SATURDAY Afternoon I. 1:10pm-2:10pm

WORKSHOP 2:  The MPC at 30: The Magic and Myth of Hip Hop’s Beat Machine (workshop)

@Black Box Theater
~ Patrick Rivers (University of New Haven)
~ Will Fulton (LaGuardia Community College)

PANEL 5:  Spiritual Expression & Hip Hop Culture

@Brithinee Studio
Respondent:  Wind Dell Woods (UC San Diego)
~ Erika D. Gault (University of Arizona), “’My Life as A Stud’:  Jackie Hill Perry and P4CM’s Embodiment of Black Sexuality”
~ Jerome Kern Dotson, Jr. (University of Arizona), “’Strictly Fish on My Dish’: Black Islam, Food Politics and 80s and 90s Hip Hop”

WORKSHOP 3:  Sober Flow: Hip Hop Therapy as Recovery & Healing Tools During the Mass Incarceration Crisis in Prison Re-entry Programs (workshop, demo/performance, discussion)

@Hammond Studio
~ Jiandan “JD One” Payza (Sober Flow Recovery Project, Counseling & Interventions; Amity Foundation, Los Angeles & San Diego County)

FILM SHORTS & DISCUSSION:  Afro-Cuban Culture & Hip Hop 

@Screening Room
Translator:  Oscar Ulloa (UC Riverside)
~ Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi (FistUpTV)
~ Isnay “Dj Jigüe” Rodriguez (Guampara Music Collective)

SATURDAY Afternoon II. 2:20pm-4:00pm

PANEL 6:  Words, Beats, & Life (roundtable & cipher workshop)

@Black Box Theater
~ Mazi Mutafa (Words Beats & Life Inc.)
~ Piper Carter (Piper Carter Studio; We Found Hip Hop Organization—Representin’ Women in Hip Hop)
~ Gabriel Asheru Benn (Guerilla Arts Ink, LLC)

PANEL 7:  Hip Hop & the Hustle of History

@Brithinee Studio
Respondent:  Vanessa Verdoodt (Geffen Academy at UCLA)
~ Serouj Aprahamian (York University), “’There Were B-Girls Too’: Uncovering the Role of Women in Breaking”
~ Vanessa Fleet (York University), “High Times and Hypervisibility in Early Hip-Hop Dance”
~ Gemma Connell (University of Surrey), “Y’all Don’t Hear Me Though:  Hip Hop Dance’s International Flashback as a Reclamation of Marginalised Histories in Gender Violence”

PANEL 8:  Performing Identity:  Race, Gender, and Hip Hop Culture

@Hammond Studio
Respondent:  Anusha Kedhar (UC Riverside)
~ Peng Liu (UT Austin), “Sounding Authentic to Whom?:  Identity, Struggle, and Resistance in Asian American’s Rap Music”
~ Kevin Prescott Morris II (Independent Scholar), “Soundscaping Trauma: Coping with Black (Male) Vulnerability in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
~ Joyhanna Yoo Garza (UC Santa Barbara), “I’m the baddest female”: Linguistic and Cultural Appropriation of the Bad Bitch Figure by a Korean Female Rapper”
~ Waqas Mirza (University of Oxford), “’Only The Poets Know The Truth About Us’ From Baldwin to Lamar: Peace, Love and Self Knowledge as Resistance”

PANEL 9:  Worth the Weight:  the Sustainability of Breaking Culture in Phoenix, Arizona (roundtable & film) 

@Screening Room
~ Edson “Bboy House” Magana (Estrella Mountain Community College; Furious Styles Crew)
~ Johnny Castro (Worth The Weight 602 Dance Series; Maricopa County Community Colleges)

SATURDAY Afternoon III. 4:10pm-5:50pm

PANEL 10: Change From Within: Hip-Hop Studies at Columbia College Chicago (inc. performance piece, “Who R U?”) (roundtable & performance)

@Brithinee Studio
~ Stephanie “Malibu” Banes (BraveSoul Movement, Columbia College Chicago), Who R U? (choreographer/performer)
~ Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood (Phaze II, BraveSoul Movement, Columbia College Chicago)
~ Kelsa “K-Soul” Robinson (Venus Fly, BraveSoul Movement, Columbia College Chicago)

 PANEL 11:  Black Asian Solidarity in Hip Hop (roundtable)

@Hammond Studio
~ DJ Kuttin’ Kandi (5thPlatoon; Anomalies; Guerrilla Words)
~ Anthony Blacksher (Claremont Graduate University; bkSOUL)
~ grace shinhae jun (UC San Diego; San Diego City College; bkSOUL)
~ Tyson Rose (University of Hartford - Hillyer College; 3rd Eye Unlimited)

PANEL 12:  Showcasing Hip Hop:  Festivals, Podcasts, & Theatre

@Screening Room
Respondent:  Rickerby Hinds (UC Riverside)
~ Marcus White (Arizona State University), “Come As You Are:  Urban Cultural Production, Reproduction, and Sanitation within US University Setting”
~ Manny Faces (Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy; News Beat Podcast), “Hip-Hop As Social Justice Journalism”
~ Seth Markle (Trinity College), “‘The Fest’: Exploring Hip Hop Models of Cultural Responsibility on College Campuses”

SATURDAY Evening Reception & Performances 6:00pm-8:00pm

PERFORMANCES:

Please join us for an evening of pop up performances, exhibits, and talks.  Or just enjoy socializing with other conference attendees at our evening reception.  Consult the conference program to confirm times.

