New Seminar Series: Crude Representation: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

We are delighted to share details of Crude RepresentationBP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online seminar series that will run from February to April 2025. Each event will feature three speakers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. All events are free to attend. You can register to attend via Eventbrite.
Crude Representations Seminar 1: BP and Audio-Visual Culture
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00 – 18:00, GMT
  1. Nariman Massoumi – Pouring Water on Troubled Oil
  2. Andrea Zarza Canova – Audible Oil: Sonic Postcards from BP Touring Service
  3. Annette Davison – Cosmopolitanism vs Coherence? Music and the Prestige Films of BP and Shell
Crude Representations Seminar 2: BP and Petrofiction
Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00 – 18:00, GMT
  1. Chao Ren – From Burmah Oil to BP: Colonial Oilfields and the Cultural Imagination of Capitalism
  2. Evelyn MacPherson – Covered by Oil: Ian Fleming and the Limits of the Oil Imaginary
  3. Michael Malouf – Those BP Settlements: Jurisdiction and Place in Tom Cooper’s The Marauders
Crude Representations Seminar 3: BP and Corporate Myth-Making
Wednesday 2 April 2025, 16:00 – 18:00, GMT
  1. Ian Wereley – Petro-Pedagogy: Teaching the History of Oil through the Archives of the British Petroleum Company
  2. Tobah Aukland-Peck – Petro-modernism: Artistic Commissions from BP and Shell
  3. Phoebe Lakin – Mythic extractions: commercializing Greco-Roman Antiquity in the Petroleum Industry
Crude Representations Seminar 4: BP and the Aesthetics of Labour
Wednesday 30th April 2025, 16:00 – 18:00, GMT
  1. Kaveh Ehsani – Reluctant Paternalism and the Cultural Politics of APOC in the post WWI era
  2. Scott Erich – Feet on the Seabed: BP and the Cinematic Narration of Abu Dhabi’s First Oil
  3. Raha Golestani – Oily Hands: Cultural Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran

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