Circling The Elements Hip Hop Conference
State(s) of Hip Hop &Rap Panel :
Discussing the (Re) Evolution of
a Culture
Saturday, April 9, 2016 Billy C. Black Auditorium 150
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Featured Panelist: Dr. James Hill,
Patrice Smith , Frank Wilson, Dr. Kimberly Burgess , Pastor/Dr. Daniel Simmons,
Dr. Stephanie Hankerson, Steven Jennings, Kierra Lawrence, Dr. John Williams Jr., Joffe Wright, Khalil Thomas,
Austin Paige, Dr. Kimberly Harper,
Adonis Price, Ngozi Okidegbe, Bernard Goins, Miss Monique, Teaysia “Tiny T” Biggins, Steve Cantrell, Toussiant Hill, Christopher Jenkins, LeRoy “Orion” Davis, Jr.,
Tynisha Roland
In Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that, "Hip Hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States." Rose's insight delves into the historical evolution of the genre and the sociological progression of the movement called Hip Hop. More importantly, Rose's inquiry of Hip Hop admits that Hip Hop has become an important apparatus by which critics, scholars, and artists can engage and examine the American social, personal, public, and private landscapes.
This conference's essays, papers, and presentations question and investigate various aspects of Hip Hop, Hip Hop studies, and pedagogy. We hope to begin a conversation that will explore the complexity of the modernity of Hip-Hop music and culture in the midst of commercially successful Rap music.
Hip Hop, as a text(s) with its provocative layers, opens up a myriad of issues that allows us to further illuminate and investigate societal problems. We ask that you come and join us in this robust dialogue.
Andre Stefan (mostly known and referred to as "Prof. André) is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English at Albany State University and he is the former Co-Host of The Hip Hop Cypher Talk Show. Professor Andre's general area of study is African American literature with an emphasis in African American drama and film studies. His minor areas are Film Studies, Film Criticism, Hip-Hop Critical Theory, and African American Rhetoric.
Prof. André
Founder/Organizer
Tiffany D. Pogue is an assistant professor of Teacher Education at Albany State University. She also serves as Program Coordinator for the Foundations of Education. Her research interrogates how literacies are used to create, maintain, and to celebrate community among populations in the African World. Founder of HBCUProf.com and Pogue Educational Consultants, Pogue also focuses on Hip Hop Based Education as a pedagogical strategy to improve the academic performances of urban students.
Tiffany D. Pogue
Organizer
Deante "Tae" Young is a freshman Mass Communications major, with a focus in Electronic Media, at Albany State University. He is an esteemed, photographer , videographer and documentarian on campus. Mr. Young is the CEO of Tae Young Productions and Entertainment. Young found a passion for photography and film at the age if nine, when began writing screenplays. He plans to expand his company nationwide and soon enter into the Sundance Film Festival.
Deante Young
Documentarian & Videographer
Dr. Kimberly Harper is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina At & T University in the English Department. Her goal as an educator is to create an environment that encourages students to experience education as a practice of freedom that helps them realize their own potential. Her research interests include the rhetoric of document design, textbook curriculum, hip-hop studies, and cultural discourse.
Kimberly Harper
Organizer
Brianna Sanders, a 20 year old, sophomore at Albany State University majoring in Business Management and Marketing. She is from Atlanta, Georgia and is inspiring to one day be apart of the music business as an A&R Coordinator.
Brianna Sanders
Web Design /Assistant
Katherine Meredith Lear-Perkins is a native of Burgin, Kentucky is a conceptual artist currently living and working in Albany, Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Albany State University instructing graphics and design. She received two degrees from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a BFA in Illustration in 2009 and an MFA in Painting in 2012. Lear’s work investigates the complex relationship between biological and digital systems. Through installations, sculptures, and drawings she isolates how to navigate a vibrant cultural climate. In 2012 Lear was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Master of Fine Arts Grant Program. She was selected for a six-month internship at Solomon Projects gallery in Atlanta, Georgia in 2011. Lear continues to teach, exhibit, and free-lance throughout the Southeast: highlights include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia, the May Poetter Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, and the Living Arts and Science Center in Lexington, Kentucky. www.mlear.com
Meredith Lear