What constitutes a great artist? With Ian Pace. Link in bio to full podcast episode

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The Artist in Society: Ian Pace
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Is the romantic archetype of the great artist finished? From my third podcast with Ian Pace Prof Ian Pace

Closing this weekend: London Euphonia Orchestra are looking for a Chair: someone with a passion for music, strategic leadership experience and a flair for fundraising - please do share with anyone who might be interested!
More details and how to apply
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The ‘Battle on the Ice’ music composed by Prokofiev in 1938 for Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky, taken from the cantar based on the film score. Spectacular.

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'People who cannot handle intellectual differences, or whose activism makes them see anyone of an different view as a mortal enemy, do not belong in academia.'sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…

'Janis, Klein and Stern identified several outcomes..were symptoms of groupthink in academia:
● illusions of invulnerability
● belief in inherent morality
● collective rationalisations
● stereotyping of out-groups
● self-censorship
● direct pressure on dissenters'

'a growing number of academics make no distinction between scholarship and activism..treat ideological opponents as enemies, not to be debated but to be personally destroyed. In some fields the standard forms of engagement between those who
differ are now complaints and mobbing'

'Compared with other sorts of workplace discrimination and harassment, in mobbing the gap between what is right & what is expedient is particularly wide..pernicious consequences are compounded by a general failure by sectoral leaders & HR departments to understand employment law'

'Whatever a mob’s ostensible motive, the true one is to silence or discredit the target because of what they say or stand for. That means measures to strengthen academic freedom may have the welcome side-effect of limiting the power of mobs.'

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For those who can understand Italian, or French (subtitles are available here - elsewhere on YouTube a version with Spanish subtitles is available), the 2004 film Mi piace lavorare: Mobbing is a powerful and harrowing tale of workplace mobbing.

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Also very good - more informally written, but thought to be sound by various experts, including Westhues. Dr Hannah R. Marston

Four important books on mobbing (the first is by Heinz Leymann, originally in Swedish, also available in French and German). Anything of Leymann or Westhues is worth reading.

Here I mention a study of groupthink and lynching. Participants somehow convince themselves that this is 'right' and gain sustenance from a crowd. While this is obviously more serious, the dynamics of mobbing are very similar, and lives are destroyed. sex-matters.org/posts/publicat…

“Because the organization ignores, condones or even instigates the behavior, it can be said that the victim, seemingly helpless against the powerful and many, is indeed ‘mobbed.’ The result is always injury— physical or mental distress or illness and social misery and, most

How refreshing to even see a title that recognizes that this is what has been going on: 'Academic mobbing.' Describes the persecution of Jo Phoenix, accused of “transphobia” and compared by the Open University's
head of social policy and criminology to a “racist uncle.'

Don’t normally do this on Friday mornings, but making an exception today.

This week’s #FF is Ian Pace. He wrote this extraordinary briefing paper on academic mobbing for Sex Matters, and it’s well worth your time.

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Thread with detail on the response to the OfS guidance on implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which we have put together at London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom

Fantastic, research-packed long report by Ian Pace on mobbing in academia, and what to do about it. Mobbing is so insiduous because participants don't think they are doing it, and those going along with it can pretend it isn't happening. This explains some mechanisms.

Huge thanks to Helen Joyce and Ms Grumpytrousers for all the work and help they provided towards this, and also to the reviewers.