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Berkeley Hip Hop Studies Working Group Conference 2009: Writing and Representin' Hip Hop Culture
Event Details
Time: April 18, 2009 from 8:30am to 6:45pm
Location: University of California, Berkeley
City/State: Berkeley, CA
Info/Tickets/Map: http://hiphopnews.yuku.com/to…
Event Type: hip, hop, lecture, conference
Organized By: UC Berkeley
Latest Activity: Apr 18, 2009
Event Description
WRITING & REPRESENTIN HIP HOP CULTURE CONFERENCE
Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:30 am - 6:45 pm
University of California, Berkeley
128 Morrison Hall Berkeley CA 94720
http://berkeley.edu
FREE with registration: ucbhiphopconference@gmail.com
or www.dreamdancecompany.org
Keynote Speakers
H. Samy Alim: UCLA, Anthropology and African-American Studies
Dawn Elissa-Fischer: San Francisco State, Africana Studies
Jorge FABEL Pabon: Senior VP/Rock Steady Crew, NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts)
Symposium Discussants
Adam Mansbach: Author, Angry Black White Boy, The End of the Jews
Halifu Osumare: University of California, Davis
Heike Raphael-Hernandez: University of Maryland, Europe
Special Feature Performances from 2 pm - 3 pm
DJ Dee Android & DJ Celskiii (Mighty 4) with B-Boy Jivan Ivan (Breakvision)
d. sabela grimes (dance)
JenRO (Oakland MC)
Live Art by Ariel Shepard (People's Graphics, Oakland)
Topics to Be Discussed
Hip Hop Identities and Representation, Glocal Hip Hop Communities, Performing Hip Hop, Challenging Methodologies and more including Nate Dumas, Kendra Salois, Page M. Blair, Barbara Panuzzo, Dr. Christopher Holmes Smith, Dr. Michael Barnes, Justin Schell,
James Redfield, Todd Landon Barnes, Naomi Bragin, Christina Zanfanga, D. Sabela Grimes, Jeremy Finkelstein, Christopher Deis, Justin Williams and others.
Registration and Conference Details
www.dreamdancecompany.org or ucbhiphopconference@gmail.com
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Hip-Hop Studies Working Group, DREAM Dance Company,
the Graduate Assembly, June Jordan's Poetry for the People and
the Departments of Music, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
For disability accommodations, please contact
(510) 643-6473, (510) 642-6376 (TTY), or http://access.berkeley.edu
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