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
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

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
12-1pm

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

Dr Tom Doig

Friday, 30August
12-1pm

Indigenising the Curriculum Pedagogy JamDr Amelia Barikin and Prof. Anna Johnston

Friday, 13 September
12-1pm

Assessment Security Pedagogy JamDr Amelia Barikin and Dr Maureen Engel

Friday, 20 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Upside Down: Adaptation and Digital Affordances in Stranger Things

Dr Bernadette Cochrane

Friday, 11 October
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Linking research, teaching and engagement – the PEATLI project

A.Prof Elske van de Fliert

 

Venue

Online via Zoom and in-person at 09-738