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Category: Public engagement

The Pathology of Boredom

9 February 2021 | by ubnric002 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, Public engagement

Artist, campaigner and facilitator of creative projects Dr Lizzie Burns writes about the effects of boredom and how to counter them.

Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War

9 April 2019 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: General, Public engagement, Research

Jennifer Crane explores how gifted children were imagined as potential peacetime leaders, or as dangerous future citizens who might use their unique talents to subvert authority.

Do Good Enough Mothers Make Good Enough Democracy?

8 March 2019 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, Events, General, Public engagement, Research

As Emma Smith’s Wunderblock opens at the Freud Museum London, we publish here one of the texts by the Hidden Persuaders team that informed the development of the exhibition.

Wunderblock: A New Exhibition at the Freud Museum

5 December 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Events, General, Public engagement, Research

An exhibition of new work at the Freud Museum London, 6 March- 26 May 2019, by artist Emma Smith, drawing on original research by the Hidden Persuaders Project.

A New Documentary Film: ‘David Hawkins: A Battle of the Mind’

10 November 2017 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: General, Public engagement, Research

Nasheed Qamar Faruqi writes on the making of her film about the youngest of the 21 American POWs who ‘chose’ Mao’s China at the end of the Korean War.

Psychic Driving at the Museum of the Normal: ‘Stop Thinking about Death… and Stop Shouting at People’

20 March 2017 | by Marcia Holmes | Categories: Current affairs, Public engagement

‘Psychic driving’ is a Cold War-era technology for reprogramming the mind that has a sordid history. David Saunders reports on its continuing appeal.

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