THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL APPALACHIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Voices from the Misty Mountains: Diversity and Unity, A New Appalachia Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia Thursday, March 17 - Sunday, March 20, 2016 APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Preliminary Conference Program and Registration Form Welcome! How exciting it is to be able to welcome our colleagues in the brought a new dimension to Appalachian literature and to our Appalachian Studies Association to Shepherd University and to understanding of a diverse Appalachia. Writer, editor, folklorist, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Shepherd University is often called and performer John Lilly will share “Lessons from Goldenseal: the Gateway to Appalachia. As you walk down German Street, Reflections on Preservation of History and Folklife,” while award- you will see that the town rests on a high bank of the Potomac winning storyteller Adam Booth will enthrall us with stories of River and in the shadow of the Blue Ridge. While we are within the region. Cultural and multicultural ethnographic intersections an hour’s drive of Washington and Baltimore urban areas, we also of Appalachian clogging and African-American dance will be have a rural distinction and a historic richness that goes back to explored by dance scholars Matthew Olwell, Emily Oleson, and the Washington brothers, George and Charles, who surveyed Becky Hill, in the special panel “Appalachian Percussive Dance much of the area and whose family homes dot the rolling fields. Traditions in Historical and Cultural Context: Researching The To walk the streets of Shepherdstown, West Virginia’s oldest town, Meaning of Buck Dance and Reel ‘Em Boys, Reel ‘Em.” is to walk through the history of a region that still lives large in our imagination and our common Appalachian and American One of the highlights of the conference will be the photographic iconography. art of Builder Levy, an award-winning photographer, whose books, Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Builder Levy: Photographer, and While you are here, we invite you to explore historic Martinsburg, Appalachia USA, have revolutionized the understanding of the Harpers Ferry, Antietam Battlefield, the George Tyler Moore Center region. Finally, your conference presentations, papers, panels, for the Study of the Civil War, and the places and monuments that workshops, films, music, dance, community events, and posters— reflect the richness of the region, all within a narrow circumference your voices from the Misty Mountains—will provide for us all a of the town. The West Virginia Humanities Council has allowed us fresh look at the “Unity and Diversity of a New Appalachia,” one to offer a variety of special programs, plenaries, tours and events intrepid in recognizing and addressing the cultural, environmental, for you while you attend the conference, and the Robert C. Byrd social, historic, and educational issues that affect our region, as well Center for Legislative Studies and GTM Civil War Center will be as the country and the world. open for you to explore and research while you are here. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Conference Chair The diversity of the “voices” of Appalachians that we have Rachael Meads, Program Chair brought to the conference will both entertain and enlighten David O. Hoffman, Local Arrangements and Program Committee you. Our keynote speaker is past Kentucky Poet Laureate, writer, and cultural/social activist Frank X Walker, whose keynote address will be “Escape from Negro Mountain: Writing History, This project is presented with financial assistance from the West Righting Wrongs.” Cherokee storyteller Lloyd Arneach will open Virginia Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National the conference on Friday with a traditional Cherokee blessing Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, and share stories from Appalachia’s indigenous peoples, the findings, conclusions or recommendations do not first Appalachians. Affrilachian poets Ricardo Nazario y Colón, necessarily represent those of the West Virginia Kelly Norman Ellis, and Bianca Spriggs will share their poetry, Humanities Council or the National Endowment echoing those “coal black voices” that just a few years ago for the Humanities. PROGRAM CONTENTS Welcome ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1 Sponsors ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 REGISTRATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 ASA Scholarships ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 Graduate EDPD Course Credit .........................................................................................................................................................................................3 Howard Dorgan Silent Auction .......................................................................................................................................................................................3 Exhibitors, Vendors, Groups .............................................................................................................................................................................................3 Travel Information ................................................................................................................................................................................................................4 Accommodations .................................................................................................................................................................................................................4 Conference Schedule ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................5 Conference Host ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Conference Highlights .......................................................................................................................................................................................................7 ASA Committee Meetings ................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Other Meetings .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 ASA Awards .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 JAS Submissions ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Digital Collection Submissions .......................................................................................................................................................................................9 ASA Mission ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 Conference Sessions .........................................................................................................................................................................................................10 Shepherd University Map ...............................................................................................................................................................................................24 Advertisements ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................25 REGISTRATION FORM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................43 The Appalachian Studies Association was formed in 1977 by a group of scholars, teachers, and regional activists who believed that shared community has been and will continue to be important to those writing, researching, and teaching about Appalachia. 2 Scholarships cover the cost of registration/membership only. Preliminary List of Conference Sponsors* Meals and other ticketed