Conference Info

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THURSDAY , APRIL 7 THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2005

Confirmed Participants

Moya Bailey, Yvonne Bynoe, Hazel Carby, Rosa Clemente, Alison Duke, Melyssa Ford, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Tamika Guishard, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Byron Hurt, Cheryl Keyes, Felicia Miyakawa, Jessica Care Moore, Joan Morgan, Marcyliena, Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Kim Osorio, Imani Perry, Gwendolyn Pough, Rachel Raimist, Rokafella, Tricia Rose, and Akiba Solomon

Thursday Evening Film Screenings and Discussion with Directors

Hip Hop Gurlz (Director: Tamika Guishard); Booty Nation (Director: Alison Duke); Nobody Knows My Name (Director: Rachel Raimist)

Friday Panels and Plenaries

• Graduate Student Work on Hip Hop
• Hip Hop Archive
• Progressive Women’s Caucus
• From Blues to Hip Hop: Rethinking Black Women’s Sexuality
• Feminism and Hip Hop

Saturday Panels

• Media Representations of Women in Hip Hop
• Sexuality and Agency in Hip Hop
• Masculinity, Heterosexism, and Hip Hop
• Feminism, Politics and Hip Hop on the Ground

Saturday Evening Performances

• Jessica Care Moore
• Rokafella
• Other Artists