UNCAGED: HERO FOR HIGHER

An exhibit featuring works inspired by Luke Cage, with introduction and comments by Black Kirby Collaborating artists and curators John Jennings (UC Riverside) and Stacey Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) @F-Stop [6:10pm]

Sneaker Suites

Experience pieces from Antics Dance Studio (Los Angeles), featuring poetry and solo performances from Sneaker Suites @Brithinee Studio [6:40pm; 7:10pm; 7:40pm]

“Amplified Fidelity”

Hip Hop theater Prof. Rickerby Hinds (UCR, Chair of Theatre, Film, & Digital Production) shares excerpts from his immersive sound and lights production, featuring John Merchant (actor; beatboxer) @Black Box Theatre [6:20pm; 7:15pm]

WeWolf

Take in the abstract experimentation with breaking aesthetics with WeWolf, featuring Rauf Yasit and James Gregg @Sweeney Gallery [6:25pm; 7:25pm]

“Shooting the Enemy”

Hear about the photographic presentation of rap icons Public Enemy (including Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Bomb Squad leader hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, and others) in the early 1980s, with talk by Harry Allen (Journalist; Harvard University Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow) @Hammond Studio [6:45pm; 7:25pm]

SUNDAY Morning I. 9:00am-10:40am

PANEL 13:  Black Women & Black Feminist Thought

@Black Box Theater
Respondent:  Alisa Bierria (UC Riverside)
~ Aria S. Halliday (University of New Hampshire), “Hip Hop Feminism’s Black Girls: Twerking as Black Girl Epistemology”
~ Daniela F. Gomes da Silva (UT Austin), “Then, hip-hop became a ‘he’:  Black Feminist Resistance Against Erasure of Women in Brazilian Hip-Hop”
~ Izzy Williams (Chapman University), “Creating a Space of Agency Through Rap in Insecure”
~ Natasha R. Howard (Community College of Baltimore County), “What Happened to U.N.I.T.Y? - Consciousness in the Music of Black Female Rappers”

PANEL 14:  Economic Hustling & the Pitfalls of Capitalism

@Brithinee Studio
Respondent:  Kashif Powell (East Los Angeles College)
~ Andrew Duncan (University of Nottingham), “’A Man Who Doesn’t Take Care of His Family Can’t Be Rich’: JAY-Z & The Performative Politics of 4:44’s Ujamaa”
~ Wei Lin (National Taiwan University; Keelung Hip-Hop Association), “‘Hip-Hop’ Imperialism in Taiwan:  New International Division of Cultural Labor and Local Response”
~ Keturah Nix (Purdue University), “Cut Me Loose, Cause I Need Freedom Too!:  Historicizing the Black Economic Hustle in Beyoncé’s #BlackLivesMatter Iconography”
~ Jason “J-Sun” Noer (University of Minnesota; Battlecats; West Coast Rockers; The Bronx Boys Rocking Crew), “Skills Versus Bills: Commodifying Resistance”

PERFORMANCE:  Indigenous Women in Hip Hop:  Rhyming Reclamation of Matriarchal Power in the For Women By Women Project

@Hammond Studio
Respondent: Liz Przybylski (UC Riverside)
~ Eekwol (For Women By Women Project)
~ T-Rhyme (For Women By Women Project)

SUNDAY Morning II. 10:50am-12:10pm

WORKSHOP 4:  Tapping the Pulse of a Generation:  the Therapeutic, Educational & Cross-Cultural Application of Hip Hop Beat Making

@Brithinee Studio
~ Dr. Elliot Gann (Today’s Future Sound)
~ Mario “Asterix Music” Miranda (Producer and DJ)

WORKSHOP 5:  From the Streets to Academia (roundtable & workshop)

@Hammond Studio
~ Tasha Iglesias (CSU Long Beach; Generation Hip Hop Global)
~ Clemente “Kid Freeze” Moreno
~ Travis Harris (College of William & Mary; Journal of Hip Hop Studies)

PANEL 15:  Critically Engaging Millennial Rap

@Screening Room
~ Ayo Walker (UC Davis), “Interrogating Black Minstrelsy In 21st Century Hip Hop”
~ Charity Clay (Merritt College), “I ain’t no Rapper, I’m a Hustler:  Situating Millennial Hip Hop as a Product of the late 1990s” (remote presentation)
~ Walter Hidalgo (73 to Infinity NYC), “Millennial Rap:  The Rise and Response of Hip-hop Culture in the Age of Spiritual Enlightenment” (remote presentation)
~ Frank C. King, Jr. (University of Wisconsin Platteville), “The Mumbling Teacher”

SUNDAY Afternoon 1:10pm-2:30pm

PERFORMANCE:  The Line Up (performance & artist talkback session)

@Black Box Theatre
~ Marcus White (Arizona State University; Marcus White/White Werx [MWWW])

WORKSHOP 6:  Using Hip Hop Therapy Techniques with Youth Through a Social Justice Counseling Framework (workshop)

@Brithinee Studio
~ Carmen Towler (Marymount California University)

ARTIST TALKBACK

Learn insights about process and performance in the Saturday evening featured Show & Prove performances.

@Hammond Studio
Respondent:  Jose Reynoso (UC Riverside)
~ Rauf Yasit (WeWolf)
~ James Gregg (WeWolf)
~ Harry Allen (Journalist; Harvard University Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow)