{"id":6572,"date":"2017-03-20T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/high-noon-on-april-5-brent-nelsen-looks-at-trump-presidency\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:39:19","slug":"high-noon-on-april-5-brent-nelsen-looks-at-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/high-noon-on-april-5-brent-nelsen-looks-at-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"High Noon on April 5: Brent Nelsen looks at Trump presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Nelsen, professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, will analyze the first few months of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon spring lecture series Wednesday, April 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First 76 Days: A Look at the Trump Presidency\u201d begins at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.\u00a0 Nelsen will provide a brief overview of the events that have transpired thus far in the Trump presidency and then open the floor to questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30956\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30956\" class=\"wp-image-30956 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/high-noon-logo-big-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"281\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 463px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 463\/281;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The spring High Noon series\u00a0continues Wednesday, April 5 with a talk by Furman professor Brent Nelsen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Nelsen joined the Furman faculty in 1990.\u00a0 In addition to teaching courses on Europe and the European Union, he is a frequent commentator in the media on American politics.\u00a0 He serves on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and is also chairman of the South Carolina Education Television Commission.\u00a0 A graduate of Wheaton College, he holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>The final lecture in the spring series will take place Wednesday April 12\u00a0when Jessica Taylor, a Furman alum and Lead Digital Reporter with National Public Radio, speaks on \u201cMedia in the Age of Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or vince.moore@furman.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Nelsen, professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, will analyze the first few months of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,69,32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}