Walking with Hall – watch this space!

Dialogues researchers Rebecca Roach and Katherine Parsons will be collaborating with students at the University of Birmingham this term to bring new chapters of ‘Walking with Hall’ to life, exploring Birmingham and beyond with location-based narrative. To see our latest progress, click here.

Walking with Hall – Library Model

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:

Walking with Hall

New app brings to life Stuart Hall’s seminal career at Birmingham.
Walking with Hall invites users to follow in the footsteps of the cultural studies pioneer around the University of Birmingham campus and features unseen material from his archives.

View from the Archive: Vanguard Fellow Isis Giraldo

This autumn Dr Isis Giraldo (University of Lausanne) was a visiting fellow at the Stuart Hall Archive Project. Read about her activities here: My Vanguard Fellowship at the Stuart Hall Archive, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham, was an extraordinary experience in time travelling. It provided me, among other …

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Fanfic in the Archive: Studentship

We are pleased to announce a PhD studentship call which will be associated with the Stuart Hall Archive Project: Fanfic in the Archive: ephemera, ethics, engagement This funded PhD project will examine fanfiction by and about Black British people and the ways in which such fanfiction has been historically underrepresented in archives and national collections. …

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Finding Your Feet

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 …

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Walking With Hall

Within the Digital strand of the project we are excited to be working with game designer Antonino Frazzitta on a piece of locative literature ‘Walking with Hall’. It is based on Stuart Hall’s perambulations on the University’s campus and you can test out our work in progress here.

View from the Archive: Game Design

As part of our digital explorations of Hall’s archive, we are thrilled to be working with game designer Antonio Frazzitta. Watch this space for our creative-critical collaborations. “I am a game designer and content creator, blending creativity and technical skills to design engaging worlds and bring unique experiences to life.”          

View from the Archive: Duke Fellows III

Here at the Stuart Hall Archive Project we have embarked upon a collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. This summer we have been thrilled to welcome three PhD Visiting Fellows, who have been conducting research at the archive.   Nzinga Simmons is a curator and art history scholar based in Durham, …

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