Stuart Hall Foundation

06/10/2026

Reading the Crisis: Culture with Sheena Patel (Sheena Patel)

📆 Wednesday 14th October
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST (UK time)
📍 Online

The fifth conversation of this year’s Reading the Crisis series invites writer and film/TV assistant director Sheena Patel, author of I’m a Fan (2023), to discuss culture at the current conjuncture.

Hosted by critic, media theorist and editor of Representology, K Biswas (Biz K), this event forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.

Registration is free – sign up now via our website.

Live closed captions will be provided.

Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

Graphic design by reuxn_yao.

05/10/2026

Podcast / Ebun Sodipo and Ain Bailey get together in the second episode of Living Archives Season Two to consider the creative potential of archives and imagination within the current social and political landscape, collage and fragmentation in building meaning and art-making, and how sound and performance shape an audience’s experience.

Listen now at Living Archives on Podbean, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, or visit the SHF and ICF websites via the link in our bio. Transcript also available.

Podbean: https://livingarchives.podbean.com/e/ebun-sodipo-ain-bailey/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JUmHqFkVzFWv2U0rYJIxw?si=RHyOPIpmRB2vuroyAHpjxQ
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-archives/id6811726464

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What happens when two artists sit down together to talk? How might their conversations and artistic practices map a living archive of diasporic relations in Britain?

Co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, Living Archives is a podcast foregrounding intimate, intergenerational conversations between UK-based diasporic artists.

The pairings in each episode begin with an invitation from one artist to another. Together, they exchange insights into art-making, memory and the ideas and influences shaping their practices. Rooted in Stuart Hall’s vision of a ‘living archive’, the series is a record of creative dialogues that explore how histories, identities and artistic practice are considered in the present.

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Hosted by Yewande YoYo Odunubi
Edited by Chris Browne
Original designs by Yolande Mutale
Season Two designs by Joanna Risvik
Music by LOX

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Co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Power of Pop Fund and Arts Council England.

30/09/2026

Tonight's event is now underway. Watch along via YouTube Live if you haven't registered to join us in the webinar:

https://www.youtube.com/live/T7KucXv-u80?si=xpCi4aYRQmIu8kEz

Reading the Crisis: Democracy with Richard Seymour

📆 Wednesday 30th September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST (UK time)
📍 Online

The next conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series features London-based writer, founding editor of Salvage and author of Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization (2024), Richard Seymour, in a discussion focused around democracy.

Hosted by critic, media theorist and editor of Representology, K Biswas, this event forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.

Registration is free – sign up now:
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/reading-the-crisis-democracy-with-richard-seymour/

Live closed captions will be provided.

Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

29/09/2026

Reading the Crisis: Democracy with Richard Seymour

📆 Wednesday 30th September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST (UK time)
📍 Online

The next conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series features London-based writer, founding editor of Salvage and author of Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization (2024), Richard Seymour, in a discussion focused around democracy.

Hosted by critic, media theorist and editor of Representology, K Biswas, this event forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.

Registration is free – sign up now:
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/reading-the-crisis-democracy-with-richard-seymour/

Live closed captions will be provided.

Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

29/09/2026

Reading the Crisis: Democracy with Richard Seymour ()

📆 Wednesday 30th September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST (UK time)
📍 Online

The next conversation in this year's Reading the Crisis series features London-based writer, founding editor of Salvage and author of Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization (2024), Richard Seymour, in a discussion focused around democracy.

Hosted by critic, media theorist and editor of Representology, K Biswas (Biz K), this event forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.

Registration is free – sign up now via the link in our bio.

Live closed captions will be provided.

Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

Graphic design by reuxn_yao.

28/09/2026

Podcast / Niki Kohandel and Alia Syed inaugurate Season Two of Living Archives with a conversation reflecting on the stories we inherit from our families and communities, the importance of bringing different histories into relation, and how cropping, translation and ambiguity can inform narration in film.

Listen now to Living Archives on Podbean, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, or visit the SHF and ICF websites. Transcript also available.

Podbean: https://livingarchives.podbean.com/e/niki-kohandel-alia-syed/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1B1yGx4n6iUoEvAeVFlKhq
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/niki-kohandel-alia-syed/id6811726464?i=1000791942825

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What happens when two artists sit down together to talk? How might their conversations and artistic practices map a living archive of diasporic relations in Britain?

