The Arts and Identity: Authenticity and Ambiguity

Mr. Lif

Introduction
Matt Isles, EPIIC Colloquium

Performance by Hip Hop Artist Mr. Lif

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

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"

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

Moderator: Uyen Tang, EPIIC Colloquium