Registration for this year’s Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open.
Reading the Crisis asks: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to confront this conjuncture? The online conversation series returns for a third year in an expanded format featuring six in-depth engagements with economics, technology, democracy, migration, culture and climate respectively.
Hosted by senior lecturer and former BBC Radio senior producer Aasiya Lodhi and critic, media theorist and editor of Representology K Biswas, each conversation forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.
Reading the Crisis will take place online monthly from June to November:
Thursday 18th June 2026
Economy: Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy
hosted by Aasiya Lodhi
5.30pm – 7pm BST
Tuesday 14th July 2026
Technology: Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
hosted by K Biswas
5.30pm – 7pm BST
Wednesday 12th August 2026
Democracy: Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
hosted by K Biswas
5.30pm – 7pm BST
Wednesday 16th September 2026
Migration: Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation: A Story of Migration
hosted by K Biswas
5.30pm – 7pm BST
Wednesday 14th October 2026
Culture: Sheena Patel, author of I’m a Fan
hosted by K Biswas
5.30pm – 7pm BST
Tuesday 17th November 2026
Climate: Tao Leigh Goffe, author of Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
hosted by Aasiya Lodhi
5.30pm – 7pm GMT
Events will take place online. Live closed captions will be provided.
In Search of Common Ground is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.
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