“Things Done Changed”

From March 18 until March 21, 2026, the ninth annual European Hip Hop Studies Conference will take place in Groningen, the Netherlands. The conference encourages reflections and responses to Hip Hop in these times of global crisis.

We focus on Hip Hop’s many transnational expressions, from European Hip Hop (situated within complex colonial histories and political tensions), its American origins, towards wider global manifestations of the form.

We invite Hip Hop scholars to respond to the present moment of locally experienced but globally interconnected inequalities vis-a-vis Hip Hop as a potentially revolutionary form. Indeed, how can Hip Hop hold true to its original tenets when it is increasingly embedded in global corporate and political structures?

More information about the conference program and its keynote contributions will be announced shortly.