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, 16 August Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Archives: A Knowledge Café on Ways of Knowing, Seeing, Being, and Accessing | A conversation hosted by Kate Newey, Bernadette Cochrane, Madelyn Coupe, and Hannah Mason |
Friday, 23 August Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Dispatches from Trump-World: Preppers, Climate Disasters and a Front Row Seat the 2024 Republican National Convention | |
Friday, 30August | Indigenising the Curriculum Pedagogy Jam | Dr Amelia Barikin and Prof. Anna Johnston |
Friday, 13 September | Assessment Security Pedagogy Jam | Dr Amelia Barikin and Dr Maureen Engel |
Friday, 20 September Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Upside Down: Adaptation and Digital Affordances in Stranger Things | |
Friday, 11 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Linking research, teaching and engagement – the PEATLI project |
