21st January 2021
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Roger Robinson and Jay Bernard to join 4th Stuart Hall Public Conversation on 3rd February
The Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to be hosting our fourth annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: ‘Movement and Stillness: Art in a Time of Crisis and Upheaval’ on Wednesday 3rd February. This year, the event takes place online and will welcome poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Roger Robinson and Jay Bernard for an evening of readings and discussion.
Our chair, Gilane Tawadros, who will be chairing the event, says, “We are thrilled to be welcoming three important and talented artists, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Roger Robinson and Jay Bernard, to our fourth Public Conversation. We are thankful that despite these very challenging and distanced times we are able to continue this important annual event in the Foundation’s calendar, which coincides with Stuart Hall’s birthday. We look forward to welcoming everyone online to listen, share, connect, and take part in this much-needed moment of movement and stillness.”
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9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Fred Moten (photos)
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9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Fred Moten (photos)
By: Christopher Andreou
The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed cultural theorist, poet and teacher of performance studies, Fred Moten, as keynote speaker for the 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation. The event took place on Saturday 23rd May at Conway Hall in London and online via livestream broadcast as the first 2026 event in our In Search of Common Ground programme.
Moten’s keynote, drafted under the title ‘The Physics of Political Economy’ and delivered as ‘(Notes on Genocide:) Violence and the Physics of Political Economy’, used Stuart Hall’s critical engagement with Karl Marx as a point of departure to speak to the realities of practising the rejection of individuation.
The keynote was preceded by an address by Catherine Hall on the achievements of the Stuart Hall Essay Prize, and followed by a discussion between Moten and Angela McRobbie and an audience Q&A.
Following the event, attendees were invited to congregate in the hall for an informal reception with food catered by Goodness Gracious Feast and a DJ set from Anu Ambasna.
Skin Deep’s pop-up library of liberatory texts was set up in the hall throughout the day, offering attendees the opportunity to relax and flip through their back prints, works from collaborators and inspirations for their latest editions. Newham Bookshop hosted a stall with titles related to the programme available on sale throughout the event.
Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund, in collaboration with Conway Hall.
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