{"id":18221,"date":"2018-06-08T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:12:45","slug":"dr-robert-saunders-doing-the-european-conference-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/06\/08\/dr-robert-saunders-doing-the-european-conference-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Robert Saunders Doing the European Conference Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already been a busy summer for Dr. Robert Saunders,<br \/>\nprofessor in the Department of <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18228 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/Popular-Geopolitics-book-Robt.-Saunders-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Popular Geopolitics book, Robt. Saunders\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/>History, Politics, and Geography &#8211; and there&#8217;s no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>He recently arrived in Europe for a whirlwind tour of the conference circuit, beginning in Denmark, and then moving to Finland and Hungary. Not only that, he is spending the summer months doing research for his next book; completing the 2nd edition of his <em>Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation<\/em> (Scarecrow Press); and updating two articles.<\/p>\n<p>At his first stop, Dr. Saunders attended &#8220;Scandinoir\u2019s Border-Crossings\/Crossers: The Geopolitics of Nordic Transnational Television,&#8221; at Aarhus University, Denmark. This week it&#8217;s &#8220;Screening the North: A Call for Geocriticism in Critical Television Studies,&#8221; Visual Perspectives on the North and the Arctic, part of the Changing Environment of the North project, at Tampere University, Finland. At the end of the month, he gives a keynote speech at the Nations in Cyberspace conference, hosted by the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Saunders&#8217; latest book is <em>Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, <\/em>a collection of articles by scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the sub-field of popular geopolitics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already been a busy summer for Dr. Robert Saunders, professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography &#8211; and there&#8217;s no end in sight. He recently arrived in Europe for a whirlwind tour of the conference circuit, beginning in Denmark, and then moving to Finland and Hungary. Not only that, he is spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":18506,"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\/18221"}],"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=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions\/18652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}