The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is this Saturday, September 30. The University of Toronto will commemorate with an online and in person event on Friday, September 29 – remarks from Alexandra Gillespie, Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Rose Patten, Chancellor, University of Toronto, in the Great Hall at Hart House. David Kim, Warden, Hart House, will host the commemoration. I encourage you to join us.
LANGUAGE TABLES AT MASSEY
We host informal, weekly, language tables at lunchtime in Ondaatje Hall, all are welcome!
- Mondays at 12:30pm – French Table
- Wednesdays at 12:30pm – Hindi Table
- Fridays at 12:15pm – German Table
We will be hosting Anishinaabemowin language classes on Saturday this term. To sign up or for more information, please email Catherine Fowler.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, September, 27
- 5:00pm – Meeting of the Minds Reception
- 7:00pm – 2023 CBC Massey Lecture with Astra Taylor at Koerner Hall
Thursday, September 28
- 60th Anniversary High Table Celebration – We are looking to seeing you for a great celebration.
Friday, September 29
- 1:30pm – A Meeting of Dons: Massey College Stories with Georges Monette (1976-1977), Jane Hilderman (2009-2010) and Christine Tran (2021-2022). Moderated by Robbie Steele (2023-2024). Join us in person or by Zoom. Join me at lunch beforehand with current and former Dons at 12:15pm in Ondaatje Hall.
- 6:00pm – Book Launch: Senior Fellow Haroon Siddiqui’s My Name is Not Harrywith Ron Graham, former President of PEN Canada. Reception to follow.
Monday, October 2
- 8:00pm – Book Club: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart. Join us.
Tuesday, October 3
- Sustainability Conference: Ensuring Prosperity in the Next 60 Years: This day long 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? Keynote speaker Michael Replogle, Co-Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy from Washington D.C. Spearkers include Senior Fellows Shoshanna Saxe, Dianne Saxe, David Zimmer and Environmentalist-in-Residence Sir Graham Watson. Join us.
Wednesday, October 4
- 11:45am – Reflecting on the 2011 CBC Massey Lecture Janice Stein’s The Cult of Efficiency. Join Senior Fellow Janice Stein in conversation with CBC Ideas Producer Philip Coulter. Come for free and enjoy some sandwiches. RSVP here.
- 4:00pm – Journeying Through Song: Ojibwe Singing. Join us in the Quadrangle from 4:00-6:00pm to lift your voice in song with Ojibwe Elder, Storyteller, and song keeper Elder Garry Sault of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Elder Sault will lead us in an interactive workshop on Ojibwe singing and the dynamic being of song within Indigenous life and traditions. RSVP here.
- 8:00pm – Music Salon – Beautiful Scars: An Evening with Tom Wilson. In conversation with Canadian music historian, author and Journalism Fellow alum Michael Barclay, Wilson will talk about his musical and personal journey, including his latest collaborative project, LeE HARVeY OsMOND and their Juno Award winning album, Mohawk. RSVP here.
Thursday, October 5
- 5:00pm – Royal Society of Canada x Massey College: Working Together to Improve the Health and Well-Being of the Elderly : The UN Decade of Health Aging (2021-2030) is seeking “to reduce health inequities and improve the lives of older people, their families and communities through collective action.” While healthy aging is a major challenge in Canada and globally, children and youth are also confronting significant issues and barriers to health and well-being. This is a special cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada – join us.
For other upcoming events, be sure to check our online calendar.
MASSEY WEAR
For a limited time only, we have “Massey at 60” merchandise available for order online until Oct 9. In person pickup will be available at Massey.
All earned monies will support areas of greatest need including financial assistance to Junior Fellows and provide important resources to support and enrich our programs and events in service to the public good.
COMMUNITY NEWS
AWARDS
- Junior Fellow Apala Das successfully defended her PhD thesis!
- Senior Fellow Annamaria Enenajor was recognized by her peers for excellence in Criminal Defense, Appellate Practice, Administrative and Public Law, Professional Malpractice Law, and Cannabis Law.
- Junior Fellow Elizabeth Hicks received the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award.
- William Southam Journalism Fellow alum Joan Leishman has been recognized by PEN Canada for her work in aiding writers and journalist who seek refuge in Canada.
- William Southam Journalism alum Wency Leung has joined The Local as Staff Reporter. See more information and a profile on Wency, here.
Congratulations!
NEWS
- Senior Fellow Sabreena Delhon co-wrote an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail.
- Senior Fellow Barbara Sherwood Lollar was recently named the 2023 Carl Sagan Lecturer by the American Geophysical Union.
- Junior Fellow Akshat Pai’s research was featured in the Leong Centre for Healthy Children newsletter.
- Senior Fellow The Right Honorable Julie Payette was recently elected as a Trustee of the Social Sciences Section at the International Academy of Astronautics.
- Quadrangle Society Member Gilbert Reid will moderate a conversation with Alberto Manguel at the Toronto International Festival of Authors tonight. Tickets can be found here.
- Senior Fellow Neil Seeman wrote an essay in The Conversation on entrepreneurs and mental health.
- Principal Emeritus Hugh Segal has posthumously co-published a book discussing the impact of Mike Harris’ premiership.
- Senior Fellow Haroon Siddiqui’s book comes out this week and is a Chapters/Indigo book to read this fall. Watch a short video. He also had an OpEd in the Globe and Mail this weekend on Muslims in the west.
Last week we had excellent events celebrating the intellectual contributions of Hugh Segal to Canada, the inaugural Irving Abella Lecture with Senior Fellow Chad Gaffield and our new Visiting Scholars. Click on the links to learn more and watch on our YouTube Channel.
