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The Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and supporting artists and academics.

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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · Mar 25
Marking the Stuart Hall Foundation’s 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

This year, join us to collectively consider the role of difference in broadening the intellectual and creative scope of social justice movements working today.
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 years. In Search of Common Ground: With Prof. Françoise Vergès, Mohammed Elnaiem, Brenna Bhandar, Hashem Abushama, Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi, Gary Younge, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Aasiya Lodhi. Supported by Comic Relief, Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), Pluto Press, Soundings and Words of Colour.
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Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
The Stuart Hall Essay Prize. 25 days left to enter. Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society. Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’. Submissions due by November 3, 2025. Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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We're looking forward to sharing news, opportunities and updates on our In Search of Common Ground programme later this month.

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October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Far from being a last resort, exclusions are used prematurely to bolster schools’ results. There is a failure of schools to recognise and respond to unmet needs, structural disadvantage, and the ongoing pervasiveness and impact of racism.

Read the full report 👇
History on loop: the sustained impact of school exclusions on Black communities
School exclusions are a form of structural racism, and indicate deep failings within educational settings.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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School exclusions are a form of structural racism, and indicate deep failings within educational settings, our latest report with Communities Empowerment Network details 🧵
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Expressions of interest to chair the Stuart Hall Foundation's Board of Trustees are due by 23:59 tonight.

Learn more: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · Jul 22
The Stuart Hall Foundation seeks to appoint a new Chair to lead its Board of Trustees.

The Chair will continue to build and lead the Foundation with a distinct identity as a public education charity working in service of social justice.

Learn more here:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Starting now - follow the conversation on YouTube live:
www.youtube.com/@StuartHallF...
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · Aug 21
Join author, broadcaster and professor Gary Younge and scholar, author and activist @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation prompted by Stuart Hall and bell hooks' Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue.

📆 Tues 9 Sep
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

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Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 3: Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue Between bell hooks and Stuart Hall (2017)' Speakers: Gary Younge, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Location: Online Date: Tuesday 9th September 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Join author, broadcaster and professor Gary Younge and scholar, author and activist @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation prompted by Stuart Hall and bell hooks' Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue.

📆 Tues 9 Sep
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Sign up:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/in-...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 3: Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue Between bell hooks and Stuart Hall (2017)' Speakers: Gary Younge, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Location: Online Date: Tuesday 9th September 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
August 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Watch the video recording of Françoise Vergès' keynote and discussion with Mohammed Elnaiem at the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation, inaugurating our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

Available with BSL interpretation and transcript:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/fra...
Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present - Stuart Hall Foundation
For the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation, the Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed political theorist, writer, activist, independent curator and political educator, Prof. Françoise Vergès as the ...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Live now - join us via YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_i9...
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · Jul 4
Join political activist/writer Houria Bouteldja and writer/researcher Lola Olufemi for a discussion on anticolonial thought, through a 1986 conversation between CLR James and Stuart Hall.

📆 Mon 28 July
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Register for free:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 2: CLR James in Conversation with Stuart Hall (1986) Speakers: Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi Location: Online Date: Monday 28th July 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
July 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Today's event commences in half an hour:
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · Jul 4
Join political activist/writer Houria Bouteldja and writer/researcher Lola Olufemi for a discussion on anticolonial thought, through a 1986 conversation between CLR James and Stuart Hall.

📆 Mon 28 July
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Register for free:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 2: CLR James in Conversation with Stuart Hall (1986) Speakers: Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi Location: Online Date: Monday 28th July 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Stuart Hall Foundation seeks to appoint a new Chair to lead its Board of Trustees.

The Chair will continue to build and lead the Foundation with a distinct identity as a public education charity working in service of social justice.

Learn more here:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
July 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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There are still some spaces left for our online workshop 'Writing through Fugitivity' hosted by Lola Olufemi this Thursday! Four subsidised spaces remain specifically for Black writers. Other concession tickets are also available.

Book your spot: buff.ly/JpqsX04
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Join political activist/writer Houria Bouteldja and writer/researcher Lola Olufemi for a discussion on anticolonial thought, through a 1986 conversation between CLR James and Stuart Hall.

📆 Mon 28 July
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Register for free:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 2: CLR James in Conversation with Stuart Hall (1986) Speakers: Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi Location: Online Date: Monday 28th July 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Join political activist/writer Houria Bouteldja and writer/researcher Lola Olufemi for a discussion on anticolonial thought, through a 1986 conversation between CLR James and Stuart Hall.

📆 Mon 28 July
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Register for free:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 2: CLR James in Conversation with Stuart Hall (1986) Speakers: Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi Location: Online Date: Monday 28th July 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. New entries will be accepted until 5pm GMT, 3rd November 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18-30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
June 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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"(Settler coloniser), which is again a racial identification with the idea that theft of Indigenous land is somehow to be normalised and accepted, which is of course the status quo in places like Canada and the US"
June 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Recommend accessing the YouTube recording of 'Reading the Crisis' once available and accessing free download of Hall's 2004 text 'For Edward Said'. Thanks to SHF, Brenna Bhandar & Hashem Abushama. Part of SHF 2025 programme @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social www.stuarthallfoundation.org/event-news/r....
June 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Tune in now via YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFy9...
June 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Join academics and authors Brenna Bhandar and Hashem Abushama for an online discussion on contemporary discourse of Israel-Palestine and Stuart Hall's address 'For Edward Said' (2004).

