Crude Representations Seminar 3: BP and Corporate Myth-Making

Activity

An online seminar featuring three panel speakers exploring the history and context around the representation of the oil company British Petroleum, with a focus on 'corporate myth-making'. This was the third of the 'Crude Representations' seminar series: four talks and presentations exploring the place that BP holds within culture by analysing various forms of media.

Description

Attendee at the Crude Representations Seminar 3: BP and Corporate Myth-Making seminar, Online, April 2025

Organisers: Dr Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh); Dr Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton).

Speakers:
Dr Ian Wereley (Carleton University) - Petro-Pedagogy: Teaching the History of Oil through the Archives of the British Petroleum Company.
Tobah Aukland-Peck - Petro-modernism: Artistic Commissions from BP and Shell.
Phoebe Lakin (Harvard University) - Mythic extractions: commercializing Greco-Roman Antiquity in the Petroleum Industry.

Period	2 Apr 2025
Event type	Seminar
Location	United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International