Theme: Teaching within a Social Justice Framework

The Lightning Talks speaker event is a reflection and learning forum where Boston University faculty and invited guests identify areas of challenge and opportunity and share strategies for engaging educational experiences in the in-person environment. The speaker series, co-hosted by Digital Learning & Innovation and The Center for Teaching & Learning, is open to BU faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.

As we continue to grapple with how to create diverse, inclusive, and equitable classrooms, this series of Lightning Talks by faculty will provide examples of how a social justice lens can transform our teaching practices.

Topics include:

• Ferguson is Everywhere
• Building Hopeful Pedagogy: Bringing Lessons Learned from Prison to Campus
• How Prioritizing Community Partnerships Can Naturally Create A Social Justice Lens In Your Course
• Land Acknowledgements: Why and How
• Justice-Oriented Solidarity: Teaching and Learning to Disrupt Anti-Blackness

Lightning Talks Moderator: Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she joined the law school as dean in August 2018. Read more.