Beyond the Culture II Conference

In 2023, celebrate with the Department of Africana Studies at Georgia State University to discuss the role of Black popular culture in the fight for social justice at the 2nd biennial Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice conference at Georgia State University. The conference will be held in Atlanta on February 8-10, 2023 at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History.

The purpose of this three-day national conference is to critically examine the intersections between popular culture and social justice, while also commemorating Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary.

Speakers include:

• Andrea L. Dennis, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and the John Byrd Martin Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law
• Edvige Jean-François, Executive Director of the Center for the Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora
• Dalton Higgins,  National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Music-Prof-in-Residence
• Erik Nielson, Professor of liberal arts at the University of Richmond