10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

"Who protects us from you?: A Hip-Hop public service announcement for America’s racial profiling and police brutality apologists”

Mark Hankerson, Director of Writing Center, Albany State University 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

10:00 a.m. -11:15 a.m.

Hip Hop Matters 101: Stories and Histories

Moderator: Dr. Jeffery D. Mack, Albany State University, English Department

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

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“Music is What Feelings Sound Like: Where Is The Love in Hip-Hop?”

  Tien Sydnor-Campbell,  and Yolanda Neals

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

““Hip-Hop Matters”: The Disposability of Black Bodies in Hip-Hop”

Kyesha Jennings, Danville Community College 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

"Money, Cash, Hoes: The Performance of War in Hip Hop"

Darlene Anita Scott, Virginia Union University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m.

Hip Hop Pedagogy 101: Stories and Histories

Moderator: Dr. Kimberly R. Burgess, Director Academic Advising and Retention, Albany State University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths to Rhythms: Hip-Hop’s Continuation of the Enduring Tradition of African and African American Rhetorical Forms and Tropes”

Timothy Welbeck, Temple University, Department of African American Studies

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Hip-Hop Culture and the Art of Public School Pedagogy”

Michael Dando, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“I Put My Life Lines In Between The Paper’s Lines”: Centering Hip Hop in an Organic Intellectual Writing Pedagogy To Learn from the Literacy Practices of African American Undergraduate Male Writers”

Steven Lessner, Elon University, English Department 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

12:15-1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:15 p.m.

Hip Hop Expression, Identities, & Narratives, 101: Stories and Histories

Moderator:  Dr. John Williams Jr. , Albany State University,  Natural and Forensic Sciences Department 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Act Like You Know: Employing Hip Hop Theater to Create a Safe Space for Protest and Self Expression”

KASHI JOHNSON, Department of Theatre at Lehigh University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Let Me Tell You About My Fam: Family Identities from the Hip Hop Generation ”

Dr. Florencia V. Cornet, University of South Carolina

Michelle E. Jones, Columbus State University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

"Blood on the Leaves": African-American Rhetoric, Gothic Remixes, and Hip-Hop Narratives

Mikayla Beaudrie, University of Florida

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

"Hip Hop Narrative and Contrasting Expressions of the Diva Archetype”

Dr. Beauty Bragg,Georgia College and State University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

2:15-3:30 p.m.

Hip Hop Legends & Mainstream Rap 101: Stories and Histories

Moderator:  Dr. Joel Johnson, Albany State University, Fine Arts Department

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Why Logic Is The Next Hip Hop Legend: Critical Analysis of 'Under Pressure' as North America's Next Iconic Rap Movement”

Payton Clark, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

"Once Upon a Time in the West: Mr. Bobby Lopez Raps about the Legendary Bass Reeves"

Jacqulyn Harper West, University of Arkansas Fort Smith's College

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

"Even White Boys Got to Shout: The Evolution of the Beastie Boys in the History of Hip-Hop"

Trevor Lance Seigler, Clemson University, English Department

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“White Chicks with a Gangsta Pitch”: Gendered Whiteness in Mainstream Rap Culture”

Melvin L. Williams, Howard University 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

3:30-4:30 p.m.

"Hip Hop Political Spaces & Community Alliances 101: Stories and Histories "

Moderator: Professor Christopher Berry, Albany State University, Fine Arts Department  

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“-Mic Checks and Balances: Politically Conscious Hip-Hop’s Engagement with the Presidency of Barack Obama”

Dr. Kareem R. Muhammad, North Carolina State University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Raising our voices – Brazilian Hip Hop movement and the creation of a new generation of Afro Brazilian leaders"

Daniela Gomes, The University of Texas at Austin

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

“Hip hop & Rap: Two Outlets- One Community”

Michael Overstreet, Albany State University

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150

5:00-7:15 p.m.

Screening of Dear White People

Discussion to Follow Screening 

Billy C. Black Auditorium 150