Prometheus 6   

TUPAC SHAKUR
AND THE SEARCH FOR A MODERN FOLK HERO

April 17, 2003
Barker Center
Harvard University

Refreshments 8:00AM - 8:30AM

Introduction 8:30AM - 9:00AM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University.

Stephen Mitchell - Professor of Scandanavian & Folklore, Harvard University
Marcyliena Morgan - Associate Professor,Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University.
"All Eyez on Me": When Visionary Meets the Vision

Panel 1 Theoretical T.H.U.G. Battles: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
Mapping the Intellectual Legacies of Tupac Shakur

Mark Anthony Neal - Assistant Professor,
State University of New York at Albany, English
Thug Nigga Intellectual: Tupac as Celebrity Gramscian

Murray Forman - Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University, Communication
Tupac Shakur: O.G. (Ostensibly Gone)

Knut Aukrust - Professor of Culture Studies, University of Oslo, Visiting
Scholar in the Folklore at Harvard University.
"Tired Of Hearin' These Voices In My Head": Bakhtin's MC Battle

Break 10:30AM - 10:50AM

Panel 2 "Me Against the World" 10:50AM - 12:00AM
Tupac Shakur and the Hunger for Heroism

Emmett Price - Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University, Department of Music.
From Thug Life to Legend: The Realization of a Black Folk Hero

Greg Dimitriadis - Assistant Professor,
University of Buffalo, Graduate School of Education.
Talking about Tupac: Young People's Perspectives on his Life, Death, and Discursive Rebirth

Cheryl Keyes - Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Redefining the Meaning of Hero in Hiphop Culture:
The Case of Tupac Shakur

Lunch 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Keynote Address
Professor Michael Eric Dyson -
Avalon Professor in the Humanities and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
"Holler if You Hear Me"

Performance
Nicole Hodges - Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California.
The Death of the Last Blackman in the Entire Universe: The Re-Mix

Panel 3 "Keep Ya Head Up": 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Power, Passion, and the Political Potential of Tupac Shakur

Lawrence Bobo - Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University.
"Let Knowledge Drop": Tupac Shakur and the Power of the Black Mind

Dionne Bennett - Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
"How Do We Want It": Feminism and the Legacy of Tupac Shakur

Bakari Kitwana - Author and Adjunct Professor, Kent State University.
"Ride Or Die": Building Bridges between Hip-Hop and Black Power

Closing 3:30PM - 4:00PM

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