The Stuart Hall Archive Project with Nick Beech

Conjuncture

In this episode, Jordan T. Camp discusses the Stuart Hall Archive Project (SHAP) with Nick Beech, SHAP Co-Lead at the University of Birmingham. They discuss the archives, previously unpublished material, and the relevance of Hall's public intellectual praxis in the current conjuncture. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation.

Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

Nick Beech is an Associate Professor of Social Polity and Society and Co-Leader of the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham. He earned his Ph.D. from the University College London. His research focuses on histories of architecture, the New Left, and London. His current work with the Stuart Hall Archive Project seeks to recover unpublished material, create forums for engagement with Hall’s work, including a specific focus on conjunctures.

Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, CT; a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library; and a Stuart Hall Fellow in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.