Panel discussions

Roundtable “What Place for Women in Contemporary Music?” organized by the association La Truffe et les Oreilles as part of Suffragettes Week at La Tannerie in Bourg-en-Bresse, May 26, 2016 Blues, rock, folk, punk, rap, etc.: contemporary music has always been one of the privileged vectors of emancipatory, activist, and subversive messages. But beneath these […]

Roundtable “What Place for Women in Rap Music?” at Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Melville in Paris 13th arrondissement, October 5, 2016 Across the Atlantic, the situation seems much better for female producers and some women unite in collectives to overcome this invisibility. Why don’t female rappers manage to break through in France? What is women’s place in

Roundtable and public radio show on gender equality in music organized by HF Île-de-France at FGO Barbara, November 28, 2016 WOMEN AND MUSIC: CROSS-PERSPECTIVES FROM FRANCE, EUROPE, AND THE AMERICAS As part of the “Equality Season in Contemporary Music,” HF Île-de-France in partnership with the DECLIC association and the MAP Network, organizes the recording of

Roundtable “Rap and Gender from Emancipation to Transgression” organized by Hip Hop Citoyens at La Gaîté Lyrique as part of the 12th edition of the Paris Hip Hop festival. Men’s music or macho music. This is how rap is often presented in mainstream media and popular culture, which portray it as the privileged relay of

Roundtable “FLOW IN JAZZ, Crossroads between Rap, Jazz & Urban Cultures” at Jazz à Vienne festival, July 1, 2017 Moderated by Olivier Cheravola, co-editor-in-chief of SURL. With:

Roundtable “Woman/Women and Resistance(s): What Oppressions Must We Fight Today?” at L’Espace K in Strasbourg, October 12, 2017 What oppressions must we fight today? What are the limits of Resistance? Is it becoming more pacifist? Is it still a duty to resist today? Would democracy be in peril if resistance no longer existed? Moderator: Sophia

Roundtable “What Are Gender Relations in the Rap Game?” at Sciences Po Paris, November 22, 2017 With:

Roundtable “Feminism and Anti-racism in Urban Cultures” at Les Créatives festival in Geneva, November 23, 2017 With: View the Facebook event

Madame Rap Roundtable organized by the Hip Opsession festival at Trempolino in Nantes, March 6, 2018 HIP OPSESSION invites Éloïse Bouton and several speakers to discuss female hip hop activism and how this scene is doing in 2018. While rap and feminism are often deemed irreconcilable, should hip hop be understood as an extension of

Roundtable “Intersectional Struggle Strategies in the Public Sphere” organized by Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and Master 2 students in “Intercultural Communication and Project Engineering” as part of Arts and Media Week, March 12, 2018 With: View the Facebook event