{"id":29269,"date":"2026-03-17T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:49:09","slug":"marshall-university-to-welcome-appalachian-studies-association-conference-march-19-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/marshall-university-to-welcome-appalachian-studies-association-conference-march-19-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University to welcome Appalachian Studies Association Conference March 19\u201321"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University will welcome hundreds of participants to campus March 19\u201321 as it hosts the 49th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference, marking the event\u2019s return to Huntington for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is expected to be the largest in the association\u2019s history, featuring a record number of sessions and participants. Programming will include academic presentations, panel discussions, workshops and community-focused events, along with excursions across campus, throughout Huntington and the surrounding Tri-State region.<\/p>\n<p>The conference\u2019s opening reception will be held Thursday, March 19, from 4 to 5 p.m., followed by the opening ceremony from 5 to 7 p.m. in Marshall\u2019s Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis conference brings together scholars, teachers, students, community members, and regional activists who believe that shared community continues to be important to those writing, researching, and teaching about Appalachia,\u201d said Dr. Cicero M. Fain III, conference chair and assistant provost of access and opportunity at Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the conference will be the keynote address, \u201cBeen to the Mountaintop,\u201d delivered by Lynch, Kentucky native William H. Turner. The keynote, which is free and open to the public, will take place Friday, March 20, from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. A book signing for Turner\u2019s book, \u201cThe Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns,\u201d will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Conference events will take place at multiple venues on Marshall\u2019s campus as well as locations throughout Huntington, offering attendees opportunities to engage directly with the region\u2019s history, communities and cultural institutions.\u00a0To view detailed information and venue locations, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appalachianstudies.org\/_files\/ugd\/768291_6541cc491e174c009e35ad13f4086fc9.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is still open. For more information or to register, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appalachianstudies.org\/conference\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University will welcome hundreds of participants to campus March 19\u201321 as it hosts the 49th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference, marking the event\u2019s return to Huntington for the first time in a decade. The conference is expected to be the largest in the association\u2019s history, featuring a record number of sessions and participants. Programming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29270,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}