[Nettime-bold] RESISTANCE TO AUTHORITY

["Rebecca" <rebecca@cca-glasgow.com>]

RESISTANCE TO AUTHORITY
Thursday 7 March 6.00pm 
CCA 5
£5/£4

Is it possible for people to resist authority?  How do people behave
under extreme belief systems?  What are the conditions under which
people accept oppression or act against it? What is the relationship
between reality TV and behaviour experiments?

This panel discussion will look at the relationship between obedience,
authority, conformity and power. The discussion will make reference to
influential social psychology experiments including Stanley Milgram's
Obedience studies, Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Studies and Henri
Tajfel's work on intergroup discrimination.  Speakers include: BEN
COHEN, MARK MCDERMOTT and STEVE REICHER.

Ben Cohen worked on the documentary film treatment, 'Only Obeying
Orders', which probed Stanley Milgram's work in the light of
contemporary interest in genocide, as the result of the atrocities
committed in Bosnia, Rwanda and other countries during the last decade.
He will talk about the contemporary relevance of Milgram's work in
relation to genocide studies and discuss how Milgram's work can be
presented in the media without being exaggerated, distorted or
sensationalised.   Ben Cohen studied political philosophy at Manchester
University and the London School of Economics.  Since 1991, he has
worked as a journalist and film-maker with the BBC as a commentator on
Balkan affairs.  

Mark McDermott is a Chartered Health & Clinical Psychologist and is
Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Health Psychology at the School of
Psychology, University of East London.    His current research focuses
upon individual differences, personality as a mediator of social
influence processes and nonconformity.  In 1995 Mark co-authorised the
introductory psychology textbook 'Psychology, A European Text'.  He has
also worked as a consultant on the BBC2 programme 'Five Steps to
Tyranny' (2000) and the LWT programme 'The Human Zoo' (2001) which
concerned the re-enactment of social psychology experiments and the
'power of situations'.

Steve Reicher is a social psychologist and is currently joint editor of
The British Journal of Social Psychology.  He is broadly interested in
the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship.
His recent research includes the development of a model of crowd action
that accounts for both social determination and social change, the
construction of social categories through language and action and the
impact of devolution on Scottish identity and social action in Scotland.
He is currently working in conjunction with Exeter University and the
BBC on 'The Experiment' a re-run of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Studies
which will be broadcast on TV in Spring 2002.
 


Rebecca Shatwell
Education Programmer
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JD
www.cca-glasgow.com <www.cca-glasgow.com> 
Email: rebecca@cca-glasgow.com
Tel: 00 44 (0)141 332 7521 (reception)
Tel: 00 44 (0)141 352 4912 (direct line)


intY has automatically scanned this email with Sophos Anti-Virus (www.inty.com)


_______________________________________________
Nettime-bold mailing list
Nettime-bold@nettime.org
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold