The final day of the Stuart Hall Archive Project/POLSIS hosted series on conjunctural analysis and politics in 2024. This one day symposium examines the consequences (for analysis and political praxis) of international forces of imperialism and neo-colonialism, and global forces such as the climate crisis. 

Transplanting Hall’s conceptualization of the conjuncture to the domain of contemporary international politics forces us to ask new questions. Does mapping these new moments of crisis and contradiction require us to change our concepts, our objects of critique, or our methodological approach? What can we take from Hall’s pioneering work on the conjuncture and what might we need to rework in order to adequately grasp today’s political headwinds?

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Conjunctural Analysis in the International Frame

9:30 – 9:45: Arrivals and coffee

9:45 – 10:00: Welcome and Introduction

10:00 – 11:30: Progeny of Empire: Defining Moments of Nation Formation in South Africa and Palestine/Israel

•   Gillian Hart (Berkeley/Wits)
•  Discussants: Tim Karayiannides (Cambridge) and Hashem Abushama (Oxford)

11:30 – 11:45: Coffee break

11:45 – 13:00: Conjunctural Analysis and Planetary Catastrophe

• Conjunctural Analysis, Climate Catastrophe, and the More-than-Human

Pat Noxolo (Birmingham)

• Improbable Territories, Improbable Times: How to inhabit differently

AbdouMaliq Simone (Sheffield)

13:00 – 13:45: Lunch break

13:45 – 15:15: Conjunctural Analysis in the Catastrophe

• a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies

Hashem Abushama (Oxford)

• Cultural Studies in Times of War and Genocide

Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths)

• Rubble Under [pseudo]Urbanisation: on the AI imaginaries of Gaza

Mahsa Alami Fariman (Coventry)

15:15 – 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00: New Media Technologies, Emergent Political Subjectivities

• The internet's rugged individuals: Exploring "do-it-yourself" approaches to political truth and knowledge
  • Cindy Ma (Leeds)
• TBD – 
  • Marcus Gilroy-Ware (SOAS)
• WhatsApp in the Global Digital Conjuncture 
  • Lipika Kamra (Birmingham)

17:00 – 17:10: Concluding Remarks