Our guest for episode four of the Ways of Knowing podcast is 2019 Wall Scholar Tara Mayer, a Professor in the Department of History at UBC, as well as a former Wall Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Mayer is a cultural historian who is working on new forms of teaching that use discomfort in the classroom to advace learning, for which she recently received a Killam Teaching Prize. 

She also recently organized am International Research Roundtable on visual literacy at the Peter Wall Institute. Today's conversation is about diversity in classrooms, safe spaces in universities, and new forms of pedagogy.