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28th February 2022 / Video

Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity (5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation, 3rd February 2022)

5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation – ‘Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity’ took place on 3rd February 2022, with speakers…

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

the different ways in which Hall articulated his evolving sense of Marxism

26th May 2021 / Video

An Audience With Angela Davis (keynote speech, 17th Sep 2020)

On Thursday 17th September 2020, the Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed world-famous author and activist Angela Davis for ‘An Audience with Angela…

7th January 2021 / Video

Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life | Thinking About Thinking

By: Media Education Foundation

Originally Published by the Media Education Foundation The Media Education Foundation presents a newly discovered recording of a seminal…

26th July 2021 / Video

Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Marxism, an online roundtable

To mark the publication of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, edited by Gregor McLennan, the Stuart Hall Foundation partnered with…

13th May 2021 / Video

Theory From the Margins Presents: Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference

By: Theory From the Margins

This Theory from the Margins event discusses Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson…

3rd February 2021 / Video

Linton Kwesi Johnson on the role of the poet (4th Stuart Hall Public Conversation, February 2021)

“Poetry for me was a cultural weapon in the black liberation struggle” – Linton Kwesi Johnson

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12th September 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 4: Ajamu & Bernice Mulenga

In episode 4 of Living Archives, Ajamu and Bernice Mulenga bend time reflecting on their respective approaches to photography, intimacy and…

29th August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 3: Roshini Kempadoo & Jacob V Joyce

In the third episode of Living Archives, Roshini Kempadoo and Jacob V Joyce exchange ideas around Stuart Hall’s work and legacy, the…

15th August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 2: Beverley Bennett & Marlene Smith

In episode 2 of Living Archives Beverley Bennett and Marlene Smith discuss their practices in relation to family, collectivity and…

1st August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 1: Ingrid Pollard & Rudy Loewe

In this, the first conversation in the Living Archives series, we sit down with Ingrid Pollard and Rudy Loewe to discuss the links between their…

20th June 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 6: ‘Abolition in the UK’ with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

In the sixth and final episode of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Often dismissed or set aside…

6th June 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 5: ‘Queer Class Politics’ with Sita Balani

In episode 5 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Sita Balani. They explore the legacies of queer liberation struggles…

23rd May 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 4: ‘The Cold War’ with Vijay Prashad

In episode 4 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Vijay Prashad. They discuss the legacies of the Cold War from the…

9th May 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 3: ‘Identity Politics’ with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

In episode 3 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. They discuss how politics moves between the world…

25th April 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 2: ‘The Politics of Decolonisation’ with Françoise Vergès

In episode 2 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Françoise Vergès. They explore the connections and disparities…

11th April 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 1: ‘On Stuart Hall’ with Kojo Koram

In episode 1 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Kojo Koram about Stuart Hall’s contributions to radical thought and…

Highgate Cemetery Commission

16th June 2022 / Article

Introduction to Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’

By: Becky Hall

On 9th June 2022, the Stuart Hall Foundation hosted Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’, launching Trevor…

21st June 2022 / Audio

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening by Trevor Mathison (audio)

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening is a 40-minute immersive soundscape from artist Trevor Mathison that offers a re-examination…

21st June 2022 / Images

Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’ (photos)

By: Jessica Emovon

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We…

16th June 2022 / Video

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening, with Trevor Mathison and Aasiya Lodhi

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We…

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28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Healthcare

The panel discussed the legacies of covid, draw connections between cost of living crisis and healthcare, and the impacts of privatisation on…

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Housing

The panel focused on responses to the cost of living crisis and the housing crisis, impact on low-income communities, and resistance to the…

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Activism

This session focused on the state of queer activism in the UK, coalition building in times of crises, and queer class politics. • Omie Dale,…

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in a Time of Crises: Education and Policing

This panel thought through the connections between education and policing, the expansion of prevent, and ideas around alternative curriculums….

15th August 2022 / Video

Building Black Cultural Institutions with Gilane Tawadros, Lisa Anderson, Ian Sergeant, Marlene Smith and Amahra Spence

What is the word ‘Black’ in ‘Black Cultural Institutions’? Why does it seem like there are so few black-led arts organisations in the UK that…

16th June 2022 / Video

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening, with Trevor Mathison and Aasiya Lodhi

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We…

16th June 2022 / Video

Whose Memorials? with Barby Asante and Shawn Sobers

The state backlash against the mass protests for racial justice in June 2020 is well underway. A reaction punctuated by the recent passing of…

14th March 2022 / Video

The Politics of Care with Dharmi Kapadia and Dzifa Afonu

How can we make sense of the concept of ‘care’ in today’s political and economic landscape? After twelve years of austerity, large scale public…

28th February 2022 / Video

Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity (5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation, 3rd February 2022)

