SHF Scholars to present panel at 'Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories' conference

A number of scholars from the SHF Scholars and Fellows Network are scheduled to present as part of the ‘Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories’ conference this week.

The panel session ‘Conversations with Hall’, programmed as part of the ‘Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories’ conference (31 Oct – 2 Nov 2024) hosted by the Stuart Hall Archive Project at Birmingham University, features several SHF Network members as presenters and discussants.

The session, which takes place 11.30am – 1pm on Friday 1st November, brings together a number of SHF scholars to explore the legacy of Hall’s writing with regard to education, cultural production, Afro-Diasporic cultures and the nature of intellectual scholarship. Ideas will be presented using a dialogic format, honouring Hall’s prioritization of intellectual exchange with three presentations whose themes and arguments are expanded through peer-to-peer discussion.

Addressing the relevance of Stuart Hall’s reflections in the field of education, Sylvia Ikomi will reflect on her journey as a Stuart Hall scholar and the challenges of applying the tenets of the critical academic scholarship that Hall outlined in his renowned speech ‘Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life’. Gabriel Marques Camargo will examine how a traditional Umbanda terreiro community in Brazil constructs its understanding of an Afro-diasporic identity, which informs the community’s engagement with local public and political spaces. Departing from examples of migrant songwriting from the Haitian diaspora in Brazil, Caetano Santos will discuss how music emerges as a consequential form of understanding the Haitian migrant experience in Brazil during and the consequences of migration upon self-conceptions of cultural identity and diaspora.

Discussants:
Lola Olufemi (CREAM, University of Westminster)
CJ Simon (University of Sheffield/White Rose DTP)

Presenters:
Sylvia Ikomi (University of Leeds/White Rose DTP)
Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester)
Caetano Santos (University of Oxford, Merton College)

The panel is a hybrid event, with online access registration available here.

Additionally, a number of SHF trustees, associates, patrons, and other scholars and fellows will be participating in the conference. Gilane Tawadros will be in conversation with David A. Bailey in celebration of the launch of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the Imaginary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024), Em Prof Catherine Hall will be in conversation with Prof Jeffrey Williams, and Aruna Wittmann, Isis Giraldo and Roshini Kempadoo will all be presenting on different panels. The Stuart Hall Archive Project is led by Associate Professor Nick Beech, School of Social Policy and Society at the University of Birmingham.

Learn more about the conference programme and registration on the Stuart Hall Archive Project website.