The 2015 conference theme is "Hiphop Studies Futures.” Many researchers, educators, artists, and youth advocates use Hiphop to create dynamic futures for Hiphop generation youth. We seek to illuminate both the state of and the new directions in Hiphop studies scholarship. We will address issues of identity, social stratification, globalization, popular culture and technology. The first day of the conference will feature workshops and keynotes from leading scholars in Hiphop studies; the second day will feature paper presentations from emerging and leading Hiphop Studies scholars, artists and educators.
Featuring Joan Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Bettina Love, C. Riley Snorton, Ariel Fernandez, Regina Bradley, Eli Efi, Marc Lamont Hill, and Tiely.
Schedule for the 2015 Hiphop Literacies Conference: Hiphop Futures
Friday, April 10th
- Panel—Global Perspectives and Uses of Hiphop, Room 110A
o Adriana Carvalho Lopes, "Funk é cultura"
o Brian Seilstad, Ohio State University “HipHop Culture in a Small Moroccan City”
o Kristen Kolenz, The Ohio State University “New Guerrilleras: Hip Hop Youth in a Post‐Che Era”
- Panel—Gender and Sexual Politics in Hiphop: Part 1, Room 101
o Cara Caudill, The Ohio State University “Kaleidoscope: Queen of the Ring, a space of resistance for Queer Wimmin of Color in Hip-Hop”
o Laurica Brown, UC Santa Barbara “I Love You More Than I Love Myself: Thoughts on the dangers of being a ‘Ride or Die Chick’”
o Pamela Uppal, “The Construction of ‘Blackness’ and ‘Whiteness’ in Feminist and Public Responses to Rap Single U.O.E.N.O by Rick Ross and Pop Culture Phenomenon Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke”
• 12:15-1:15pm—Lunch, MLK Lounge, Room 132
• 1:30-3pm: Panel Sessions
- Panel—Hiphop Praxes and Performativity, Room 110A
o Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ohio University “Hipster Racism”
o Eric House, University of Arizona “Jackin’ For Beats: Realizing the Decolonizing Potential in Hiphop Compositions”
o Sandra Enimil, The Ohio State University, “Copyright and Hip Hop”
- Panel—Spirituality, Religiosity and Ethics in Hiphop World-Making, Room 110B
o Maco Faniel, Rutgers University “Thinking About Space and Place in Thinking about Religion and Hip Hop: Houston as an Example”
o Frank C. King, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Platteville “Spirituality Through Hip Hop As an Emancipatory Paradigm”
o Christy Camp, The Ohio State University “Nomad-in, or the Possibility of Envisioning Glissant’s Totality in Rapper Médine’s “Made in”
o Mahaliah Ayana Little, Rutgers University, New Brunswick “Title: Hip Hop/Rap as an Epistemology: Erotic Lessons and WorldMaking in The Love Below”
Saturday, April 11th
- Hungry Asian Youngstaz of The Healthy Asian Youth (HAY) program, Columbus, OH
"The objectification of love in the new hip hop culture"
- Working Lunch with David Butler and Marshall L. Shorts “Creatives Hustle Harder: Using Hip-Hop Arts Events as Acts of Power”
- Panel—Gender and Sexual Politics in Hiphop: Part 2, Room 110A
o Tabitha Chester, Ph.D. Denison University, “Stuntin’ like my Daddy: Queering Masculinity in Empire”
o Laurica Brown, UC Santa Barbara, “Checkin’ My Fresh: Fiona Simone’s Affirmation of Tomboy Identity in Hip Hop”
o Jason Nichols, Ph.D., University of Maryland, “Strickly for my Niggaz: Homophobia, Sexism, and Homosocial Love in HipHop”
- Panel—Hiphop Literacies and Pedagogies, Room 110B
o Mildred Z. Wigfall, UMSL, “Science Literacy Skills for the Hip‐hop Generation in Urban School”
o Paige Pinkston, University of Arizona, “It’s f*ckin’ fiction”1: Hiphop as literature in literacy education”
o Amanda Parris, “Hip Hop Education and the Pursuit of Justice”
o Ian Levy, Columbia Teachers College, “Towards Emotionally Freeing Third Spaces in Urban Classrooms: Reality Pedagogy and Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy”
- Speak Williams
- Jai Carey
$5 for non-OSU students/Community Members | FREE for OSU students. Register here!
Co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Department of Teaching and Learning, The Frank Hale Black Cultural Center, The MultiCultural Center, The Office of Student Life, LiteracyStudiesOSU, Center for Latin American Studies, DISCO, The Department of African American and African Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Department of Linguistics, The Department of Comparative Studies, Buckeye Language Network, Sexuality Studies Program, The Women's Fund of Central Ohio, Karen and Michael Jones, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The City of Columbus, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Foundation for the African Diaspora, Center for Inclusion, Diversity & Academic Success.