Pluto Press is proud to be a partner in the Stuart Hall Foundation’s 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

Pluto author, Françoise Vergès, will be the keynote speaker for the programme’s inaugral event, the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation. This event takes place as an in-person audience at Conway Hall and online via livestream on Saturday 17th May 2025.

Vergés’ keynote, ‘There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present’, will consider how we might think across difference to construct a life-affirming politics in times of poly-crisis, with a presentation organised around possibilities for reappropriating the present.

This will be followed by a conversation with Mohammed Elnaiem, Director of the Decolonial Centre, who will also be chairing the audience Q&A.

17th May 2025, 3:00pm – 7:30pm BST | Conway Hall, London | Online