The panel I'm in is titled Literature about Coal Mining and my presentation is called "An Appalachian Pilgrimage Toward National Identity: Cinematic Narrative in Muriel Rukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead.'" There are three other presenters from Penn State, Goucher College, and IUP. Scott's in a panel titled Ann Pancake, Mountaintop Removal, and Environmental Justice Critiques of the Crisis; his presentation is called "The Bio-Power of Mountaintop Removal and the Globalized Reach of Appalachia."
Some of the other panels I'm interested in checking out during the conference (and hoping we have the time) include:
Women's Experiences (very excited about this one!) - - "Boarding Houses, Hotels and Mansions: Appalachian Women as Property Owners in Turn-of-the-Century Bramwell, WV" - "'A Big Smack in the Face:' College Experiences of Girls from Rural West Virginia" - "Oral Histories of Older Women in Appalachian Heritage: Stories of Urban versus Rural Life" - "Single Mothers Staring Down Stereotypes"
Razing Appalachia film viewing (about mountaintop-removal mining)
Women's Literature - - "'The Days of Man:' Depictions of Community in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven and Menna Gallie's Strike for a Kingdom" - "'You have even been to lady school:' Pierre Bourdieu, Lee Smith, and an Appalachian Education" - "Wilma Dykeman's Wide Reach and Imperative Vision"
Digital Appalachia - - "'Mappalachia:' The Region's Digital Reach" - "Teaching Appalachian Studies in the Digital Age" - "Reconstructing the Inaccessible Past through Virtual World Platforms" - "Helping Eastern Kentucky Art Teachers Build an Online Community"
Developmental Education in High Schools and Community Colleges - - "Appalachian Girls' College Preparedness: A Comparison of Intervention Programs" - "Perceptions of Teaching by At-Risk Students at a Rural, First-Year-Experience College" - "West Virginia Northern Community College's Attempts at Workforce Development in the 1970s and 1980s" - "A Narrative after Tutoring in Humanities at a Community College in Eastern Kentucky"
Writing into the Forbidden: Women from Appalachia on Cultivating the Courage to Speak panel
There are so many more great panels throughout the three-day conference, and lots of interesting things to explore: books are sold and signed, lots of organizations hand out information (last year we found out about the Bee Hive Collective and bought one of their posters to hang on our wall) so I'm excited to see what new stuff we learn this year.
- - Exciting side-note: we're also planning to see The Hunger Games while we're gone since it comes out in theaters that weekend (for all who've read the book(s) this is another connection to Appalachia since District 12 is considered the Appalachian region of the fictional dystopian society). Here are some neat pics I found of District 12 in the film. Enjoy!
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