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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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We are delighted to present poet and essayist Selina Nwulu's ‘The audacity of our skin’ (2025), a newly revisited version of her 2018 work which we commissioned as part of In Search of Common Ground.

Read the key artistic intervention into our programme:
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"...we are bound to one another whether any of us like it or not, and maybe, just maybe the thing that oppresses you, oppresses us too." Selina Nwulu, The audacity of our skin, 2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In case you missed it, the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!

'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow

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From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she show
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🚨 Just over 1 week to go until this year's annual Sociology Symposium!
📅 3 Dec 12.30-4pm
📍 Williamson Bldg 4.08, UoM
☕ Refreshments provided

Join us for an afternoon of discussion, debate, and discovery!
Event poster with list of speakers and titles: Alice Swift: Transformatory Experiences of Success and Failure in the Diffusion of the Climate Camp Tactic Across Europe. Lidia Yáñez Lagos: From Project to Process: Tracing a Recursive Inquiry into Memory, and resistance to Repression in Chile’s Social Uprising. Jan Mueller: The Perceived Feasibility of Working Time Transformation and the Ideal Worker Norm: 
Insights on Barriers to Supporting the Four Day 
Week from Organisational Vignettes. Shirley Zhang: The Paradox of AI Intimacy: Dreaming Girls 
and the Emotional Agency of AI in China. Elle Shea: From Structure to Sentiment: 
Rethinking Class through Intimacy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Our continued partnership with the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social offers a studentship for a PhD candidate starting in Sep 2026.

Completed application programmes must be submitted by 1 Dec 2025, 5pm.

Learn more:
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The SHF Scholarship will be awarded to one student in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester for a PhD starting in September 2026, covering fees, a stipend and a research training grant. The funding, available to all nationalities, is for students undertaking study in any of the eight Departments within the School of Social Sciences: Criminology, Economics, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Social Anthropology, Sociology or Social Statistics. It is expected that the award-winner will be working in an interdisciplinary area of study focused on one of Stuart Hall’s many areas of interest: cultural studies, race, ethnicity and inequalities. Potential applicants should first apply to the Department of their choice for a PhD place, and will then be advised whether they can make a further application for this scholarship. Completed application programmes must be submitted by 1 December 2025, 5pm GMT.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Watch the event recording and access the transcript of the first conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series, part of our In Search of Common Ground programme:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/rea...
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We are delighted continue our partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, as @sgsss.bsky.social offer up to three Stuart Hall Fellowships for applicants under-represented at graduate level, starting in October 2026.

Learn more:
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Text overlayed over a photo. Text: Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowships: Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, beginning October 2026 Photo: a scholar participating in discussion at an SHF Peer Network programme event. We are delighted continue our partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, as SGSSS offer up to three Stuart Hall Fellowships starting in October 2026. SGSSS will award up to three SHF Fellowships, attached to funded studentships, covering fees, stipend and a research training grant. Recipients will also benefit from access to the SHF Peer Network programme, which includes regular events and opportunities to develop their career and research profile. Applications for these Fellowships are sought from UK candidates from non-traditional or disadvantaged backgrounds who are under-represented at graduate level in the Social Sciences in Scotland, and with a preference for those whose planned research aligns broadly with one of Stuart Hall’s many areas of interest: cultural studies, race, ethnicity and inequalities. Applicants can apply through SGSSS’s DTP Student-Led Open Competitions, with selected successful candidates invited to apply for a Stuart Hall Foundation (SHF) Fellowship. The SGSSS Student-Led Open Competition application submission deadline is 24 November 2025, 5pm GMT. Learn more about the application process via our website:
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Photos from the SHF Peer Network Spring Workshop with Prof. Françoise Vergès, May 2025.

The SHF Peer Network were joined by the CoDE ECR Network and YCEDE, spending the day exchanging ideas and building connections around their practices.

Learn more:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/shf...
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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