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Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference

December 7, 2018 - December 9, 2018

- Free

Show & Prove 2018 Hip Hop Studies Conference

The Tensions, Contradictions, and Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies

December 7th to December 9th, 2018

Performances • Exhibits • Panels • Papers • Film Screenings • Workshops • Christena L. Schlundt Lecture

This 4th biennial conference series is interdisciplinary in practice and international in scope. We welcome scholars, community members, artists, practitioners, and students to interact, discuss, share, critique and develop the field of Hip Hop Studies. 

DEC 7  Friday  5:00 – 8:30 pm

DEC 8  Saturday 8:00 am – 9:00 pm

DEC 9  Sunday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

 

Free and open to the public. Register Here

 

UCR ARTS

Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

3824 Main Street, Riverside (951) 827-4787

 

More about Show & Prove

 

DEC 7, FRIDAY •

Evening, 5:00 (doors open), 6:00 (talk begins)

Cristena L. Schlundt Lecture & Reception

Mary Fogarty (York University)

Imani Kai Johnson (Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference Series; UC Riverside)

 

Shuttle Service and Parking:  

Stop at the Information Kiosk on UCR main campus for free parking and shuttle on Friday December 7th.  

Leaving the main campus: 4:00 to 6:30pm.  Returning:  7:30 to 9:00pm.  

Public parking is available in downtown Riverside. Expect delays due to the Festival of Lights in downtown Riverside.

 

DEC 8, SATURDAY •

Morning Panels I, 9-10:20

WORKSHOP 1:  Here We Go Again!:  African Dance Presence in Hip Hop (workshop)

PANEL 1:  Blindspots in Hip Hop Studies

 

Morning Panels II, 10:30-12:10

PANEL 2:  Show & Prove: Undergrad Panel & Feedback Session

PANEL 3:  Subversive Moves:  Hip Hop as Counter-Hegemony

PANEL 4:  Doing Hip Hop Studies:  Methods of Analysis

FILM:  Bakosó:  What Happens When AfroBeats Hits Cuba

 

Post-Lunch Workshops, 1:10-2:10

WORKSHOP 2:  The MPC at 30: The Magic and Myth of Hip Hop’s Beat Machine (workshop)

PANEL 5:  Spiritual Expression & Hip Hop Culture

WORKSHOP 3:  Sober Flow: Hip Hop Therapy as Recovery & Healing Tools During the Mass Incarceration Crisis in Prison Re-entry Programs

FILM SHORTS & DISCUSSION:  Afro-Cuban Culture & Hip Hop

 

Afternoon Panels I, 2:20-4

PANEL 6:  Words, Beats, & Life (roundtable & cipher workshop)

PANEL 7: Hip Hop & the Hustle of History

PANEL 8:  Performing Identity:  Race, Gender, and Hip Hop Culture

PANEL 9:  Worth the Weight:  the Sustainability of Breaking Culture in Phoenix, Arizona (roundtable & film)

 

Afternoon Panels II, 4:10- 5:50

PANEL 10: Change From Within:  Hip-Hop Studies at Columbia College Chicago (inc. performance piece, “Who R U?”) (roundtable & performance) 

PANEL 11: Black Asian Solidarity in Hip Hop (roundtable)

PANEL 12:  Showcasing Hip Hop:  Festivals, Podcasts, & Theatre

 

Evening Reception and Performances, 6:00 pm

 

DEC 9, SUNDAY • 

Morning I, 9:00-10:40

PANEL 13:  Black Women & Black Feminist Thought

PANEL 14:  Economic Hustling & the Pitfalls of Capitalism

PERFORMANCE:  Indigenous Women in Hip Hop:  Rhyming Reclamation of Matriarchal Power in the For Women By Women Project

 

Morning II, 10:50-12:10

WORKSHOP 4:  Tapping the Pulse of a Generation:  the Therapeutic, Educational & Cross-Cultural Application of Hip Hop Beat Making

PANEL 16:  Critically Engaging Millennial Rap

WORKSHOP 5:  From the Streets to Academia (roundtable & workshop)

 

Afternoon I, 1:10-2:10

PERFORMANCE:  The Line Up (performance & artist talkback session)

WORKSHOP 6:  Using Hip Hop Therapy Techniques with Youth Through a Social Justice Counseling Framework (workshop)

ARTIST TALKBACK 

 

Afternoon II, 2:20-3:30

CLOSING PLENARY:  Conference closing open discussion about the future of Hip Hop Studies

 

 

Questions? showproveconf@gmail.com

INFORMATION: (951) 827-3245  performingarts@ucr.edu  dance.ucr.edu

 http://www.showandproveconference.com/

Details

Start:
December 7, 2018
End:
December 9, 2018
Cost:
Free

Venue

Culver Center of the Arts in Downtown Riverside

Details

Start:
December 7, 2018
End:
December 9, 2018
Cost:
Free

Venue

Culver Center of the Arts in Downtown Riverside