Thursday 31 October – Saturday 2 November
The Exchange
University of Birmingham, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2DR
Keynotes
Prof Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center (Thursday 31 October)
INIVA – Former Stuart Hall Library Artists in Residence, including Gary Stewart, Ben Yau and others (Friday 1 November)
Gilane Tawadros in conversation with David A. Bailey in celebration of the launch of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the Imaginary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024).
Em Prof Catherine Hall, UCL, in conversation with Prof Jeffrey Williams, Carnegie Mellon University (Saturday 2 November)
‘Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories’ is an opportunity to assess the lasting significance of Hall’s cultural, political and pedagogical interventions throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Hall made interventions across a diverse range of knowledge disciplines, cultural practices, and political formations, often identifying, clarifying and transforming major debates of his time. Subsequently, Hall’s work has been taken up and extended in a number of directions. This conference brings together researchers who are investigating the history of Hall’s intellectual and political formation and development, with those who work in critical dialogue with Hall’s work in the analysis and transformation of the present. Our purpose is to provide a forum for critical dialogue and debate between scholars working in cultural studies and arts, humanities and the social sciences, artists, cultural and political activists.
PROGRAMME
Including Sessions organised by Stuart Hall Foundation scholars and fellows; CND; John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University and Stuart Hall Archive Project fellows; and many others.
Programme: Final_Programme.
Book of Abstracts: Book of Abstracts_V1.
USEFUL INFORMATION
The conference is hosted at The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2DR (click to go to Google map)
Registration for delegates and general admission tickets for the conference are free but places are limited. Day catering will be provided, but not evening meals. (To ensure we don’t waste food, please only book for days you intend to attend.)
Delegates should register using the link provided, if you are a delegate without the link, please contact n.d.beech@bham.ac.uk.
General Admission tickets will be made available with publication of the final programme on 4 October here.
If you plan to stay in Birmingham you can find details of accommodation options in the Useful Information document.
We have also compiled a list of (some) things to do in Birmingham during the conference, including free exhibitions and popular arts venues.
For delegates with queries regarding visa application, please contact r.orleans@bham.ac.uk as soon as possible. For all other queries check our FAQs or contact n.d.beech@bham.ac.uk.
CONFERENCE TEAM
Rebecca Adams, Cadbury Research Library
Associate Professor, Nick Beech, School of Social Policy and Society
Dr Rita Gayle, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor Pat Noxolo, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rebecca (Becki) Orleans, Research Projects Portfolio Administrator, College of Social Sciences
Katy Parsons, Department of English Literature
Associate Professor Rebecca Roach, Department of English Literature
Contact: sharchiveproject@bham.ac.uk