Dear all, 

With apologies for cross-posting ....

Following the rise of Donald Trump from NBC's The Apprentice to President-elect of the United States of America, Screen Seminars at Glasgow explores the relationship between television and politics. In the aftermath of Trump's inauguration, four panellists will deliver ten minute introductory talks reflecting on this event, followed by discussion and debate.

5.30pm Monday 23 January
Andrew Stewart Cinema
Gilmorehill Halls 
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Speakers

Dr Zoe Colley (Dundee): 'From Nixon to Trump: Historical Trends in Presidential Campaigns'

Dr Michael Higgins (Strathclyde): 'The Donald: a guide to Pseudo-politics in America'

Dr Lisa W. Kelly (Glasgow): 'CEO of Me, Inc.': Trump, Reality TV and Entrepreneurs of the Self'
James Nixon (Glasgow): 'Comedy's Trump Problem'

Dr Zoe Colley is a lecturer in American History at the University of Dundee. Her research focusses upon race and the criminal justice system in the USA from the 1950s through to the present day. Her current project, which has been funded by the AHRC, is entitled "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Black Nationalism, Crime, and Justice." It explores campaigns by black nationalist organisations against racial discrimination and brutality within the criminal justice system from the 1960s through to the present day. 

Dr Michael Higgins is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. He has published more than 30 articles and chapters on topics ranging across media, politics and identity. The latest of his six books is on tactics of incivility in media and is called Belligerent Broadcasting (with Angela Smith, Routledge). 

Dr Lisa W. Kelly is Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has examined the rise of the business entertainment format on TV and is the co-author (with Raymond Boyle) of The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business (Ashgate, 2012) and 'The Celebrity Entrepreneur on Television: Profile, Politics and Power' published in Celebrity Studies (2010). 

James Nixon is a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow whose thesis analyses the subversive and conservative nature of American political stand-up comedy in the Obama era.  His research examines in particular African American, left-wing, and right-wing political comic response under Obama's presidency, as well as Obama's own bold redefinition of the annual presidential comedy address at the popular White House Correspondents' Dinner.

All Welcome

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Dr David Archibald
Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies

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University of Glasgow
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