Katherine Parsons The latest installation of ‘Walking with Hall’ is now live! This term, we teamed up with a group of undergraduate students at the University of Birmingham to develop the second chapter of this locative literature project. We delved into Stuart Hall’s archive together to explore his connection to Birmingham, and they have been hard at …
Antonino Frazzitta has been hard at work digitally reconstructing the University of Birmingham’s old main library for the ‘Walking with Hall’ project. We are using this to think about Hall’s legacy at the University of Birmingham and some of the major changes that have been made to campus in the decades since his time here. Read about out his progress here:
On Saturday 16 November the Dialogues strand of the Stuart Hall Archive Project teamed up with Tina Hofman to present ‘Finding Your Feet‘, an event which combined an experience of the performance-audio piece ‘BOSA’ by Notnow Collective with an invitation to think with Stuart Hall about settling in and our experiences of space/place. This was also an …
Rebecca Adams (Stuart Hall Archive Project archivist) was featured this week on The History Hotline podcast by Deanna Lyncook. You can hear their riveting conversation about archiving Black life in Britain, the relatively unknown life and archives of educational psychologist Mollie Hunte, and Rebecca’s experience working with the Stuart Hall Archive on all major listening …
In December 2023 we hosted Bill Schwarz, who discussed the genesis, process and outcome of his collaboration with Stuart Hall that resulted in the memoir Familiar Stranger.
Our first Stuart Hall Archive Project symposium on 3 May 2024 was an intense day of reckoning and reasoning with the work of Stuart Hall. Hall’s early cultural studies practice was illuminated by Emeritus Professor Angela McRobbie and Dr Nick Beech, and brought into relation with contemporary concerns by Dr Francesca Sobande and Dr Julie …
In November, Les Back invited us to consider the tonality and texture of Stuart’s voice, and those elements of the interview – the rhythm of his speech, the pauses, and the laughter (in its range of qualities) – that cannot be captured in a typescript, but that provide further insight into Stuart’s history (and his relationship to that history).
A recording of Dr Rebecca Roach’s talk on ‘Conversation Machines, Missing Secretaries, Bad Readers’