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Our Movement Starts Here—directed by John Rash and Melanie Ho and produced by Rash, Ho, and the Southern Documentary Project—is an award-winning documentary that tells the story of a rural community in the American South that fought the state of North Carolina's toxic landfill.

April 15: Our Movement Starts Here Screening
Apr 11, 2025

The Center for Appalachian Studies invites you to a free screening of Our Movement Starts Here on Tuesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. at Appalachian Theatre....

Trevor McKenzie is the director of Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies. Photo submitted

March 27: Blue Ridge Ballads Revisited with Appalachian Studies' Trevor McKenzie
Jan 30, 2025

This presentation and performance traces the history behind ballads from the Blue Ridge Mountains. While strongly associated with European and British...

The 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) Conference will be held on the campus of Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, for the first time from March 7 through 9, 2024. The theme of this year's conference is “Beloved Community: Pride in Identity, Culture and Geography.”

The Appalachian Studies Program Prepares for the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) Conference
Feb 21, 2024

BOONE, N.C. — The 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) Conference will be held on the campus of Western Carolina University, in Cullowh...

Rodrigo Dorfman is a Chilean-born, Latino visual storyteller and community activist known for his work documenting the Great Latino Migration to the American South. Photo by Rodrigo Dorfman (rodrigodorfman.com).

September 26: "The Making of the Nuevo South" with Rodrigo Dorfman
Sep 13, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of S...

Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, interviews, and other scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology, and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry and reviews of books, films, and recordings dealing with the region of the Appalachian mountains.

Appalachian Journal marks 50 years of spotlighting Appalachia
Mar 9, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review marks its 50th anniversary this academic yea...

“Calls from Home” is produced by Appalshop and Working Films. The 34-minute film will be screened Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 7 p.m. in Room 114 of the Belk Library and Information Commons.

App State's Center for Appalachian Studies to present "Calls from Home" film screening
Mar 8, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies is proud to present a screening of “Calls from Home,” a short docume...

Appalachian studies graduate students Camden Phillips, Kevin Freeman, Sammy Osmond, Megan Hall and Yndiana Montes met with MountainTrue's High Country Watershed Coordinator, Hannah Woodburn, as part of their microplastics project.

App State's Center for Appalachian Studies prepares for AppalachiaFest
Mar 6, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies is preparing for the 46th Annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) C...

Black in Appalachia staff members Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin and William Isom II

January 30: Black in Appalachia Common Reading Event
Jan 23, 2023

Black in Appalachia Common Reading EventMonday, January 30, 2023, at 6 p.m.Parkway Ballroom, Plemmons Student UnionBOONE, N.C. — This year’s ...

Edwin Bernbaum, Ph.D.

2022 Mountain Studies Lecture: Sacred Mountains of the World
Sep 16, 2022

The Appalachian State College of Arts and Sciences invites you to the 2022 Mountain Studies Lecture featuring Dr. Edwin Bernbaum, autho...

Environmental Historian Dr. Luke Manget - Thursday, Sept 15 at 6pm
Sep 12, 2022

Thursday, September 15, 2022Lecture and Book Signing 6-7:15pmBelk Library & Information Commons Room 114Dr. Luke Manget is an instructor of Americ...

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