We are now accepting nominations for the Clarkson Laureateship for Public Service. The Clarkson Laureateship celebrates public service and volunteering among the Massey community. The Clarkson Laureateship was founded in 2003, to mark Massey College’s 40th anniversary and to recognize Senior Fellow the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, who was at that time the Governor General of Canada. I ask that you take a look at our community and consider nominating people who exemplify the values of public service and volunteer their time at Massey or elsewhere.
Letters of nomination can be sent to nominations@masseycollege.ca by December 1, and should clearly indicate reasons for the nomination. Please see our website here for a list of past recipients with their award citations.
The latest episode of The JCR podcast was released on Friday of last week:
Curtain Call III: Shakespeare in 2023
Massey College Junior Fellows Elizabeth Hicks (actor, playwright and law student), Zahida Rahemtulla (playwright and MA student in adult education), and Robbie Steele (PhD student in English literature and the Book History & Print Culture program) go behind the scenes at the Stratford Festival. They discuss the 2023 production of Shakespeare’s Richard II and the pros and cons of adapting and working contemporary ideas into classical texts.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
As part of the 60th anniversary celebrations, the Women@Massey committee made special arrangements with the University of Toronto Press to make A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story written by Senior Fellow Judith Skelton Grant available to the community.
For those with access to the University of Toronto Libraries, digital copies are available to borrow here. You can also borrow it electronically and in print through the Toronto Public Library, or, you can purchase your own digital copy here. Use the discount code “Massey” to receive 40% off until December 31, 2023.
Many thanks to Senior Fellow Lorna Marsden and Acting Librarian Kathryn Middleton for tracking down these access points for this very fulsome history of the College from founding until 2015.
NOTES FROM THE LIBRARY
We are now accepting applications for the 2024 Massey Printing Apprenticeship. Please see attached for more information and how to apply.
REFLECTING ON THE CBC MASSEY LECTURES
03 NOV 11:45am – 2:00pm : CBC Massey Lectures Lunch
Senior Fellow Tanya Talaga will discuss her 2018 Lecture All Our Relations: Finding a Path Forward with the host of CBC Ideas, Nahlah Ayed. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, All Our Relations, explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. The Lecture has been described as a powerful call for action, justice and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.
06 NOV 11:45am – 2:00pm : CBC Massey Lectures Lunch
Senior Fellow Sally Armstrong will discuss her 2019 Lecture Power Shift: The Longest Revolution with CBC Ideas Producer Philip Coulter. Power Shift argued that the future of humanity depends on strengthening the status of women and girls.
06 NOV 5:00pm : CBC Massey Lectures Series
Senior Fellow Michael Ignatieff will be interviewed by Paul Kennedy – former host of CBC Ideas to explore Ignatieff’s 2000 Lecture The Rights of Revolution.
Register for upcoming presentations of this series:
- November 13– Miglena Todorova and Tom Howell discuss Dorris Lessing’s 1985 CBC Massey Lecture, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside.
- November 15 – Senior Fellow Ron Deibert and Pauline Holdsworth discuss Deibert’s 2020 Lecture Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society.
- November 28 – I will present The Image of Confederation, Frank Underhill’s 1963 lecture.
- December 5 – Senior Fellow Jane Freeman presents The Real World of Technology Ursula Franklin’s 1985 lecture.
- December 11 – Senior Fellow Ronald Wright discusses his 2004 lecture, A Short History of Progress (virtual interview) with Bernie Lucht (retired), a longtime producer with CBC Ideas.
- December 13 – Senior Fellow Randy Boyagoda discusses Jean Bethke Elshtain’s 1993 lecture Democracy on Trial.
- January 17 – Senior Fellow Adam Gopnik discusses his 2011 lecture Winter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
04 NOV 10:00am-12:30pm : Bike Ride: Cycling Infrastructure Planning and Road Safety Strategies
Environmentalist-in-Residence Sir Graham Watson and Junior Fellow and Masters of Science in Planning student Swati Panwar will take you on a guided bike tour through downtown, where you can gain insights into Toronto’s cycling infrastructure planning and discover the strategies urban planners employ to improve road safety for both cyclists and pedestrians.
06 NOV 8:00pm : Book Club
The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez. Please RSVP with the Porter to join us for dinner in Ondaatje Hall beforehand!
