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1999 Conference Program (Pdf) The Power of Place and Struggles for Justice: Appalachia at Century's Turn The Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Abingdon, Virginia March 19 - 21,1999 Co-Sponsored by: Emory & Henry College Emory, Virginia Support Provided by: Birthplace of Country Music Alliance First Bank and Trust, Abingdon, Virginia Stop Abusive Family Environments, McDowell County, West Virginia Big Creek People in Action, Caretta, McDoyvell County, West Virginia Sandy River District Action Committee, McDowell County, West Virginia McDowell County Action Network, Gary, McDowell County, West Virginia Cooperative Action Program of Southern McDowell County, West Virginia The Appalachian Center for Community Service, Emory & Henry College Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Abingdon, Virginia c ..... ~])~.~---- J . .~ ~. .-~ .~ ~ al~~ r§t~ ] I Resource L j ~j ·i' ]' ~ ~ ~ ~ -(({{/ ,,"'.C& U Lab LL eaten g ~ ~ ~ ~j/."" ... 1. ,.. r T. 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Please bring your paper to the registration table, Make sure your name, address, e-mail address, and pbone number are attached. Ifyou do not bave a cJean copy to submit, please mail two bard copies of your paper (do not send a computer disk) to: Journal ofAppalachian Studies P.O. Box 6825 • West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 E-mail attachments will be accepted; send to [email protected] Deadline for Post-Conference Submission is: APRIL IS, 1999. CONVENERS: U you would like to submit tbe papers . from your panel, bring them to tbe registration table with a note indicating that you are submitting tbem on behalf of tbe entire panel. Please include names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and pbone numbers of all panelists. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SATURDAY, WIARCH: 20 LOBBY& UPPER LEVEL 10:00-10:30..A...WI. UNIVERSITYOFNORTH: CAROLINAPRESS Barbara R. Duncan, Editor, Living Stories of the Cherokee Sarah H. Hill, Weaving New Worlds Ronald L. Lewis, Transforming the .Appalachian Countryside UNIVERSITYOFTENNESSEE PRESS (:n.o book-sign.in..gs) Bill J. Leonard, Editor, Christianity in Appalachia Ellen Eslinger, Citizens ofZion Augusta Grove Bell, Circling Windrock Mountain 2:30-3:30 P.WI. UNIVERSITYPRESS OFKENTUC~ Dwight Billings, Gurney Norman, & Katherine Ledford, Editors, Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes Jerry Bruce Thomas, An Appalachian New Deal UNIVERSITYOF ILLINOIS PRESS Loyal Jones, Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands Page 6 Appalachian Stucties Conference FRIDAY, MARCH 19 11 :00 A.M.-S:OO P.M. REGISTRATION (Lobby) CONSUL T MAPS INSIDE FRONT COVER FOR ALL ROOM LOCATIONS. 10:00 A.M.-S:OO P.M. EXHIBITS (Exhibit Hall) 10:00 A.M.-S:OO P.M. SILENT AUCTION (Exhibit Hall) 1:00-2:30 P.M. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: "SUSTAINABLE CONCEPTS OF FOLK CULTURE & COMMUNITY FOR 21ST CENTURY APPALACHIA: EXPANDING THE DIALOGUE" (Room 232) Sponsored by the Folklife Heritage Committee of the Appalachian Consortium Chair: Richard Blaustein, East Tennessee State University Participants: Philis Alvic, Lexington, Kentucky; Bill Best, Berea College; Cecelia Conway, Appalachian State University; Margaret Gregg, Jonesborough, Tennessee; Tina Liza Jones, Riner, Virginia; Gerry Milnes, Davis & Elkins College 2. WHOSE PLACE IS IT? APPALACHIAN PLACES & TOURISM (Room 231) Chair: Gene Cox Underemployment, Housing Deprivation, & Poverty in an Appalachian Tourism County Margaret Foraker, University of Tennessee "To Build a Wall around These Mountains": The Displaced People of Shenandoah National Park Nancy Martin-Perdue, University of Virginia A New Wave of Colonization: The Internal Periphery Model & Kentucky's Tourism Industry Stephen Paul Whitaker, CinCinnati, Ohio Recovering the Story of the Conscientious Objectors in Great Smoky Mountains National Park through Oral History Chris Parker, University of Tennessee 3. TELLING OUR STORY: FOLK