The Arts and Identity: Authenticity and Ambiguity

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Mr. Lif

Introduction:
Matt Isles
EPIIC Colloquium

Performance by Hip Hop Artist Mr. Lif

Panelists:

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Artist; Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Author, Soul Journeys: An Ethnography of Dreams Among the Mapuche of Chile

Alexis Esquivel Bermúdez
Havana-based Artist; Member, la Unión Nacionalde Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC); Independent Artist, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales; Visiting Fellow, Tufts University

Murray Forman
Author, "The 'Hood Comes First": Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip Hop; Co-Editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies; Professor of Media Studies, Queens College

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Author, Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of "Race," Nation and Gender; Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London, United Kingdom

Lydia Degarrod, Jayne Ifekwunigwe, Murray Forman, Uyen Tang, Mr.Lif (view obstructed), and Alexis Esquivel with translator

Mr. Lif
Recording Artist; Recipient, 2000 Kahlua Boston Music Award for outstanding Rap/ Hip-Hop Act; "Mr. Lif Enters the Colossus"

Danzy Senna
Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters, College of the Holy Cross; Author, Caucasia and "Passing"

Moderator:
Uyen Tang
EPIIC Colloquium