{"id":31709,"date":"2015-02-12T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:11:54","slug":"dai-ho-chun-chair-naomi-klein-presents-capitalism-vs-the-climate-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/12\/dai-ho-chun-chair-naomi-klein-presents-capitalism-vs-the-climate-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dai Ho Chun Chair Naomi Klein presents Capitalism vs. The Climate lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Naomi Klein (photo credit: Ed Kashi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In spring 2015, Naomi Klein will be the Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Klein will present a lecture, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate,” at the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom on Thursday, February 26, 6–7:30 p.m. <\/p>\n

Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and number one international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism<\/em><\/a>, published in over 30 languages with more than a million copies in print.<\/p>\n

Klein’s first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies<\/em><\/a> was also an international bestseller, translated into over 25 languages with more than a million copies in print. In 2011, Time Magazine<\/em><\/a> named the book as one of the Top 100 non-fiction books published since 1923.<\/p>\n

She is a contributing editor for Harper’s<\/em><\/a>, a reporter for Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> and writes a regular column for The Nation<\/em> and The Guardian<\/em><\/a> that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute<\/a> and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics<\/a>. She holds an honorary doctor of civil laws from the University of King’s College<\/a>, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

Klein’s newest work: This Changes Everything<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate<\/em><\/a>, was an instant bestseller when published in September, it debuted at #5 on The New York Times list and is at the top of multiple bestseller lists in the U.S.<\/abbr>, U.K.<\/abbr> and Canada. The New York Times<\/em> has called it “the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring<\/em>.”<\/p>\n