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For Immediate Release
Contact: Lea Ann Scales
Assistant Vice President
of Public Relations and Marketing
(508) 929-8018
April 6, 2012
(Worcester, Mass.) -- Award-winning investigative journalist and author Christian Parenti will speak about his recent book Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence on April 11 at 10:30 a.m. in the Sullivan Building, Eager Auditorium (Room 146). The talk is free and open to the public.
Parenti is a professor at the School for International Training, a visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center, a Puffin Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute. He is the author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, and The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, is based on more than six years of research and travel to deserts, war zones, slums, and struggling states across the world.
This event is sponsored by the WSU Global Studies program, Honors program, Departments of English, Philosophy, Physical and Earth Sciences and Sociology, Center for the Study of Human Rights and Theme Semester.
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