Screening: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Kieran Connell

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Time:

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Room:

CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower

UQ Location:

Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://cccs.uq.edu.au/connell-screening

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Conducted six months before Stuart Hall’s death in February 2014, this film is of a conversation that took place between Hall and Kieran Connell as part of a project to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (BCCCS).

Run by Connell and Matthew Hilton in the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, this project centred on the formation of an archive of BCCCS material and the organisation of a major conference that examined its legacies. Aware that his ill-health would render him unable to physically address the conference, this film is the product of Hall’s commitment to engaging with the issues raised by both the conference and the archive. In it Hall discusses the importance of the politics of 1968, the impact of feminisms and anti-racisms, and the subsequent development of cultural studies both in Britain and beyond.