Co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, Living Archives is a podcast foregrounding intimate, intergenerational conversations between UK-based diasporic artists.

The pairings in each episode begin with an invitation from one artist to another. Together, they exchange insights into art-making, memory and the ideas and influences shaping their practices. Rooted in Stuart Hall’s vision of a ‘living archive’, the series is a record of creative dialogues that explore how histories, identities and artistic practice are considered in the present.

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Hosted by Yewande YoYo Odunubi
Edited by Chris Browne
Original designs by Yolande Mutale
Season Two designs by Joanna Risvik
Music by LOX

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Co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Power of Pop Fund and Arts Council England.

21/09/2026

Podcast / Revisit the intimate, essential episodes of Living Archives Season One, featuring inspiring intergenerational conversations between UK-based diasporic artists, now available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other widely-used digital platforms.

Look up Living Archives on your podcast streaming app of choice to hear creative exchanges between Ingrid Pollard and Rudy Loewe, Beverley Bennett and Marlene Smith, Roshini Kempadoo and Jacob V Joyce, Ajamu and Bernice Mulenga, Joy Gregory and Anthea Hamilton, Alberta Whittle and Sekai Machache, hosted by Jessica Taylor.

Listen now via Podbean:
https://livingarchives.podbean.com/

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Living Archives Season One is co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum with funding from CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and Arts Council England.

14/09/2026

Podcast / We are pleased to announce Season Two of the Living Archives podcast. Co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, Living Archives is a podcast foregrounding intimate, intergenerational conversations between UK-based diasporic artists.

Season Two features:

Episode 1: Niki Kohandel and Alia Syed (released 28 September 2026)

Episode 2: Ebun Sodipo and Ain Bailey (released 5 October 2026)

Episode 3: Rebecca Bellantoni and Gail Lewis (released 12 October 2026)

The pairings in each episode begin with an invitation from one artist to another. Together, they exchange insights into art-making, memory and the ideas and influences shaping their practices. Rooted in Stuart Hall’s vision of a ‘living archive’, the series is a record of creative dialogues that explore how histories, identities and artistic practice are considered in the present.

Hosted by Yewande YoYo Odunubi, these three new episodes will be available to listen to on Podbean as well as popular digital streaming services including Spotify and Apple Podcasts, with a transcription available to read for each episode.

We are also pleased to share that Season One of Living Archives has been republished via Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other widely-used digital platforms. Look up Living Archives on your favoured podcast app today to revisit inspiring conversations with:

Ingrid Pollard and Rudy Loewe, Beverley Bennett and Marlene Smith, Roshini Kempadoo and Jacob V Joyce, Ajamu and Bernice Mulenga, Joy Gregory and Anthea Hamilton, Alberta Whittle and Sekai Machache.

Listen back to Living Archives Season One now:
https://livingarchives.podbean.com/

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The second season of Living Archives is co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and International Curators Forum, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Power of Pop Fund and Arts Council England.

Part of the SHF’s In Search of Common Ground programme.

03/09/2026

Reading the Crisis: Migration with Leah Cowan

📆 Wednesday 16th September
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm BST (UK time)
📍 Online

The next conversation in our Reading the Crisis series this year is with writer, editor, researcher and advocate Leah Cowan, joining us for a discussion on migration informed by her book Border Nation: A Story of Migration (2021).

Hosted by critic, media theorist and editor of Representology, K Biswas, this event forms an online teach-in space dedicated to demonstrating how engaging in a conjunctural analysis can enrich artistic practice and deepen organising work and academic study.

Registration is free – sign up now:
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/reading-the-crisis-migration-with-leah-cowan/

Live closed captions will be provided.

Reading the Crisis is produced as part of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s In Search of Common Ground programme, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Power of Pop Fund.

28/08/2026

"The moment you name things what they are, then the forms of struggling against the exploitation that happens in those places becomes much clearer."

Reading the Crisis: Economy with Laleh Khalili is now available to watch on our website.

Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy (2025), joined host Aasiya Lodhi for the first conversation of this year’s Reading the Crisis series in a discussion focusing on economics.

Watch the full conversation here:
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/reading-the-crisis-economy-with-laleh-khalili/