HEROES, BALLADS, & PLACE (Room 234) Chair: Norma Myers, East Tennessee State University Through the Gap into the New Millennium: Tracing the Tracks of an Appalachian Hero Ted Olson, Union College . Extinction Alertl Appalachian Folk Songs Join the Dinosaurs Becki Jones, Columbia Elementary School Tom Dooley: Myth or Legend In Appalachian Lyrics Jim Crissman, Benedictine University "The Tragic Yellow Tomb": Topical Ballads of the 1958 Kentucky School Bus Accident Ivan Tribe, University of Rio Grande Appalachian Studies Conference Page 7 FRIDAY (cont.) 4. RACIAL & ETHNIC ISSUES IN APPALACHIA (Room 220) 1:00-2:30 P.M. Chair: Lynda Ann Ewen, Marshall University Reflections on Race Drawn from the Oral Histories of Older, Black, Female, West Virginia Teachers Rita Wicks-Nelson & Ancella Bickley, Marshall University Examining Racial Perceptions of Students at Marshall University Travis Williams, Marshall University Japanese War Brides & Appalachian Assimilation Kyoko Kondo, Marshall University Blues as an Indicator of Race Relations in the Appalachian Coalfields John Taylor, Marshall University Beyond the Lahr: Perceptions of Corporate Wisdom & Prejudice Maura Conway, Marshall University 5. QUESTIONS OF PLACE & POLICY (Room 226) Chair: Margaret Feierabend, Bristol, Tennessee Policy for 21st Century Appalachia: Appraising Rural Development in the East Tennessee Valley Chris Baker, West Virginia Institute of Technology Johnson City. Tennessee: A Half-Century of Urban Renewal Fred Waage, East Tennessee State University The Appointment of John Sweeney as Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission Philip Grant. Pace University Reading the Rhetorical Signs: I Think I'm Home Again Irene Moser, College of West Virginia 6. VISIONS OF JUSTICE & THE STRUGGLES FOR WOMEN'S VOICE (Room 224) Chair: Kathy Lyday-Lee, Elon College Jesse Stuart's Masculinization of the Teaching Profession In "The Thread That Runs So True" Tess Lloyd, East Tennessee State University If God Can Be a Woman, Anything Can Happen: Feminist Narratives & Social Responsibility in George Ella Lyon's "With a Hammer for My Heart" Marianne Worthington, Cumberland College ' . "Clear-Cutting": Creative Nonfiction by Four Appalachian Women Writers Ellesa Clay High, West Virginia University The Untold Story: Social InJustice In Edith Summer Kelly's "Weeds" Phoebe Jackson, University of Michigan Page FRIDAY (cont.) 7. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & RESISTANCE IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY: EXPERIENCES 1 :00-2:30 P.M. & OBSERVATIONS (Room 240) Chair: Mike Maloney, Urban Appalachian Council Roots of Radicalism: Appalachian Unity & Social Protest in Uptown, Chicago, 1964-1995 Roger Guy, Texas Lutheran University Putting the "You" in Union: D. J. Stewart & Traditional Radicalism in the Highlands Regional Campaign, 1975-1976 John Hennen, Morehead State University "O.V.E.C. Stuffs the Carpet Bag with Gee Haw Whimmy Diddles & Yo-Yos": Successful Empowerment in Kentucky, Ohio, & West Virginia Karen Li Simpkins, Marshall University The Rise &Fall of the Spirit of Resistance in Appalachia: A Short History Richard Drake, Berea, Kentucky 8. STORIES FROM COMMUNITIES I: TEACHING PLACE: THE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE'S WEST VIRGINIA SCHOLARS PROGRAM (Room 222) Chair: Dave Clark, Mountain Institute PartiCipants: Anne Payne &graduates of the TMI Scholars Program, Mountain Institute 9. PICTURING PLACE: THE WORK OF SHELBY LEE ADAMS (Executive Auditorium) Chair: Jack Wright, Ohio University PartiCipants: Kate Black, Nyoka Hawkins, & Katherine Ledford, University of Kentucky; Douglas Powell, Northeastern University 2:45-4:15 P.M. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10. STORIES FROM COMMUNITIES II: TALES FROM COAL MINING'S HAND-LOADING ERA IN VIRGINIA'S NEW RIVER VALLEY (Executive Auditorium) Chair: Robert Fries, Roanoke Times & World News PartiCipants: Fred Lawson, Alex Linkous Jr., Sam Huff, Oscar Sherman, Esther "Queen" Jones, &Mabel Nina
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