The Catalyst Speaker Series

The Catalyst Speaker Series brings together national and international cultural producers and scholars working in innovative, multidisciplinary ways across the fields of media, design, art, and theory. Join cutting edge scholars, creators, and industry partners and become part of the dialogue shifting the landscape of how we live and work in a creative world.

All events are open to the pubic and TMU community.

Past speakers include:

Golboo Amani, discussing their work developing "Unsettling Settlers: Intervention" a new twist on the board game Settlers of Catan as a means to disrupt the colonial narrative found in the game.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Rodney Diverlus, discussing their stratgies using Blackness and Queerness as starting points to look at cultural and artistic practies from the ground up. 

Zach Lieberman, discussing his work building experimental drawing and animation tools to make interactive enviorments that invite participants to become performers.

Kama La Mackerel, discussing their work with multidisciplinary practices to enunciate decolonial and queer vocabularies.