Ozarks Studies Association 2022 Annual Meeting

118 West Johnson Avenue,Springdale AR 72764

27 May, 2022

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2022 Annual Meeting of the Ozarks Studies Association Ozarks Studies Association 2022 Annual Meeting Shiloh Museum of Ozark History 27 May 2022 8:00-8:15 Coffee and Registration 8:15-8:30 Introduction & Welcome Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides, OSA President 8:45-10:00 Ozarks Land Development Moderator: Jared Phillips, University of Arkansas “Owner Financed Land Sales” Alex Primm, Independent Scholar “Ozark’s ecotourism conceptualization, endowments, and trends: Practitioner perspective” Bernard Kitheka, MSU Common Ground: An Examination of Rural Planning and the Growing Amish Presence in Missouri Krista Evans, MSU 10:15-11:45: Social Problems in the Ozarks Urban Landscape: Social Science Research in the Ozarks Moderator: Mara Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University “Assessing Vaccine Hesitancy Motivations in Northwest Springfield, Missouri” Bethany Brauer & Emily Fessler, MSU “Tiny Figured Worlds: Selfhood and Identity on the Street and at Eden Village” Marnie K. Watson, MSU “Evaluating Springfield Community Gardens and Its Regenerative Agriculture Programs in Reducing Food Insecurity” Christina Ryder, MSU “Homelessness and Tiny Houses” Krista Evans, MSU “Springfield Nonprofit Leadership Study” Catherine Hoegeman, MSU “Ozark Narratives of Financial Anxiety: Skepticism, Multiple Monies, and Entrepreneurial MMJ Growers in a Red State” Erin Kenny, MSU 12:00-1:00: Lunch Keynote Address: “People, Water, and the Land” Leif Kindberg Executive Director, Illinois River Watershed Partnership 1:15-2:30: Ozarks Cultures Moderator: Brooks Blevins, Missouri State University “The Vision of the Way: A Modern Expression of Pentecostalism in the Oklahoma Ozarks” Russ Jones, MSU “Tina Marie Wilcox, the Heritage Herb Gardens, and Their Lasting Impact on the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas” Laura Adams Willette, AFTA “The Failure of a Jewish Agriculture Commune in the Arkansas Ozarks” Mara Cohen Ioannides, MSU 2:45-3:45: Preserving the Ozarks: A Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Jared Phillips, University of Arkansas Angie Albright, Executive Director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History Vanessa McKuin, Executive Director, Historic Cane Hill Joshua Cobbs Youngblood, University of Arkansas Special Collections 4:00-5:30: The Popular Ozarks Moderator: Brooks Blevins “Si Siman: Entertainment Pioneer of the Ozarks” Kathryn Ledbetter, MSU “A Century of Hillbilly Variety Shows, Still Going Strong” Thomas Peters, MSU “‘That Hard, Uncompromising Face’: Feminine Power in Harold Bell Wright’s Ma Cinderella” John Han, MSU “‘A Stronger Vault for the Spirit:’ The Presence of Nature in Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone” Michael J. Beilfuss, Missouri Southern State University 5:45 PM: Dismissal and Call for 2023 Conference