And how we can sharpen our activism. Catherine has published extensively on questions of race, gender and empire. And so Scott is right to assert that his “post-Marxism grows out of a never-ending – and never-endingly agonistic – engagement with Marx and Marxism.”. As Chair of Arts Council England-London, Sue worked with Stuart Hall on the development of Rivington Place. Harriet has worked with other artists and organisations such as The Stuart Croft Foundation, DACS, BFI, Tate, MOMA PS1, Flamin, Shooting People, ScreenSkills and LOCO, on the production of films, exhibitions, events, training and artists' opportunities. Catherine Hall (born 1946 in Kettering) is a British feminist historian. He married University College London history professor, Catherine Hall. He worked with Stuart as a board member for Iniva. Harriet is SHF's Programme Manager. Stuart Hall Is A Member Of . We now live in a present in which the term “identity politics” has become a monumental straw man for all that ails our societies North or South,  and when bending backwards to accommodate a resurgent “white identity politics,” of course never named as such in the past or present (“identity” supposedly being the preserve of “minorities,” though Western history tells us all about the sheer absurdity of a such a proposition) the order of the day for politicians left, right and center. For though the very term neoliberalism, as Scott is right to note, came relatively late to Hall’s work, Hall saw much more clearly than any Marxist at the time the extent to which this was also a cultural revolution of a kind whose aftermath would inflict systematic and long-term damages on the lives we all live, and fundamentally alter the political terrain so as to make it increasingly difficult to oppose it and to mobilize against it. He first met Stuart at the Universities and Left Review Club in 1957 and worked with him on political projects over many years. Catherine Hall is Stuart’s widow. The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent. Isaac Julien is a leading international film and video artist, producing work for cinema, television and art galleries. She is a historian and works on the impact of empire on Britain. He is Director of the International Curators Forum (ICF). In 2013 he was invited to become a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2016 Steve McQueen was honoured with the prestigious British Film Institute Fellowship. With Stuart Hall, Catherine Hall. The project for a bibliography that would capture the breadth and depth of Stuart Hall’s work was initiated by Catherine Hall and Bill Schwarz in the wake of Stuart’s death in 2014. Returning to Hall’s work in the years after his death, I have like many others been struck by his prescient views of the neoliberal revolution ushered in by Thatcherism in Britain and by extension Reaganism in the U.S., in works such as  The Great Moving Right Show. Where are your papers? Based in California, Jess is a visiting lecturer at the American Film Institute. 1159343  |  COPYRIGHT © 2020, Copyright © 2020 Stuart Hall Foundation  |. How Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere’s approaches to gender politics, help reshape feminist visions for reclaiming a developmental state. Hall was acutely aware of the structures of possibility and impossibility which marked his early life and his mother’s obsessions with graduations of color and status. Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951. Catherine and Stuart Hall reading The Caribbean Review of Books at Hellshire Beach, Jamaica; June 2004. hip, neat, cool, right-on… Hall has never authored a monograph, The legacy of violence in the struggle for freedom in South Africa. Despite the Great Depression, Hollywood and popular film production flourished. Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. Her father, John Barrett, was a Baptist minister, while her mother, Gladys came from a family of millers. Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi uses one Angolan family’s story of immigration to tell a larger story. Hall was of course a pivotal figure of the so-called New Left, which emerged in its nascent form at Oxford University in the mid-1950s, and a founding father of Cultural Studies. In the words of Ferguson, he was introduced to Stuart and Catherine Hall when he was 22 under the advisement of George Lipsitz at UC San Diego. As a reader, two of the chief merits of Hall’s and Schwarz’s Familiar Stranger and the Jamaican-born anthropologist and political theorist David C. Scott’s Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimitations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity is that they bring us much closer to an understanding of the role that Hall’s formative years in colonial Jamaica played in his life and thought than what one could often intuit from his own work. Paula Kahn worked with Stuart as a Trustee of Iniva eventually becoming Acting Chair. My first ever introduction to the work of Stuart Hall (1932-2014) came in the form of an enthusiastic invitation to watch a video of one of his lectures after Sunday dinner with my friend Aslam Fataar at his home in Cape Town in the late 1990s. David met Stuart at Goldsmiths in the 1980s where their conversation about the black visual arts began. Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya. Directed by John Akomfrah. His autobiography – regretfully to my mind – stops before his move to Birmingham to take up the chair in Cultural Studies, one that would make him a household name for academics across the world. Nov 19, 2014 - Explore Catherine J's board "STUART HALL", followed by 156 people on Pinterest. Susanna Rustin is a journalist at the Guardian. His film projects include Playtime (2014), Ten Thousand Waves (2010), and Western Union: Small Boats (2007). Stuart Hall: Selected Writings A series edited by Catherine Hall and Bill Schwarz. Stuart Hall White and black subjects. In 2009 Jess was invited into the British Society of Cinematographers. Radio was the main source of entertainment, information, and political propaganda, and jazz, blues, gospel, and folk music, became immensely popular. Maria became a close colleague and friend of Stuart whilst working with him on the development of Rivington Place and the film The Unfinished Conversation (2012). Stuart Hall Born in Jamaica Studied at Oxford University 1964, Fellow at the University of Birmingham Center of Cultural Studies. What will it take for the decades-old regime of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to address the root cause of the country’s senseless conflict? When the book merits our attention, it is in its keen attention and responsiveness to central themes in Halls oeuvre, and Hall’s mode of thinking and engaging as a public intellectual. Much like Hall, Scott is a disciplinary hybrid of sorts, well-read not only in political theory and anthropology, but also in philosophy, letters and arts. Stuart Hall was born in 1930s. He spent a great deal of time and energy trading barbs with classical Marxists with whom I often disagreed vehemently about matters relating to the analysis of ideology, contingency, identity and the role of determination in human history. The Guardian called him the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, the Open University flew it’s flag at half-mast, Laurie Taylor from Times Higher Education spoke of his intellectual mobility, his empathy and how it was a privilege to have him at the heart of the Open University. Ilze is an experienced Administrator and Project Manager with over 10 years of experience spanning across the arts, charity, health-care and start-up sectors. Identity here is inflicted; it is not a luxury. It would perhaps be more apt to characterize Scott as more of a political theorist than an anthropologist – but then again, the policing of disciplinary boundaries by virtue of an insistence in ethnographic fieldwork here or there being the sine qua non of anthropological virtue and integrity is, and remains, one of the more problematic aspects of modern anthropology. He is a filmmaker and cinematographer. A thinker and commentator, his peers include other giants of political commentary such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Alan Ginsberg, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal. The exigencies and attention required by my immersion in ethnographic fieldwork on Muslims in Cape Town at the time meant I paid scant attention to it, and that my real discovery of Hall’s work came years later in Norway. There wasn’t from Hall’s side any intention of presenting “the final word” on anything, and little to be had in terms of grand theorizing – all aspects that one imagines contributed to the annoyance which Hall met from classical academic Marxists of his time. How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS? Stuart Hall on 'Perry Anderson (New Editor in 1962) Transforms the New Left Review' - Duration: 3:58. He also notes that Scott, “two generations younger,” formed part of a “radicalized cohort of the 1970s” in Jamaica. She then became Chair of Camden Arts Centre. For Scott calls attention to Hall’s using his particular and characteristic voice as a public intellectual as a mode of thinking itself; and speaking and listening a way of clarification. She is also a programmer and writer for learning, and developed the Autograph ABP Archive Learning Resource and the National Maritime Museum’s Citizen Resource . Join Facebook to connect with Catherine Hall Stewart and others you may know. Stuart Hall (født 3. februar 1932 i Kingston på Jamaica, død 10. februar 2014 i London) var en britisk kulturteoretiker og sosiolog.Han var opprinnelig fra Jamaica, men bodde i Storbritannia fra 1951. STUART HALL FOUNDATION IS A REGISTERED CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, CHARITY NO. First Name Stuart. Catherine Hall, Self: The Stuart Hall Project. UK Data Service 'Pioneers of Social Research' 740 views A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party’s agenda. For the last six years, she has led the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London, which explores Britain’s long history in relation to the slavery business. Stuart Hall is one of the most influential and esteemed cultural theorists of a generation. A contemporary look at one of the founding figures in the field of cultural studies. Hall was, by his own admission, not the most systematic of thinkers: his preferred form was the academic essay, and his public interventions addressed present contingencies in the manner which one imagines being preferred by a Gramscian organic intellectual of sorts. When are you going back to where you came from? Scott’s choice of genre gives a sometimes eerie impression of a one-way dialogue with a dead intellectual. It is not that Hall and Scott are in consent about how to understand and analyze the post-colonial present. Her research interests are feminism, African-American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. The story has of course been told before in John Akomfrah’s elegant and elegiac documentary tribute to Stuart Hall, The Stuart Hall Project, but Hall’s rendering of the personal tragedy here adds texture and nuance. Hall himself was more dark-skinned than either one of his parents and siblings, and so it comes as no surprise to hear him self-describe, like Edward Said did, as a proverbial “black sheep” of his family. She has a Master's Degree in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London and a Bachelor's degree in Cultural Theory from the Latvian Academy of Culture. Her work explores the interrelation between metropole and colony in an attempt to rewrite the narrative of certain aspects of 'British history' in the mid nineteenth century empire period. “The distinctions between my life and ideas really have no hold,” Hall remarks in Familiar Stranger. This is the peculiar and internalized madness which will be familiar to many citizens of post-colonial societies to this day, and not the least to South Africans forced to imbibe the bitter poisons of racialized thinking and classification under Apartheid and their long afterlife among the dispossessed in post-Apartheid South Africa. He is therefore more qualified than most scholars to write about Hall. What these experiences meant in Hall’s intellectual thought is fleshed out well in Scott’s book. Harriet is an artist and producer. It reflects on the ways in … See more ideas about stuart hall, cultural studies, sociological research. Steve McQueen is a Turner Prize-winning video artist and Oscar-winning producer, director and screenwriter whose films include Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2013), which won the Academy Award for best film in 2014. nteresting, if slow building, documentary on Stuart Hall, one of England's leading leftist thinkers of the last 40 years. Julian Henriques is a film writer-director, sound artist and Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. Can we move from temporary shame about our endless consumption of unethically sourced jewels and smartphones to concrete action? Hall also drily comments on the fact that though many continued to consider him a proverbial “post-colonial,” and as a product of 1968, he was really a child of colonialism and of 1956. Catherine Hall is Stuart’s widow. Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. If you think you know enough about the importance of Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Baldwin and Althusser for Hall, here is as good a chance that you will get to see it from a fresh and original yet attentive and closely-read angle. Gregor McLennan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol. Gilane Tawadros is the Chief Executive of DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists rights management organisation. For the last six years, she has led the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London, which explores Britain’s long history in relation to the slavery business. David A Bailey is a writer, curator and cultural facilitator. Maria is a visual artist and producer of social projects. Isaac worked on several film projects with Stuart over many years, including Kapital (2013). She studied literature before training as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and currently works in NHS mental health services for children and families. Instead, Scott conceives of Hall as “an exemplary intellectual” that is “productive to think with” and “to think through.”. Greg is currently engaged in selecting, editing and introducing the planned Duke UP volume of Hall’s writings on ‘the question of Marxism’. Stuart, Doreen Massey and he were founding editors of Soundings in 1995 and edited the Kilburn Manifesto together in 2013-4. Hall notes that his own “conditions of existence” were those of the “closing days of the old colonial world,” and that though only six years old at the time, the epochal event which formed his political generation was the “events of 1938” in Jamaica. Scott’s small and eminently readable book is written as a series of epistolary letters to his late friend and mentor. Scott’s epistolary letters, which emerge out of a series of invited lectures he gave at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa in 2013, are also of great value for their bringing the scholarship of intellectuals to which Hall paid relatively limited attention himself to bear on the analysis of his work. My research centres on rethinking the relation between Britain and Empire in the early/mid-nineteenth century. A new report from the Transnational Institute suggests free trade does nothing but drain Tunisia’s wealth. His contributions to critical theory and the study of politics, culture, communication, media, race, diaspora and postcolonialism made him one of the great public intellectuals of the late twentieth century. Susanna is Catherine and Stuart’s niece. Catherine Hall was born on February 18, 1946 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England as Catherine Mary Barrett. (eventually became head of center) his work stems from his ideas as a Jamaican immigrant trying to find his own space in Britain "The Godfather of Why are you here? When Stuart Hall, the widely admired social theorist, died in 2014 at the age of 82, he left behind an extensive legacy that reached across the Atlantic and former postcolonial worlds. Associated With. Currently on the Opinion desk, she has also been a feature writer and deputy editor of the Saturday Review. Here are some of Hall and Schwarz’s memorable formulations about what it meant to “think the Caribbean”: I came to understand that, as a colonized subject, I was inserted into history (or in this case, History) by negation, backwards and upside down – like all Caribbean peoples, dispossessed and disinherited from a past which was never properly ours. Born In 1932. 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