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Micro-Seminar: Biking in LA? YESSS! How people ride for joy and justice among the cars and sprawl PART ONE
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Thu, Aug 22, 2024
3 PM – 4:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)
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Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
With 650 miles of crisscrossing freeways and an incredible volume of cars, Los Angeles is known as a car-centric city. And yet, LA is also a thriving city of bicyclists, who bike for myriad diverse reasons: from loving beach rides to affordability to living out commitments to environmental and social justice. In this micro-seminar, students will learn both how bicycling has prompted critical inquiry into how we live, in ways that have made biking a key “spoke,” if you will, in environmental and social justice movements; as well as how to ride safely and joyfully across LA. Students across all majors interested in urban design and city planning, environmental and social justice and grassroots organizing, LA history, bicycling, and how to enjoy tooling around LA on two wheels will enjoy this micro-seminar.
Day 1: riding for joy and justice: biking as critical inquiry & response
• 3-3:30pm: meeting each other & meeting bikes
• 3:30-4:30pm: how biking links to environmental and social justice, focus on LA people, organizations, and history
Day 2: biking safe and smart at USC & across LA
• 10-11am: SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER, Aaron “Lil Bill” Flournoy, owner of Lil Bill’s Bike Shop. Lil Bill’s has been a strong part of the USC community for 40 years. Mr. Flournoy will demonstrate bike safety and discuss biking history at USC and Los Angeles. Learn more about Mr. Flournoy and Lil Bill’s Bike Shop here: https://lilbills.info/about-me/
• 11-11:30am: closing reflections & plans to ride in the Heart of LA CicLAvia on Sun Oct 13, 2024
Lead By: Professor Alisa Sanchez
Alisa Sánchez is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric with an emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies and is a recipient of Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants. Dr. Sánchez’ writing courses focus on interdisciplinary explorations of the law and vital social issues. She serves as a writing mentor for undergraduate researchers and is deeply committed to the project of transforming higher education to be more just, equitable, and radiant. For 15 years, biking has been her main way of ambling around, now mostly in South LA.
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Fri, Aug 23, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Private Location (register to display)
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Micro-Seminar: Biking in LA? YESSS! How people ride for joy and justice among the cars and sprawl PART TWO
Micro-Seminars have two parts. Attendance to both parts is required. Registering for the PART ONE session will automatically enroll you in the PART TWO session on Friday.
Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
With 650 miles of crisscrossing freeways and an incredible volume of cars, Los Angeles is known as a car-centric city. And yet, LA is also a thriving city of bicyclists, who bike for myriad diverse reasons: from loving beach rides to affordability to living out commitments to environmental and social justice. In this micro-seminar, students will learn both how bicycling has prompted critical inquiry into how we live, in ways that have made biking a key “spoke,” if you will, in environmental and social justice movements; as well as how to ride safely and joyfully across LA. Students across all majors interested in urban design and city planning, environmental and social justice and grassroots organizing, LA history, bicycling, and how to enjoy tooling around LA on two wheels will enjoy this micro-seminar.
Day 1: riding for joy and justice: biking as critical inquiry & response
• 3-3:30pm: meeting each other & meeting bikes
• 3:30-4:30pm: how biking links to environmental and social justice, focus on LA people, organizations, and history
Day 2: biking safe and smart at USC & across LA
• 10-11am: SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER, Aaron “Lil Bill” Flournoy, owner of Lil Bill’s Bike Shop. Lil Bill’s has been a strong part of the USC community for 40 years. Mr. Flournoy will demonstrate bike safety and discuss biking history at USC and Los Angeles. Learn more about Mr. Flournoy and Lil Bill’s Bike Shop here: https://lilbills.info/about-me/
• 11-11:30am: closing reflections & plans to ride in the Heart of LA CicLAvia on Sun Oct 13, 2024
Lead By: Professor Alisa Sanchez
Alisa Sánchez is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric with an emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies and is a recipient of Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants. Dr. Sánchez’ writing courses focus on interdisciplinary explorations of the law and vital social issues. She serves as a writing mentor for undergraduate researchers and is deeply committed to the project of transforming higher education to be more just, equitable, and radiant. For 15 years, biking has been her main way of ambling around, now mostly in South LA.