On September 28-29, 2012, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation presented the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference:
Aug 1, 2019

Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination

On September 28-29, 2012, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation presented the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: "Hip Hop, Education and Expanding the Archival Imagination." The Tupac Amaru Shakur Conference was designed to combine AUC Woodruff Library's mission to facilitate scholarly research and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation's mission to encourage hip hop curriculum. Works posted to the Library's website from the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference may be downloaded, archived, and/or printed for noncommercial, educational, and research use. Any further use or dissemination of these works requires the express written permission of the copyright holders.

Presentations include "Tupac's Archives as Documentary Heritage of  Genre and a Generation" by Anonymouz;  "Generational Dissonance and the Archive: The Selector's Dilemma" by Murray Forman; and "Painting a Perfect Picture: Democratizing Provenance in the Appraisal of Hip Hop Archives" by Jarrett M. Drake.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "Better Dayz: Tupac's Critical Call for a Better Legal System" by Andre Douglas Pond Cummings, Pamela Bridgewater, and Nick Sciullo.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation  "Documenting Houston Hip Hop" by Julie Grob, Maco L. Faniel, and Langston Collin Wilkins.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination, that explored Shakur's life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event.  Dr. Akinyele Umoja, educator and scholar-activist and an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation, "The ABC's of Being Black: How Middle School Black Students Construct Their Racial Identities Amongst Culturally Biased Curriculum" by Ryan Glover, Windsor Jordan, Jr., and Dalia Bishop.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "All Eyez on 'Pac': A Thug Poet's Legacy from the Street to the Academy & Beyond" by Dr. Stephane Dunn, Tara D. Miller, Dr. Corrie Claiborne, Dr. Samuel T. Livingston, and Dr. David Wall Rice.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, �Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination,� that explored Shakur�s life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, a Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include "The Tupac Shakur Reader" by Dr. James Peterson and Georgia M. Roberts and "The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection" by Courtney Chartier and Stacy Jones.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, �Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination,� that explored Shakur�s life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Mr. Kevin Powell, a leading political and cultural voice, community activist and award winning writer, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation, "Tupac Shakur, Authentic Hip Hop Leadership, and the HipHop 2020 Curriculum Project HBCU Classroom" by Dr. Jocelyn Wilson, Zaneta J. Smith, Joshua Moore, Brandon Frame, and Dr. Emery Petchauer.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination