Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of several books, including her 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category. Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s and a reporter for Rolling Stone, and she writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian. In 2014 she received the International Studies Association’s IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar award, and in 2015 she received the Izzy Award honoring outstanding achievement in independent journalism and media.
The event is sponsored by the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas. (Full disclosure: Austin Climate Action Network did *not* organize this event, but we'll be there!)
Location: University of Texas, Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, 2313 Red River, Austin, 78705. Some parking is available at LBJ Library and Museum parking lot on Red River, UT Lot 40. Additional parking at the San Jacinto Garage, 2401 San Jacinto, and the Manor Garage, 2017 Dedman Drive. Street parking available on Dean Keaton and Red River.
For more info: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/tilts/program/klein.php
This event is free and open to the public
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