Salt Lake Community College will host Naomi Klein, author of
the New York Times #1 international bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of
Disaster Capitalism,” as a guest speaker for the 2015 Tanner Forum on Social
Ethics.
Naomi Klein
“As an
award-winning journalist Naomi Klein has tackled critical cultural issues that
span topics such as corporate brands gone awry, free market policies that
dominate the world and, most recently, an analysis of the climate crisis,” said
Alison McFarlane, SLCC Vice President for Institutional Advancement. “Her books are compelling and provocative
as we know her presentation will be as well. We’re pleased to welcome Klein to
Salt Lake Community College as our annual Tanner Forum on Social Ethics
lecturer.”
Klein will appear November 10, 7 p.m. at the Grand Theatre
on SLCC’s South City Campus, 1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City. She will
give a 45-minute presentation, followed by a Q&A and then a book signing in
the Grand Theatre foyer. The Tanner
Forum on Social Ethics is presented by a generous gift from the O.C. Tanner
Charitable Foundation and with funding from SLCC Art and Cultural Events
programming. The event is free and open to the public, and tickets
are not required.
Klein’s latest book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism
vs. The Climate,” is the 2014 winner of the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’
Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her first book, “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand
Bullies,” was also an international bestseller. She is a contributing editor
for Harper’s, a reporter for Rolling Stone, an internationally syndicated
columnist and a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global
grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Her reporting from Iraq for
Harper’s won her the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2004
and in 2014 she received the International Studies Association’s IPE
Outstanding Activist-Scholar award.
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