#  “The Future of Hip Hop Studies” Symposium 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 6, 2025** 

 09:00AM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Gutman Conference Center | 6 Appian Way, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 In 2023, publications and institutions across the globe celebrated the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop. While many lauded the trajectory of the music—from back-to-school jams in the Bronx to a multibillion dollar industry—less attention was paid to where Hip Hop is headed now. Likewise, in academia, Hip Hop Studies has flourished, and we are now at the 30th anniversary of Tricia Rose’s *Black Noise*, which inaugurated it as a field for academic inquiry. And it is also necessary to look forward in that endeavor.

 The Department of African & African American Studies and the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have invited a small group of leading thinkers in the field for a one-day symposium about the future of Hip Hop Studies. Each of the four scholars will present a lecture on their own work and how it fits into new directions and critical concerns in the study of Hip Hop as a branch of popular music studies and Black popular culture studies. To conclude, Tricia Rose will deliver a “50 Year Reflection” on the state of the field of which she is a foundational figure.

 [Livestream (Morning Session / 9:45am-1pm)](https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=609b31c0-6ace-44f2-9544-b27b00dc62df)

 [Livestream (Afternoon Session / 2pm-6pm)](https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8992a97c-f659-4942-9477-b27b00dca029)

   ![hiphopsymposiumweb_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/hutchins/files/hiphopsymposiumweb_01.jpg?itok=ssoLSCkY) 

 

 SCHEDULE

 9-9:45am / Breakfast reception

 9:45-10am / Welcome remarks

 10-11:30am / H. Samy Alim lecture and questions

 11:30am-1pm / Adam Bradley lecture and questions

 1-2pm / Lunch break

 2-3:30pm / Regina Bradley lecture and questions

 3:30-5pm / Mark Anthony Neal lecture and questions

 5-6pm / Tricia Rose reflections & additional discussion

 PARTICIPANTS

 **[H. Samy Alim](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/h-samy-alim/)**

 David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology

 Associate Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

 Faculty Co-Director of the UCLA Hip Hop Initiative

 Co-editor (with Jeff Chang), University of California Press Hip Hop Studies Book Series

 University of California-Los Angeles

 **[Adam Bradley](https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/bradley-adam/)**

 Professor of English & African American Studies

 Founding Director, Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture (RAP Lab)

 University of California-Los Angeles

 **[Regina Bradley](https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/rbradl14/untitled.php)**

 Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies

 Faculty Editor, Southern Cultures Journal

 Kennesaw State University

 **[Mark Anthony Neal](https://scholars.duke.edu/person/man9)**

 James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies; Chair, Department of African & African American Studies; Professor, English; Professor, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies

 Director, Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE)

 Duke University

 **[Tricia Rose](https://vivo.brown.edu/display/tlrose)**

 Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies

 Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives

 Director, The Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicolas Center for Advanced Study

 Brown University



 

 



 

 

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