Events

Appalachian student/faculty delegation presents at conference in Romania
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—A delegation from the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University traveled to Brasov, Romania, recently to present research...

UCF sociologists lecture on racial attitudes in the U.S. and motherhood in the media
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—Two sociologists from the University of Central Florida will present lectures Oct. 20 and 21 at Appalachian State University on topics that ha...

Historian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct 8, 2015

BOONE—Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without ...

Appalachian Anthropology professor invited to speak at Cornell conference on prisons in Honduras
Oct 7, 2015

BOONE - On October 5th, Dr. Jon Carter, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, traveled to Cornell University to participate in the co...

Post-Colonial Symposium presents local and international migrant experience through art and lecture
Oct 6, 2015

Boone - Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a founder and major voice of postcolonial thought known for her seminal text, "Can the Subaltern Speak?,...

"Once Upon a Time" Appalachian State Homecoming to include College of Arts & Sciences Open House
Sep 29, 2015

Appalachian Sate is no different from any other school, in that there are important collegiate rituals and traditions. Homecoming may be at the pinnac...

Kirkpatrick receives Brockman-Campbell Book Award for her Irish-themed poetry collection
Sep 21, 2015

BOONE—Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne haunted Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s creative thoughts for more than a dozen years.A poet and professor in Appalachi...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to speak at Appalachian Sept. 24
Sep 18, 2015

BOONE—Professor Gayatri Spivak will speak Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. in Appalachian State University’s Rosen Concert Hall in Broyhill Music Center. The ti...

College of Arts & Sciences seeking December undergraduate commencement speakers
Sep 10, 2015

This fall, the College of Arts & Sciences will select one distinguished graduating senior to speak at the December Commencement Ceremony. We are s...

Humanities Council convenes symposium on voices of postcolonial peoples
Sep 9, 2015

BOONE - How the life stories of colonized peoples reclaim and transform the Humanities today, and how they affect the multicultural landscape burgeoni...