One Day Symposium: Diva: Hip-Hop, Feminism, Fierceness
Date and time
Location
Room MK045 Lecture Theatre
Wolverhampton School of Art
University of Wolverhampton
Molinueux Street, Wolverhampton
WV1 1DT
United Kingdom
Refund policy
Refunds up to 1 day before event
Description
Provisional Programme
Diva
Hip-Hop, Feminism, Fierceness
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Centre for Film, Media, Discourse & Culture
University of Wolverhampton
17 July 2019
Twitter hashtag for the day: #DivaWlv
9.35: Welcome: Dr Benjamin Halligan (MK045, George Wallis Building)
9.40 – 10.30: Keynote 1: Dr. Shara Rambarran:
Proceed with Caution: Mariah Carey – the Ultimate Diva and Womxn Empowerment Influencer in Current Popular Music and Culture?
(MK045, George Wallis Building)
10.30 – 10.40: Break
Parallel panels
10.40 – 12.00: Panel 1a: Goddesses: Cardi B, Minaj, Amuro (Chair: Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly)
(MK045, George Wallis Building)
Dr Gemma Flynn: Bloody Shoes and Money Moves: Cardi B and the Cultural Currency of Gang Violence for Women in Hip Hop
Aliyah Rawat: From Barbie to Bad Bitch: Black Female Sexuality, Cultural Politics and Subversion in the Visual Performance of Nicki Minaj
Dorothy Finan: Namie Amuro: Japan’s diva of the post-modern era
10.40 – 12.00: Panel 1b: Divas Then and Now: Herstories, Pathbreakers, Industry (Chair: Anne-Marie Beaumont)
(Room TBC)
Harriet Reed: Diva Worship from Antiquity to Instagram
Amy Harris: “Kicking ass is literally all I care about”: the trailblazing rap of queer feminist Bruja, Princess Nokia
Dr. Mary Gani: Negotiating like a Diva: Creative Autonomy in the Music Industry
12.00 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 2.20: Keynote 2: Dr Kirsty Fairclough:
I Slay: Beyoncé as Intersectional Feminist, Activist and Diva
(MK045, George Wallis Building)
Parallel panels
2.25 – 3.55: Panel 2a: Performing and Performance: Houston / Minaj / Noname / Cardi B
(Chair: Dr Shara Rambarran)
(MK045, George Wallis Building)
Gwynne George: Performing Creative Labour: Whitney Houston on MTV, 1985-88
Dr Anna-Elena Pääkkölä: Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”: Intersectional Feminist Fat Studies, Sexuality, and Embodiment
Michail Exarchos (aka Stereo Mike): Power, identity, reflexivity and independence in Noname’s Room 25: Slams, raps and lyrical sonification
Charis Dishman: “That’s how I got pregnant y’all”: Cardi B and (Un)respectability
2.25 – 3.55: Panel 2b: Beyoncé & Solange (Chair: Dr Kirsty Fairclough)
(Room TBC)
Kate Naylor ‘Strong enough to bear the children then get back to business’: The Power of Beyoncé’s Body
Hannah Strong: Suck On my Balls, Bitch: A Paradigm Shift
Prof Kwame M. Phillips: The Imagined Things: On Solange, Repetition and Mantra
3.55 – 4.35: Break
4.35 – circa 6.15: Screening and keynote interview (Chair and interviewer: Natalie Graham)
(MC001, Millennium Building)
Aaliyah Live in Amsterdam (Windrush Productions; 51 mins)
Dr Pogus Caesar
6.15: Close of symposium
Informal drinks & networking: The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton (WV1 1HT)