Research Seminar - Dispatches from Trump-World: Preppers, Climate Disasters and a Front Row Seat the 2024 Republican National Convention
Dispatches from Trump-World: Preppers, Climate Disasters and a Front Row Seat the 2024 Republican National Convention
Dr Tom Doig
Date: Friday 23 August 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Online via Zoom and in-person at 09-738
Abstract
As part of his practice-led creative nonfiction book on prepping cultures around the world, Dr Tom Doig has recently returned from a research trip to the USA. Doig visited bunkers and missile siloes in New Mexico and South Dakota; a three-day prepper convention in Minnesota; and a hand-built log cabin near the Canadian border. He talked with Mormon preppers in Montana and ex-Special Forces preppers in Tennessee. He also reported from the 2024 Republican National Convention for Crikey, and spent hours standing uncomfortably close to Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. Meanwhile, Doig’s itinerary inadvertently crossed paths with wildfires in New Mexico, flooding in Minnesota and heatwaves in Montana.
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series
The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Friday, 25 September Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | "Questions" - A.I. 'Morphology' and Labour in Blade Runner (Parker) and There’s Something About Autism: a case study in autistic dramaturgy in playwriting (Wilson) | Talia Parker and Sarah Wilson |
Friday, 9 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series "Alien Machines" | Prof Simone Natale (George Watson visiting speaker) With Dr Adam Dodd (UQ Digital media) as correspondent |
Friday, 16 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Imagined Pasts (Kim Wilkins) Imagined Futures (Helen Marshall) | Prof Kim Wilkins and A/Prof Helen Marshall |
Friday, 23 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Brisbane’s coming of age expo 88 to Brisbane 2032 | Dr Sarah Thomassen |