About this talk

The Stuart Hall Foundation invites you to the first event of their 2026 programme, building on the theme In Search of Common Ground. The 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation will welcome cultural theorist, poet, and teacher of performance studies, Fred Moten, to Conway Hall as its keynote speaker. Fred Moten's keynote speech, titled 'The Physics of Political Economy', will trace the lines between theory and action stemming from Professor Stuart Hall's engagement with Marxism: "Among so many other things, Stuart Hall is a wonderfully careful and rigorous reader of Karl Marx. Hall's critical attendance upon Marx, which is perhaps more accurately described as a generative critical entanglement with Marx, offers new ways to understand the physics, as well as the metaphysics, of political economy. In so doing, the relay between intellectual method and insurgent tactics is illuminated and renewed as well. Let's pay attention to what we do and how we move." – Fred Moten The keynote presentation will be followed by a conversation and an audience Q&A. Guests are warmly invited to stay on in the Hall after the main event for an informal social gathering, where complimentary food and drink will be available for all ticket holders, soundtracked by a guest DJ. Supported by Comic Relief, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Hollick Family Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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