UK American Studies Against the Genocide presents….

Colonial Mobilities in the US, UK, and Palestine
Thursday 3 September, 5pm-7pm
BRIG Cafe @ The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH

Registration link: https://buytickets.at/ukamericanstudiesagainstthegenocide/2371671

Colonial structures shape how we move, who gets to move and whose movement is constrained, and when movement for one comes at the expense of another. To think about mobility justice, in other words, is to think about empire. And vice versa.

This public conversation brings two modes of mobility, two time periods, and two geographies into conversation to consider the relationship between colonialism and mobility. Dr. Nathan Cardon will offer some remarks on the global bicycle boom of the late nineteenth century, and how it linked imperial networks between the British empire at its height and an emerging US empire then on the rise. Dr. Dani Abulhawa will then speak about how skateboarding in Palestine can constitute liberatory practice under colonial occupation. Nathan and Dani’s presentations will be followed by a comment from two local activists, followed by conversation between the panelists and with the audience.
Light refreshments will be served.

We have a small pot of money to cover the travel of precarious and unemployed academics who would like to join. Just drop us a line if you’d like to request funding: americanstudiesagainstgenocide@gmail.com

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The organisers gratefully acknowledge the British Association for American Studies Development Fund for their support.