22.11.2018
13.11.2018: Prof. Michael Butter Gives a Lecture on the Transnational Heroization of Donald Trump
On November 13, Prof. Michael Butter gave a lecture titled "'This Beast in the Shape of a Man': Right-wing Populism, White Masculinity, and the Transnational Heroization of Donald Trump" at Villa Tillmanns in Leipzig. In his talk, Prof. Butter, who is the Professor for American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Tübingen, analyzed the way in which Donald Trump is stylized as a hero both in the United States and in Europe. To illustrate this, Prof. Butter presented the various ways in which Trump is likened to figures both from current popular culture and, especially in Europe, figures from Nordic myths in memes, online videos and texts...