The Centre will continue to fund the Curricular Invitations: Modes of Restor(y)ation in Troubled Times speaker series this academic year.
Answering the call from our current students and alumni to expand the breadth of our courses by opening them up to a wider variety of voices and experiences, this initiative bespeaks an enduring and substantive commitment by the CDTPS to ensure the sustainability of the good work that has already been set in motion, to broaden its scope across the Centre, and to extend its reach within our community. To this end, the Centre has formally established a fund, which is dedicated to sustaining the engagement of diverse voices, in particular Black, Indigenous, Racialized, LGBTQ2S+artists and scholars and specialists in non-Western artistic practices, in curricular expansion.
If you (CDTPS instructors only) have a guest in mind that you would like to invite to your course to be part of this series, please contact the CDTPS Director Kathleen Gallagher, Undergraduate Associate Director Seika Boye and Graduate Associate Director (Interim) Doug Eacho to get approval. Once you have received approval, please complete the guest speaker information form and contact Tara Maher who will help you with the administrative process or any questions you might have about the guest speaker form.
Please also contact Department Manager Enrique Briceno who will help you with the remuneration for your guest. The total budget for this year’s speaker series is $6,000. We offer each speaker up to $250 as an honorarium. Please complete the honorarium form (pdf) for the processing of payments.
The Centre’s community will have access to these guests via email invitations from Drama Communications to their lectures, presentations, workshops, and other forms of engagement. The instructors and guests will determine the scope, form, and goals of this participation.
The following is a list of some of our invited guest speakers:
- Amanda Parris
- Andrew Moodie
- Aria Evans
- Christine Sokaymoh Frederick and Matthew MacKenzie
- Cole Alvis
- Darian Dauchan
- Deanna H. Choi
- Debashis Sinha
- Diego Rotman
- Dr. Annie Katsura Rollins
- Dr. Helena Nassif & Dr. Samar Kanafani
- Dr. Jenn Cole
- Dr. Jessica Watkin
- Dr. Julie Iezzi
- Dr. Petra Kuppers
- Dr. Samer Al-Saber
- Dr. Shumirai Nyota and Dr. Happinos Marufu
- Emily Cheung
- Hayana Kim
- Jerome Ellis and Troy Anthony
- Johnathan Young
- Jordan Tannahill
- Lua Sheyanne
- Mike Payette
- Miriam Fernandes
- Monique Mojica
- Mumbi Tinyebwa Otu
- Pulga Muchochoma
- Rodney Diverlus
- Sheema Kermani, Vartika Poddar and Nishigandha Dasgupta
- Trey Anthony
- Walter Borden