Readings seminar: bill schwarz

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.

SHAP Symposium

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 …

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Readings Seminar: Les Back

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). 

Keyforms

SHAP PI Dr Rebecca Roach has recently launched a blog, keyforms.bham.ac.uk

Research Seminar

A recording of Dr Rebecca Roach’s talk on ‘Conversation Machines, Missing Secretaries, Bad Readers’