printable versionUpcoming Aurora Forums set for Oct. 16 and Oct. 23
The Aurora Forum will feature journalist Naomi Klein in conversation with Stanford political scientist Terry Karl on Thursday, Oct. 16. The following Thursday, Harvard University's Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. will speak with Claude Steele, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Both Aurora Forum events—"A Conversation with Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism and the Rise of Democratic Reconstruction" and "An Evening with Henry Louis Gates Jr."—are scheduled for 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium and are free and open to the public.
Klein is the author of the bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007). Karl, the Gildred Professor in Latin American Studies, is the author of The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petrol States (1997) and articles such as "Economic Inequality and Democratic Instability" and "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America."
Gates, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, is the author of many books, articles, essays and reviews. His honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1981), the George Polk Award for Social Commentary (1993), inclusion on Time magazine's list of "25 Most Influential Americans" (1997), a National Humanities Medal (1998) and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999). Steele, the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
