2023
Conference: Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, April 13-16, 2023 (hybrid).
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “American Spaces, Mexican Flows: The Chicano Hip-Hop Movement in Los Angeles & Beyond.”
Research Colloquium for Iberian and Latin American History, Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel, University of Cologne, January 25, 2023.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “Chicano Hip-Hop in Los Angeles: Evolution, Spaces, Dialogues.” (invited)
2022
Conference: 68th Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, June 9-11, 2022, Workshop ‘Hip Hop and/as Political Education’ (organized by Stefan Benz und Stefan Danter)
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. "Chicano Hip-Hop at the Crossroads of Gangster Rap and Activism.” (invited)
2021
Conference „Hip-Hop Transcultural: Constructing and Contesting Identity, Space, and Place in the Americas and Beyond“, University of Bern, October 28-30 (Organizers: James Barber, Christian Büschges, Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, Britta Sweers):
Papers:
- James Barber: "The Historical Circularity of Jamaican and African+/American Cultural Practice: Re-Framing the Jamaican Influence on Hip-Hop in New York"
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “'Double the Struggle': Latino/Chicano Hip-Hop and the East Coast-West Coast Dialectic"
29th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 26 - 29, 2021.
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “'We’re Hip-Hop’s Minority!' Transcultural Collaboration and the Chicano Struggle for Recognition in Los Angeles Hip-Hop"
Spring Academy of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 22-26, 2021 (virtual event).
Papers:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: "'American Made with a Mexican Flow!' Chicano Hip-Hop, Space, and Identity in Los Angeles, 1987-2001"
- James Barber: “‘United Ghettos of America’: The Aesthetics of Intercultural Exchange and Bricolage in New York City and the Case of the Jamaican Influence on Hip-Hop (1987-1995)”
2020
Groove the City 2020 Conference. Constructing and Deconstructing Urban Spaces through Music, Leuphana University Lüneburg, February 13-15 2020
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld “'The radio won’t play you, but the neighborhood will' – Chicano Rap, Space & Identity in L.A., 1980s & 1990s"
2019
Workshop “Music and Society in the Americas / Música y sociedad en las Américas” of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS), University of Bern, October 4-5 2019 (organizer: Christian Büschges)
Papers:
- James Barber "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld - “I’m from the varrio – East Los – Aztlán”: Place, Space & Identity in L.A. Chicano Rap (1980s & 1990s)
Workshop „Sound in Motion“, University of Bern, September 20-21 (Organizers: James Barber, Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, Victor da Souza Soares, Andrin Uetz)
27th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place/ Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, May 24-27, 2019
Papers:
- Panel: “Performing identities. Representations of ethnicity, class, and gender in contemporary popular music in the Americas” (Organizer: Christian Büschges)
- James Barber: "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Mexican-American Cultural Signifiers in West Coast Hip-Hop during the 1980s & 1990s”
Doctoral Conference "Constructing and Contesting Community", University of Bern, May 9-10, 2019
Paper:
- James Barber: "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
Balancing The Mix: A Conference On Popular Music And Social Justice, University of Memphis, March 30, 2019
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Chicano Rap & Chicano Cinema during the early 1990s. Narratives of Social Struggle and (in-) Justice”
2018
Doctoral Conference on Latin American History, University of Bern, May 4-5, 2018
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Hip-Hop as a transcultural phenomenon. Mexican-American cultural signifiers in US-Hip-Hop”
