Naomi Klein to Deliver Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture at Bogazici University
By Armenian Weekly Staff
January 17, 2010

ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.) – Award-winning journalist and author Naomi
Klein will deliver the 2010 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Freedom of
Expression and Human Rights at Bogazici University in Istanbul. She
will deliver the lecture, titled `The Power of Being Consistent:
Insisting on Palestinian Humanity in the Western Media,’ on Jan. 25 at
3 p.m. local time at Albert Long Hall (BTS), South Campus. The talk
will be presented in English and will be translated simultaneously
into Turkish.

The poster announcing Klein’s lecture
The lecture is organized by the departments of History, Sociology,
Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University.

A press release issued by the organizers presents the following
lecture synopsis:

Recent months have seen a ferocious wave of Israeli attacks targeting
Palestinian activists who have chosen to resist occupation through
principled, non-violent action. Key leaders are being arrested one by
one, particularly those who oppose the construction of the so-called
`security barrier,’ and those who are calling for Israel to face the
kinds of boycotts and sanctions that ultimately ended Apartheid in
South Africa. A central tenet of the international campaign has been
the decision not to advocate a particular political outcome, but
rather to insist that Israel comply with international law. This set
of demands is so threatening to Israel’s expansive colonial policies
that new words like `lawfare’ have recently been invented to slander
it. The lecture will examine this latest stage of the struggle for
Palestinian rights, interrogating what it tells us about the limits of
free expression in the West, as well as the hope it holds to deliver
genuine equality between Jews and Palestinians at last.

Naomi Klein is a Canadian award-winning journalist, political
activist, and author of internationally best-selling non-fiction
books. She writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian
that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In
2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James
Aranson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Her first book No Logo:
Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (2000) was an international
bestseller, translated into 28 languages. Her second book, a
collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front
Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002. Her third
book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) was
also an international bestseller and was translated into 27
languages. A six-minute companion film was created by Alfonso Cuaron
and it was downloaded over a million times. Naomi Klein and her
husband, Avi Lewis, co-produced a feature documentary, `The Take,’
about Argentina’s worker occupied factories in 2004. Klein is a former
Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an
honorary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of King’s College,
Nova Scotia, Canada.