‘Hip Hop After 50’
Dr. Heath details what is happening to hip hop and blackness postdiasporically, showing out with Africana Studies colleagues Félix Germain, Christel Temple, and Dzifa Torvikey.
Dr. Heath is joined by multimedia legend Dr. Fahamu Pecou and Dungeon Family icon Joi Gilliam for an intimate public dialogue as part of the Dirty South Weekend at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Dr. Heath is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown for an intimate public dialogue as the closing event of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2022 Biennial Conference.
Dr. Heath is joined by five-time Grammy-winning artist CeeLo Green for an intimate public dialogue, saluting the young geniuses of Son of a Saint and The Roots of Music.
Dr. Heath details the result of student protests and community demands in the Antiracism and Decolonization Community Speaker Series on Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Dr. Heath gets vulnerable with the Counter Narrative Project about James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen, the lingering heartbreak of the Atlanta Child Murders, and legacies of disappearance.
Dr. Heath enlists with a regiment space cadets and time tumblers to ensure the future of blackness onscreen.
Dr. Heath honors the emotional rigor & cultural resilience of Anita Baker’s work via the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
Dr. Heath rides shotgun with a fearless bunch—writers Jon Goode, Kiese Laymon, and Michael Harriot—talking literature, masculinity, and blackness in a time of crisis.
Dr. Heath gets down with three times dope—authors Kiese Laymon, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Jason Reynolds—talking literary practice in the heat of a pandemic.
‘After the End of the World’ [panel]
Dr. Heath reunites with 20 & odd members of the Callaloo diaspora to reflect upon where we are headed from here.
Dr. Heath’s James Baldwin Unplugged collective pushes Jimmy past the boundaries of love & rage.
Dr. Heath connects & politics (ditto) with Marc Bamuthi Joseph about manhood and blackness via the Hammonds House Museum.
‘Teaching Atlanta Music and Culture: Implementing Just Sustainabilities in a Changing City’ [roundtable]
Dr. Heath explains how to make ziploc hiphop—reusable, resealable sound.
‘Black Masculinities in Art and Popular Culture’ [panel]
Dr. Heath plays truth or dare with Jericho Brown and Zandria Robinson around Fahamu Pecou’s awesome exhibition DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance.
'How to Teach the African Diaspora Through Hip Hop' [workshop]
Dr. Heath describes what Ol’ Dirty meant when he said, Wu-Tang is for the children.
'Pac Flips the Bird’ on a panel called ‘Virtuosity'
Dr. Heath recoups the rapper’s signature signal of resistance.
'Crisis Harmonies' [roundtable]
Dr. Heath tracks trauma provenance from Dunbar's 'We Wear the Mask' to Future's 'Mask Off.'
'Teaching FX's Atlanta' [roundtable]
Dr. Heath reflects on lessons learned from Atlanta and Atlanta.
'"What Do You Think You Can Show Me?": A Roundtable on Shifting Science Fiction to Denote the Black Feminist Experience in Octavia E. Butler's Literature'
Dr. Heath moderates a conversation toward pedagogical futures.
'Souths and Supersouths: With Atlanta as Wakanda'
Dr. Heath initiates ritual combat with T'Challa on the 'Speculative Souths' roundtable.
Dope conversation and autograph session.
Dr. Heath chops it up and puts it back together with legendary scholar-artist Fahamu Pecou.
'The Futures of Afrofuturism' [roundtable]
Dr. Heath reunites with a star-studded crew to illuminate what will happen next.
'Blackness and Fugitive Pedagogy in the US South' [panel]
Dr. Heath does some king sh*t with Julius Fleming, Jarvis Givens, Kevin Lawrence Henry, and Jarvis McInnis.
'Atlantans on Atlanta' [roundtable]
Dr. Heath descends with a platoon of ATLiens to decipher the show named for their planet.
'Sport as Art, as Resistance' [panel]
Dr. Heath takes a knee.
'Police Brutality & Racial Profiling' [Action Summit panel]
Dr. Heath links with scholar-activists and hip_hop heads to explain why we're 'still not loving police.'
'Black Thought in a Digital Age' [roundtable]
Dr. Heath nerds out about screens and things with Tammy Brown, Nishani Frazier, and Mark Anthony Neal.
'Hip Hop Education and Academia' [collaborative research panel]
Dr. Heath engages the elusive 5th element with Khalilah Ali and Bettina Love.
'"What Do You Think You Can Show Me?": A Roundtable on Shifting Science Fiction to Denote the Black Feminist Experience in Octavia E. Butler's Literature,' hosted by the Octavia E. Butler Society.
Dr. Heath facilitates another fly discussion of Octavia Butler's work.