Today marks the Summer Solstice and Indigenous Peoples’ Day – a special day to celebrate.
Looking to next term, we are happy to share some of the events in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Massey College. Mark these dates and join us to honour six decades of a wonderful interdisciplinary and intergenerational fellowship.
Thank you to the 60th Anniversary Committee for their great work in organizing the events!
Saturday, July 8 – Alumni Association AGM and BBQ. All are welcome.
Tuesday, August 29 – Let’s Go Blue Jays, let’s go!! Come out to see Toronto Blue Jays play the Washington Nationals together and see Massey recognized on the Jumbotron!
Friday, September 8 – Welcome Barbeque
Join us in the College Quadrangle for dinner and a chance to mingle with new and returning Senior Fellows, Quadranglers, Junior Fellows, Visiting Scholars, Senior Residents and William Southam Journalism Fellows. Families are welcome!
Tuesday, September 12 – Kriegsfilme Screening at Innes Town Hall Theatre
Help choose the film – to be announced, make sure to vote for your choices over the course of the summer.
Monday, September 18 – The Inaugural Irving Abella Lecture – Chad Gaffield to deliver the lecture entitled Machines and Minds: Pursuing Inclusive History in a Turbulent World
Wednesday, September 20 – Public Policy Symposium – Changing the FLOW: The Future of Freshwater in Canada
Tuesday, September 26 – 2023 CBC Massey Lecture Book Launch at Massey College
Wednesday, September 27 – 2023 CBC Massey Lecture @ Koerner Hall
Thursday, September 28 – 60th Anniversary High Table. Get your tickets now!
Friday, September 29 – A Meeting of Dons: Massey College Stories
To gain insight into our rich history, we are assembling a panel comprised of past and present Dons of Hall, dating from the early days of the college up until now. Hear diverse stories and perspectives regarding this unique role, and how it has evolved over the past six decades.
Tuesday, October 3 – Sustainability Conference: Ensuring Prosperity in the Next 60 Years.
In 1963, Massey College was founded as a place to gather intellectual wealth to empower University of Toronto’s graduate students to address problems of public importance. In the subsequent years, environmental degradation and unsustainable consumption have emerged as some of the most important problems facing the globe. Technical sessions will explore climate and sustainable technology research, responsible finance/entrepreneurship, Indigenous perspectives on sustainability, and policy solutions. The conference will tackle the question of future sustainability: how can the influential writers, scientists, lawyers, and policy makers in the college’s community help ensure that future generations are as environmentally prosperous as the current?
Thursday, October 5 – Inaugural Massey Royal Society of Canada Dialogues
Friday, October 13 – Indigenous Heritage Celebration High Table
Friday, October 27 – High Table Celebrating Muslim Communities
Friday, November 17 – Pride High Table
Friday, November 24 – Massey Arts Symposium – Cultural Multiplicity: Reimagining the Artist-State Relationship in Canada
Friday, November 24 – High Table Celebrating Cultural and Creative Industries in Canada
Thursday, November 30 – Conference on the Arctic and International Relations
I look forward to sharing more events and details in the coming weeks.
About the Massey at 60 logo:
The logo combines old with new: printed from a typeface that’s been in Massey’s collection since the 70s, and combining it with the imagery of the new branding. The Curwen Poster Type originated from Curwen Press, a well-known and beloved print studio that operated from 1863-1984 in London, England, and found its way to Massey College through Roy Gurney, former Superintendent of the Printing Department at University of Toronto Press. The typeface lives exclusively at Massey College and is one of many unique treasures within the Bibliography Room.
College Printer Kit MacNeil selected this face for its unique and charming touch, as well as its history with Massey College.
SUMMER READING – Massey College Book Club
Monday, October 2: Re–reading one of the first Book Club books: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart – how do new generations read the book?
