As the academic year comes to a close, please join me in wishing our Junior Fellows a great summer – for those Junior Fellows who are returning next year, we look forward to seeing you in the fall. For those that have graduated, all the best for what comes next!
Starting May 8, we will have a number of rooms and suites available to the Massey community and for academic conferences for short term rentals. For rates and more information, visit our website here.
The College is also a lovely place, available to our community members, to host events through the summer please contact our catering Team for inquiries mail to: sbalm@masseycollege.ca for lunches or dinners in the Private Dining Room, Junior Common Room, Upper Library and Quadrangle.
Please note: We have finished formal dinner service for the year, but we remain open for breakfast (from May 3 – Aug 18) and lunch (May 3 – July 28). Breakfast will be available from 8:00 am – 9:30 am, seven days a week (except stat holidays) and lunch will be served from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Mondays through Fridays (except stat holidays). Click here (link to menu) to see what’s on the menu for the week.
MASSEY ONLINE
In case you missed it, Ghizal Haress’ talk on the situation in Afghanistan is now available on the Massey YouTube channel. Subscribe to receive notices for new videocasts.
The latest episode of The JCR podcast is now available, listen here. Massey College Junior Fellow Elizabeth Hicks, actor, playwright and law student in conversation with Junior Fellows Zahida Rahemtulla, playwright and MA student in adult education, and Robbie Steele, PhD student in 19th century English literature about theatrical collaboration through the lens of Ann Marie MacDonald’s play “Fall on Your Knees.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Massey Dialogues – Humans of the House: Stories for Civic Engagement
April 24 | 5:00-6:00pm
I am very happy to moderate this discussion about humans in politics!
I will be joined by Senior Fellows Kim Kierans and Sabreena Delhon (Executive Director of the Samara Centre for Democracy and podcast host) along with the co-founder of Media Girlfriends podcast production company, Hannah Sung.
Book Launch – April 27 | 4:00-6:00pm, Upper Library
This event is currently sold out, but join the waitlist for the launch of Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda, with editor Senior Fellow Anver M. Emon and Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia of Canada Amira Elghawaby.
They will be in conversation with authors Rabiat Akande, Atiya Husain and Kent Roach RSVP or watch online, here.
Massey Dialogues
April 28 | 4:00-5:00pm
Former Finance Minister of Canada Bill Morneau will be visiting Massey College. Junior Fellows Tommaso Alba, Alexandra Martin and Erina Moon will join Mr. Morneau in conversation and will explore his policies and practices during his time in office. Moderated by Senior Fellow Michael Valpy. Q&A to follow. Join in person or online.
Grimsby Wayzgoose | Saturday, April 29th from 9:00am-5:00pm
Every year a fascinating group of private press printers, bookbinders, print makers, paper marblers and other artisans gather at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery to celebrate the art of the hand-made book. This year our College Printer, Kit MacNeil, and the Massey Printing Apprentices will be representing the Massey Bibliography Room with more than 40 other exhibitors displaying their work, providing live demonstrations and sharing their expertise with the next generation of artists and artisans. Admission is free. More details here: https://alcuinsociety.com/grimsby-wayzgoose-2023/
Don’t forget – selection of greeting cards, hand-printed by this team, are always available for purchase in the Porter’s Lodge.
Asian Heritage Month event with Dr. Chi-Ming Chow
May 9
In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, we welcome you to hear from guest speaker Dr. Chi-Ming Chow, Professor in Medicine, UofT, Director of the Echocardiography Lab and Staff Cardiologist, St. Michael’s Hospital. He will present On Being an Asian Geek in the Field of Medicine followed by an audience Q&A.
Book Launch – Accelerated Minds, by Senior Fellow Neil Seeman
May 17 | 6:30-8:30, Junior Common Room
Why are some people compelled to take big risks on big ideas, attempting to change a market or the world in ways that others find delusional? And why do they keep trying, often after repeated failures and at great personal expense? Neil Seeman is one of those people: an internet entrepreneur steeped in start-up culture. Drawing on his own business experience and his father’s research into the brain’s processing, Seeman explains the entrepreneurial mindset – the world’s primary wealth creation engine – is in fact a form of addiction. With compassion and deep insight, he suggests ways in which the vital energies of the entrepreneurial class can be directed in a more constructive and sustainable manner.
Massey Dialogues: On the Evolution of Media. Understanding Media Change (book launch) by Prof. Carlos Scolari with Prof. Siobhan O’Flynn. Moderated by Senior Fellow Paolo Granata
May 24
This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the construction of an eco-evolutionary approach to media change.
Book Launch of Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada by Senior Fellow Kim Stanton
May 29
Order the book: https://www.ubcpress.ca/reconciling-truths
Reconciling Truths explores the role and implications of commissions such as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, particularly their limits and possibilities in an era of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
Book Launch of The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press by Ivor Shapiro
May 31
The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press explores the origins, connections, and contradictions evident amongst divergent understandings of press freedom around the world. The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press explores the origins, connections, and contradictions evident amongst divergent understandings of press freedom around the world.
Order the book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Disputed-Freedoms-of-a-Disrupted-Press/Shapiro/p/book/9781032119977
A print version of the Massey Directory is now available to Junior Fellows, Journalism Fellows, Visiting Scholars, Quadrangle Society and Senior Fellows. They are available for purchase through the Porter’s Lodge for $12.00 each. The online version is updated as changes are received and includes alumni information, but a print booklet is often handy.
COMMUNITY NEWS
- Duncan McCue and Jody Porter (awarded posthumously) were recently honoured with the Charles Bury Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for their coverage of Indigenous stories. More information here.
- Junior Fellow Omolola (Lola) Ajao is showcasing her work at the 2023 University of Toronto MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition. The opening is May 3 from 6-8pm and will be up until July 22. See details here.
- Congratulations to Junior Fellow Tomasso Alba! In September, Tomasso will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Management Strategy and Innovation department at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium!
- Junior Fellow Sourojeet Chakraborty successfully defended his Ph.D. Internal Defense on 17th April and has published work in Frontiers in Education, read it here.
- Acting Librarian Andreea Marin and her husband welcomed a new baby girl, Melody, earlier this month, please join me in wishing them all the best! Massey Alum, Chris Patton has been hired as Interim Librarian. He can be reached at Cpatton@masseycollege.ca
- Oped in Hill Times by Mary Jane Bennett on money laundering mentions her paper for Massey. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/04/24/budget-2023-and-money-laundering/385490/
- Senior Fellow Mel Cappe in the Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-public-servants-should-not-be-independent-and-unaccountable-decision/
- Senior Fellow Gimaa Stacey Laforme of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation talks pushing back against developers, the duty to consult on treaty lands and his message for the premier https://torontolife.com/city/its-an-attack-against-indigenous-communities-this-first-nation-may-sue-the-ford-government-over-the-greenbelt/
- Journalism Fellow alum and staff member Mujtaba Haris wrote an op ed https://aissonline.org/en/opinions/buried-ben…/1138
- Senior Fellow Shoshanna Saxe of Civil & Mineral Engineering talks about Markham’s first net zero home. Listen to it here.
- Senior Fellow Mariana Valverde https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/04/17/putting-the-public-back-in-public-utilities-internet-access-in-northern-and-rural-canada/384558/
- Last week, the BHPC Printing Fellows successfully concluded their year-and-a-half long Fellowship in The Bibliography Room. The College Printer, Massey Apprentices, and Printing Fellows celebrated their accomplishments and instated a new tradition of Passing-the-Composing-Stick onto the upcoming BHPC Printing Fellows.
Enjoy the week,
Nathalie
