{"id":15969,"date":"2018-04-09T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:12:41","slug":"dr-robert-saunders-going-to-russia-to-talk-beer-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/04\/09\/dr-robert-saunders-going-to-russia-to-talk-beer-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Robert Saunders Going to Russia to Talk Beer, Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17076\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17076\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17076 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/Robert-Saunders-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Robert Saunders\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Robert Saunders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Robert Saunders, Department of History, Politics, and Geography, is going to St. Petersburg, Russia later this month as part of SUNY&#8217;s Russia Programs Network Spring 2018 Travel Award.<\/p>\n<p>The visit will include lectures and other activities at St. Petersburg State University<br \/>\nand several other St. Petersburg institutions. Dr. Saunders will speak on &#8220;Is Beer Political?&#8221; and &#8220;#Geopolitics: Diplomacy in the Age of Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the former, Dr. Saunders asks the question: &#8220;Beer is the world\u2019s favorite beverage, but is it political?&#8221; He examines the impact of transnational craft beer on global affairs, focusing on the ongoing contestation of dominant discourses around the world\u2019s two most powerful people: Vladimir Putin and Donald J. Trump. This is done through an interrogation of two explicitly and intentionally political beers: Norwegian brewery 7 Fjell\u2019s \u201cThe Donald Ignorant IPA\u201d and Scottish BrewDog\u2019s \u201cHello, My Name is Vladimir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter diplomacy focuses on the wide-ranging, if misunderstood and sometimes exaggerated, impact of social networking in international relations. Topics will include the purported use of such technologies to influence elections, remake geopolitical realities, and burnish the national images of countries beyond their borders.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Saunders&#8217; latest book is <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Popular-Geopolitics-and-Nation-Branding-in-the-Post-Soviet-Realm\/Saunders\/p\/book\/9781138830172\">Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Saunders, Department of History, Politics, and Geography, is going to St. Petersburg, Russia later this month as part of SUNY&#8217;s Russia Programs Network Spring 2018 Travel Award. The visit will include lectures and other activities at St. Petersburg State University and several other St. Petersburg institutions. Dr. Saunders will speak on &#8220;Is Beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":17076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15969"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions\/17086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}