The 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer is Tomson Highway. He will deliver Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions on a five-city cross country CBC Massey Lectures tour. Stay tuned for the date for the launch at the college. You can read more about the tour on CBC’s website here.
Pre-order your copy of Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Acordions now from Indigo, Amazon, or your favourite local bookseller. Available September 27.
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Join us on Monday, June 27th for a Drum Awakening Ceremony. This is a ceremony for the drum gifted by the Mississaugas, and it will take place in the College Quadrangle at 7pm. Inside if inclement weather. Join us for this special celebration of our on-going partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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The Massey College Alumni Assocation is holding their AGM on Saturday, July 16th at 2pm – all College Alumni are welcome to attend.
A barbeque will follow at 5pm. All are welcome!
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The Power of Image Lecture Series continues. Join us in July and August.
- July 17th: Image and Spirituality
With Senior Fellows Raji Aujla, Anver Emon, and Gordon Rixon - August 7th: Image and Power
With Bernie Farber, Peter Sloly, and Senior Fellow Zainub Verjee
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2022 / 2023 PROGRAMMING
We are preparing for the fall. Please see below for a list of important dates for the College. Save the dates!
- Friday, September 16 – Welcome High Table
- Friday, October 14 – Indigenous Heritage High Table
- Wednesday, October 19 – Maria Ressa, keynote at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Friday, October 28 – High Table with the Muslim community
- Friday, November 11 – College History High Table – let’s celebrate the founders and other contributors to our history
- Friday, November 18 – Pride High Table
- Friday, November 25 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities Dinner in memory of Christine Karcza
- Thursday, December 1 – Junior Fellow High Table
- Saturday, December 3 – Family/kids afternoon Holiday Party
- Tuesday, December 6 – In anticipation of Chanukah Talk/Celebratio
- Saturday, December 10 – Holiday Gaudy
- Friday, January 13 – Multiculturalism High Table – Celebrating South Asian Communities
- Friday, January 27 – Clarkson Laureateship High Table
- Friday, February 10 – Black History High Table
- Friday, March 3 – International Women’s Day High Table
- Friday, March 17 – Dîner pour la journée internationale de la francophonie
- Friday, March 31 – Convocation High Table
- Tuesday, April 4 – Rose Wolfe Seder (lunch)
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Senior Fellow Nurjehan Mawani has been appointed Governor of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre, to hold office during a three year term. Read the full order in council here.
Camille Orridge has Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto. Read the full story here.
Alum Amin Kamaleddin Ezabadi is featured on the Institute of Biomedical Engineering’s website. Read it here.
Alum Niyosha Keyzad was interviewed in the Toronto Observer, read it here.
Quadrangle member Timothy Reid passed away in early June. We are sending our condolences to his family and friends.
The obituary for Bruce Alexander was incorrectly linked last week – our apologies about this error. You can read it here.
