Saturday 1:30 PM – 4:15 PM Community tours aligned with themes
Lower Price Hill Community Tour: Economic Development, Education, and Health Initiatives
Walking Tour of Over-the-Rhine: Yesterday and Today
West Side Environmental Justice and Sustainability Tour (pre-registration required)
Saturday 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Concurrent Sessions 8
Diversity and Inclusion:
8.1 - Panel (Bluegrass A)
Representations and Reality: Media and the Mountains
Convener: Beth Bingman
“‘Ready to Do Battle with the Mountain’: Masculinity and Nature in Spike TV’s Coal,” Peter Thompson (Carleton University)
“Journalism as Connectivity: Encouraging Inclusivity in Local News Coverage of Poverty and Other Social Issues,” Michael Clay Carey (Samford University)
“You Never Seen So Much Hair in Your Life,” Jason Strange (Berea College)
“Empowerment through Digital Literacy: A Study of Online Storytelling among Appalachian Girls,” Amanda Tennant (West Liberty University)
8.2 - Performance (Colonnade B)
Affrilachian Memory Play: Tobacco Fields
Yunina Barbour-Payne (Independent Scholar-Artist)
8.3 - Performance (Cardinal)
A Reading from Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South
Convener: Larry Smith
“You Never Told Me,” Melanie Haws (Independent Writer)
“A Big Queer Convocation,” Jeff Mann (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“Abby,” Anne Whitehouse (Independent Writer)
“I Have Not Yet Returned,” Katie Winkler (Independent Writer)
Respondent: Julia Watts
Economic Development:
8.4 - Panel (Statesman)
Challenges and Strategies for Just Transitions to Sustainable Economic Growth
Convener: Alex Naar
“Re-Imagining Rural Entrepreneurship: Towards a Multi-Paradigm Research Agenda,” Alex Naar, David Townsend and Richard Hunt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“Transitioning Central Appalachia: Understanding Framework Conditions Supporting Adaptation to New Energy Economics,” Jonathan Norris (Ohio University)
“Oral History Gathering with the Clinch River Valley Initiative: Local, State, Regional, and National Partnerships to Build Community Capacity and Diversify Coalfield Economies in Southwest Virginia,” Mary Drury and Julia Kell (Radford University)
“Unsafe Water: Basic Infrastructure Needs for a New Economy,” Mary Cromer (Appalachian Citizens' Law Center) and Nina McCoy (Martin County Concerned Citizens.)
8.5 - Panel (Wolverine)
Sustainability for Appalachian Medicinal Herbs, from Plants in the Ground to End Consumers
Convener: Tricia Shapiro
“Finding the Right Pattern: Medicinal Herbs for Sustainable Appalachian Homesteads,” Tricia Shapiro (Independent Herb Grower/Harvester and Author)
“Creative Ways to Supply Herbs to a Small Product Manufacturer,” Jeannie Dunn (Red Moon Herbs)
“Gathering and Sharing Market and Harvest Data for Non-Timber Forest Products,” Steve Kruger (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“Building a Southern Appalachian Forest Farming Community,” Jeanine Davis (North Carolina State University)
8.6 - Workshop (Pavilion B)
Human Trafficking in Appalachia
Kristi Miller (Lorain County Community College)
Education:
8.7 - Panel (Buckeye B)
Conversations on Hope in a Hostile (Educational) Climate and Tools for Empowerment through Appalachian Studies, Part 1
Convener: Jordan Laney
“Creating Safe Space in a Multidisciplinary Classroom,” Kimberly G. Reigle (Mars Hill University)
“An International Comparative Perspective,” Tim Thomas (James Madison University)
“Opportunities for First-Gen Students in an Appalachian-themed First-Year Seminar,” Zachary Kopkin (Appalachian State University)
“Critical Literacies and Digital Citizenship: Participatory Knowledge Production and Social Change in Appalachia,” Tammy Clemmons (University of Kentucky)
Respondent: Jordan Laney (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Session sponsored by the Education and Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners Committees
8.8 - Panel (Council)
The Role of School in Understanding and Strengthening Community
