Language and Hip-Hop Culture
in a Globalizing World

A one-day workshop hosted by the UIUC Department of Linguistics

Thursday, 8 November:

Linguistics Colloquium talk, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB, 4PM

Dr. Awad Ibrahim (University of Ottawa) gave a talk entitled 'Studying Identity Ethnographically: Hip-Hop Performativity, Race and Language Pedagogy' (more).

Friday, 9 November:

Live radio interview, WILL 580 AM, 10AM

Dr. Awad Ibrahim was interviewed on the daily radio show Focus 580. You can stream the interview from Focus 580's website here (requires RealPlayer)

Film Screening, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 6PM

We screened Byron Hurt's award-winning documentary Hip hop: Beyond beats and Rhymes (USA, 2006). (More info available here)