Naomi Klein in conversation with Jacqueline Rose

When:

27 April 2023,
18:00
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20:00

Venue:
Online

In this wide-ranging conversation, Naomi Klein and Jacqueline Rose will talk about the issues that bring them together, the values and commitments they share, including: climate justice, assaults on political freedoms in the context of the climate crisis, including the imprisonment of the Egyptian prisoner and activist Alaa Abdel Fatah, Israel’s lurch to the far right, and the urgent themes of No Logo a quarter of a century later.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and international bestselling author of eight books including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough and On Fire, which have been translated into over 35 languages. In 2018, she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021, she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice and is the founding co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice.

Jacqueline Rose is a feminist thinker whose books include: Sexuality in the Field of Vision and The Last Resistance (both Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, Women in Dark Times, Mothers – an essay on love and cruelty, the novel Albertine, and most recently, On Violence and On Violence Against Women. The Plague – Living Death in Our Times will be published by Fitzcarraldo in June.  She is co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Literary Society.

Contact name:
Dr Elia Ntaousani, BIH Manager

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