Speaker Series
During the academic year, the center hosts a monthly series of lunchtime lectures. These talks provide an opportunity for faculty, students, and community members to engage in race-related discussions of mutual interest.
We are very happy to have the support of two major Pittsburgh law firms, Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney PC and Reed Smith LLC. Where many other similar institutions might have shied away from the highly-charged topics with which we engage, these firms have sponsored the speaker series over seven academic years from September 2004 to September 2011.
We thank these firms for recognizing the importance of race in our society, the necessity of developing real-world solutions to our country's defining social problem and the value of sharing knowledge and engaging in dialogue on the issues before us.
All lectures are from noon to 1:30 pm in the School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning. Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2011 Speaker Series Schedule:
September 19, 2011
Jeannette South-Paul, Andrew W. Mathieson Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Disparities in Health Care for Minorities: Institutional or Personal?
October 12, 2011
Ira Katznelson,Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History,Columbia University, "When Affirmative Action Was White: Further Reflections"
November 4, 2011
Linda Lane, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools,
"Equity is Not an Office"
December 9, 2011
Elizabeth Anderson, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard
University,John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan,
"The Imperative of Integration: Race and Education"
