Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) was an invited speaker at the international symposium “Faire connaissance(s): Hip hop dances as fields of research and invention,” held December 4–6 at La Villette in Paris and organized by the Centre national de la danse (CN D), a national institution of the French Ministry of Culture.

Ruma’s presentation, “From Practitioner to Publisher: Preserving Hip Hop’s Cultural Foundation Through Authentic Literature,” examined practitioner-led scholarship, embodied knowledge, and cultural preservation through independent publishing. The symposium brought together more than forty presenters from over a dozen countries to explore Hip Hop dance as a field of research, artistic practice, and cultural transmission.