"All Eyez on Me"

Photo of Michael Eric Dyson and the "All Eyez on Me" Symposium by Chhay Chhun



Harvard University’s Hiphop Archive hosted the symposium "All Eyez on Me—Tupac Shakur and the Search for a Modern Folk Hero" on April 17, 2003 at the Barker Center in the Thompson Room. This one-day event was sponsored by the Hiphop Archive, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Program of Folklore & Mythology at Harvard University and IKS University of Oslo. The aim of the event was to explore and address Hiphop’s criticism of social and political leadership through an examination of the role of Tupac Shakur as a central figure in the imagination of youth, as well as in the landscape of American and global culture. As the title suggested, our goal was to envision and contemplate a new framework that explored not only Tupac Shakur’s presence as an artist, but also as an influential agent in the evolution of contemporary cultural, political and social thought and activism. For more information, check out our "All Eyez on Me" page at www.hiphoparchive.org/roundtables/4-17-03.htm. You can also read more about the symposium at www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.24/11-hiphop.html and popmatters.com/columns/
criticalnoire/030501.shtml.