Join Dr. Robert Reich\, Chancellor's Profe ssor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley\, for his keynote talk\, T he Rise of the Anti-Establishment: Where do we go from here? and Q&A led by Dawna Friesen\, anchor and Executive Editor of Global Na tional\, as part of the Lind Initiative in U.S. St udies Term 2 series on The Trump Impact: Change\, challenges\, resp onses.
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6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
March 1s
t\, 2017
Venue: Old Auditorium\, 6344 Memorial Road V
6T 1Z2\, UBC. Please find a map here.
SOLD OUT!
**Ticket holders\, please arriv e early to secure your seat. If seats remain\, we will open the theatre to wait list guests at 6:20 PM.
Please note that we wil l be broadcasting the event using Facebook Live from our Liu Institute for Global Issues Facebook page and live tweeting from @LiuInstituteUBC< /a> using the hashtag #Lind17. A high quality video record ing will also be made available on our Lind Initiative in U.S. Studies website following the event.
Reich’s talk will ce nter on the relation between economics and politics\, and\, in particular\, the rise of the anti-establishment. His thesis\, which tracks his most rec ent book "Saving Capitalism: For the Many\, Not the Few\," is that stagnant wages and increasing economic insecurity\, coupled with evidence that the political economic system was corrupted by big money\, has led to a huge anti-establishment wave. In the U.S.\, it was responsible in 2016 fo r both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump\; in Europe\, for Brexit and the ris e of more extremist politics. Racism and xenophobia have played their part as well\, but Reich argues that we have had racism and xenophobia for centu ries\; they've been triggered by economic fear and a sense of fundamental u nfairness.
Bio: Dr. Robert Reich is Chancellor's Pro fessor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Sen ior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secret ary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth cent ury. He has written fourteen books\, including the best sellers "Aftershock "\, "The Work of Nations\," and "Beyond Outrage\," and\, his most recent\, "Saving Capitalism." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine\, chairman of Common Cause\, a member of the American Academy of A rts and Sciences\, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary\, INEQUA LITY FOR ALL. Learn more on his website.
Bio: Award-winni ng journalist Dawna Friesen is the anchor and Executive Editor of Globa l National\, the flagship national newscast for Global News. During he r more than 30 years as a journalist\, Friesen has been everywhere from sma ll town Canada to the front lines of history. Most recently\, Friesen ancho red Global News’ coverage of America Votes 2016 from Washington\, D.C. when Donald Trump was elected President.
The UBC Bookstore will be hosting a table featuring Reich’s latest book\, Saving Capitalism: F or the Many\, Not the Few (2015)\, as well other titles such as Af tershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (2010) and Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our de mocracy\, and how to fix it (2012) available for purchase. Be sure to stop by!
The Lind Initiative in U.S. Stud ies\, a dialogue series hosted by the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC Vancouver\, addresses the most urgent issues of our time and invites prominent American scholars\, writers and intellectuals to UBC to share their research and insights with students\, faculty\, alumni\, and th e community.
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