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This event is hosted by Global Santa Fe. 

The World Affairs Council of Greater Houston is pleased to be a supporting organization.

As international travel and cycling are often found together, this upcoming virtual conversation with journalist and author Jody Rosen is a program that you will not want to miss.

Two Wheels Good examines the past and future of the bicycle through the lens of colorful historic characters. We meet a Bhutanese king known for racing mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a rickshawallah in Bangladesh who earns but $7/day and the Scottish daredevil Danny MacAskill who built a lucrative career performing stunts the videos of which attract millions of views within days of release. We will talk about the role that bicycles played in social movements such as women’s emancipation; massive protests including Tiananmen Square and Black Lives Matter and how they were used as effective instruments of war by, for example, the Vietcong.

Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His work has appeared in Slate, New York, The New Yorker, and many other publications. Once an aspiring songwriter, he composed lyrics while a bicycle messenger in New York City.