Date and Time
23rd May, 3:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London. WC1R 4RL
Speakers and Artists
- Fred Moten
The Stuart Hall Foundation invites you to the first event of our 2026 programme, building on the theme In Search of Common Ground. The 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation will welcome cultural theorist, poet and teacher of performance studies, Fred Moten, to Conway Hall as its keynote speaker.
Fred Moten’s keynote speech, titled ‘The Physics of Political Economy’, will trace the lines between theory and action stemming from Professor Stuart Hall’s engagement with Marxism:
“Among so many other things, Stuart Hall is a wonderfully careful and rigorous reader of Karl Marx. Hall’s critical attendance upon Marx, which is perhaps more accurately described as a generative critical entanglement with Marx, offers new ways to understand the physics, as well as the metaphysics, of political economy. In so doing, the relay between intellectual method and insurgent tactics is illuminated and renewed as well. Let’s pay attention to what we do and how we move.”
– Fred Moten
Fred Moten’s keynote will be followed by a discussion with an interlocutor and an audience Q&A.
Guests are warmly invited to gather together in Conway Hall afterwards for an informal reception where complimentary hot food will be available for all ticket holders. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the bar.
Newham Bookshop will host a book stall with titles related to the programme available on sale throughout the event.
Full details of the In Search of Common Ground programme are available here.
Booking information
Please note, doors will open at 2.30pm. The event will begin at 3pm prompt.
Attendees can either attend in person at Conway Hall in London, UK, or join online via a livestream.
Tickets are now on sale and cost £7 standard / £5 concession / £5 online. A £12 supporter ticket is also available for attendees who wish to contribute more to help support this event. All prices listed here are inclusive of a £2 venue levy.
BSL interpretation will take place on stage. Live online captions will be available to view during the event via a webpage attendees can access via their own devices – check back here for the link nearer to the event date.
For any additional access information, please contact us at info@stuarthallfoundation.org.
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.
Speakers and Artists
Fred Moten
Fred Moten teaches performance studies at New York University. He has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the most recent of which are consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018) and Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books, 2023). Moten is now primarily engaged in a set of ongoing collaborations. He and Stefano Harney are co-authors of three books the most recent of which is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021). He is a member of the interdisciplinary arts collective Moved by the Motion and under its auspices is co-author, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me? (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016). Moten frequently accompanies bassist Brandon López. Their latest album is Revision (Tao Forms Records, 2025). Moten works on all of this with his comrade Laura Harris and their children Julian and Lorenzo.
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