Crude Representations Seminar Series: BP and Petrofiction In brief Date - 12 March 2025Venue - OnlineSpeakers - Dr Chao Ren (University of Hong Kong); Evelyn MacPherson (Columbia University); Professor Michael Malouf (George Mason University)Organisers - Dr Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton) Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About Crude RepresentationsOil is a cultural as well as material product. It is pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.Off the back of an online symposium in January, this Crude Representations Seminar Series looks to examine and engage with one of the largest and longest running oil companies, BP. It will examine the rich, surprising and troubling history of cultural representations of BP, exploring both how the company itself has drawn on and utilised forms of cultural representation, and how artists and other cultural figures have responded to, critically interrogated, and represented the company in their own work.There are four seminars in this series, all taking place online. The presentations in this seminar are:Dr Chao Ren - From Burmah Oil to BP: Colonial Oilfields and the Cultural Imagination of CapitalismEvelyn MacPherson - Covered by Oil: Ian Fleming and the Limits of the Oil ImaginaryProfessor Michael Malouf - Those BP Settlements: Jurisdiction and Place in Tom Cooper’s The MaraudersHow to attendThis event is open to all, and free to attend. You can sign up via Eventbrite, with online joining details sent out closer to the time. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Tags English and Scottish Literature Mar 12 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Crude Representations Seminar Series: BP and Petrofiction An online seminar featuring three panel speakers exploring the history and context around the representation of the oil company BP, with a focus on 'petrofiction'. Online Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
Crude Representations Seminar Series: BP and Petrofiction In brief Date - 12 March 2025Venue - OnlineSpeakers - Dr Chao Ren (University of Hong Kong); Evelyn MacPherson (Columbia University); Professor Michael Malouf (George Mason University)Organisers - Dr Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton) Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About Crude RepresentationsOil is a cultural as well as material product. It is pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.Off the back of an online symposium in January, this Crude Representations Seminar Series looks to examine and engage with one of the largest and longest running oil companies, BP. It will examine the rich, surprising and troubling history of cultural representations of BP, exploring both how the company itself has drawn on and utilised forms of cultural representation, and how artists and other cultural figures have responded to, critically interrogated, and represented the company in their own work.There are four seminars in this series, all taking place online. The presentations in this seminar are:Dr Chao Ren - From Burmah Oil to BP: Colonial Oilfields and the Cultural Imagination of CapitalismEvelyn MacPherson - Covered by Oil: Ian Fleming and the Limits of the Oil ImaginaryProfessor Michael Malouf - Those BP Settlements: Jurisdiction and Place in Tom Cooper’s The MaraudersHow to attendThis event is open to all, and free to attend. You can sign up via Eventbrite, with online joining details sent out closer to the time. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Tags English and Scottish Literature Mar 12 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Crude Representations Seminar Series: BP and Petrofiction An online seminar featuring three panel speakers exploring the history and context around the representation of the oil company BP, with a focus on 'petrofiction'. Online Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
Mar 12 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Crude Representations Seminar Series: BP and Petrofiction An online seminar featuring three panel speakers exploring the history and context around the representation of the oil company BP, with a focus on 'petrofiction'.
