Stuart Hall: Key Works
Prof. Cornelia Wächter, Mi (3) ABS/CON1/U
For health reasons, until further notice, this class will take place on Zoom. However, the room remains booked and available for use. Should you need access, please ask a colleague to unlock it for you.
Few scholars have had as significant and lasting an impact on the field of British Cultural Studies from the outset as the Jamaican-British academic and writer Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Among many other things, Hall was the founding editor of the New Left Review and one of the earliest members – and later director – of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). He was particularly influential in expanding the emergent field to critically consider 'race' and ethnicity. This theory seminar dedicates itself to (excerpts from) a sample of Hall’s key works over the course of his career.
Required reading is available via the SLUB. Please purchase the TV series “I May Destroy You” (2020, BBC One, dir. Sam Miller, Michaela Coel) and watch it fully in time for the session on 22 April. We will return to it throughout the class. (Content warning: the narrative is centered on the aftermath of sexual assault and questions of consent).