[Commlist] Stuart Hall International Conference CFP

*Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories*

International Conference, 31 October – 2 November 2024

Stuart Hall Archive Project

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Prof Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Prof Jeffrey Williams (Carnegie Mellon University) with Em Prof 
Catherine Hall

The Stuart Hall Archive Project 
<https://stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk/>is a three-year research 
programme launched by the University of Birmingham in 2023 to foster and 
extend research and engagement with the papers of Stuart Hall and the 
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, held at the Cadbury Research 
Library.

*Purpose of the Conference*

The Stuart Hall Archive Project is hosting an international 
conference—‘Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories’—providing an 
opportunity to assess the lasting significance of Hall’s cultural, 
political and pedagogical interventions throughout the twentieth and 
twenty-first centuries. Hall made interventions across a diverse range 
of knowledge disciplines, cultural practices, and political formations, 
often identifying, clarifying and transforming major debates of his 
time. Subsequently, Hall’s work has been taken up by, and extended, in a 
number of directions. The conference will bring together researchers who 
are investigating the history of Hall’s intellectual and political 
formation and development, with those who work in critical dialogue with 
Hall’s work in the analysis and transformation of the present. Open to 
artists, cultural and political activists, as well as scholars working 
in cultural studies and arts, humanities and the social sciences, 
‘Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories’ aims to provide a forum for 
critical dialogue and debate.

*Call for Papers*

The conference organisers invite contributions that engage with the 
history of Hall’s work, or extend that work into the present. This might 
include (for example) research that explores:

Hall’s work on identity and social and cultural formations, through his 
concepts of ‘diaspora’, ‘Créolité’, and the ‘cosmopolitan’, and through 
his critical examination of national, racial, and ethnic representations 
and identifications;

reflections on Hall’s politics, including his commentaries on 
contemporary political developments (and the relevance of those 
commentaries today), his relationship to Marxism, his contribution to 
theories of the state, socialism and Parliamentary and 
extra-Parliamentary political practice;

the development of Cultural Studies by Hall at the Centre for 
Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and later the Open University and 
his analyses of popular culture, media, youth sub-cultures, deviancy and 
crime;

the distinct forms of educational practice that Hall developed whether 
in higher education, or in schools and non-traditional educational 
environments, and how his practice might be inform educational practice 
and theory today;

the geographies and histories of Hall’s intellectual and cultural 
work—the networks, communities and traditions that he engaged in, 
intervened in, extended or established;

his engagement with feminism, Black political thought and activism, the 
arts, and the politics of sexuality;

and his contribution to debates on history, heritage, the extended, 
constituted and living archive.

If you are interested in presenting a 20 minute paper summarising your 
research, please submit an abstract using the following format:

Abstracts should be submitted using the form availablehere 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=z8oksN7eQUKhXDyX1VPp83uThs5arlFLrL7ImXnUX6VUN0VHVlJLQU8xNVBTQ1BDOE4zV0VBTUZWQSQlQCN0PWcu>. 
Please include:

·Name, affiliation, email address

·Title

·A 300-word abstract

·Five keywords

For queries (contactsharchiveproject /at/ contacts.bham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(sharchiveproject /at/ contacts.bham.ac.uk)>

We will also consider alternative formats of presentation or session 
proposals, including but not limited to—roundtables and other discussion 
formats, workshops, performance works, guided walks and tours, 
audio-visual broadcasts.

Proposals should be submitted using the form availablehere 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=z8oksN7eQUKhXDyX1VPp83uThs5arlFLrL7ImXnUX6VUNkhJVVZHVzE2NEpTU1VERUFQQjQyMFBGNCQlQCN0PWcu>. 
Please include:

·Name of main contact

·Names of participants other than contact (if relevant)

·Title

·A 300-word description of the proposed event, including details of 
technical requirements

For queries (contactsharchiveproject /at/ contacts.bham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(sharchiveproject /at/ contacts.bham.ac.uk)>

*DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS and PROPOSALS: Thursday 25 July (23:59, UCT+1)*

*Notification of acceptance of Abstracts: Friday 6 September*

*Registration Opens: Monday 16 September*

*Confirmation of Programme: Thursday 4 October*

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