Hip Hop Studies Conference
2nd Annual Hip Hop Studies Conference
The 2024 Hip Hop Studies Conference will showcase various elements of Hip Hop through engaging panels, interactive workshops, a special film showing, and performances.
Whether you're a student, scholar, artist, or simply a Hip Hop enthusiast, this conference is the place to be. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and deepen your understanding of Hip Hop's influence on our world.
Join us for a day filled with hip-hop culture, music, and knowledge at our 2nd Annual Hip Hop Studies Conference. This conference will feature inspiring speakers, engaging panels, and interactive workshops centered around Hip Hop.
Registration: $20 for students and $50 for the general public.
To register for the conference, please click the link below.
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Agenda Day Two: Saturday, November 16th
Check In & Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakfast will be provided. Douglass Hall 104
Conference Opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Douglass Hall 105/107
Panel: Criminalization of Hip Hop
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Moderator: Chidinma Chidoka - Howard University • W. Maclane Hull – University of South Carolina History Department (Virtual) M: The origins of the criminalization of rap in the United States, focusing on Northern California in the 1990s. • Brandon Hogan – Howard University: Perspectives of hip-hop artists on policing and prisons and philosophers who develop sophisticated theories of criminal justice reform based on hip-hop. • Chandra Alexandria Williams - Crossroads Cultural Arts Center: Rap Creates Reality • Tamia McDonald – Howard University: Hip-Hop has formed as an avenue to express the realities of daily life, combat hopelessness, and bring new life to many communities’ actively bleeding wounds • Timothy Welbeck - Temple University: Elevator(s) Music: André 3000, rapping tempering temporality, and the sound of mortality
Agenda Day Three : Sunday, November 17th
Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakfast will be provided. Douglass Hall 104
Panel: Hip Hop as a Global Voice for Justice and Change
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Moderator: David Green - Howard University • Yiran Shu – Performance Studies NYU: The Global Impact of Hip Hop: NYC to East Asia Since the 1990s • Gabriela Costa Lima – University of Maryland Baltimore County: "Rooster, the Science of the Drum": Rap, Black Thought & Radical Humanism in Northeast Brazil • Alveta Addison – Howard University: The Power of Music and the Black Cultural Liberation Movements • Maurice Johnson - Florida A & M University (Virtual): Hip Hop, Engagement, Identity and HBCU Students
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