Monday November 6: The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez
Monday, December 4: The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Monday, February 5: In the Upper Country: A Novel by Kai Thomas
Monday, March 4: VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Monday, April 1: Celebrating the 2023 Cundill Prize Winner
REMINDERS
We invite you to send photographs of your special occasions, celebrations or time spent at Massey over the last 60 years. If you have pictures that you think others would like to see, please send them in digital form to news@masseycollege.ca – please make sure to include who is pictured, the date (or year) and photo credit.
MEETING OF MINDS
We are currently accepting applications for mentees and mentors for the 2023-2024 Meeting of Minds program. More information can be found here.
We would like to encourage Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members and alumni (that are more than five years out from their graduate work) to apply and participate in this important program. It is a wonderful way to engage with and support our Junior Fellows.
CONNECT WITH JUNIOR FELLOWS
Massey Is Lunch progam continues through June and July pairing Junior Fellows with Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members and alumni (that are more than five years out from their graduate work) for an informal lunch in Ondaatje Hall.
This week, on Thursday June 22nd at 12:30pm, we will be joined by Rita Shelton Deverell. Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell is an independent scholar, author, as well as a theatre and media artist who is Lakehead University’s 10th chancellor. She was one of the first Black women to be a television network executive and host in Canada and was the winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Broadcasting.
All members of the Massey community are welcome to join this luncheon.
Junior Fellows can email Alison at amackenzie@masseycollege.ca to state their interest in attending.
- Thursday, 29 June Paul Weitzmann
- Tuesday, July 4th Raywat Deonandan
- Tuesday, July 11th Amar VuthaI
COMMUNITY NEWS
AWARDS/HONOURS
- Junior Fellow Giancarlo Da-Ré received the Peter Mansbridge Gold Medal for highest academic record in the Munk School’s Master of Global Affairs graduating class.
- Anita McGahan Senior Fellow, and Vice-Chair of the Massey College Governing Board has just received the 2023 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management.
- Alum Rachel Pulfer and the team from Journalists for Human Rights received the prestigious Mitchener-Baxter Award in Ottawa last week for the organizations “outstanding performance in extraordinary times.” This is the first time ever that the award was given to an organization. Read more here.
Congratulations all!
NEWS
- Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan co-authored this Op-Ed on Canada seeking accountability for Syrians at the ICJ in the Globe and Mail.
- Alum Florence Ashley passed their SJD defence this week.
- Media Girlfriends episode Garvia Bailey is a William Southam Journalism Massey College Fellow is out now. Listen here.
- Senior Fellow Randy Boyagoda reviews Fat Time and Other Stories in The New York Times. Read it here.
- Alum Doug Beaumann has been appointed as CTO of Vive Crop Protection, read more here.
- The Samara Centre (with Senior Fellow Sabreena Delhon as Executive Director) launched a new report that measures online abuse experienced by candidates in eight recent municipal elections. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Ronald Deibert discusses a NSO Group spyware attack on CBC Radio.
- The Fisher Library has acquired prints from College Printer Kit MacNeil made at Massey. They will be on display June 29 from 12-8pm during the Pride Open House. The prints will also be part of the permanent collection going forward.
- Senior Fellow Danielle Martin is quoted in CBC on med schools tackling rural doctor shortage.
- Alum Rushay Naik co-authored the first chapter of the OECD/World Bank publication Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Read it here.
- Hear Senior Fellow Akwasi Owusu-Bempah talk about cannabis legalization in Canada
- Senior Fellow Shoshanna Saxe was quoted on unclogging traffic in The Star.
- Junior Fellow Leighton Schreyer has published a poem with the South Broadway Ghost Society. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Haroon Siddiqui wrote an Op-Ed in The Star about receiving the Canadian Journalism Foundation lifetime achievement award. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Malinda Smith’s research is referenced in this article about Juneteenth, race relations in Canada and education.
- Alum Michael O’Shea and his partner Nicky Enriquez welcomed their daughter Oona last month.
- Staff member Kursat Ural recently graduated from the Business Administration-Accounting Advanced Diploma program at George Brown College.
Please continue to share your good news.
À bientôt, see you soon,
Nathalie
