Conference Program - EHE Events

Day 1, March 30, 2016
7:45 – 8:20 AM
Check In/Refreshments
MLK Lounge
Frank W. Hale Center
154 W. 12th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210
8:20 – 8:30 AM
Welcome
Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, Vice President for Student Life, The Ohio State
University
8:30 – 9:45 AM
Opening Plenary Panel
What needs to happen to make Black women and girls’ lives
matter?
Dr. E, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings
Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education, University of
Wisconsin
Dr. Brittney Cooper
Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies,
Rutgers University
Dr. Ersula Ore
Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies, School of Social
Transformation and Rhetoric, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State
University
10:00 – 11:15 AM
Session 1
(please choose only one)
Panel 1: “I know I can” Learn: Black Girls’ Education Matters-MLK Lounge
Ms. Halima Alhassan, The Ohio State University - Moderator
Sierra Austin, Doctoral Candidate Women’s Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State
University
Dedicated to the girls who think they’re nothing: Excavating and Preserving Black Girl
Genius in School-Sanctioned Spaces
Maranda Ward, Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction, Graduate School of
Education and Human Development, The George Washington University
#Captionthis: Conceptualizing the Social Media Discourse for Its School-To-Prison Pipeline
Implications on Black Girl Bodies, Power, and Space
Lawanda Stewart & Amber Harris, The Village Network Columbus
Building Resiliency in Young Girls Through Mentoring and Teaching Them Utilizing
Concepts of Respect
Ashley Newby, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University
“You can’t be shy, you just can’t”: An Exploration of How One Black Girl Navigates Her HipHop and Academic Identities
Panel 2: “Somos Sur” (We Are the South): Women and Girls in
Global Hip-Hop in the Neo-liberal Era--RM 110A
Dr. Cynthia Tyson, The Ohio State University - Moderator
Jim Schnell, Ohio Dominican University; Brian Schnell, New Albany High
“Palestinian Women & Girls Lives Matter: Palestinian Hiphop Rhetorical Depictions of
Women & Girls as Public Relations Phenomena”
Florencia Cornet, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Performing Hip Hop, Performing a ‘Living Culture’: Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish
Marjorie Peñailillo, Graffiti School, Chilé & Guisela Latorre, The Ohio State
University
Graffiti School Community: Urban Art Pedagogies and Collective Appropriations of Public
Space
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
1:00 – 2:15 PM
Lunch -Welcome Hale Center-MLK Lounge
Lurie Daniel Favors, Attorney, Activist, Author
Dr. Mary Weems, Author, Poet, Playwright, Activist, Educator
Afternoon Plenary -Forum 1-MLK Lounge
Mothers of Murdered Black Children
Nicole Barnaby, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Reverend Dr. Yvonne Pointer (Gloria Pointer), Gloria Pointer Foundation
2:30 – 3:45 PM
(please choose only one)
Session II Panels
Panel 3: “Ladies First” -MLK Lounge
Dr. Carla Curtis, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Jasmine Burnett, New Voices Cleveland/Pittsburgh
We Always Resist: Trust Black Women (Reproductive Rights)
Rachel Lee, Rise Sister Rise
Trauma, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and Healing of Black Women and Girl
Ashley L. Love, Critical Studies and Early Childhood Education Doctoral
Student, University of Georgia
#Sayhername: 21st Century Activism and The Hip Hop Feminine Mystique
Panel 4: "Play Your Cards"- RM 110A
J. Brendan Shaw, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Marquita Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English William
Paterson University
Cynicism and Rage as Liberatory Affects in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever
Delicia Tiera Greene, Syracuse University
We Need More US in Schools!": Centering Black Adolescent Girls' Literacy and Language
Practices in School Spaces
Seth Davis, Doctoral Candidate, Syracuse University
“Can I talk to you for a Second?”: Cruising as a Fearce Literacy and Research Method
Samantha Stewart
Beloved Trees: Art Activism and the Silencing of Black Woman’s Oppression from the
Past to the Eras of Hiphop and Black Lives
4:00 – 5:15 PM
Plenary Artist Workshop -MLK Lounge
Black Girl Genius Crew
This workshop allows us to listen and sense Black girlhood differently, not as stereotype
but as a creative sound scape that can literally and figuratively move us towards a greater
justice.
Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Jessica Robinson, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Porshe Garner, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Blair E. Smith, Syracuse University
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Dinner, Film Showing and Community Forum-MLK Lounge
Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice: Mapping a Detroit Story
Written and Directed by Dream Hampton
Led by our Stonewall Columbus LGBT Community members
This film and forum explicitly illuminates the lives of Black and Brown transgender men
and women as important lives to be valued and heard.
