We are now planning programming for next year. Please reach out with ideas and themes that you would like to see next year.
UPCOMING EVENTS
May is Asian Heritage Month and we will hold the final Massey Dialogues on Wednesday, May 11th at 4pm. Join us for a virtual conversation, Exploring “Asian” Identities in Canada: Beyond Conflation and Exceptionalism with Senior Fellows Lily Cho and Sunit Das and Junior Fellows Stacy Chen and Christine Tran. For more information visit our website, here.
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I am pleased to welcome the entire Massey Community to the inaugural Power of Image Lecture Series in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum. On Sunday, May 15th at 2:30pm you’re invited to a lecture on Image and Identity at the Aga Khan Museum to hear:
- Heba Mostafa, Massey Senior Fellow and Professor in the Department of Art History at UofT,
- Amira Elghawaby, Commissioner at the Canadian Race Relations Foundation,
- David Rokeby, Toronto artist and Director of the BMO Lab for AI and Emerging Technologies, .
- Mala Khanna (moderator) Associate Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage
They will discuss the impact of our obsession with ‘image,’ the significance of the different ways in which we choose to represent ourselves visually, and how this often varies from the image others have or create of us.
For more information, visit our website, here.
Also save the date for upcoming lectures in the series:
- June 12th: Image, Values and National Building
- July 17th: Image and Spirituality
- August 7th: Image and Power
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On May 19th you’re invited to celebrate internationally acclaimed writer and director Deepa Mehta who will be joined in conversation by Senior Fellow Raji Aujla. Join us from 6:00-7:30pm. Refreshments provided.
RSVP
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Massey is hosting the film screening of the CBC Documentary: In Search of a Better World based on Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan’s 2017 CBC Massey Lectures.
RSVP and more information here.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Senior Fellow Barbara Sherwood Lollar has been elected as an International Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences. Please click through here for the full list of new fellows.
Read Senior Fellow Tom Axworthy’s latest work in Policy Magazine, here.
Journalism Alumni Duncan McCue and Martha Troian will be releasing the Kuper Island podcast on May 17th. Read the CBC news release here.
Journalism Alumni, Rachel Pulfer has published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail. Read it here. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-journalists-are-essential-in-bringing-russian-abuses-to-light/
Junior Fellow Florence Ashley’s book has been reviewed by the Canadian Bar Association. Read it here.
The historic Chedoke Estate, or as we know it, Balfour House was featured last weekend in Doors open Ontario. Please click through here for a video tour.
In case you missed it:
The afternoon panels from our 60th anniversary celebration of the William Southam Journalism Fellowships are now online.
Do not forget about our intergenerational lunch program Massey is Lunch. Please reach out to if you would like to be paired with a Junior Fellow or Senior Member to connect over lunch in Ondaatje Hall.
Take care,
Nathalie
