CAUSE Conferences
"WHAT’S NEXT? The Black Potential in the Age of Obama"
Danforth Lounge, University Center |April 3, 2009
Keynote address: Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and Director of Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo
This event aims to bring students, faculty, staff, and members of the larger Pittsburgh community together for an afternoon of discussion about the prospects for African American empowerment and community development during the emerging era of Barack Obama, the first United States President of African descent. Dr. Henry Louis Taylor of the State University of New York-Buffalo will focus on the importance of local black communities forging their own community development strategies as a means of positioning their communities to take advantage of urban policies that will flow from the Obama administration. A brief film clip and panel discussion on the same theme will follow.
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"African Americans and the Post-Industrial Age:
New Challenges of Urban History and Policy-Making"
Hamburg Hall 1000 | September 30 - October 1, 2005
Keynote address: Lawrence D. Bobo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University "African Americans, Cities, and Policy-Making in a New Age"
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"African Americans in the Post-Industrial City"
Singleton Room, Roberts Hall | October 26-27, 2001
Moving deeper into the 21st century and taking advantage of contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines who examined the nature, causes and consequences of urban-industrial transformation of African American life, this conference sought to deepen our efforts to reconcile historical scholarship with the ongoing quest for effective urban social and economic policies.
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Inaugural Conference
"Race, Workers and the Urban Economy: Recent Trends in Scholorship"
Hamburg Hall Auditorium | April 21 - 22, 1995
The CAUSE Inaugural Conference featured nationally and internationally known speakers on African American, Latino, and Asian American workers in 19th and 20th century America.
Presented with the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.