Laura Penny - “As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein.”
Italian Cultural Centre, 2629 Agricola Street, Halifax
Doors Open 6:00pm • Dinner at 6:30 • Speaker at 7:30
Tickets must be purchased in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door. Call CCPA-NS at (902) 477-1252 or 1-877-920-7770 to purchase tickets.
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Keynote Address: Sorry, Kids: Your Future is Cancelled
Don’t miss an opportunity to hear Laura Penny share her thoughts on how expensive all this "austerity" is going to be, and how right wing economic policies do not turn out to be very cheap at all, even though they always appeal to cheapness. She will focus specifically on the implications of this agenda and of problems with education funding, the environment, and the effects of social disinvestment on kids.
About Laura Penny:
Laura Penny is best-selling author of Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit and More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap and Idiots Think They're Right (both Globe and Mail "Best Books of the Year"). Laura Penny has a PhD in Comparative Literature, a MA in Theory and Criticism, and a BA in Contemporary Studies and English. She has worked as a bookstore clerk, a student activist, a union organizer, a university instructor, and her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Chronicle Herald. She lives in Halifax, where she teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University and the University of King's College.
For more information, see the following links:
Laura Penny criticizes the North American education system on TVO
Video on BS covered by 60 minutes includes segments from Laura Penny (go to the 7: 42 minute)
Globe and Mail review of this book: “Laura Penny’s prose is fluent, clever, often funny and, most important, consistently engaging. Her new book, More Money Than Brains, is a ferocious defence of the arts and humanities against the philistine influence of Homo economicus (subspecies Goldman Sachsus).” Read more here.
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