Policing the Crises:
Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique
September 21-26, 2015
Organized by:
The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, Stony Brook University
Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
School of the Arts—Film and Media Studies, Columbia University
Co-Sponsoredby:
Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality,
Columbia University
School of the Arts—Office of the Dean, Columbia University
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Office of the Dean of Humanities, Columbia University
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
Monday, September 21
SUNY Stony Brook, Humanities 1008
4:30 pm – 6pm:
Dennis Dworkin, ULV Reno, Finding a Third Way: Stuart Hall’s Political Projects.
Reception to follow.
Wednesday, September 23
SUNY Stony Brook, Humanities 1006
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm:
Screening of The Stuart Hall Projectby John Akomfrah (Director, 2013)
Moderated by Catherine Hall (UCL) and Tracey Walters (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Thursday, September 24
Barnard College, The Diana Center Event Oval, 3006 Broadway at 117th St.
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm:
Roundtable, Reconstructing the Popular
Chair, E. Ann Kaplan (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Rob King (Columbia University)
Bruce Robbins (Columbia University)
Jane Gaines (Columbia University)
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Reception
Friday, September 25
SUNY Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus – 387 Park Avenue South at 28th Street
8:30 am – 9:00 am: Coffee
9:00 am – 10:30 am:
Keynote, David Scott (Columbia University)
Introduced by Tina Campt (Barnard College)
10:45 am – 12:30 pm:
History of the Present: Race, Nation, Empire
Chair, Kathleen Wilson (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois)
Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary University of London)
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch – On Your Own
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm:
Where is the Black?: Revisiting the Black Popular
Culture Conference (1991)
Chair, Jane Gaines (Columbia University)
Kellie Jones (Columbia University)
Racquel Gates (CUNY, Staten Island)
Gina Dent (University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm:
Practice of Critique: Race, Gender, Sexuality
Chair, Tina Campt (Barnard College)
Terri Francis (Indiana University)
Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto)
Jacqueline N. Brown (CUNY, Hunter College)
Saturday, September 26
Barnard College, The Diana Center Event Oval, 3006 Broadway at 117th St.
9:00 am – 9:30 am: Coffee
9:30 am – 11:15 am:
New Media: Encoding, Decoding, Coding
Chair, Rob King (Columbia University)
Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California)
David Morley (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University)
11:15 am – 11:30 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:30 pm:
Policing the Crises: Thinking It Forward
Chair, Tina Campt (Barnard College)
Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY, Graduate Center)
Ben Carrington (University of Texas, Austin)
Karla Holloway (Duke University)