Day 1- Welcome to Atlanta:  Hip-Hop and Atliens

November 6, 2023

9 am- Welcome and Purpose- Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, Professor of Africana Studies, Co-Director of CASA

9:10- Introduction of Keynote Speakers and Moderator- Dr. Maurice Hobson

9:15-10:30- Intersectionality in the American South and WomenLead Featured Panel- Southern Women Femcees and Industry Leaders:  Being a Woman in Hip-Hop in the South

Dee Dee “Peaches” Hibbler-Murray, Sheryl Merritt, Dr. IFe JIe, Mother Superia

10:35-11:50- Hip-Hop, AI and Other Forms of Technology- How Hip-Hop Influences Everything

Dr. David James, Dedren Snead, Konata “DJ Knotts” Nicholson, Imari Oliver

12pm-1pm- Working Lunch- The Role of the DJ *RSVP

Booker Edwards, Professor of Practice, Creative Media Industries Institute

1:15-2:30-Intersectionality in the American South Featured Panel- Hip-Hop and Poetry

Queen Sheba and Big Rube 

2:40-3:40pm- Atlanta Hip-Hop Culture at GSU: Rap Maps, Krog Street Graffiti and Atlanta Hip-Hop Archives

Curtis B. Jackson, Panther Lattimore and Brittany Newberry

 3:45- 5:30 – Exploring the Elements of Hip-Hop: Graffiti, Dance, and Knowledge

Antar Fierce, Deandra Clarke, Minister Server, ACE Studios

5:45- 7:30- pm- Cypher 50!:  Celebrating Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary

National Collegiate Entertainers Group (NCEG), MTM-Standard, Office of Multicultural Affairs

 Closing 730-7:45 – Booker Edwards

Day 2- The Expansion and Influence of Hip-Hop

November 7, 2023

9:30 am- Welcome- Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Brennan Dicker and Edvige Jean-Francois

9:45- Introduction of Emile YX 

Dr. Casey P. Wong 

10:00-11:30- Hip-Hop, Globalization and Social Justice

Emile YX

11:20-12:50-   Panel Presentations- Hip-Hop Education

Adam Banks, Kristy Jones, Romonda Middlebrooks-Jefferson, Ruth Boyajian, Morgan Connor, and Joshua Robinson

1pm-2pm- Lunch- Dr. Mutulu Shakur:  Revolution, Hip-Hop, and Political Education,  RSVP here

Dr. IFe JIe, Muquita Lumumba, Watani Tyehimba, Dr. Akinyele Umoja,

2:05-3:20 – Intersectionality in the American South featured panel- Women/Gender in Hip- Hop 

Brittany Marshall, and Dr. Chanel Harley

3:30- 4:45 – Panel Presentations- Hip-Hop in Politics and Identity

Tamia Coleman, Eugene Lee-Johnson, Dr. JL Adolph and Nelson Barnes

4:45- 5pm- Closing– Team