The 2012 Hiphop Literacies: The Globalization of Black Popular Culture conference is designed to bring together scholars, educators, artists, students, and community members to explore Hiphop. The conference takes place May 9th-11th, 2012.
Hiphop and Black popular culture are central to global youth culture. An artistic, social, and cultural movement, it is diverse and reflects the local histories, cultures and concerns of its worldwide practitioners, while adhering to Hiphop's ideological and aesthetic imperatives. Global Hiphop has emerged from the "collision and collusion between two powerful globally pervasive forces; transnational media and capital and African American popular culture that remains steeped in Africanist expressive modes." Hiphop is a powerful force, a "lingua franca for popular and political youth culture around the world." Its cultural codes, such as coming from something to nothing, being authentic, leaving one's mark on the world, having aspirations, having self-confidence, being relevant, and most of all being cool, are drawn upon to sell brands and have been used to "[re-write] the rules of the new economy." Brand marketing extraordinaire Steve Stoute has termed this global tanning, a state of mind, an attitude, a mental complexion. What tanning promotes both here and abroad all tangled up in Black popular culture is the "American dream," a myth that has helped to promote individualism, civic abandonment, inequality and maintenance of the status quo that has been assailed by Black political activists and other progressives for generations.
A major goal of "Hiphop Literacies" is to promote interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach around Hiphop, to stimulate ongoing dialogue and outreach across various disciplines in the academy and in the community. In addition to scheduled talks and workshops by renowned Hiphop scholars, artists and educators, the conference will host presentations and performances by scholars, students and community members. The conference will also feature a lecture and headline performance by a nationally recognized Hiphop artist.
Registration is now open! Register online.
Please download Hiphop Literacies Globalization Working Bibliography by Elaine Richardson and Jamila D. Smith
Contact: hiphopliteracies@gmail.com
*Indianola Presbyterian Church Parking Lot
1970 Waldeck Ave
Columbus, OH 43201-1593
*The easiest way to get there is off N. High, behind McDonald's. Turn into McDonald's parking lot and keep straight through the alley. The church parking lot is at the end of the alley on the left. Park and pay $5.00 for the entire day.
The Hiphop Literacies Conference Hotel is:
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites OSU
3045 Olentangy River Rd.
Columbus, Ohio 43202
(614) 447-1212
The link to reserve rooms is http://www.stayholidayosu.com/. After putting in dates of stay, enter group code OHH. From there, choose between King and 2 Queen Bed rooms. The room rate is $109.99.
The cut-off date to make room reservations is March 30th. Reservation Cancellation Date is May 5th.
| 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture and African American Studies Keynote & Town Hall (Wexner Film and TV Theater) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (on own) |
| 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Hiphop and the Caribbean Diaspora (Ramseyer 166) Brazil and Japan (Arps 243) |
| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Hiphop Practitioners (Arps 177) |
| 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. |
Panel: Hawaii (Ramseyer 100) Panel: Zimbabwe, Egypt and Kenya (Ramseyer 166) |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Break for Dinner (on own) |
| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. |
Hiphop Art for the People: (Evans Lab 1008) Speech is My Hammer: Hip Hop Art and the Reconstruction of African-‐Centered Cultural Semiosis, Dr. Samuel Livingston DJing for the People, J. Rawls |
| 9 - 10:15 a.m. |
Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Executive Director of the Hiphop Archive Keynote and Q&A (Wexner Film and TV Theater) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. |
Featured Roundtable "Race, Theory and Gender in Hiphop's Global Future" (Wexner Film and TV Theater) Drs. Treva Lindsey, James Braxton Peterson, Scott Heath and Ms. Regina Bradley |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (on own) |
| 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Linguistics and Literacies (Arps 002) Hiphop and Urban Education (Arps 200, Martha King Center) |
| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Hiphop Pedagogies: Visual, Community and Youth Literacies (Arps 002) |
| 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Local Schools Panel/Community Town Hall (Wexner Film and TV Theater) |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Break for Dinner/Reception for Educators, Students and Community Members (University Hall 014) |
| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Workshop for Educators (University Hall 014) Daniel Gray-Kontar Group and Yvonne Gilmore of Cornel West Theory |
| 9 - 10:15 a.m. | Dr. Ronald L. Jackson III, Professor, African American Studies, Media and Cinema Studies Featured Workshop "Representations of Global Masculinity and Black Malehood" (Wexner Film and TV Theater) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. | Sexualities and Feminisms (Ramseyer 200, Martha King Center) Roundtable Social Movements and Socially Conscious Songs (Arps 386) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (on own) |
| 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Diasporic Experiences and Global Masculinities (Arps 002) Cosmopolitanism, Exile, and Social Movement (Arps 012) |
| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | MC Lyte Keynote & Q&A (Hitchcock Hall 131) |
| 4:14 - 5:15 p.m. | Reception and Poster Session (Ramseyer College Commons) |
| 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. | Concert featuring Special Hit Medley Performance by MC Lyte and Local Artists (Hitchcock Hall 131) |
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MC Lyte - This incredibly talented woman has been in the game over two decades and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Lyte has added DJ to her resume and for the last four years has entertained many through spinning on the 1’S AND 2’S. Many artists have come and gone but MC Lyte still remains shining brighter than ever! Whenever possible, Lyte enjoys traveling to colleges and universities across the nation to use her expertise and story of success to motivate young people to take ownership of the world around them, while striving to be the best they can possibly be. A role model to women everywhere, Lyte never compromises who she is. MC Lyte will deliver a keynote lecture at the conference as well as treat us to a special hit medley performance at the evening concert!
Dr. Mark Anthony Neal will participate as a keynote lecturer (and town hall facilitator) on the Globalization of Hiphop. Dr. Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002); Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003), New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005) and co-editor of the standard bearer text in Hiphop studies, That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004, 2012). 
Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard University, is Professor of African and African American Studies, a linguistic anthropologist, and Executive Director of The Hiphop Archive, W. E. B. Dubois Institute, will participate as a keynote lecturer (with Q&A). Professor Morgan's books include Language & the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994); Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture (2002), The Real Hiphop : Battling For Knowledge, Power, And Respect In The LA Underground (2009). Dr. Morgan will lecture on the Globalization of Hiphop Language and participate in Q&A dialogue. 
Dr. Ronald L. Jackson, II is Professor of African American Studies, Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Dr. Jackson will present a workshop on the Globalization of Masculinities and participate in roundtable discussions. Dr. Jackson is the author of Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media (2006); Masculinity in the Black Imagination (2011), Global Masculinities and Manhood (2011); as well as the Encyclopedia of Identity, (2010) among others.