Join CAAT as they celebrate the launch of their newly commissioned report, ‘A Very British Problem’: The Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex, exploring the increasingly militarised nature of British policing, written by Researcher and Writer, Dr Keren Weitzberg.
They will hold a panel conversation on Thursday 4 Aug, facilitated by writer, producer and campaigner, Siana Bangura, with speakers including Dr Weitzberg, representatives from Netpol, partners on this project, and campaigners and activist-academics focused on the topic of state violence, anti-racism and policing.
You can read a brief extract from the report and register for the event via the Eventbrite page.
Speaker Biogs:
Dr Keren Weitzberg (Researcher & Report Author)
Keren is an interdisciplinary historian who works at the intersection of migration studies, critical race studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Her work examines problematics related to mobility, border-crossing, race-making, and biometrics. She received her PhD from Stanford University and is a teaching fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies and the History Department at University College London (UCL). Keren has over a decade of experience carrying out archival research, fieldwork, and oral history in multicultural, multilingual settings in East Africa, collaborating with African scholars and practitioners. She has designed and led study abroad programmes and collaborated with civil society groups, artists, and scholars across the US, UK, continental Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Her work sits at the intersection of the disciplines of history and anthropology.
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Annie Olaloku-Teriba is a writer and independent researcher based in London, UK.
Aadam Muuse
Aadam is a political organiser working with various movements in the UK, and a Peace Studies student.
Emily Apple (Netpol)
Emily is the co-founder of Fitwatch, and a writer, activist and mother. She is also Editor at The Canary and Comms Co-ordinator at Netpol.
Facilitator Biog:
Siana Bangura is a writer, producer, performer and community organiser hailing from South East London, now living, working, and creating between London and the West Midlands.
Siana is the founder and former editor of Black British Feminist platform, No Fly on the WALL; she is the author of poetry collection, ‘Elephant’; and the producer of ‘1500 & Counting’, a documentary film investigating deaths in custody and police brutality in the UK and the founder of Courageous Films. Siana works and campaigns on issues of race, class, and gender and their intersections and is currently working on projects focusing on climate change, the arms trade, and state violence. Formerly a campaigner and co-ordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), she is currently a producer at Catalyst, co-creating networks & ecosystems.
Across her vast portfolio of work, Siana’s mission is to help move marginalised voices from the margins, to the centre.