Dear colleagues,
Here are some upcoming events organised by BIMI and its collaborators.
Please spread the word to your students, colleagues and friends.
Best, M.
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Friday 13 May 2022, 18:00-20:00, BIRKBECK CINEMA
FILMS FROM THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS ARCHIVE: CIGARETTES, SNAKE OIL AND HYSTERIA
Book your place: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=30391
BIMI presents a series of documentaries on hidden persuasion, mass influence, psychiatry and politics, and psychological control. The films were made for Birkbeck’s Hidden Persuaders project, a Wellcome Trust funded initiative which investigated the history of the psy professions and ideas around covert influence and mind control during the Cold War.
Screening and discussion: Cigarettes, Snake Oil and Hysteria: Films by Lily Ford and Bartek Dziadosz
Three Zoom films by Lily Ford examine sites of anxiety around mass influence since the 1950s:
The Stuff that Screams are Made of (9 min.), Notes from the American Air Wars (13 min.), Onlining (11 min.)
The vocal audiences of the Beatles caused a moral panic in the mid-1960s. In The Stuff that Screams are Made of, Ford speaks to several fans and scholars to explore the power of the scream. Notes from the American Air Wars looks at one moment in the decades-long ideological combat between the tobacco industry and clean air activists. Onlining moves to the present day to interrogate our conscious participation in digital surveillance, drawing on Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of the society of performance.
Vance Packard’s Hidden Persuaders (1957) was a landmark critical appraisal of the relationship between the advertising industry and psychoanalysis. Bartek Dziadosz’s film Nothing Exists Until You Sell It (2020) assesses the story of the book’s reception, highlighting its extensive and surprising influence:
Nothing Exists Until You Sell It (Bartek Dziadosz, 2020, 35 min.)
The film examines the history of the “dark art” of consumer persuasion alongside its contemporary relevance for surveillance capitalism, cyberspace, and the online economy. It suggests that advertising’s power is more nuanced than is sometimes insinuated, although no less alarming for that.
Discussion with the filmmakers led by Lee Grieveson, Professor of Media History, University College London.
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Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:30 ONLINE
GUILT GROUP: ‘WAR CRIMES AND COLONEL BLIMP’
James Brown, ‘War Crimes and Colonel Blimp’, a research paper on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger, 1943) for the Guilt Group at the Institute for Modern Languages Research/School of Advanced Studies.
This is an online event, booking and other details here: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26274
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Tuesday 17 May 2022, 18:00-20:00, BIRKBECK CINEMA
FILMS FROM THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS ARCHIVE: THINKING ABOUT FANON AND THE MIND IN 2022
Book your place: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=30410
BIMI presents a series of documentaries on hidden persuasion, mass influence, psychiatry and politics, and psychological control. The films were made for Birkbeck’s Hidden Persuaders project, a Wellcome Trust funded initiative which investigated the history of the psy professions and ideas around covert influence and mind control during the Cold War.
Screening and Discussion: Re-Reading Fanon (Nasheed Qamar Faruqi, 2020, 65 min.)
Re-reading Fanon is a documentary by Nasheed Qamar Faruqi (edited by Yann Heckmann) about one filmmaker’s journey to understand Frantz Fanon’s clinical, political and philosophical writing. Fanon (1925-1961) was a practicing psychiatrist and one of the Twentieth Century’s most influential post-colonial thinkers. The documentary features conversations with psychoanalysts and scholars including Robert J.C. Young and Jean Khalfa, who edited a volume of Fanon’s previously unpublished work in 2018. It also features thinkers who have expanded and been heavily influenced by Fanon: Achille Mbembe, Samia Khatun, Fakhry Davids, Stephen Frosh, Lisa Guenther, and Daniel Pick.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and contributors, led by Dr Shruti Kapila, Associate Professor of Indian History and Global Political Thought University of Cambridge. (Participation of Dr Jean Khalfa and Professor Robert Young to be confirmed.)
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Michael Temple
Director of Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and Essay Film Festival
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