“Treasure” is a documentary that tells the story of Shelley "Treasure" Hilliard, a 19-year-old
transgender woman of color from Detroit whose brutal murder was not tried as a hate
crime WARNING--CONTENT NOT ADVISED FOR CHILDREN
Announcements/Evaluations
Day 2, March 31, 2016
7:45 – 8:20 AM
Check In/Refreshments
MLK Lounge
Frank W. Hale Center
154 W. 12th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210
8:20 – 8:30 AM
Welcome
Mr. Lawrence Williamson, Director, Hale Black Cultural Center
Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Ohio State University
8:30 – 9:45 AM
Opening Plenary Panel-MLK Lounge
Gender and Justice/Criminalization of Women/Girls
Dr. Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Dr. Monique Morris, Black Women's Justice Institute
Ms. Roni Burkes, Warden Ohio Women’s Reformatory
Dr. Assata Richards, Sankofa Research Institute, Houston TX
10:00 – 11:15 AM
(please choose only one)
Session 3 Panels
Panel 5: "Back Up" RM 110A
Dr. Tanya Saunders, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Saidah Isoke, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State
University Hat 2 Da Back: Negotiations of Gender, Sexuality and Desirability for Hip
Hop’s Tomboy
Crystal LaVoulle, Georgia State University, College of Education, Department of
Middle and Secondary Education
Deconstructing the Bad Bitch Barbie Image and other Racialized and Sexualized
Representations of Black Women’s Bodies and Images
Dr. Patty Cunningham & Jack Brandl, Department of Social Change at the Ohio
State University
I Wish Those Days Could Come Back Once More: Bringing Back Empowered Female
Voices in Rap Music
Panel 6: Get InFormation-Risk and Danger in the Lives of Black
Girls: Interrogating Sites of Control and Resistance in Popular
Culture and Social Media MLK Lounge
Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, Illinois State University-Moderator
Tiffani J. Smith, Claremont Graduate University
“Dancing Dolls—Mississippi’s Hip Hop Feminists”
Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University
OMG! Look at Her Butt: The Role of Consumption on Twitter/Instagram in Nicki
Minaj's Feminism
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Lunch Welcome Hale Center
Dr. Stephanie Troutman, Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona
Dr. Adrienne Dixson, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Univ of Illinois, Urbana
1:00 – 2:15 PM
Afternoon Plenary Forum-2
Health, Education and Welfare of Women and Girls-MLK Lounge
Dr. E, The Ohio State University-Moderator
Senator Charleta Tavares
Infant Mortality
Fran Frazier
Placing Black Girls at Promise/Resilience
Kevinee Gilmore
Aging Out of Foster Care: Vulnerabilities and Needs
2:30 - 3:45 PM
Session 4 Panels
(please choose only one)
Panel 7: Standing in Solidarity With Black Girls to Dismantle the
School-to-Prison Pipeline-MLK Lounge
Dr. Judy Alston, Ashland University-Moderator
Ahmad R. Washington, Ph.D., NCC, Assistant Professor, College of Education and
Human Development, The University of Louisville
Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Kish Cumi, Doctoral Candidate, Counselor Education and Supervision Holmes
Scholar, The University of Louisville
Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Arash Daneshzadeh, Director of Education Programs, Hip Hop Chess Federation,
Dean of Student Affairs/Professor of Justice Studies and Early Childhood
Education, Laney College, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership, University
of California, Davis
Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Panel 8: Performing Justice and Healing Through Creative Hiphop
Feminist Arts-Room 110A
Dr. Jamila Hunter, Eastern Illinois University-Moderator
Sofia Quintero, Writer
Centering the Experiences of Black and Brown Women Through Hip Hop Feminist Fiction
LeConté J. Dill, DrPH, MPH; Shavaun Sutton, MPH; Bianca Rivera, MPH,
SUNY Downstate School of Public Health
Poetry as Her Scream”: Engaging urban Black Girls in Reading and Writing Poetry to
Reveal Trauma and Explore Healing
Crystal Endsley, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York
This Bridge Where I Live: Feminist Arts Collaborations from Campus to Community
4:00 – 5:15 PM
(please choose only one)
Artists for Social Justice Forum -MLK Lounge
Liz Alexander, She Dreams of Freedom-Moderator
Youth Arts and Social Justice Workshop-Room 110A
Facilitators-Tifani Kendrick (D'Light House) and Daniel Gray-Kontar (Replife)
Youth Presenters from Champion Middle School, Jelani Steppers, D’Light House
Family Center, and Cleveland School of the Arts
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Dinner and Hiphop Feminist Education Plenary-MLK Lounge
Dr. Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University - Moderator
Dr. Aisha Durham (University of South Florida), Dr. Ruth Nicole
Brown (University of Illinois, Urbana/SOLHOT), Dr. Gwendolyn
Pough (Syracuse University), Dr. Bettina Love (University of Georgia
and Harvard Hiphop Archive Fellow)
Announcements/Evaluations
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Concert/Performances
by Cynthia Amoah, Mother Nature, Bella Bahhs Crystal Endsley, Black Girl Genius
Crew, DJ J Rawls on the Wheels of Steel, Special Guest Star-Jesssica Care Moore!