SHF is committed to public education and addressing urgent questions of inequality in society through talks, events, and a network of scholars and artists.
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to announce our 2026 programme expands on the theme In Search of Common Ground, continuing to consider the role of difference in building solidarities within contemporary Britain and beyond.
ALT Stuart Hall Foundation presents: In Search of Common Ground 2026.
Supported by Comic Relief, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, with programme partners the Advocacy Academy, Brixton Community Cinema, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, Conway Hall, Hood Futures and the International Curators Forum.
ALT 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: The Physics of Political Economy.
23rd May, with Fred Moten.
Conway Hall, London and online.
Reading the Crisis series:
June – November.
Hosted by K Biswas and Aasiya Lodhi, discussing economics, technology, democracy, migration, culture and climate.
Online.
Living Archives podcast:
August – September
Produced with International Curators Forum.
More activities to be announced!
ALT “How can we organise these huge, randomly varied, and diverse things we call human subjects into positions where they can recognise one another for long enough to act together, and thus to take up a position that one of these days might live out and act through as an identity? Identity is at the end, not the beginning, of the paradigm. Identity is what is at stake in political organisation. It isn’t that subjects are there and we just can’t get to them. It is that they don’t know yet that they are subjects of a possible discourse. And that always in every political struggle, since every political struggle is always open, is possible either to win their identification or lose it.”
– Stuart Hall, 'Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities' (1998) from 'Selected Writings on Race and Difference' published by Duke University Press, 2021
Tonight's event with Sheena Patel is now underway. Watch along via YouTube Live if you haven't registered to join the webinar:
youtube.com/watch?v=1bUjoyQ9…
Join us for next week's Reading the Crisis event as writer/assistant director @Sheena_Patel_ discusses culture at the current conjuncture and her book I'm A Fan (@GrantaBooks) with @BizK1.
📆 Weds 14 October
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST
📍 Online
Sign up here:
stuarthallfoundation.org/eve…
Join us for next week's Reading the Crisis event as writer/assistant director @Sheena_Patel_ discusses culture at the current conjuncture and her book I'm A Fan (@GrantaBooks) with @BizK1.
📆 Weds 14 October
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST
📍 Online
Sign up here:
stuarthallfoundation.org/eve…
In the final episode of Living Archives Season Two, Rebecca Bellantoni and Gail Lewis exchange ideas on home and belonging, the legacy of black cultural and social movements in pre-2000s Britain, and the ways everyday life shapes their work.
Photos from our SHF Peer Network Spring Workshop with Fred Moten in May at Conway Hall, facilitated by Ruth Ramsden-Karelse with members of the CoDE ECR Network joining us.
IRR is hiring for two new staff members!
As the IRR moves forward on anti-racist education, we are looking for a creative communications individual and a hands-on projects officer!
🕒 Deadline: 11:59pm 20 November 2026.
Apply here ➡️ irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/
Join us for next week's Reading the Crisis event as writer/assistant director @Sheena_Patel_ discusses culture at the current conjuncture and her book I'm A Fan (@GrantaBooks) with @BizK1.
📆 Weds 14 October
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST
📍 Online
Sign up here:
stuarthallfoundation.org/eve…
Living Archives S2 episode two brings Ebun Sodipo and Ain Bailey together to consider the potential of archives and imagination within the current landscape, collage and fragmentation in building meaning and artmaking, and how sound and performance shape an audience’s experience.
Our next conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series features Richard Seymour (@leninology) discussing his book Disaster Nationalism (@VersoBooks) and democracy with @BizK1.
📆 Weds 30 September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST
📍 Online
Register here:
stuarthallfoundation.org/eve…
Our next conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series features Richard Seymour (@leninology) discussing his book Disaster Nationalism (@VersoBooks) and democracy with @BizK1.
📆 Weds 30 September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST
📍 Online
Register here:
stuarthallfoundation.org/eve…
Revisit the intimate, essential episodes of Living Archives Season One, featuring inspiring intergenerational conversations between UK-based diasporic artists, now available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple and other widely-used digital platforms.
👇 Excerpts from season one below
Artist-curators Alberta Whittle and Sekai Machache think together about freedom, urgency and slowness, their many transnational and international collaborations, and their feelings about edges in the final episode of Living Archives S1.