The CRSP Speaker Series talks provide an opportunity for faculty, students, and community members to engage in race-related discussions of mutual interest. All lectures are from 12 noon to 1:30 pm in the School of Social Work Conference Center: Room 2017 of the Cathedral of Learning; 4200 Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh.
Lunch is provided; registration is not required.
Please contact Center Coordinator Penny Miller (crsp@pitt.edu) with any questions.
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Most Recent Speaker Series
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Spring 2020 "Lessons From New Orleans: Race, Health and Covid-19" Thomas LaVeist, Dean and Presidential Chair in Health Equity, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University |
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Spring 2020 "Confronting Racial Bias in Social Media Data and AI Tools against Gun Violence" Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work, Colombia University |
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Spring 2020 "A Black Women's History of the United States" Daina Ramey Berry, Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin |
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Spring 2020 "Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice" Daren Graves, Simmons University, and Scott Seider, Boston College |
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Fall 2019 "Ring the Alarm: A Mental Health Crisis of Black Youth" Michael A. Lindsey, Executive Director, NYU McSilver Institute, Silver School of Social Work, New York University |
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Fall 2019 "The Past Is Present: How Racial Wealth Gaps Perpetuate Across and Within Generations" Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University |
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Fall 2019 "Race, Rights, & Rifles" Alexandra Filindra, Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Fall 2019 "A Conversation on Race" Larry E. Davis, Dean Emeritus, Donald M Henderson Chair and Professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh |
For more lecture videos, view our Speaker Series Archive.