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.
SCA themed research seminar series: Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form:
Friday, 24 April Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-835 | ||
Friday, 1 May Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Session 2: Lightning Talks - AI mirrors, clones, ghosts, and cultural forms | Dr Kiah Hawker; Dr Lisa Bode; Prof Jenna Ng; Prof Nic Carah |
Friday, 8 May Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Session 3: Machine Learning and the History of Style: On the Normal Scientific Study of Verse | Dr Christian Gelder and Dr Joseph Steinberg |
Friday, 15 May Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Session 4: Literary Criticism and AI: Interpretation as Practice, Simulation as Discourse | Dr Nick Lord |
