Schedule of Events
"Who Tells Our Stories: History, Haints, and Happenings"
2018 Conference | February 2-3, 2018
Friday | Saturday
Friday, February 2, 2018
Pre-Conference Events
- 9:00 am
- Registration Opens
Humanities Lobby
- 9:30 am – 10:00 am
- Gallery Presentation
Producing an Award-Winning Literary and Art Magazine on a Shoestring Budget
Sarah Eichelman and Jessie Van der Laan as representatives for creative writing and art faculty for Gallery
HUM 106
- 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Pre-Conference Writers Workshops
- Fiction, Marie Manilla
HUM 100
- Nonfiction, Katie Hoffman
HUM 102
- Poetry, Jesse Graves
HUM 101
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Lunch on Your Own
- 12:45 pm
- Welcome by the President
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- ETSU Old Time Pride Band
Humanities Theatre
- 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
- Keynote Speech - Marie Manilla
Humanities Theatre
- 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
- Scholarly Presentations (concurrent)
Humanities Classrooms
- Session A
TBA
- Artemis Preeshl
"Shakespeare in Appalachia"
- Cloe Perfetti and Devon Ressler
Presentation
on their scholarship experiences at Amy Greene's Laughing Literary Festival
- Session B
TBA
- Michael Sobiech, Zebulun Keck, and Harley Thompson
"Haunted Hills: The Ghostly in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Newspapers"
- Session C
TBA
- DeAnna Pedigo
"Telling Your Own Stories: A Generative Poetry Workshop on Memory Through the Senses"
- 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
- High Lonesome Senate Bluegrass Band
Performance and Jam Session
Humanities Lobby
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Pre-Conference Events
- 8:00 am
- Registration Opens
Humanities Lobby
- 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Scholarly Presentations (concurrent)
Humanities Classrooms
- Session A
TBA
- Jimmy Dean Smith
"Come Back to the Commons: Ginseng Gathering in Five Appalachian Novels"
- Session B
TBA
- Chloè
"Real and Diverse: A Place for Minorities in Appalachia"
- Session C
TBA
- Egil Brudvik
"White Liver: Remnants of Folk Medicine in Appalachia"
- Ryan Sergent-Payne
"The 'War' On Coal: Realities of Life in the Kentucky Coalfields"
- Session D
TBA
- Roger D. Hicks
"Saint Garnet and Mary Dorthula White, Saints or ...?"
- Kelsey A. Solomon
"The Twenty-First Century Appalachian Woman: Toward an Environmental Consciousness in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer"
- 10:15 am – 11:00 am
- ETSU TaleTellers
Humanities Theatre
- 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
- Lunch on your own
option of box lunch ($8 pre-order by Jan 31, 2018)
Humanities Lobby
- 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
- Kevin Slimp
Ghostly Places: A Collection of Chilling Stories about Haunted Places from the Newspapers of Tennessee