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WRITING AND REPRESENTIN' HIP-HOP CULTURE CONFERENCE
Keynote Speakers
H. Samy Alim: UCLA, Anthropology and African-American Studies
Dawn Elissa-Fischer: San Francisco State, Africana Studies
Jorge FABEL Pabon: Senior VP/Rock Steady Crew, NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts)
Symposium Discussants
Adam Mansbach: Author, Angry Black White Boy, The End of the Jews
Halifu Osumare: University of California, Davis
Heike Raphael-Hernandez: University of Maryland, Europe
Special Feature Performances from 2 pm - 3 pm
DJ Dee Android & DJ Celskiii (Mighty 4)
with B-Boy Jivan Ivan (Breakvision)
d. sabela grimes (dance)
JenRO (Oakland MC)
Live Art by Ariel Shepard (People's Graphics, Oakland)
Topics to Be Discussed
Hip Hop Identities and Representation, Glocal Hip Hop Communities, Performing Hip Hop, Challenging Methodologies and more including Nate Dumas, Kendra Salois, Page M. Blair, Barbara Panuzzo, Dr. Christopher Holmes Smith, Dr. Michael Barnes, Justin Schell, James Redfield, Todd Landon Barnes, Naomi Bragin, Christina Zanfanga, D. Sabela Grimes, Jeremy Finkelstein, Christopher Deis, Justin Williams and others.
