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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.

https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org
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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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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.

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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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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.

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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:
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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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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:
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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.
August 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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:
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July 22, 2025 at 1:27 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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Join academics and authors Brenna Bhandar and Hashem Abushama for an online discussion on contemporary discourse of Israel-Palestine and Stuart Hall's address 'For Edward Said' (2004).

📆 Wed 4 June
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm (UK)
📍 Online

Learn more and register:
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Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years 'Reading the Crisis' Online Conversation Series, Episode 1: For Edward Said (2004) Speakers: Brenna Bhandar, Hashem Abushama Location: Online Date: Wednesday 4th June 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.
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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On 17th May we welcomed Françoise Vergès to deliver the keynote at the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation and to sit in discussion with Mohammed Elnaiem, inaugurating our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

Photos by Christopher Andreou:
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May 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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We're pleased to welcome Bleue Liverpool as the 2025
University of Sussex Stuart Hall Fellow.

As part of her Fellowship, Bleue will present new work with Ibukun Sunday at Brighton Festival.

📅 Friday 23 May
🕢 7.30pm
📍 @sussex.ac.uk, Brighton

Learn more:
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May 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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We're looking forward to welcoming writer and activist Prof. Françoise Vergès to our next event, where she'll deliver her keynote, ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’.

📅 Sat 17 May
🕒 3pm
📍 Conway Hall + Online

Book now:
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8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation: “Imagining a post-racist and post-capitalist future seems impossible when the present is plagued with genocide and imperialist wars; when catastrophic floods, hurricanes and fires engulf our planet; when murderous migration policies and increased poverty further entrenches racism, xenophobia, and misogyny into the fabric of our societies. Liberating the present from colonisation, racial neoliberal capitalism, and the forces which make our planet uninhabitable for human and nonhuman species alike necessitates orienting our political imaginations towards wholesale revolutionary change; towards the possibility of forging a future in which all life can flourish, in which all life is protected.” “Stuart Hall called upon us to embrace “a politics without guarantees”, by which he suggests that we cannot construct a politics simply through denunciation and condemnation. Instead, we ought to produce “new dimensions of meaning which have not been foreclosed by the systems of power which are in operation.” This is a call for radical imagining and action, for thinking beyond the imperialist post-World War II order.” – Françoise Vergès on "There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present", 2025
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open.

The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?

Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Vergès’ keynote will consider how we might think across difference to construct a life-affirming politics in times of polycrisis.

The speech will be followed by a conversation with Mohammed Elnaiem, director of the Decolonial Centre, as well as an audience Q&A.
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Join us for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Prof. Françoise Vergès.

Vergès' keynote ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’ will respond to our 2025 theme, In Search of Common Ground.

📅 Sat 17 May
🕒 3 - 7.30pm
📍 @conwayhall.bsky.social, London + Online
Stuart Hall Foundation - 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: "There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present" Date and time: Saturday 17th May, 3 - 7.30pm Location: Conway Hall, London & Online Supported by Comic Relief, Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Pluto Press, Conway Hall and Words of Colour
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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.
March 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The prize will award £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay connects with and offers originality and value to a field of debate with which Hall has engaged throughout his life and contributes a radical critique of contemporary society.

Submissions are due by 5pm on March 3, '25
The Stuart Hall Essay Prize: - Invites new and unpublished writing, connecting with Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacting broad public discourse - Awards £2,000 to the winning entrant, announced spring 2025 Eligibility: - UK-based entrants, aged 18-30 inclusive - Entries from academics, students, journalists and other writers welcomed Submissions: - 4500-5000 words - Open to a range of stylistic approaches, endeavouring towards resonance with readers beyond academic circles Submissions due by 5pm GMT, March 3, 2025.
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Just a month left to submit your entries to the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize!

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Professor Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
Stuart Hall Foundation: The Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Call for submissions: November 2024 - March 2025.
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Tell us what you think!

We're inviting people to participate in a series of online focus groups to give us feedback on last year's programme, and to help shape future activities.

Interested in taking part?

Register your interest by Sun 9 Feb via the form below:
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January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM