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

09:45–10:00 Arrival with tea and coffee

10:00–10:15 Welcome: Nick Beech on the ‘Conjunctural Analysis and the Politics of 2024’ series

10:15–12:30 Conjunctural and discourse analysis: hegemony and related concepts in Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau

Mark Wenman, University of Birmingham

Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary University, London

Gulshan Khan, University of Nottingham

Sarah Bufkin, University of Birmingham

12:30–13:30  Lunch

13:30–15:30 Missed and Other ‘Moments’: ‘Race’ and psychoanalysis in Conjunctural Analysis

Tony Jefferson, Keele University

John Clarke, Open University

15:30–15:45  Tea

15:45–17:15  Affect Theory and Conjunctural Analysis

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill