Workshop Program

8:30 AM - Breakfast, on-site registration and book display (all day)

9:00 AM - Awad Ibrahim

Assoc. Professor of Education, University of Ottawa. "Hip-hop as a Testimonial Speech Act"

10:00 AM - Angela Williams

Ph.D. Candidate, UIUC. "Talkin' Street in the Middle East: An Analysis of Egyptian Arabic Hip-Hop Nation Language"

10:30 AM - Sarah Simeziane

Ph.D. Candidate, UIUC. "Roma Rap and the Black Train: Minority Voices in Hungarian Hip-Hop"

11:00 AM - Coffee Break

11:30 AM - Matt Garley

Ph.D. Candidate, UIUC. "'Anglizismen' in German Rap"

12:00 PM - Mike Putnam & John Littlejohn

Carson-Newman College and Clemson University, respectively. "Multi-kulti Nazi? Gangsta Rap in Germany"

12:30 PM - Jamie Lee

Asst. Professor, University of Michigan- Dearborn. "'English from below': A case of K-Hip Hop"

1:00 PM - Lunch Break

1:45 PM - Elaine Richardson

Professor, Ohio State University. "Making Dollars and Sense: Young Women and Critical Literacy in Hiphop"

2:45 PM - Abby Lyng

MM candidate, UIUC. "'You Wanna Battle?!': Breakdancing, Conflict, and Aesthetics in Hip Hop Visual Media"

3:15 PM - Marina Terkourafi

Asst. Professor of Linguistics, UIUC. "Turning the Tables: Hip hop Past, Present and Future"

3:45 PM - Coffee Break

4:00 PM - Cecilia Cutler

Visit. Asst. Professor, CUNY. "King of the 'burbs: Stance and Self-Projection on the White Rapper Show"

5:00 PM - Jennifer Cramer & Jill Ward

Ph.D. candidates, UIUC. "From Chi-Town to the Dirty-Dirty: Regional Identity Markers in U.S. Hip Hop"

5:30 PM - George Figgs

Ph.D. candidate, University of Colorado-Boulder. "How 'Freestyle' is Freestyle?: Formulaic Language and Creativity in Freestyle Rap Genres"

6:00 PM - Coffee Break

6:15 PM - Roundtable discussion with invited speakers

UIUC discussants (Rayvon Fouché, AASRP & History; Celiany Rivera-Velasquez, ICR), and members of the local hip hop and radio communities (Asad Jafri, Chicago Hip-Hop Congress; Krukid)

7:30 PM - Workshop Dinner