Naomi Oreskes, the world-renowned earth scientist, historian and co-author of the best-selling book, “Merchants of Doubt,” will speak at the University of Northern Iowa on Tuesday, April 7.
Oreskes, a leading authority on the reality of anthropogenic climate change, will be at UNI as part of the Aldo Leopold Lecture Series, and will speak on the title of: “How Free Market Thinking has Blocked Climate Action.” The public talk will be held at 6 p.m. in the Maucker Union ballroom on UNI’s campus. A reception and informal discussion will follow.
In advance of Oreskes’ visit, a screening of the film “Merchants of Doubt” (2014) will be held on Tuesday, March 31, at 4 p.m. in Sabin Hall 002.
Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
She is author or co-author of 9 books, and over 150 articles, essays and opinion pieces, including “Merchants of Doubt” (Bloomsbury, 2010), “The Collapse of Western Civilization” (Columbia University Press, 2014), “Discerning Experts” (University Chicago Press, 2019), “Why Trust Science?” (Princeton University Press, 2019), and “Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change” (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
“Merchants of Doubt,” co-authored with Erik Conway, was the subject of a documentary film of the same name produced by participant Media and distributed by SONY Pictures Classics, and has been translated into nine languages.
Her latest book, with Erik Conway, is “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market” (2023), which has been translated to French and Italian.
Oreskes is the most recent visiting speaker in the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series. For more information, including other speakers, see leopold-lectures.uni.edu.