5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation – ‘Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity’ took place on 3rd February 2022, with speakers…

18th January 2022 / Video

Frontlines: Land and the Climate Crisis with Abeer Butmeh, Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Sam Siva

Land both contributes and is affected by climate change. It is the frontlines of the climate crisis where livelihoods, resources and inherited…

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20th June 2023 / Article

A Living Archive – Research Progress

By: Dharma Taylor

20th June 2023 / Article

A Living Archive – Research Progress

By: Dharma Taylor

‘Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at the Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor…

16th June 2022 / Article

Introduction to Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’

By: Becky Hall

On 9th June 2022, the Stuart Hall Foundation hosted Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’, launching Trevor…

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

the different ways in which Hall articulated his evolving sense of Marxism

18th January 2022 / Video

Frontlines: Land and the Climate Crisis with Abeer Butmeh, Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Sam Siva

Land both contributes and is affected by climate change. It is the frontlines of the climate crisis where livelihoods, resources and inherited…

"we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown"
10th January 2022 / Article

The End of the World is Never the End of Everything

By: Arwa Aburawa

"we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown"
10th January 2022 / Article

The End of the World is Never the End of Everything

By: Arwa Aburawa

we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown

"We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises"
14th December 2021 / Article

Decolonial Methodologies

By: Ashish Ghadiali

"We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises"
14th December 2021 / Article

Decolonial Methodologies

By: Ashish Ghadiali

We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises

"Environmental politics must involve praxis."
1st December 2021 / Article

Praxis: A Graphic Novel

By: Aneesa Khan

"Environmental politics must involve praxis."
1st December 2021 / Article

Praxis: A Graphic Novel

By: Aneesa Khan

Environmental politics must involve praxis.

"[…] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up."
17th November 2021 / Article

A Green New Deal for Whom?

By: Dalia Gebrial

"[…] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up."
17th November 2021 / Article

A Green New Deal for Whom?

By: Dalia Gebrial

[…] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up.

3rd November 2021 / Video

Climate Justice From Below: Race, Class and Climate Crisis with Jhannel Tomlinson and Leon Sealey-Huggins

By: Jhannel Tomlinson & Leon Sealey-Huggins

Our #ReconstructionWork online conversation series continues with another special event with support from Arts Council England. In the global…

"…intellectuals whose indispensable work one returns to over and over again."
21st July 2021 / Article

The Impossibility of the Black Intellectual

By: Sindre Bangstad

"…intellectuals whose indispensable work one returns to over and over again."
21st July 2021 / Article

The Impossibility of the Black Intellectual

By: Sindre Bangstad

…intellectuals whose indispensable work one returns to over and over again.

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26th April 2023 / Images

6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Jacqueline Rose (photos)

By: Conway Hall

The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed renowned public intellectual Jacqueline Rose for our 6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation at Conway…

30th September 2022 / Images

SHF Autumn Keynote with Arundhati Roy

By: Piers Allardyce/Conway Hall

30th September 2022 / Images

SHF Autumn Keynote with Arundhati Roy

By: Piers Allardyce/Conway Hall

In the twenty-five years since the release of her world-renowned Booker Prize winning novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati Roy has…

21st June 2022 / Images

Special Preview: ‘The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening’ (photos)

By: Jessica Emovon

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We…

8th November 2019 / Images

Third Public Conversation: Resistance

By: Francis Augusto

8th November 2019 / Images

Third Public Conversation: Resistance

By: Francis Augusto

“We are living through a period of profound political instability, in which old paradigms are crumbling, and new ones struggling to be born. At…

23rd November 2017 / Images

Elaine Mitchener’s SWEET TOOTH Premier

By: Elaine Mitchener

23rd November 2017 / Images

Elaine Mitchener’s SWEET TOOTH Premier

By: Elaine Mitchener

Elaine Mitchener’s SWEET TOOTH premiered at Bluecoat, Liverpool in 2017. It’s a powerful music theatre performance interrogating historical…

13th October 2017 / Images

BLK ACT MAP: Artistic Launch

By: Nadyah Aissa

13th October 2017 / Images

BLK ACT MAP: Artistic Launch

By: Nadyah Aissa

The  BLK ACT MAP emerged from a series of intergenerational conversations organised by the Foundation. Younger groups of artists, cultural…

4th July 2000 / Images

Stuart Hall, 2000

By: Eamonn McCabe

4th July 2000 / Images

Stuart Hall, 2000

By: Eamonn McCabe

16th December 1958 / Image

Stuart Hall at CND Rally, Trafalgar Square, 1958

By: Allen Lane

16th December 1958 / Image

Stuart Hall at CND Rally, Trafalgar Square, 1958

By: Allen Lane