Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist and one of the founders of Cultural Studies and the “New Left Review” in Britain. He left a lasting international legacy on discourses on culture, race, identity and media that is particularly resonant at this moment in time.
Building on the recent Stuart Hall day held at Carleton University, the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia engaged with Stuart Hall’s legacy through a series of three events that included: a public screening of John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project and roundtable discussions and seminars.
The panel, chaired by Dr. Handel Wright (Professor and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity & Education, UBC), featured Dr. Daniel McNeil (Professor of History, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Carleton University), Dr. Laura Marks (Dena Wosk University Professor, Visual and Cultural Studies, SFU/SCA), Dr. David Chariandy (Associate Professor of English, SFU), Dr. Adel Iskandar (Assistant Professor of Global Communication, SFU) and Dr. Alessandra Santos (Assistant Professor of Ibero-American Literatures and Cultures, UBC).