Hidden Persuaders: Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at Birkbeck
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The Hidden Persuaders project, which has been running at Birkbeck since 2014, formally closes this year on 31st August. Thanks to all our Twitter followers. Any future news on Twitter about this project will be handled by @BirkbeckHCA so please follow them for updates.
Our project ends today but we plan for the website, (films, interviews, blogs) to remain publicly available as a resource. Further updates on future publications and other legacies of this project will be communicated by @BirkbeckHCA
Rites Undone is a short documentary tracing the journey of Nigerian victims of sex trafficking in Italy. Read the director’s statement here www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuad… and see Ritesundonefilm.com
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For our final offering, here’s an excerpt from the upcoming documentary short, Rites Undone, a collaboration between @Hpersuaders postdoctoral researcher @NaomiRichman and the @derekjarmanlab
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Coming soon: ‘Hidden Persuaders on film', free access article on young people’s visual essays. Daniel Pick, @MCHallsworth and @SarahVMarks available Tuesday 21 September, Research for All online at uclpress.co.uk/pages/researc…
Epilogue to Lily Ford's mass influence series: 5 minute film, with Eli Zaretsky and Daniel Pick, on fears of the crowd from the French Revolution to now
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How important is the digital surveillance we knowingly submit to when we use the internet? @LilyRFord's film 'Onlining' applies some questions from the Hidden Persuaders project to contemporary moments, from Pokemon Go to Zoom backgrounds.
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'Notes from the American Air Wars' by @LilyRFord draws on cigarette commercials, industry documents and the expertise of historian Sarah Milov to show how clean air activists fought big tobacco in the late twentieth century.
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What's in a scream? First in @LilyRFord's series of shorts on mass influence, 'The Stuff That Screams Are Made Of' assesses Beatlemania from multiple perspectives documenting moral panic that ensued when thousands of girls found their voices. tinyurl.com/dnwec7nt @BirkbeckHCA
Leros - military barracks, indoctrination centre, mental asylum, prison, refugee camp. A disturbing island story in a new Hidden Persuaders blogpost from historian Danae Karydaki.
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From our archive: in an interview from 2015, Daniel Pick interviews Robert Jay Lifton on brainwashing and totalism. Two further instalments (cults & Vietnam; Korean war psychiatry) available and free to view on the Hidden Persuaders website.
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Fantastic opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher on our Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SH+ME) Project but don’t dilly dally, closes on 20 August. @BirkbeckHCA @SSHPBirkbeck @shme_bbk cis7.bbk.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_p…
BBC Radio 4 - 'Marketing: Hacking the Unconscious' - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08pfq…
Re-reading Fanon. Nasheed Faruqi’s original new film, funded by Wellcome, now freely available, and featuring interviews with Achille Mbembe, Lisa Guenther, Samia Khatun, Fakhry Davids and Jean Khalfa
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Frantz Fanon, past and present. Nasheed Faruqi’s probing new documentary on our website: ‘one filmmaker’s journey to understand Fanon’s clinical, political and philosophical writing in today’s context’
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From our archive: ‘Reflections on Enhanced Interrogation’. In 2015 Ben Poore considered what Fanon’s case studies might reveal about the relationship of trauma and history.
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Intro to forthcoming special issue of @HistHum
featuring @TisdallLaura @AmyCChambers @SophiaSB1 Katie Joice @HPersuaders @Tim_Snelson @ray_macauley doi.org/10.1177/095269512110…
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On UFOs and the Cold War Human Sciences: an interview where @GEghigian argues that the flying saucer era began at the dawn of the Cold War period and came to be viewed through its prism.
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Rereading Orwell’s classic ‘1984’ in an age of pandemic and pervasive social media - @JPC_Brown ‘s thoughtful account on the Hidden Persuaders website.
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