Reading the Crisis
Our new Reading the Crisis series asks: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture? This online conversation series will seek to advance Stuart Hall’s thinking by analysing a curated selection of three of Hall's essays in relation to present-day political formations. Each conversation, chaired by Aasiya Lodhi, will form an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice, deepen organising work, and academic study.
Events will take place online. Live closed captions will be provided.
Reading the Crisis is part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Catastrophe and Emergence programme. Learn more about Catastrophe and Emergence here.
In partnership with Duke University Press supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Tuesday 7th May 2024
Ilan Pappé & Priyamvada Gopal
‘The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power’ (1992)
5.30pm – 7pm BST
The essay is available to read for free from 16th April – 14th May here.
Monday 24th June 2024
Aditya Chakrabortty & Moya Lothian-McLean
‘The Neoliberal Revolution’ (2011)
5.30pm – 7pm BST
The essay is available to read for free from 3rd June – 1st July here.
Tuesday 23rd July 2024
Gail Lewis & Roderick Ferguson
‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (1990)
5.30pm – 7pm BST
The essay is available to read for free from 2nd July – 30th July here.
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About the speakers
Professor Ilan Pappé is the director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He received his D. Phil from the University of Oxford. From 1984 to 2006, Pappé taught at the University of Haifa, Israel from which he resigned in 2006 after various failed attempts to expel him due to his ideological positions. He moved to the University of Exeter in 2007. Pappé has written 22 books to date, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine (with Noam Chomsky, 2010). His most recent books are The Ten Myths of Israel (2018), The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation (2019), A Historical Dictionary of Palestine (with Johnny Mansour 2021) and Our Vision for Liberation (with Ramzy Baroud 2022).
Priyamvada Gopal is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the author, among other books of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2019). She has written widely for newspapers and magazines in Britain, India and the USA in addition to contributing to programmes on the BBC, Channel 4, NDTV India, Al-Jazeera, and Democracy Now! She is currently on a Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA working on a project on decolonisation.
Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian, where he writes a regular column and reports from around Britain and the world. In 2017 he won the British Journalism Award for Comment Journalist of the year, and his work has also won a Social Policy Association award and a Harold Wincott prize for Business Journalism. Aditya has been a finalist for an Orwell Prize for journalism in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and in 2023 won the British Press Award for Best Broadsheet Columnist of the year. Before joining the Guardian in 2007 he worked for the BBC as Economics Producer, covering economics for the Ten O’Clock News and then making films for Newsnight. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television, appearing on Newsnight and Question Time. Aditya is now working on his first book, to be published by Allen Lane / Penguin.
Moya Lothian-McLean is a politics journalist with a focus on adding nuance and clarity to political discourse. She is currently a Contributing Editor at Novara Media and presents the Broccoli Productions podcast ‘Human Resources’, an exploration of Britain’s slaving past.
Gail Lewis has written, but is trying to become a writer; Gail likes to speak, but is still seeking her tonalities; Gail sometimes feels lonely, inept and scared; but Gail is brought into being in and by the company, care and joy of black/women of colour feminisms and queer knowings and livings.
Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference(University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). He is the co-editor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University, 2011). He is also co-editor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (NYU, 2018). He is the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS).
Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Westminster. She’s a former BBC journalist and radio producer.
About the Stuart Hall Foundation
The Stuart Hall Foundation was established in 2015 by Professor Stuart Hall’s family, friends and colleagues. The Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and building a growing network of Stuart Hall Foundation scholars and artists in residence.
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
About the Duke University Press
Duke University Press supports scholars in doing what they are passionate about: learning, teaching, and effecting positive change in the world. This bold, progressive spirit drives both what and how they publish. Each year they publish about 140 new books, more than 50 journals, and multiple digital collections that transform current thinking and move fields forward. Their work supports Duke University’s mission to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute to the international community of scholarship. Originally founded as Trinity College Press in 1921, they became Duke University Press in 1926. The Press is located in Durham, North Carolina in the United States.
https://www.dukeupress.edu
