Schedule
| 8:00-8:30am | Refreshments | ||
| 8:30-9:00am | Introduction | ||
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University | ||
| Stephen Mitchell | Professor of Scandanavian & Folklore, Harvard University | ||
| Marcyliena Morgan | Director of Hiphop Archive, Associate Professor, Harvard University, Dept. of Afro-American Studies “All Eyez on Me”: When Visionary Meets the Vision |
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| 9:00am-10:30am | Panel 1 THEORETICAL T.H.U.G. BATTLES: MAPPING the INTELLECTUAL LEGACIES of TUPAC SHAKUR |
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| Mark Anthony Neal | State University of New York Albany, Dept. of English Thug Nigga Intellectual: Tupac as Celebrity Gramscian |
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| Murray Forman | Northeastern University, Dept. of Communication Studies Tupac Shakur: O.G. (Ostensibly Gone) |
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| Knut Aukrust | Culture Studies, University of Oslo, Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Folklore at Harvard University “Tired of Hearing These Voices in My Head”: Bakhtin’s MC Battle |
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| 10:30am-10:50am | Break | ||
| 10:50am-12:00pm | Panel 2 “ME AGAINST THE WORLD”: TUPAC SHAKUR and the HUNGER for HEROISM |
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| Emmett Price | Northeastern University, Dept. of Music and African American Studies From Thug Life to Legend: Realization of a Black Folk Hero |
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| Greg Dimitriadis | University of Buffalo, Graduate School of Education Talking about Tupac: Young People’s Perspectives on his Life, Death, and Discursive Rebirth |
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| Cheryl Keyes | University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Ethnomusicology Redefining the Meaning of Hero in Hip-Hop Culture: The Case of Tupac Shakur |
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| 12:00pm-2:00pm | Lunch Keynote Address |
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| Michael Eric Dyson | Avalon Professor in the Humanities and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania “Holler if You Hear Me” |
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| Performance | |||
| Nicole Hodges | University of Southern California, Dept. of American Studies and Ethnicity The Death of the Last Blackman in the Entire Universe: The Re-Mix |
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| 2:00pm-3:30pm | Panel 3 “KEEP YA HEAD UP”: POWER, PASSION and the POLITICAL POTENTIAL of TUPAC SHAKUR |
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| Lawrence Bobo | Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University Let Knowledge Drop: Tupac Shakur and the Just-Us System |
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| Dionne Bennett | University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Anthropology “How Do We Want It”: Feminism, the Politics of Empathy and the Legacy of Tupac Shakur |
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| Bakari Kitwana | Author and Visiting Scholar, Kent State University, Dept. of Political Science “Ride or Die”: Building Bridges between Hip-Hop and Black Power |
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| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Closing | ||