08 NOV 10:00am : 2023 Sick Kids Friesen Lecture
Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta will present his lecture: “The future of maternal & child health globally: challenges and opportunities.” Please see attached for more information.
08 NOV 1:00-5:00pm : Ursula Franklin Forum on Science, Engineering and Society
You are invited to the 8th annual forum – Origins of Life: Looking at Life from Both Sides Now. No topic has been tackled from more angles – from cosmology, biology, physics and chemistry, to the moral, philosophical and artistic perspectives.
Join us for a wide-ranging event beginning with a lecture by Dr. Nita Sahai (University of Akron), speaking from the science perspective followed by a panel discussion on the aesthetic and artistic perspective and inspiration on origins of life that informs public interaction and discussion on this fascinating topic.
10 NOV 10:00am : Service of Remembrance at Hart House
A contingent from Massey College will meet at the Porter’s Lodge and walk over to Soldier’s Tower to lay the Massey College Remembrance Day wreath and participate in the University of Toronto’s Service of Remembrance. The event will run from 10:20-11:05am, followed by a reception at Hart House. Please join us.
11 NOV 2:00-4:00pm : Journeying Through Song: Ojibwe Singing with Elder Garry Sault of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
Please join us in the quadrangle 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.
14 NOV 10:00am-12:30pm : Reporting from the Extremes: Journalism in Times of Crisis
Save the date for the fifth annual German-Candian Media Symposium. More information coming soon.
17 NOV 5:00pm : Pride Networking Mixer
Everyone is welcome to attend the 2SLGBTQQIA+ Pride Networking Mixer event. Whether you are planning to attend the Pride High Table or not, you are welcome to come out and mingle with our wonderful High Table guests and the broader community.
17 NOV 6:00pm : Pride High Table
Join us at the annual Pride High Table celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. We will come together over a delicious meal as we introduce new fellows, scholars and community members. Our special guest for the evening will be Canadian musician, writer and star of CBC’s How to Fail as a Pop Star Vivek Shraya.
LOOKING AHEAD
- November 20 – United for Justice Conference: War Crimes Against Ukrainian Children – Conversation between governments and civil society on efforts to ensure accountability
- November 20 – Music Salon – Eve Egoyan: Explorations in Multi-Media Piano
- November 24 – POWER TO THE ARTS: Reimagining Relationships in the Canadian Creative and Cultural Sector
- November 24 – High Table Celebrating Cultural and Creative Industries in Canada
- November 30 – Conference: Cooperation, Stability, and Security in the Arctic? Strategies for Moving Forward
COMMUNITY NEWS
AWARDS
- Junior Fellow Chukwunonso Nwabufo was an invited speaker for the 2023 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Pharmsci360 conference in Orlando, Florida last week where he was also a co-moderator of a symposium session at the same conference. Further, he has been appointed Chair of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Pharmacokinetic, Pharmacodynamic, and Drug Metabolism Community comprising of >1200 leading pharmaceutical scientists from renowned academic institution and pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies across the globe.
- Alum Jaisie Sin will be starting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at Carleton University on July 1st, 2024. She will be at the School of Information Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Design and focusing on research related to accessibility and digital technologies,
- William Southam Journalism Fellowship Alum Angela Sterritt has been short-listed for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the country’s most lucrative nonfiction prize as well as the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, for her book Unbroken: My Story of Survival, Hope and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls, published by Greystone Books, which she began researching while at Massey College.
Félicitations Chuk, Jaisie and Angela!
NEWS
- Senior Fellow Randy Boyagoda reviews a book by Tananarive Duve in the New York Times, read it here.
- Senior Fellow Brett House spoke with Market Watch on the new CFPB credit-card report and was featured on Dollars & Sense segment on Newstalk 1010 radio.
- Senior Fellow Deepa Kundir recently published a piece on the role of AI in Cybersecurity in Maclean’s.
- Senior Fellow Samir Sinha on daylight savings time and how it affects those with dementia.
- 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer Astra Taylor in interviewed in the Tyee.
- Senior Fellows David Naylor and Stephen Toope advocate for more funding for innovation research in a Globe and Mail op-ed.
- Senior Fellow Stephen Scherer is a key team member researching with COVID is more severe in some people. Read here.
- Senior Fellow Armine Yalnizyan talks about the insurance industry in a Toronto Star op-ed.
Please continue to send us your accolades and news to news@masseycollege.ca. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing you around the College.
