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FROM: Humanities RE: 16th Annual Hip Hop Conference
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4/20/2022 8:09:10 AM
To: Students, Faculty, Staff

Please join us for the

 

 

16th Annual CalU Hip Hop Conference 

“Expression, Community, Wellness, & New Frontiers for Hip Hop”

 

 

Tuesday, April 26th  (Duda 303) 

    3:30pm – “Afro-futurism Art” Presentation and Exhibit

by Brandon Jennings, Award-winning Artist

               

   4:30pm – “Elements Demonstration” ~ Skeletor & Ant Amazin

 

 

Wednesday, April 27 (Duda 303)

    1pm – “From Emmett Till to Young Dolph: Young Grief, Public Mourning & Music as Catharsis”

by Anthony Sanders and Dr. Kelton Edmonds

 

 

 

Thursday, April 28th (Steele Hall Mainstage) – *also livestreamed

    4pm – Keynote Panel: Hip-hop Expression: Theory, Artistic Freedom, & the Oral Tradition

                KRS-One, Hip-hop Legend & Dr. Zoe Spencer, Professor of Sociology (Virginia State University)

    Moderator: Dr. Todd Carlisle, Associate Professor of English (CalU)

 

 

 

Friday, April 29th (all in Duda 103) 

    12pm – Roundtable: “My Era of Hip-hop is Doper than Yours!”  

~Generation X  vs. Millennials

                          

 

    1pm – Panel on, “Mental Health & the Hip-hop Generation” (Duda 103 & livestreamed)

·         Dr. Darla Timbo, Assistant Professor of Psychology (CalU)

·         Dr. Rueben Brock, Assistant Professor of Psychology (CalU)

·         Dr. Tracie Webb-Bradley, Optum Health Behavioral Solutions

 

 

    2:30pm – ADP Panel on, “Critical Race Theory: Red-Herrings vs. Realities” (Duda 103 & livestreamed)

·         Dr. Michelle Torregano, Associate Professor of Education (CalU)

·         Dr. Jane Walsh, Professor of Sociology (Clarion University)

·         Dr. Jeff Tienes, Professor of Sociology (Clarion University)

·         Del. Sean Hornbuckle, West Virginia House of Delegates

·         Dr. Tim Konhaus, Professor of History (Glenville State University)

 

 

Sponsored by: CalU, Edinboro University, The Office Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, the Frederick Douglass Institute, The Offices of the President and Provost, The Department of Humanities and the American Democracy Project

 

 

For more information please contact Dr. Kelton Edmonds – Edmonds_k@calu.edu