(Alp)alachia: Celebrating Appalachia's International Connections

In celebration of the United Nations' International Mountain Day 2021

When: Saturday, Dec 11, 2021
12 p.m. - 2 p.m. EST

Where: Zoom. Registration required at https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsduGsrTguHdQf986Db3CeRM2npEig-mB2

Cost: Free

What: This event will bring together established and aspiring practitioners of mountain-to-mountain research, activism, and pedagogy with like-minded Appalachianists--those who study, teach about, and (sometimes) live in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States.

Format:

First-hour
Presenters will summarize established connections between Appalachia and other mountain regions.

Second-hour
Attendees will be placed into breakout rooms for thirty minutes with discussion questions and then return to the large group for another thirty minutes of whole-group conversation.

Occasion: United Nations' International Mountain Day 2021

Sponsor: International Connections Committee, Appalachian Studies Association

Presenters:

Austrian Alps

Carpathian Mountains

Wales

South Africa

eds, Global Mountain Regions: Conversations toward the Future (2018)

Contact: 

Katherine E. Ledford, PhD
Chair, International Connections Committee, Appalachian Studies Association
Professor of Appalachian Studies
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina, USA
ledfordke@appstate.edu


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Published: Dec 6, 2021 1:57pm

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