NDR 2023-01-23
Dear members of the community, chers collègues,
Please come to the Clarkson Laureates High Table coming up on Friday, January 27th. We will have a special musical introduction, celebrate our Laureates, hear from Madame Clarkson and the evening will finish with Contra Dance in the Junior Common Room – Emily to link to contra dance description PDF.
JANUARY EVENTS
Thursday, January 26 – Equity Talks: Unmasking Islamophobia’s Nuances
Dr. Shelina Kassam, a critical race theorist and Islamophobia scholar, will engage in a short conversation with Ahmer Khan, an activist and community builder. They will then invite the group to engage in an open discussion about their experiences, how they can be allies to Muslims and other marginalized groups, and the role we all can play in the pursuit of a more equitable world.
On Monday, January 30, all are invited to join the conversation with author Michael Century on themes from his latest book Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age. Michael will be joined in conversation with Senior Fellow Zainub Verjee.
CELEBRATING BLACK EXCELLENCE AT MASSEY – Black History Month at Massey College
Feb 1: 5:00pm Women of Colour in Media Industries with alum and Senior Fellow Rita Shelton Deverell
Feb 6: 8:00pm Book Club – Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough, presented by alum Eddie Kawooya RSVP
Feb 7: Filmmaker in Residence screening and panel discussion of Black Ice with director Hubert Davis at the George Ignatieff Theatre RSVP
Feb 9: 7:45pm (Principal’s Lodge) – Book Launch with alumnus Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. His Cross-border Cosmopolitans – the Making of a Pan-African North America RSVP
Feb 10: Black History High Table Celebrating Black Excellence RSVP
Feb 14: Senior Fellow Luncheon with Akwasi Owusu-Bempah on drug law reform in Canada
Feb 15: Massey Dialogues: France’s Colonial Legacy in Algeria and the Paradox of Grievability with Hervé Tchumkam RSVP
March 1: Music Salon – Transcending Boundaries: The Musical World of Alanna Stuart RSVP
ARTS @ MASSEY
Music Salons
February 1
Haunted Voices: Music and Imagination in Remembering the Holocaust
March 1
Transcending Boundaries: The Musical World of Alanna Stuart
Massey Loves to Read
February 6
Book Launch – Decolonizing Journalism Classrooms by Duncan McCue RSVP
Book Club
Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough, presented by alum Eddie Kawooya RSVP
Feb 6
Album Launch Feb 15
Junior Fellow Maeve Hannigan will launch her album “A Woman’s Voice” with pianist Jialiang Zhu. RSVP
WINE GRAZING – March 11
This event has been more than a reason to explore a carefully-curated selection of gourmet food and wine—it has also served as a valuable opportunity for junior and senior members of the college to make connections and build community in a lively, convivial setting.
Our annual Wine Grazing evening: A King Among Rivers: A Journey Along the Rhône will take place on March 11, 2023 at 7:30pm in the Junior Common Room.
There will be a selection of 8 wines from regions along the Rhône as well as non-alcoholic beverages (from the “Proxies” line) selected by the sommelier which will be paired with a tasting menu of gourmet food dishes from the Massey kitchen. The event will be followed by live musical entertainment in the JCR.
Please direct questions to the Massey College Wine Grazing Committee.
Many of you have reached out to get the names and organizations of those people introduced at High Tables. We will now list our guests on the website – in case you missed the Multiculturalism High Table Celebrating South Asian Cultures, you can access the High Table guest list here.
I am pleased to announce and welcome the latest roster of Printing Apprentices for the winter 2023 term. This year we had a record number of applicants, which has led College Printer Kit MacNeil to revise and restructure the program to better meet the needs of the Massey and BHPC communities. We are very excited to be extending invitations to more apprentices than ever before, and hope to continue to grow the program in the future. Thank you to everyone who applied!
Massey Printing Apprentices:
Aleksandra Dojnov (MASc, Biomedical Engineering)
Benjamin Pulver (PhD, Art History)
Susanna Rumsey (PhD, Electrical Engineering)
Christopher Patton (MMSt, Museum Studies, Book History and Print Culture) (Summer Apprentice)
BHPC Printing Apprentices:
Robert Steele (PhD, English Literature, Book History and Print Culture, and Massey Junior Fellow)
Emily Lin-Mei Crawford (MI and MMSt, Master of Information and Museum Studies, Book History and Print Culture)
Bookbinding Apprentice:
J Hughes (PhD, English Literature, Book History and Print Culture)
Submissions open for Audeamus
Massey College’s own literary and visual arts journal ‘Audeamus’ is accepting submissions from the Massey community members (current JFs, SFs, alumni, Quadranglers, Visiting Scholars and Journalism Fellows) until January 25th at midnight.
2 pages max, any file format is accepted for:
poetry
Prose
short essays
short non-fiction
photography
drawings
paintings
graphic arts
Send submissions to audeamus.massey@gmail.com if you are keen to see your work featured in the 2023 edition of Audeamus!
APPLICATIONS
A reminder that we are accepting applications for new Junior Fellows until Tuesday, January 31. If you know of a student that would benefit from the Junior Fellow program, please encourage them to apply!
We are now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 William Southam Journalism Fellowships. Please help us spread the word.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Please join me in welcoming first year resident Junior Fellow Otuto Amarauche Chukwu – who arrived at Massey earlier in the month. Otuto has also just been awarded with the Michael Decter Award for health leadership and policy studies.
Patrick Egwu, our 2021/2022 Gordon N. Fisher/JHR fellow will participate in the Spring 2023 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. More infromation here. https://www.promarket.org/2023/01/18/announcing-the-participants-in-the-spring-2023-stigler-center-journalists-in-residence-program/
Junior Fellow Leighton Schreyer has published a first person essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association. You can read it in full, here.
Senior Fellow Danielle Martin was interviewed on CBC’s Metro Morning last week, listen to it here.
Senior Fellow the Hon. Michael Tulloch, will deliver the Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture on January 26th RSVP here.
Wishing health, happiness and prosperity for all those celebrating the Lunar New Year!
Nathalie
