Bunker mentality: the family fallout shelter in US thought and culture

Tom Bishop, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies presents this lecture. Although now the subject of satirical retro-futuristic depictions in video games and TV shows, the family fallout shelter and the question of ‘to dig or not to dig’ once occupied a central and very serious place in U.S. culture. With the release of Bethesda’s Fallout 4 set to bring these debates back to the forefront of US popular culture the time seems right to re-examine the origins of shelter culture and its depictions in film, literature and on screen.

Tags: fiction, nuclear, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, Tom Bishop, war

Gay rights in the US: the promise and perils of patriotism

The Department of American and Canadian Studies, Rainbow Heritage and the Centre for Advanced Studies present ‘Gay rights in the US: the promise of perils and patriotism’, featuring a talk by Simon Hall, an introduction by David Edgley, and a public conversation with Tom Bishop.

Tags: Centre for Advanced Studies, David Edgley, Department of American and Canadian Studies, LGBT, LGBT History Month, Rainbow Heritage, Simon Hall, Tom Bishop