Dear friends of Massey College, chers collègues,
Massey College staff and the 60th Anniversary Celebration Committee are preparing for the fall. A reminder that we have tickets available now for the celebratory High Table happening on Thursday, September 28, 2023 – get your tickets before they sell out. We will be in touch over the course of the summer with a full schedule of events to celebrate Massey’s 60th. Stay tuned!
I encourage you to get out and meet some Junior Fellows with our Massey Is Lunch Program. Dates and signup information can be found here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
MASSEY COLLEGE X AGA KHAN MUSEUM: THE GLOBAL LEGACY OF RUMI
May 13 | May 28 | June 3 – 2:00pm
The Global Legacy of Rumi Talk Series brings together notable speakers from across diverse disciplines. This series delves deeper into the major and timeless themes explored in and arising from the Aga Khan Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Rumi, and offers an insightful examination of the life and impact of one of history’s most storied poets. Panels will be moderated by Junior Fellows Mohaddesseh Abdolhosseini, Hadeel Mohammad and Thomas Ayouti, and welcome poetry readings, and discussions with Gimaa Stacey Laforme and Dr. Nargis Virani.
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Book Launch — Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain
May 17 | 6:30-8:30 pm, Junior Common Room
You are invited to attend the book launch of Senior Fellow Neil Seeman. The author will hold a Q&A moderated by Mary V. Seeman, OC, Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at UofT. The discussion will be followed by a reception.
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Massey Dialogues: Putting Water at the Heart of the Development
May 18 | 12-1pm
Dr. Nicolas Jarraud, Senior Specialist at the Global Water Partnership will speak about centering water in development work. GWP is dedicated to strengthening water management, governance and water security worldwide. Senior Fellow Sapna Sharma (Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at York University) and Junior Fellow Giancarlo Da-Ré (Master of Global Affairs from the Munk School) will join the conversation moderated by Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers.
This Dialogues is presented in partnership with the Rotary Club of Toronto-Bay Bloor.
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Massey Dialogues: On the Evolution of Media. Understanding Media Change
May 24 6-7pm
On the Evolution of Media 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. Author Prof. Carlos Scolari will be joined on the panel by Prof. Siobhan O’FlynnSiobhan O’Flynn and Dr. Joan Ramon Rodriguez – Amat. The event will be moderated by Senior Fellow Paolo Granata.
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External Panel: Breaking through the Barriers
May 26 | 9-4
Senior Fellows Mary Eberts and Junior Fellow Caitlin Salvino will be on a panel at U ofT Law’s Asper Centre Symposium: Litigating Equality in Canada. Moderated by Senior Fellow Kim Stanton with Fay Faraday and Cheryl Milne, they will discuss legal strategies for overcoming resistance to Charter claims by courts and government.
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May 29 | 5:00pm – Be sure to get the date right next week, we copied/pasted on the 15th
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Reconciling Truths explores the role and implications of commissions such as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into MMIWG, particularly their limits and possibilities in an era of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
Dr. Emma Cunliffe will moderate a brief panel discussion with experts: Dr. Kiera Ladner, Prof. Jennifer Llewellyn and Senior Fellow Mary Eberts.
- Order the book: https://www.ubcpress.ca/reconciling-truths
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Journalists’ autonomy and accountability inspired by Ivor Shapiro’s forthcoming book
May 31 | 5:00pm
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Join the discussion inspired by Ivor Shapiro’s forthcoming book “The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press,” which explores the origins, connections, and contradictions evident amongst divergent understandings of press freedom around the world. Author Ivor Shapiro will be in conversation with Journalists Karyn Pugliese, John Fraser and myself.
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June 2 | 5:00pm
Pride Flag Raising Ceremony and Reception
Please join us for the beginning of Pride month to celebrate our LGBTQ+ communities in the Quad followed by a reception in the Junior Common Room.
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June 3 | 1:00-3:00pm
Councillor Kelly LaForme will return to Massey College to lead a drumming circle in the Music Room (Colin Friesen Room). This session will include drumstick-making as well as drumming instruction. Materials will be provided. All are welcome.
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SAVE THE DATE
The Massey College Alumni Association’s Annual General Meeting and BBQ is taking place on Saturday, July 8 from 4:00-7:00pm.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
We love learning about your good news and sharing it with the community. Please email news@masseycollege.ca with links to your news (awards/recognitions, career highlights – new roles, research publications, articles, podcasts, interviews, op-eds, art exhibits, publishing books/book events, etc.)
Junior Fellow Lizbeth Ayoub received Canadian Pain Society’s Equity Trainee Research Award. Congratulations!
Massey alum and Executive Director of Journalists for Human Rights, Rachel Pulfer, has been awarded the twenty-seventh Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/journalists-for-human-rights-executive-director-rachel-pulfer-awarded-2023-24-nieman-fellowship-at-harvard-university-853647560.html. Congratulations Rachel!
Senior Fellow Robin Elliott was quoted about the neighborhood that changed Gordon Lightfoot.
Alum Philiz Goh was featured in an episode of Fashion Dis which celebrates the overhaul of a frustrated style seeker discouraged by an industry that lacks adaptive options.
Alum Michael O’Shea launched a new podcast Borders in Globalization
Junior Fellow Maeve Palmer has a star solo in Joseph Haydn’s ORFEO: The Soul of the Philosopher. Performances are May 26 & 27 at 7:30pm for free. Tickets: https://orfeotoronto.eventbrite.com
Everyone is also welcome to the Orfeo Symposium from 10am-1pm on May 27. https://orfeosymposium.eventbrite.com
Alum Anjum Sultanawas featured in UofT Alumni News recently: https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/anjum-sultana andfor Asian Heritage Month, will be speaking on a panel at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health on May 23rd at 6:30 pm, register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/celebrating-asian-heritage-exploring-identities-beyond-perceptions-tickets-631087278037
Senior Fellow Shoshonna Saxe was interviewed on Metro Morning last week (May 10) on the role of transit in the mayoral election, listen to it here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning
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Dr. Chi-Ming Chow’s talk last week to launch our Asian Heritage Month celebrations was very engaging. He spoke to the importance of working collaboratively and using interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to improve medicine. You can watch the recording here: https://youtube.com/live/HN4mcRYXbhY?feature=share
À bientôt, see you soon,
Nathalie
