Dear friends of Massey College, chers collègues,
Gimaa Laforme is back in Canada after his very successful visit to England. I share with you a photo of Gimaa Laforme meeting with His Majesty King Charles III.
Tickets for the cross-country CBC Massey Lecture tour with Astra Taylor go on sale today. Please follow the theatre links below to purchase tickets online. Do not miss it!
My condolences to the family and friends of The Honourable Judge Paul Theodore “Ted” Matlow. He was a founding Junior Fellow at Massey College and a retired Judge of the Superior Court of Justice. Read his full obituary here.
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60th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
Tuesday, August 29th – Let’s Go Blue Jays, let’s go!! Join us to cheer on the Toronto Blue Jays, see some Massey friends and meet new some new ones.
Friday, September 8 – Welcome Barbeque
Tuesday, September 12 – 7pm at Innes Town Hall Theatre – Kriegsfilme Screening. Help choose the film
Wednesday, September 13 – First formal dinner in Ondaatje Hall. Please RSVP by email to the porter. Don’t forget to include your dietary restrictions/food allergies porter@masseycollege.ca
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. Seats are going fast – get your tickets now! RSVP
Friday, September 29 – A Meeting of Dons: Massey College Stories RSVP
Tuesday, October 3 – Sustainability Conference: Ensuring Prosperity in the Next 60 Years. RSVP
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Massey Choir, 2023-2024
We are pleased to share that Yara Robb will be returning to direct the Massey Choir this year. Rehearsals will be on Sunday evenings, 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Music Room (Colin Friesen Room) starting in September. Pizza will be provided!
All are welcome to join – Junior Fellows, Alumni, Senior Fellows, Visiting Scholars, Quadranglers, Journalism Fellows, and staff. No training is required, and no experience necessary.
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MASSEY BOOK CLUB
Get ahead this summer on your reading for the Massey Book Club. See the books here. Book titles and meeting dates here.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Awards
Congratulations to the Order of Canada recipients:
- Senior Fellow, Alan Bernstein was promoted to Companion of the Order . . .”for his leadership in Canadian health research and science policy and support for future generations of researchers. He is credited with revitalizing Canadian health research, promoting interdisciplinary research and championing women and younger scientists as the inaugural president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the president and CEO of CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), among other roles in research administration.”
- Senior Fellow and retired Justice from the Court of Appeal, The Honorable Robert Sharpe, O.C. for his contributions to the advancement of law in Canada both as a judge and academic.
- Quadrangle Society Member Gary Goldberg, C.M., for his decades of philanthropic leadership and contributions to scientific, health, environmental and educational initiatives.
Senior Fellow Randy Boyagoda reviews a new transhistorical novel in the NYT.
Junior Fellow Sourojeet Chakraborty is one of the recipients of the 2023 Student Life Catalyst Award from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at U of T, for his service to the department during his PhD studies. Full press release here. Sourojeet has also started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Stable Isotope Lab under Senior Fellow Barbara Sherwood Lollar.
Senior Fellow Bruce Kidd comments on a human rights case involving a world champion runner. Listen here.
Quadrangle Society Member Kelly Meighen has been named the 24th Chancellor of Western University.
Senior Fellow Allan Peterkin MD has received the US-based Health Humanities Consortium Visionary Award for his work in arts- and humanities-based education with learners across healthcare disciplines in Canada and internationally.
Alum Achala Rodrigo is starting a new position as Assistant Professor Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at York University.
Senior Fellow Sapna Sharma was appointed a York Research Chair in Global Change Biology. Her research as Chair will seek a deeper understanding of the ecological impacts of climate change on freshwater availability and quality.
Congratulations!
Senior Fellow Sonia Anand is quoted in CBC on BMI as an ‘imperfect’ way to measure health.
Chair in Human Rights and Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan was mentioned in this CBC article on the Flight PS752 case before the International Court of Justice.
Junior Fellow Florence Ashley is quoted in this Globe and Mail article on conversion therapy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ideology-underpinning-conversion-therapy-has-foothold-in-canada/
Massey Public Policy Chair and Senior Fellow Tom Axworthy wrote War, Peace and a Canadian Knight: With the InterAction Council on Malta.
Journalism Fellow Alum Michael Barclay has a substack. His latest post is about the Polaris Prize 2023 longlist.
Junior Fellow Otuto Chukwu has been accepted for oral presentation at the 81st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brisbane, Australia in September. He created a novel framework detailing critical concepts for guiding the development of new models of care for improving access to cancer care services.
Senior Fellow Jeffrey Dvorkin talks about bill C-18 on The CJN Podcast, listen here.
Alum Jacqueline Feke writes about the University of Waterloo stabbings in a Toronto Star Op-Ed. Read it here https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/07/05/waterloo-campus-stabbing-was-shocking-but-anemic-response-was-not.html
Senior Fellow Allison McGeer is quoted on updated COVID-19 vaccines recommended for fall boosters
Junior Fellow Chuk Nwabufo’s op-ed was published in the Hill Times on the Impact of COVID-19 on Patient Response to Medicines.
Junior Fellow Leighton Schreyer’s poems were recently published.
- “The ACE of Spades” in the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych)
- “My Friends Think They’re Therapists” and “Das Auto” in an anthology by Otherwise Engaged, an international literary and arts journal.
Junior Fellow Cheng Xu writes about his experience as a field researcher in high-risk environments.
Senior Fellow Armine Yalnizyan talks about the Bank of Canada on Front Burner. Listen here.
See you soon,
Nathalie
