This event is part of a series of symposia, seminars and lectures, exploring the ‘present conjuncture’ throughout June.

What happens when all the world goes to the polls? What is included, and what gets excluded, in political arguments made for the Metro Mayor or the British Government? Are there any connections to make between day-to-day life in Birmingham, and wars, disputes, and politics that play out across the world? Many people claim that politics is ‘downstream of culture’: is that culture shared? If so, what part of our culture? And if not, whose culture matters? This symposium brings together political commentators, service providers, artists and activists, to take the temperature of culture and politics in 2024.

Proposed Schedule:

10:00 Opening from Nick Beech (Stuart Hall Archive Project) on Stuart Hall as a public intellectual and the ‘Conjuncture and Politics in 2024’ programme

10:15 Local politics and anti-racism in Birmingham with the Birmingham Race Impact Group and West Midlands Metro-Mayoral Candidate Siobhan Harper-Nunes

11:15 The politics of culture with artists, curators and representatives of MIAI and IKON and others

12:15 The politics of education with speakers from Higher Education, Further Education, UCU, and students

To find out more about this event and to register please contact sharchiveproject@contacts.bham.ac.uk