The Center for Urban Education's Lunch & Learn conversations are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members who are interested in learning with us and engaging in important topics related to urban education.
Stay tuned for information about upcoming Lunch & Learn events.
Watch recordings of past Lunch & Learn sessions on YouTube:
Past Conversations
- 2021-2022 Academic Year
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Spring 2022 Session
Remembering Bob Moses: His Life and Legacy
January 27, 2022
Panelists: Maisha Moses, Executive Director of the Young People's Project; Cliff Freeman, Director of STEM programs for the Young People's Project; and Albert Sykes, Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA)
Moderated by: Cassandra Brentley, Program Director of Ready to Learn in the Center for Urban Education, and Dr. Kari Kokka, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Watch the RecordingFall 2021 Session
Censorship and the Attack on Critical Race Theory
October 28, 2021
Facilitated by Dr. T. Elon Dancy II and Dr. Gretchen Givens Generett
Watch the Recording - 2020-2021 Academic Year
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Spring 2021 Sessions
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Fall 2020 Sessions
Book Study with Marc Lamont Hill
December 10, 2020
Marc Lamont Hill in conversation with T. Elon Dancy, executive director of CUE; Chelsea Jimenez, a CUE graduate student; and Derric Heck, a visiting student fellow from Stanford University.
Watch the RecordingLunch & Learn featuring Kali Akuno
November 5, 2020
Kali Akuno in conversation with Sabina Vaught, University of Pittsburgh School of Education Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading, and Chris Wright, a doctoral student at the School of Education.
Watch the RecordingHairstories of Violence: Examining How Hair Mediates Schooling and Social Practices
October 22, 2020
Facilitated by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, President's Professor and Senior Advisor to the President at Arizona State University, and Sabina Vaught, University of Pittsburgh School of Education Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading.Building Abolition in Our Communities, Now
October 8, 2020
Facilitated by writer, educator, and organizer Erica R. Meiners and Sabina Vaught, University of Pittsburgh School of Education Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading. - 2019-2020 Academic Year
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Fall 2019 Session
Black Education and the Philadelphia Teacher Strikes
December 15, 2019
Featuring Camika Royal - 2018-2019 Academic Year
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Spring 2019 Session
Education and Incarceration
April 18, 2019
Facilitated by Dr. Sabina Vaught (University of Oklahoma) and Dr. Damien Sojoyner (University of California, Irvine)
12-1:15 p.m., CUE CommonsFall 2018 Sessions
Critical Language Pedagogy: Reimagining Dialects, Identity and Power in Urban Education
December 6, 2018
Facilitated by Dr. Amanda J. Godley
12-1:15 p.m., CUE Commons
Watch the RecordingSchooling in Racist America: White Teachers and Whiteness with a Soft Touch
November 8, 2018
Facilitated by Zeus Leonardo
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., CUE CommonsWho Does Aid Help? Examining Heterogeneity in the Effect of Student Aid on Achievement
October 4, 2018
Facilitated by Breyon J. Williams, Ph.D. Candidate of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m., CUE CommonsMeet the CUE Director
September 20, 2018
Facilitated by Dr. T. Elon Dancy II
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m., CUE Commons