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Home / Sustainability & Environment / The Vancouver Institute Lecture Series Presents Naomi Klein

The Vancouver Institute Lecture Series Presents Naomi Klein

October 29, 2014


This is an Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture presented by the Vancouver Institute.

Naomi Klein is the author of the critically acclaimed #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies which have each been translated into more than 30 languages. She is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.

Naomi Klein is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Her new book is This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, available at UBC Library. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 350.org and Green College and took place at the UBC Chan Centre for Performing Arts.


Available at UBC Library

Klein, Naomi.  This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate.  New York: Simon & Shuster, 2014.  [Link]

Klein, Naomi. The shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism. Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 2007. [Link]

Klein, Naomi. No logo.  Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. [Link]


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