Clark University to Host Lecture on Climate Change and Genocide

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Thursday, October 17, 2019

GoLocalWorcester News Team

Clark University is set to host a lecture titled “Genocide. Ecocide. Climate catastrophe. Naming it, owning it, going from here.”

The lecture will feature journalists Christian Parenti and Roy Scranton.

It will take place on Wednesday, October 23 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Lecture

The conversation will explore questions such as: What is it we know? What do we call it? How do we understand an expanding definition of genocide? How do we own that knowledge fully? What does it portend? Where do we go from there?

Parenti is an investigative journalist who has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ivory Coast, and China. His reporting in Afghanistan was the subject of an award-winning HBO documentary called “Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi.” 

Parenti is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College and author of several books, including “Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence” (2011).

Scranton is an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He released two books this year (“I ♥ Oklahoma!” and “Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature” and “We’re Doomed. Now what?” (2018). 

Scranton served four years in the U.S. Army, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq.

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