Here’s the Schedule! #QoHH
Thanks again for all the support and interest in our symposium…Looking forward to meeting everyone for this day of great scholarship!
THE QUEERNESS OF HIP HOP/ THE HIP HOP OF QUEERNESS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
LOCATION: CGIS Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Mass. TSAI Auditorium, downstairs, room 010
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8:45 AM: WELCOME AND BREAKFAST
9:00 AM: OPENING PLENARY: THE QUEERNESS OF HIP HOP
Sharon Holland ★ Richard Rodriquez ★ Tavia N’yongo ★ LaMonda Horton Stallings ★
Rinaldo Walcott ★ Moderator: C. Riley Snorton
10:30 AM: BREAK
10:45 AM: PANEL: FOLKS
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, “Queer Dissonance: The Art of Queer Hip Hop Music”
Terry Rowden, “Vegans at the Barbecue: Queer Hip-Hop and the Myth of
Capaciousness”
Moya Bailey, “Homolatent Masculinity & Hip Hop Culture”
Kai Azania Small, “The Specter of Sasha Fierce and the Scopic: Freighting of Beyonce’s
Trans/ Genderqueer Body”
12:00 PM: BROWN BAG LUNCH
12:30 PM: PANEL: CIRCUITS
Jessica Young, “From Big Freedia to Lil’ Wayne: Black Hoods, White Ears & Green Money”
Lisa Guerrero, “99 Problems, but Bein’ Rich Ain’t One of ‘Em: Hip Hop and the
Queering of American Capitalist Formation”
Savannah Shange, “Bad Gyal Edition: Nicki Minaj’s Defiance of (Homo)Normativity”
1:30 PM: PANEL: FREAKS
Madison Moore, “Banlieue Bites: Getting Off on Gangsters in French”
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, “Fat Mutha*ucka: The Queer Corpulence of Hip Hop”
Janessa Daniels, “Automatic, Systematic”: Black Female Robots and Afrofuturist
Aesthetics”
2:30 PM: BREAK
2:45 PM: PANEL: GEOGRAPHIES
David Leonard, “Another Missed Shot: Kobe Bryant and the Politics of Homophobia”
Kareem Khubchandani, “TurbaNotorious B.D.G.’s Desi Hip Hop: Articulating
Queerness through Raced Performatives in Loins of Punjab Presents”
Sarah Stefana Smith, “’My Mic Sounds Nice’: towards a black queer Diasporic
Critique of Toronto’s Hip Hop Karaoke”
Jessica N. Pabon, “Stylin’ for Space in Hip Hop: Gender Performativity from the
Graffiti-Covered Wall to the Wardrobe”
4:00 PM: CLOSING PLENARY: THE HIP HOP OF QUEERNESS
Mark Anthony Neal ★ Jason King ★ Imani Perry ★ Jayna Brown ★ Moderator: Scott Poulson-Bryant
6:00 PM: RECEPTION @ THE HIP HOP ARCHIVE
