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Dear friends of Massey College, chers collègues,     

Junior Fellows are moving in, and we have wonderful weather ahead this week – Massey College staff and I are looking forward to welcoming new community members and  reconnecting with returning ones! 

Among our “in residence” visitors coming to support the College and the Junior Fellowship:  

  • Sir Graham Watson, Massey College Environmentalist-in-Residence. He will share his experiences and scholarship as a political leader and environmental advocate and campaigner. In this role, he will assist Junior Fellows in organizing conferences and events to support environmental stewardship. Sir Graham can be reached by email.
  • David Scrymgour is Massey College’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, David will provide leadership and mentorship to Junior Fellows, particularly the Venture Society group of students interested in entrepreneurship. He will organize visits from guests who will contribute to a better understanding of entrepreneurship issues and opportunities for the Massey community. David can be reached by email.
  • Peter Sloly returns to Massey as Changemaker-in-Residence. In his role, Peter helps Massey College to advance overall culture and organizational change in the institution while facilitating leadership development initiatives for the Junior Fellows. Peter can be reached by email here.
  • Brigitte Shim is the first Massey College Architect in Residence. She is a Senior Fellow and a founding partner of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects who will share her expertise on our architecturally significant and heritage-designated building. From 1995 – 2014, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe were College Architects at Massey College designing the Robertson Davies Library, the St. Catherine’s Chapel, and the new west gate. She is a faculty member at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. 
  • Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis will join us in the last week of October as Judge in Residence. 
  • Thomas S. Axworthy returns as the Massey College Chair in Public Policy. Tom will work with Junior Fellows in organizing the annual Walter Gordon Symposium and many other Public Policy initiatives throughout the year at Massey. Tom can be reached by email, here.

I am pleased to welcome our new Weekend Porter, Cristina Castellvi.

Cristina S. Castellvi is the Administrative Assistant of Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Friends of CIHR), The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, Massey Grand Rounds (MGR) Program & The Janet Rossant Lectureship based at Massey College for 17 years now. Cristina looks forward to meeting members of the Massey College community. 

For our 60th Anniversary, Ondaatje Hall will feature a special temporary exhibit art installation. Many thanks to the Massey Foundation for supporting this, and curators John Massey and Sarah Robayo Sheridan.  

Let’s look at September events: 

Friday, September 15th at lunch time, our First Massey Lecture Revisited. Join me in listening to Adrienne Clarkson remembering her Massey Lecture Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship RSVP https://masseycollege.ca/events/2014-cbc-massey-lecture-adrienne-clarkson-luncheon/  

  • Monday, September 18, Chad Gaffield delivers the Inaugural Irving Abella Lecture  

Machines and Minds: Pursuing Inclusive History in a Turbulent World  

  • Book Launch, The Age of Insecurity  https://masseycollege.ca/events/cbc-massey-lectures-book-launch-with-astra-taylor/ 

COMMUNITY NEWS 

It is with sadness that we learned of Chris English’s passing. Chris was a historian and Junior Fellow at Massey College in 1963. Please click through here for his full obituary.  

AWARDS 

Senior Fellow John Borrows, Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law, was awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo. 

Recent Alum Stephanie Redekop is now a full-time faculty member in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio where she is designing and teaching different writing courses. 

NEWS 

  • Junior Fellow Otuto Chukwu has co published a research study – read more here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1551741123003649 
  • William Southam Journalism Alum, Hannah Hoag has a recent piece in the Globe and Mail, read it here.

NOTICES 

We are pleased to welcome you back for breakfast, lunch and dinner starting on Tuesday, September 5. You can view our weekly menu on our website, here. Or click the little knife and fork icon at the top of the homepage of our website.

Massey is Lunch starting up in September. Sign up to connect with Junior Fellows over lunch in Ondaatje Hall.

Massey headshots – new and returning Junior Fellows, Senior Fellows, Journalism Fellows, Quadrangle Members and Visiting Scholars – please register with our professional photographer on September 7, 8 or 11.

MASSEY COLLEGE CHOIR 

The Massey Choir returns to the college in September, under the direction of Yara Robb. Rehearsals will be on Sunday evenings, 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Music Room (Colin Friesen Room), starting on September 17. Pizza will be provided! 

All are welcome to join – Junior Fellows, Alumni, Senior Fellows, Quadranglers, staff. No training is required, and no experience necessary. For more information, contact Yara via email.

HIGH TABLES AND CELEBRATIONS  
 
Registration is open for the first three High Tables of the year.  

  • Friday, November 17 – Pride High Table  
  • Friday, November 24 – High Table Celebrating Cultural and Creative Industries in Canada  
  • Saturday, December 2 – Kids and Family Holiday Party  
  • Saturday, December 9 – Winter Gaudy  

BOOK CLUB AND MASSEY LOVES TO READ 

Monday, October 2 – Book Club – revisiting the first book read by the Massey Book Club (The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart) #60anniversary 

Thursday, October 12 – Book Launch Frontiers of Gender Equality by Prof. Rebecca Cook https://masseycollege.ca/events/book-launch-the-frontiers-of-gender-equality/ 

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October 19 – Book Launch Everything There Is by MG Vassanji 

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Monday November 6 – Book Club The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez 

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Monday, December 4 – Book Club The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 

See you soon, 

Nathalie  

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