You are invited to read and listen to a selection of Stuart Hall’s unpublished lectures, interviews, and letters, discussing his life and work and our own times.

Each month, the Stuart Hall Archive Project (SHAP), in association with the Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture (CCLC) will provide digital access to material from the papers of Stuart Hall, held at the Cadbury Research Library. 

Open to all - researchers, students, teachers, activists, poets, artists, organisers, those who do the work and need some time to think - the seminars will be held in person at the Birmingham Race Impact Group (BRIG) Café, 54-57 Allison Street, 3-5pm on Wednesday mid-month, with invited discussants who will lead the conversation. 

Wednesday 15 January - Nick Beech (SHAP) and Asha Rogers (CCLC) will introduce the series and we will read 'Think Small - But Hard' (1971) and 'Marxisms and Pluralisms' (1983), letters written by Stuart Hall to staff and students at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, about collaborative work, arguments, learning, and politics.

Wednesday 12 February - Shahmima Akhtar (University of Birmingham) will lead a discussion of an interview with Stuart Hall, reflecting on the consequences of Enoch Powell, and Stuart Hall's opening speech at the Caribbean Artists Movement Conference in 1968.

Wednesday 12 March - Gary Younge (University of Manchester, Co-host of 'Over the Top Under the Radar' podcast) and Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths' University of London) will lead a discussion of two speeches given by Stuart Hall - 'Colour Prejudice Must Go' (1961) and 'In Defence of Walter Rodney' (1974)

Wednesday 2 April - Nick Beech (SHAP) and Sarah Bufkin (University of Birmingham) will lead a discussion on Stuart Hall's  seminar 'Roots/Routes to English Identity' (mid-1980s) left to us in audio cassette form.

Wednesday 14 May - Pat Noxolo (SHAP), and Zach Myers (University of Cambridge), will lead a discussion a selection of Stuart Hall's notebooks on the Caribbean.

Wednesday 11 June - James Procter (Newcastle University), Malachi McIntosh (University of Oxford) and Sue Brown (Performance Poet/Creative Writer) will lead a discussion of a selection of Stuart Hall's poetry, prose, and literary criticism.