Arundhati Roy | Farenthold Lecture

2313 Red River Street,Austin TX 78712

20 April, 2022

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The 2021-2022 Farenthold Lecture features renowned author Arundhati Roy, in conversation with LBJ School professor Raj Patel. Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights | Presented in partnership with the Rothko Chapel and co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin The seventh annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture features renowned political activist and author Arundhati Roy. LBJ School professor Raj Patel will engage Roy in a conversation about “Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus.” Arundhati Roy, author of the Man Booker prize-winning The God of Small Things (1997) as well as The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), has devoted the past decades to advocating for justice, equality, and political transformation. She is a preeminent critic of the economic, social, and political inequalities produced by neoliberal globalization. Her work includes leadership on environmental causes, opposition to India’s policies on nuclear weapons, and activism and advocacy against imperialist military interventions. Since 1998, Roy has published twenty nonfiction books, most recently Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014), My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction (2019), and Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.  (2020). Raj Patel is a research professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and a senior research associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. His latest book, co-authored with Rupa Marya, is Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (2021). Seating capacity is limited. Reserve your seat by registering. Please view our event page for more information. Parking is FREE in Lot 40 (see LBJ Auditorium directions and parking for more information).