I am pleased to announce the arrival of our Judge-in-Residence: Andromache Karakatsanis. She will arrive on October 23 and be meeting with Junior Fellows and members of the community throughout the week.
This year, we will mark Islamic Heritage Month with our annual Muslim Heritage High Table. Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General The Honourable Arif Virani; along with Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, will both give remarks. We will also recognize several outstanding Muslim Canadians. Please join us on this important occasion.
MASSEY IS LUNCH
Supporting and connecting with Junior Fellows is key to the Massey community. The easiest – and one of the most fun – way to do this is to participate in the “Massey is Lunch” program where Senior Members of the college are paired with a group of Junior Fellows to have an engaging lunch in Ondaatje Hall.
Indigenous Heritage Celebration High Table
The evening included impactful remarks from MayorOlivia Chow, Gimaa Laforme and former AFN Grand Chief Phil Fontaine. We also announced Junior Fellow Emma Avery as the recipient of the 2023 Dr. Malcolm King Scholarship. Please see below for the jury citation, and congratulations again Emma!
Emma Avery is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident at the University of Toronto. Her current research interests include increasing equitable access health care to Indigenous, LGBTQ* and low resourced communities. Emma has won several humanitarian and scholastic awards and has presented her research internationally.
Emma’s project is a needs assessment for Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) to determine whether providing local ambulatory surgical care to the remote community of NAN would be beneficial in addressing health care disparities seen in the region, by reducing the need for medical travel. Many of the NAN communities are remote (i.e., fly in only) leading to similar disparities in health care access and provision seen in other remote Canadian regions with predominantly Indigenous populations.
Thank you, Emma. Congratulations on your achievement and we look forward to hearing how your project unfolds over the next year.
UPCOMING EVENTS
19 OCT 3:00pm : History in the First Person: The Visual Culture of the Zapruder Film
In partnership with Massey College, the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University is pleased to announce its first Sensorium Salon of 23/24. The speaker, Catherine Zuromskis, from the Rochester Institute of Technology, will talk about her current research on the history of citizen photojournalism.
Join the talk in the Upper Library at 3:00pm followed by a reception in the Junior Common Room. RSVP.
19 OCT 6:00pm : Trust Talks: The Future of Journalism in a Digital World
You’re invited to a thought-provoking panel discussion called Trust Talks: The Future of Journalism in a Digital World, followed by an audience Q&A, and a networking reception at the Isabel Bader Theatre.
CBC/Radio-Canada’s President and CEO, Catherine Tait will open the event, which will be moderated by CBC Ideas Host, Nahlah Ayed. RSVP.
19 OCT 6:30pm : Book Launch: Everything Is There by M.G. Vassanji
One of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, Senior Fellow and two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, is launching a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. A few tickets remain: RSVP.
23 OCT 1:00pm : Massey Grand Rounds – Trust your Gut: The Microbiome in Health & Disease
Massey Grand Rounds is hosting its 18th Annual Symposium titled Trust your Gut: The Microbiome in Health & Disease, featuring the 5th Annual Janet Rossant Lectureship delivered by Dr. Meghan Azad from the University of Manitoba. Additional speakers include Dr. Giada De Palma (McMaster University) and Dr. Susy Hota (University of Toronto). Learn about gut microbiome, how it impacts immune health, mental health, and pain, and its innovative applications using fecal transplant technology. Join us.
23 OCT 4:00pm : Gi-Chi-Twaa Gimaa Nini Mississauga Anishinaabek AName Amik / Chapel Royal
Chapel Royal Explorations – Origin Stories: Starting Points, Guides for the Future
This is an opportunity to share and learn, in an open and inclusive space. Participants are asked to speak briefly about the origin story that informs their faith and/or approach to life, and to reflect on how it guides their plans and choices. Refreshments will be served. RSVP.
23 OCT 5:00pm : Massey Venture Society
The Massey Ventures Society (MVS) seeks to connect individuals interested in starting and running their own entrepreneurial ventures. We aim to bring together Junior and Senior members of the Massey Community, as well as leaders in the Canadian entrepreneurship ecosystem to discuss innovation and business ideation. The event will include a panel session, followed up a meet-and-greet with cheese platters and beverages. RSVP.
25 OCT 11:45am-2:00pm : Ian Williams’ CBC Massey Lectures Lunch on the Martin Luther King’s 1967 Massey Lecture
Join us for a presentation from Professor and William Southam Journalism Fellowship Advisor Ian Williams, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 CBC Massey Lectures Conscience of Change.
This lunch series will be recorded and footage will be used for special programming on CBC Ideas. RSVP.
26 OCT 5:00-6:30pm : Massey Dialogues – Israel-Palestine: Is There A Solution to Political Dysfunction and Horrific Violence?
The first Massey Dialogues of the year begins with a discussion on Israel-Palestine with the Canada’s former Ambassador to Israel Jon Allen in conversation with Palestinian Ph.D. candidate at UofT’s Post-Conflict Reintegration Lab Khalil Al-Wazir, Junior Fellow Anne-Marie Fowler, and Israeli lawyer Lior Pollack. Moderated by Senior Fellow Michael Valpy. RSVP.
31 OCT 11:45am – 2:00pm : CBC Massey Lectures Lunch – Payam Akhavan’s In Search of a Better World
Join us in the Upper Library for a family-style lunch, followed by an interview between CBC Ideas Producer Chris Wodskou and Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan where they will explore Akhavan’s 2017 lecture.
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. RSVP.
COMMUNITY NEWS
AWARDS
- Senior Fellow Izzeldin Abuelaish was awarded an Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Toronto Metropolitan University last week. Read here.
- Junior Fellow Apala Das successfully defended her thesis, Straying Afield of [Oneself]: The Politics and Poetics of Asceticism in Cross-Cultural Modernisms at the end of September.
- Alum Rosemary Martin successfully defended her thesis, Under-Ice Ecology of Aquatic Insects in North-Temperate Lentic Ecosystems, earlier this month.
- William Southam Journalism alumni Martha Troian and Duncan McCue‘s podcast Kuper Island has been nominated for an RTDNA award for best national podcast.
Congratulations!
NEWS
- William Southam Journalism Fellowship alum Nana aba Duncan was featured in the Toronto Star for organizing an event celebrating the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary the first woman—and Black woman—to publish a newspaper in North America, the Provincial Freeman, in 1853. Read about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, her legacy and the event here.
- Senior Fellow Ken Dryden was interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current with Quadrangler Matt Galloway about his new memoir.
- Senior Fellow Raywat Deonandan talks about wait times for new COVID-19 vaccines. Read it here.
- Junior Fellow Nelly Matorina has recently published a paper in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience – available here. Nelly was also interviewed about her work for the UofT Med Magazine on sleep. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Samir Sinha is quoted on CBC.ca in a piece about prescriptions of Opioids for Seniors.
- Alum Roxana Sultan has published an article in Maclean’s on the topic of AI in healthcare. Read it here.
- Junior Fellow Christine H. Tran was interviewed by Slate about how Twitter/X’s creator program and its financial model incentivizes disinformation during the Israel Palestine conflict.
- I was quoted this weekend in the New York Time’s Canada Letter on the use of the Notwithstanding Clause in Saskatchewan. Read it here.
Lastly, our College Calendar is the best way to stay up to date with all of our upcoming events.
