Call for Submissions

We welcome contributions that critically engage with Hip Hop culture (and related expressions) from academics, archivists, artists, broadcasters, dancers, documentarians, writers, and other creatives and critical thinkers. If you have an experimental idea for a contribution that does not fall within the aforementioned parameters, please feel free to contact us and we can discuss possibilities.

Possible Topic Areas

We invite proposals that respond – but are not limited – to the following themes:

• They Reminisce Over You: Hip Hop heritage, histories and cultural memory 

• Kill Your Masters?: The complexities of Hip Hop politics and activism

• Denial is a River: (Dis)continuities of gender and sexuality in Hip Hop

• Check the Method: Interdisciplinary innovations in Hip Hop studies

• Under Construction: Genre innovation and new stylings 

• Super Lyrical: The poetics of rap

• Fight the Power: Hip Hop in a time of monsters

• Wild Styles: Visual approaches to Hip Hop 

• Lean Back: Embodied ways of knowing in Hip Hop

• Across the Pond: European versus American Hip Hop Studies

• In the Major Leagues: Sports and Hip Hop

• Each One, Teach One: Critical pedagogy and Hip Hop in the classroom

In addition, if you have a suggestion for another theme that fits the scope of the conference, please contact us via ehhsngroningen2026@gmail.com.

Submission Details

Please submit an abstract of your proposal of no more than 200 words (excluding title, contributor details, and references if applicable) via this Google Form or the ‘Submit Proposal’ button below. You should also include a 100-word bio (per contributor) and any technical requirements. Panel proposals may contain up to 300 words.