Convener: Amanda Wiley
“Pine Mountain Settlement School as a Community Resource and Environmental Education Center,” Amanda Wiley and Tara Slusher (Pine Mountain Settlement School)
“Care for Kids, Care for the Community: Employment in Early Care and Education in Rural, Southwest Pennsylvania,” Annelise Hagedorn (Pennsylvania State University)
“Scaling the Mountain: World Language Teacher Self-Efficacy in Central Appalachia,” Ella Smith-Justice (University of Pikeville)
“Enlightenment Rhetoric and Feminist Reform at the Hindman Settlement School,” Wendy Olson (Washington State University, Vancouver)
8.9 - Workshop (Cabana A)
“Helping Students Uncover the Cultures, Values, and Histories They Don’t Know They Have”
Bobby Starnes (Berea College)
Environmental Sustainability:
8.10 - Panel (Hoosier)
Growing Appalachia by Ourselves for Ourselves
Convener: Justine Law
“Building Capacity FOR Building Capacity: Community Outcomes of Gardening Programs in Central Appalachia,” Elyzabeth (Elly) Engle (The Pennsylvania State University)
8.11 - Panel (Buckeye)
Carpathians-Appalachians: Preserving Highland Regions in the Age of Globalization
Convener: Roman Poznanskyy
“The Influence of the International Scientific Center, ‘The Observatory,’ on the Development of the Region,” Igor Tsependa (Precarpathian University)
“Sustainable Development in the Ukrainian Carpathians: Adequate Educational Support as a Key to Success,” Roman Poznanskyy, (Precarpathian University)
8.12 - Roundtable (Cabana B)
Reclaiming the Land: Lessons Learned in Lobbying for Change
Convener: Roberta Campbell
Roberta Campbell (University of Cincinnati), Eric Dixon (Appalachian Citizens Law Center), and Sarah Bowling (Kentuckians for the Commonwealth)
Health:
8.13 - Panel (Portico)
What the Numbers Tell Us
Convener: Susan Sprigg
“The Health of Appalachian Adults: Using Population-Based Surveys over Time to Identify Disparities and Trends,” Susan Sprigg (Interact for Health)
“The Appalachian Data Portal (ADP): Exploring Appalachian Population Health Within and Outside the Appalachian Region,” Michael Topmiller (HealthLandscape)
“Cardiovascular Heart Disease, Risk Factors, and North Central Appalachian Experiences,” Bethany L. Fulton (Ohio University)
“Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake, Knowledge, and Acceptance for Youth: A Systematic Review of Appalachia,” Chelsea N. Ryan (East Tennessee State University’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine)
8.14 - Panel (Taft)
Drug Abuse Challenges and Intervention Strategies
Convener: Robert McCool
“Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patterns Among Appalachian Offenders over a Twenty-Year Period,” Vikki Bonyata (Kentucky Department of Corrections)
“Drug Overdose Fatalities,” Ashley Bush and Robert McCool (University of Kentucky)
“Building Community Capacity for Safety Promotion and Drug Reduction Through Prevention Coalitions,” Genia McKee and Joseph Markiewicz (University of Kentucky)
“The Economics of Compassion: Leveraging Entrepreneurship to Battle Addiction, Save Lives and Build Careers in Appalachia,” Johnathan Gay (Innovation Network at Morehead State University) and Tim Robinson (Addiction Recovery Care)
8.15 - Workshop (Colonnade A)
Strategies of Hope: A Systems Approach
Amanda J. Peters (Northern Kentucky Heroin Impact Response Task Force)
Migration:
8.16 - Panel (Buckeye A)
Appalachian Women’s Voices From the Experience of Outward Migration
Convener: Tonja Matney Reynolds
“Invisible Girls,” Tonja Matney Reynolds (Independent Writer)
“Missing Dixie: A Quilt, a Story, Reflections on the Ones Who Left and the Ones Who stayed Behind,” Bet Ison (Independent Quilt Maker)
8.17 - Roundtable (Pavilion A)
Bluegrass Music Heritage of Southwestern Ohio
Convener: Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith (Miami University Hamilton), Fred Bartenstein (University of Dayton), Curt Ellison (Miami University Hamilton), Brian F.X. Powers (Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County)
Respondent: Fred Bartenstein
