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 first conversation of this year’s series took place on Thursday 18th June 2026 with host Aasiya Lodhi joined by Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy (2025), for a discussion focusing on economics.

Read a transcript of the event here:
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RTC-2026-1-transcript.pdf

Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

Reading the Crisis is part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme. Learn more about In Search of Common Ground by clicking here.