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"Building
A Healthy Region:
Environment,
Culture, Community"
26th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
Co-hosted by Berea
College and Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky
University's Perkins Building
Richmond, Kentucky
March 28-30, 2003
The Appalachian Studies Association invites you to return to where
this organization began - Madison County, Kentucky. It was here
in 1977 that the first ASA meeting took place. This year the Appalachian
Centers at Eastern Kentucky University and Berea College are acting
as co-hosts for our annual meeting which will be held on the EKU campus.
This conference is also part of an attempt to bring greater continuity
to our research and activist work. This year's conference and the one
next year in Cherokee, North Carolina, will use the same theme.
This year we ask
that presenters think in terms of those traditions, policies, and programs
that conserve, sustain, and enrich those elements of mountain communities,
cultures, and environments that are already identified or need to be
explored and explained for the first time. Next year, we would hope
that the presentations will feature reports and analyses that focus
on the growing diversity of Appalachia and the need to provide innovative
ways to assist communities, cultures, and our environment to achieve
a healthier life for the entire region. We are particularly anxious
to reach citizen's groups, professionals, and academics who are concerned
with physical and mental health, ecological systems, social groups,
cultural organizations and performers, and educational systems of the
mountain region.
The Appalachian
Studies Association brings together scholars, teachers, community and
regional activists, entrepreneurs, planners, officials, families, young
people, old people-people who care passionately about the region, who
want to learn from each other, and who want to make a difference in
their communities.
We will celebrate
the diversity of the region through music, art, stories and banquets,
with special places for continuous:
· Music,
storytelling, poetry readings
· Films, videos, photographs, poster sessions
· Folk art exhibits with visiting artists and crafts persons
· Community exhibits
Because conference
sessions will end at noon on Sunday; we may not be able to accommodate
every proposal. Based on this year's successful formats, consider the
following ideas for presentations:
· Scholarly
research papers and sessions
· Poster sessions related to community work
· Poster sessions related to research reports
· Panels and community presentations
· Host a roundtable conversation for Saturday breakfast, dinner,
or "Tea and Sympathy" cocktail hour
· Premiere your films, videos, poetry, new music, plays, art
and writing
· Sponsor a reception: welcome new participants, honor an organization,
a new author
· Hands on activities for children, youth, and former children
Friday morning
can be a time for special workshops and organization meetings.
Contribute items to our annual Silent Auction: dust off those old silver
wedding presents, silver jewelry you don't wear anymore, as well as
the traditional items: crafts, quilts, memorabilia, special foods, tickets
to events, music, art, a weekend get-away, a rafting trip, a fine meal,
your autographed book. Proceeds go to the ASA Scholarship Committee.
Help the ASA help those with financial needs participate in future conferences.
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at four motels located on the southwest
side of the intersection of Interstate Highway 75 and the Richmond By-Pass
at exit 87.
· Hampton
Inn, $62.00 per night
(859) 626-1002 or (800) 426-7866
· Holiday Inn Express Inn & Suites, $59.00 per night
(859) 624-4055 or (800) 465-4329
· Jameson Inn, $55.00 per night
(859) 623-0063 or (800) JAMESON
· Comfort Suites, $55.00 per night
(859) 624-0770
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