HIP HOP AND PUNK FEMINISMS is a working group of faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, exploring the entanglements of theory, genealogy, and performance for independent art making and radical advocacy.
O U T I N T H E N I G H T :
D I S C U S S I O N & S C R E E N I N G
U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S, U R B A N A - C H A M P A I G N
2 2 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4
12-1:30 PM Discussion
Gender & Women’s Studies
1205 W. Nevada, Urbana
7-9 PM Film Screening & Q&A
160 English Building
608 S. Wright, Urbana
Out in the Night is a new documentary by blair dorosh-walther examining the 2006 case of the New Jersey 4, four young Black women who were charged with assault when they defended themselves against an assailant. Out in the Night follows the case as their race, gender, and sexuality are criminalized in the news media and legal system. Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms presents a discussion about Black women and violence as well as a film screening and Q&A with the director and two of the women, Renata Hill and Terrain Dandridge. For more about the film and the case, see Out in the Night.
ORGANIZERS: Toby Beauchamp, Ruth Nicole Brown, Karen Flynn, Fiona I.B. Ngô, and Mimi Thi Nguyen
This event is paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee, the Campus Research Board, and Gender and Women’s Studies, and co-sponsored by the LGBT Center, History, the Unit for Criticism, the Prison Justice Project, and CUT*ES.
H I P H O P A N D P U N K F E M I N I S M S
T H E O R Y, G E N E A L O G Y, P E R F O R M A N C E
U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S, U R B A N A - C H A M P A I G N
5 - 6 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3
Since their controversial inceptions –controversial not just for their sound or aesthetic, but also in ongoing debates about their origin stories— punk and hip-hop have received significant scholarly attention as objects of study. As insurgent and often incoherent sets of scenes emerging in the 1970s, and in the aftermath of multiple, devastating anti-imperial wars and a global economic restructuring, punk and hip-hop manifested all the contradictions of modernist avant-garde movements – unsentimental and romantic, revolutionary and reactionary, a draw for queers and freaks and the worship of male genius.
And yet rarely are the two brought into conversation with each the other. This symposium stages productive conversations across hip hop and punk feminisms, including questions about the genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and punk across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete genealogy, or singular origin story, for each); about the theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and punk cultures, including forms of immanent critique as well as political polemic that imagine futurity or negativity, and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms; and about the ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances, including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures.
ORGANIZERS: Ruth Nicole Brown, Karen Flynn, Fiona I.B. Ngô, and Mimi Thi Nguyen with Susan Livingston
This symposium is generously paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee, the University of Illinois Research Board Diversity Funding Pilot Initiative, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies; co-sponsored by African American Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Art and Design, Asian American Studies, EPOL (Education, Policy, Organization, and Leadership), English, History, Latina/o Studies, the LGBT Resource Center, Media and Cinema Studies, the School of Music, the Women's Resource Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, La Casa, the Native American House, and the Unit for Criticism.
D I S C U S S I O N & S C R E E N I N G
U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S, U R B A N A - C H A M P A I G N
2 2 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4
12-1:30 PM Discussion
Gender & Women’s Studies
1205 W. Nevada, Urbana
7-9 PM Film Screening & Q&A
160 English Building
608 S. Wright, Urbana
Out in the Night is a new documentary by blair dorosh-walther examining the 2006 case of the New Jersey 4, four young Black women who were charged with assault when they defended themselves against an assailant. Out in the Night follows the case as their race, gender, and sexuality are criminalized in the news media and legal system. Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms presents a discussion about Black women and violence as well as a film screening and Q&A with the director and two of the women, Renata Hill and Terrain Dandridge. For more about the film and the case, see Out in the Night.
ORGANIZERS: Toby Beauchamp, Ruth Nicole Brown, Karen Flynn, Fiona I.B. Ngô, and Mimi Thi Nguyen
This event is paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee, the Campus Research Board, and Gender and Women’s Studies, and co-sponsored by the LGBT Center, History, the Unit for Criticism, the Prison Justice Project, and CUT*ES.
H I P H O P A N D P U N K F E M I N I S M S
T H E O R Y, G E N E A L O G Y, P E R F O R M A N C E
U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S, U R B A N A - C H A M P A I G N
5 - 6 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3
Since their controversial inceptions –controversial not just for their sound or aesthetic, but also in ongoing debates about their origin stories— punk and hip-hop have received significant scholarly attention as objects of study. As insurgent and often incoherent sets of scenes emerging in the 1970s, and in the aftermath of multiple, devastating anti-imperial wars and a global economic restructuring, punk and hip-hop manifested all the contradictions of modernist avant-garde movements – unsentimental and romantic, revolutionary and reactionary, a draw for queers and freaks and the worship of male genius.
And yet rarely are the two brought into conversation with each the other. This symposium stages productive conversations across hip hop and punk feminisms, including questions about the genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and punk across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete genealogy, or singular origin story, for each); about the theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and punk cultures, including forms of immanent critique as well as political polemic that imagine futurity or negativity, and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms; and about the ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances, including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures.
ORGANIZERS: Ruth Nicole Brown, Karen Flynn, Fiona I.B. Ngô, and Mimi Thi Nguyen with Susan Livingston
This symposium is generously paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee, the University of Illinois Research Board Diversity Funding Pilot Initiative, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies; co-sponsored by African American Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Art and Design, Asian American Studies, EPOL (Education, Policy, Organization, and Leadership), English, History, Latina/o Studies, the LGBT Resource Center, Media and Cinema Studies, the School of Music, the Women's Resource Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, La Casa, the Native American House, and the Unit for Criticism.