FHI | "Navigating the Archive: Stuart Hall and the Fateful Triangle"

In this lecture, Nick Beech will discuss the papers deposited at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, for the Stuart Hall Archive Project (Hall's, the CCCS, and the other students and staff who deposited material at the Cadbury Research Library). He will reflect on Hall's use of the 'triangular trade' as a means of making sense of migration to Britain from the Caribbean and the confrontation with English culture and deep structures of racism for the first generation (his own), and second and third generations - a motif he mobilises in early speeches found in other archives, and most famously in his W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.

Nick Beech is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Society at the University of Birmingham. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the Stuart Hall Archive Project: Conjunctures, Dialogues, Readings (SHAP), with Prof Pat Noxolo and Assoc. Prof Rebecca Roach. Since 2021 he has been an Affiliated Researcher on the Translating Ferro/Transforming Knowledge international research project to translate the writings of Brazilian architect Sergio Ferro into English for the first time, and to provide the basis for a new field of research - Production Studies. His main research interests include the professional, technical, and cultural histories of modern architecture; histories of the New Left and cultural studies; and the history of London.

The Stuart Hall Archive Project is a major multi-disciplinary research project that will expand public understanding and engagement with the work of the celebrated cultural theorist, Professor Stuart Hall. As part of an ongoing collaboration, the FHI has been sponsoring short-term fellowships for Duke PhD students to conduct research at SHAP.

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