Appalachian will host a viewing of the documentary film “The Most Unknown” with one of the nine guest scientists featured in the film, Rachel L. Smith in attendance. “The Most Unknown” is an innovative documentary film that’s primed to reinvigorate love for scientific inquiry by exploring some of the universe’s toughest questions.

In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that opioid overdose death rates increased the most in adults aged 55-64 and adults between the ages of 45-54 had the highest death rate from drug overdose.

Albert Stabler is interested in the intersections of education, law, race, and modern art.

Cara Hagan is assistant professor of dance studies and faculty affiliate of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies.

Sean Hayes is senior vice president of operations at Carolina Solar Services, and previously was executive director of The Oberlin Project.

Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi, a UC Berkeley-trained film studies scholar, is the chairman of the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University, Israel.

Dr. Christina Sornito is an anthropologist broadly trained in cultural anthropology with a focus on media theory, religion and Southeast Asia. In her research, the main themes she addresses are 1) apocalypse, 2) shamanism (broadly known in the Philippines as baybaylanism) and 3) haunted landscapes of modernity and postcolonial legacies.

Julia Kark Callander is visiting assistant professor and teaching fellow in Watauga Residential College and faculty affiliate of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies.

Dr. Sushmita Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies at Appalachian State University. Her research interests include feminist theory, queer theory, transnational studies, democratic theory, postcolonial theory, animal studies and visual politics.

Ellen Key is associate professor of government and justice studies and faculty affiliate of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.

The photographs in the series Terraria Gigantica: The World Under Glass, frame the world’s largest enclosed landscapes as possible impossibilities: Biosphere 2’s ocean in the Arizona desert, the Henry Doorly Zoo’s desert in the Great Plains of Nebraska, and Eden Project’s tropical rain forest in notoriously gray and cool Cornwall, England.