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Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented her paper "Remembering the Past, Working for the Future: West Virginia Women fight for Economic Justice and Environmental Heritage in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining" at the 32nd annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference on March 27-29.

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, facilitated a book discussion at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica on Oct. 16. Barry led a conversation on Carolyn Merchant's Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. This event was part of the Institute's current exhibit titled "Picturing Eden," which opened on Sept. 20. The book discussion included members of the Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and focused on Merchant's examination of the connections between the Christian narrative of the fall from the Garden of Eden, and current environmental and feminist narratives in Western Culture.