The Allegheny Front), Crystal Snyder (Coalfield Development Corporation)
Respondent: Roxy Todd (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
6.17 - Performance (Wolverine)
Crazy Quilt Poetry: Thomas More College Students Swap the First Pieces of the Urban Appalachian Project
Convener: Pauletta Hansel
Erin Carrus, Jeni Hall, Morgan Bahsen, Brook Batch, and Courtney Barnoski (Thomas More College)
Cross-Over Session: Economic Development, Environmental Sustainability, Education, Migration, and Diversity and Inclusion:
6.18 - Panel (Bluegrass A)
Saving our Heritage: Mapping the Future
Convener: Frans Doppen
“Saving the Little Cities,” John Winnenberg (Sunday Creek Associates)
“Saving Rendville,” Frans Doppen (Ohio University)
“Controversial Environmental Issues,” Matt Hollstein (Kent State University - Stark Campus)
“Mapping the Future,” Loraine McCosker (Ohio University)
