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Stuart Hall Project

The Stuart Hall Project

Film screening and conversation with Louisa Olufsen Layne
Wednesday 15.06.22

Welcome to this screening of The Stuart Hall Project. Stuart Hall was one of the most influential intellectuals of his generation. As a Black man in Britain, he reflected on the historical and political factors that determine our place in society.

After the screening, there will be a conversation between Associate Professor Louisa Olufsen Layne who researches African American, Caribbean and Black British literature and Abirami Logendran, program assistant at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema and writer and editor for Samora Forum.

About the film

The documentary by John Akomfrah, a big supporter of Hall, tells his story from being a young Rhodes fellow who moved from Jamaica to the UK, to becoming a leading cultural theorist globally. Accompanied by a Miles Davis soundtrack and images from various struggles and turning points from the latter half of the 20th century, the film shows Hall's search for identity, his experiences and memories of how this time was crucial to the multiculturalism we have today.

In conversation

Louisa Olufsen Layne is Associate Professor of English Language Literature at the University of Oslo. She researches Caribbean, Black British and African American literature. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Linton Kwesi Johnson (Oxford, 2017) and recently completed a postdoctoral project on the Harlem Renaissance. Layne, who has a Jamaican mother and a Norwegian father, has a profound interested in Stuart Hall's work and has written about him in the philosophical journal Agora.

Abirami Logendran is a program assistant at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema and a writer and editor for Samora Forum.

About the filmmaker

John Akomfrah (b. 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent. He is the founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982 and made his début as a director with Handsworth Songs (1986).

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