CASA's third annual symposium will focus on questions of epistemic justice across the Asia-Africa axis of the world system. It will do so specifically by exploring forms of engagement with Stuart Hall's work in and from the global South.
As the attached CFP points out, the symposium will serve as a space to engage an understudied paradox related to Hall’s work and intellectual heritage. On the one hand, Hall was an intellectual forged at the complex intersection of imperial decline and postcolonial emergence. On the other hand, his work has predominantly been read as an intervention into the questions and issues thrown up by that intersection in the context of the global North. Similarly, Hall's distinctive approach to critical and engaged analysis has overwhelmingly been put to work in and on northern social formations.
In engaging this paradox, CASA’s third annual symposium sets out to explore what it means to read and think with Stuart Hall in and from the global South. Encompassing two specific themes, the project will broaden the remit of the current resurgence in interest in Hall’s work by (i) investigating how Hall has been read in and across different southern contexts and (ii) developing new forms of conjunctural analysis of social and political transformations in the contemporary global South.
The symposium will take place from 29 to 31 October, in conjunction with the CASA annual lecture.
CASA has some funding available to support travel and accommodation for scholars based in the global South. Please let us know if you require funding to be able to participate in the symposium. | 
