Date and Time
16th September, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Online
Speakers and Artists
- Leah Cowan
- K Biswas
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.
The fourth conversation of this year’s series takes place on Wednesday 16th September 2026, 5.30pm – 7pm BST (UK time), with host K Biswas joined by Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation: A Story of Migration (2021), for a discussion focusing on migration.
This event will take place online.
Live closed captions will be provided.
Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.
Speakers and Artists
Leah Cowan
Leah Cowan is a writer, editor, researcher and advocate. They write on state violence, gender, and the border regime in the UK as part of an extended colonial legacy. Leah is the former Politics Editor at gal-dem, an award-winning UK-based online and print magazine dedicated to centring people of colour from marginalised genders. Leah also works at Project 17, an advice centre for migrant families who cannot access welfare support from the state and are facing homelessness and destitution. They are co-editor of Lasta, a new feminist abolitionist print magazine of insurgent feminisms.
K Biswas
K Biswas is a critic who has written for the New Statesman, New York Times, The Observer, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the Chair of Resonance FM, Europe’s most popular community radio station, and Editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity.
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