📆 Wed 4 June
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Learn more and register:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 1: For Edward Said (2004) Speakers: Brenna Bhandar, Hashem Abushama Location: Online Date: Wednesday 4th June 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Join academics and authors Brenna Bhandar and Hashem Abushama for an online discussion on contemporary discourse of Israel-Palestine and Stuart Hall's address 'For Edward Said' (2004).

📆 Wed 4 June
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Learn more and register:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...
Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 1: For Edward Said (2004) Speakers: Brenna Bhandar, Hashem Abushama Location: Online Date: Wednesday 4th June 2025 Tme: 5.30 - 7pm (BST / UK time) Supported by Comic Relief, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Words of Colour, Pluto Press, Soundings, and Taylor & Francis.
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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On 17th May we welcomed Françoise Vergès to deliver the keynote at the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation and to sit in discussion with Mohammed Elnaiem, inaugurating our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

Photos by Christopher Andreou:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/8th...
May 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Tuned in from Denmark; always in awe of Vergès. Motivated to "confront finite disappointment with infinite hope" by weaving "the tapestry of common ground from the ashes...building common ground is building transnational solidarity."
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · May 7
We're looking forward to welcoming writer and activist Prof. Françoise Vergès to our next event, where she'll deliver her keynote, ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’.

📅 Sat 17 May
🕒 3pm
📍 Conway Hall + Online

Book now:
stuarthallfoundation.org/events/8th-a...

Learn more:
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: “Imagining a post-racist and post-capitalist future seems impossible when the present is plagued with genocide and imperialist wars; when catastrophic floods, hurricanes and fires engulf our planet; when murderous migration policies and increased poverty further entrenches racism, xenophobia, and misogyny into the fabric of our societies. Liberating the present from colonisation, racial neoliberal capitalism, and the forces which make our planet uninhabitable for human and nonhuman species alike necessitates orienting our political imaginations towards wholesale revolutionary change; towards the possibility of forging a future in which all life can flourish, in which all life is protected.” “Stuart Hall called upon us to embrace “a politics without guarantees”, by which he suggests that we cannot construct a politics simply through denunciation and condemnation. Instead, we ought to produce “new dimensions of meaning which have not been foreclosed by the systems of power which are in operation.” This is a call for radical imagining and action, for thinking beyond the imperialist post-World War II order.” – Françoise Vergès on "There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present", 2025
May 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"Abolition is the method for common ground and infinite hope" said Professor Françoise Vergès in her talk today. Thank you from the depth of my spirit Professor Vergès and thank you @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social for making this event happen and available online.
stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · May 7
We're looking forward to welcoming writer and activist Prof. Françoise Vergès to our next event, where she'll deliver her keynote, ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’.

📅 Sat 17 May
🕒 3pm
📍 Conway Hall + Online

Book now:
stuarthallfoundation.org/events/8th-a...

Learn more:
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: “Imagining a post-racist and post-capitalist future seems impossible when the present is plagued with genocide and imperialist wars; when catastrophic floods, hurricanes and fires engulf our planet; when murderous migration policies and increased poverty further entrenches racism, xenophobia, and misogyny into the fabric of our societies. Liberating the present from colonisation, racial neoliberal capitalism, and the forces which make our planet uninhabitable for human and nonhuman species alike necessitates orienting our political imaginations towards wholesale revolutionary change; towards the possibility of forging a future in which all life can flourish, in which all life is protected.” “Stuart Hall called upon us to embrace “a politics without guarantees”, by which he suggests that we cannot construct a politics simply through denunciation and condemnation. Instead, we ought to produce “new dimensions of meaning which have not been foreclosed by the systems of power which are in operation.” This is a call for radical imagining and action, for thinking beyond the imperialist post-World War II order.” – Françoise Vergès on "There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present", 2025
May 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We're pleased to welcome Bleue Liverpool as the 2025
University of Sussex Stuart Hall Fellow.

As part of her Fellowship, Bleue will present new work with Ibukun Sunday at Brighton Festival.

📅 Friday 23 May
🕢 7.30pm
📍 @sussex.ac.uk, Brighton

Learn more:
stuarthallfoundation.org/culture/bleu...
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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We're looking forward to welcoming writer and activist Prof. Françoise Vergès to our next event, where she'll deliver her keynote, ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’.

📅 Sat 17 May
🕒 3pm
📍 Conway Hall + Online

Book now:
stuarthallfoundation.org/events/8th-a...

Learn more:
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: “Imagining a post-racist and post-capitalist future seems impossible when the present is plagued with genocide and imperialist wars; when catastrophic floods, hurricanes and fires engulf our planet; when murderous migration policies and increased poverty further entrenches racism, xenophobia, and misogyny into the fabric of our societies. Liberating the present from colonisation, racial neoliberal capitalism, and the forces which make our planet uninhabitable for human and nonhuman species alike necessitates orienting our political imaginations towards wholesale revolutionary change; towards the possibility of forging a future in which all life can flourish, in which all life is protected.” “Stuart Hall called upon us to embrace “a politics without guarantees”, by which he suggests that we cannot construct a politics simply through denunciation and condemnation. Instead, we ought to produce “new dimensions of meaning which have not been foreclosed by the systems of power which are in operation.” This is a call for radical imagining and action, for thinking beyond the imperialist post-World War II order.” – Françoise Vergès on "There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present", 2025
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM