9:00-10:00am                   Breakfast, Registration
                                              Location: Rackham Assembly Hall

PAPER SESSION 1: 10:00-11:45am
 

PANEL 1:  From Margin to Center: Empowering the Political Re-articulation of Identity
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

• Bring the Noise: Rap Music and Social Action Through 1990 – Clifton Watson (North Carolina Central University)
• Sessions From the Big Smoke: Rap. Race and Class in London – Raymond Codrington (The Field Museum)
• Serious Stress: Independent Hip-Hop Cooperatives and the Importance of Local Understanding in Detroit – Ryan Snyder (U of M)
• East Meets West: Lyricism and Social Change in Haikai and Hip-Hop - Dawn Banks (University of Florida)

PANEL 2: Hip-Hop Methodology: Understanding the Issues in the Hip-Hop Community
Location: Rackham East Conference Room

• Hip-Hop Music and the AIDS Epidemic: Outcomes of Urban Decay in the South Bronx During the 1970’s – Azure Thompson
• Hip-Hop As An Educational Tool for Preventing HIV/AIDS in African-American Girls – Carla Stokes (University of Michigan)
• The Blood that Bleeds (not a M*thaf*ckin Gang!): (Urban) Histories that Hurt (For Real, Y’all) – Khary Jones (Columbia University)
• (Re)Figuring the Soldier in the Black South: Geto Boys, TRU and Figurative Language – Carol Bunch (U of Southern California)

PANEL 3: Communicating Hip-Hop: Writers, Griots and the Evolution of the Word
Location: Rackham West Conference Room

• Every Ghetto, Every City: The Locations of Contemporary Poetry – Susannah Bartlow (ARTREACH, Inc.)
• Graffiti Is Graffiti Ain’t: Writing the Diversity of Writing – Greg Snyder (New School for Social Research)
• Emceeing: The Continuation of an African Oral Tradition – Jon Yasin (Bergen Community College)
• The United States of Hip-Hop?: The Problem of Writing in the Hip-Hop Paradigm – Joe Austin (Bowling Green State University)

PAPER SESSION 2: 12:00-1:45pm
 

PANEL 4: Hip-Hop Theology: The Appropriation of the Sacred
Location: Rackham East Conference Room

• Ganjah, Girls and Guns Equal God: Hip-Hop Music’s Challenges to American Cultural Tradition – Akil Mensah (American Univ.)
• Muezzis in America: “Bilalian” Rappers and Their Islamic Call – Zaheer Ali (Columbia University)
• Crucifixions in the Street: Life Death and Resurrection in Hip-Hop – Ewuare Osayande (Talking Drum Communications)

PANEL 5: The Boundaries I: Redefining the Meaning and History of Hip-Hop
Location: Rackham West Conference Room

• Toward a Philosophy of Hip-Hop History: Utopia, Myth, the Old School – Andrew Knighton (University of Minnesota)
• Fashioning the Hip-Hop Intellectual – Susan Hubert (Frederick Douglass Papers)
• After the Noise: The Political Horizon of ‘Mature’ Hip-Hop Music – Charles Gentry (University of Michigan)

PANEL 6: Hip-Hop Pedagogy: Revolutionizing the Way We Teach
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

• Popular Culture is “High”: Hip-Hop in the English Classroom – Gail Upchurch (Olive-Harvey College)
• Lessons in Geographunk – Wade Colwell (FunkaMentals)
• Droppin’ School - Lynette Thoman (York University)
• Hip-Hop in the Academy – Daniel Roumain (Harlem School of the Arts)

PAPER SESSION 3: 3:00-4:45pm
 

PANEL 7: Cross-Cultural Fertilization: Hip-Hop and the Politics of National Identity
Location: Rackham East Conference Room

• Gifted Flows: Hip-Hop Transnationality and the Samoan Diaspora – April Henderson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Performance and Performativity in Global Hip-Hop: Hawaii as Case Study – Halifu Osumare (Bowling Green State University)
• Rhymes, Roots and Reason: Lyrical Expressions of Desi Difference – Nitasha Sharma (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Africa on Their Mind: Rap Music and the Redefinition of Blackness in France – Véronique Hélénon

PANEL 8: The Boundaries II: Redefining the Meaning and History of Hip-Hop
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

• Stripped to the Bone and Phat Like That: An Ontological Analysis of Hip-Hop Culture and an Extensive but Less than Exhaustive Description of Possibilities – Purnnita Kotecha (University of Toronto)
• The Hip-Hop Worldview – Tshmobe Walker (City University of New York)
• Manifest: Thinking Hip-Hop, Connecting Text – R. Scott Heath (University of Michigan)

PANEL 9: Sound, Space and Study: Re-thinking Approaches to Hip-Hop Construction
Location: Rackham West Conference Room

• Looping the Break: The Hip-Hop Track in Cortazar’s “The Southern Thruway” – Gaurav Jashnani (University of Michigan)
• (W)Rapped Space: The Architecture of Hip-Hop – Craig Wilkins (University of Minnesota)
• Situating Hip Hop Sound: Towards An Analysis of Rap’s Music - Wayne Marshall (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Hip-Hopkins: How Rhythm gets Sprung from A to Z – Meredith Martin (University of Michigan)

PAPER SESSION 4: 5:00-6:45pm
Location: Rackham East Conference Room
 

PANEL 10: The Almighty Dollar: Hip-Hop Production and it’s Engagement with Capitalism
Location: Rackham East Conference Room

• Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture’s Radical Definition of “The Political”: Commerce and Consumption as Deviance

and Resistance – Chris Deis (University of Chicago)
• Hip-Hop and Hoopla: Rap Videos as New Urban Theatre – Ian Riley (University of Michigan)
• Underground vs. Commercial: Is There a Difference? – Johnny Mann

PANEL 11: Black Feminist Politics: Rapping on Gender and Debunking the Myth of Patriarchal Hip-Hop
Location: Rackham West Conference Room

• Antiphony in the Black Atlantic: Black Women Rap on Nation – Leanna McLennan
• You Heard My Gun Cock': Female Agency and Aggression in Contemporary Rap Music - Donna Troka (Emory University)
• Independent Woman: Underground Female Hip-Hop Artists and the Struggle to be Heard - Jennifer McBride (U of Cincinnati)

PANEL 12: Real Hip-Hop: Race and Authenticity
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

• Stakes is High: Race, Difference and Power in Popular Culture - Kenneth MacLeish (Bard College)
• Gangsta Rap: A Nineties Incarnation of Minstrelsy – Chauncey Spears (University of Missouri, Columbia)
• I Am I Be: Race, Ethnicity and the Construction of Authenticity in Hip-Hop – Jeffrey Ogbar (University of Connecticut)
• The Impact of Rap Music on Racial Attitudes – Mischa Thompson and Khari Brown (University of Michigan)

7:00-8:30pm        Keynote Address by Dr. Tricia Rose, Department of History, New York University
                               Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

8:30-9:30pm        Keynote Reception and Closing Remarks
                               Location: Rackham Assembly Hall