Over the coming months, we look forward to celebrating the remarkable people and the abundance of intellectual wealth that has come to Massey College over the last 60 years, and to imagine the next 60 years of Massey College.
Below, please read until the end to see an overview of the events happening this term. Be sure to register at the links provided. Please consult our calendar as details are added.
WELCOME EVENTS
08 SEPT 5:00-7:00pm : Welcome BBQ
We look forward to welcoming many of you back for our annual BBQ to share in food and community in our beautiful quad.
The event is sold out.
13 SEPT 6:30pm : Formal Dinner
The first formal dinner of the year is on September 13 in Ondaatje Hall. Please join us. Anyone who is a not a resident Junior Fellow, please email porter@masseycollege.ca prior to 2:00pm the day of the dinner to RSVP.
Formal dinners take place on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout each term.
SPECIAL LECTURES, SYMPOSIA AND EVENTS
Click on hyperlinks for more information and to RSVP to the events below.
18 SEPT 4:00pm : The Inaugural Irving Abella Lecture
Chad Gaffield will deliver the lecture entitled: Machines and Minds: Pursuing Inclusive History in a Turbulent World.
I want to thank Marshall and Judi Cohen for their support of this event. Signups are full, but it will be livestreamed and can be viewed later on the Massey YouTube channel. You are also welcome to register for the waitlist.
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19 SEPT 10:00am-2:30pm : An Appreciation of Hugh Segal: Celebrating His Intellectual Contributions to Canada
Principal Emeritus Hugh Segal passed away at the beginning of August. The Massey community will celebrate his intellectual contributions through a series of talks and a lunch.
20 SEPT 9:00am-3:00pm : Public Policy Symposium – Changing the FLOW: The Future of Freshwater in Canada
Bringing together freshwater allies from across Ontario and Canada, the symposium will discuss the future of freshwater in the country following the creation of the Canada Water Agency with keynote speaker Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
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21 SEPT 3:00-5:00pm : Visiting Scholars Welcome Reception
Each scholar will share what they will be researching and working on throughout their time at Massey.
21 SEPT 5:00pm : Annual Massey Community Photo
All current Junior Fellows, Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members, Visiting Scholars, Senior Residents and Journalism Fellows – Mark your calendar. We will gather in the Quad, before formal dinner.
28 SEPT 5:00pm : 60th Anniversary High Table at Hart House
Since 1963, Massey College has been the physical and intellectual home to thousands of Junior Fellows, Senior Residents, Visiting Scholars, Journalism Fellows, Members of the Quadrangle Society and Senior Fellows. Over these 60 years, Massey has built a vibrant interdisciplinary and intergenerational community, one that often begins at the dining table. Join us to celebrate the past, present and future Fellowship.
Be sure to secure your ticket to this special night today. We are almost sold out!
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29 SEPT 1:30pm : Meeting of Dons: Massey College Stories
Join Ian Lancashire (1967) and Christine Tran (2021) in conversation, moderated by current Don of Hall Robbie Steele.
All are welcome to join for lunch with the Dons of Hall in Ondaatje Hall at 12:15pm.
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29 SEPT 6:00pm : Book Launch: My Name Is Not Harry by Haroon Siddiqui
Join the book launch for Senior Fellow Haroon Siddiqui who will be in conversation with former President of PEN Canada Ron Graham.
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02 OCT 5:00-6:30pm : Quadrangle Society Reception
Calling all Quadrangle Society Members. Join us at Massey to connect with old friends and meet new members of the Society. Sir Graham Watson, our incoming Environmentalist-in-Residence, will speak about environmentalism in Europe.
RSVP and join us for dinner following the reception!
03 OCT 8:30am-4:00pm : Sustainability Conference: Ensuring Prosperity in the Next 60 Years
The 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?
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05 OCT Royal Society of Canada + Massey
Save the date for the first of four bilingual events in partnership with the Royal Society of Canada. Carol Estabrooks from the University of Alberta will be joined by Alain Nöel from the Université de Montréal. I will moderate.
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24 OCT 4:30-6:00pm : Women at Massey
Save the date for a special event focusing on the Women at Massey with author Judith Grant and Cheryl Lounsly.
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08 NOV : Ursula Franklin Forum
Massey College and Science@Massey host the annual Franklin Forum – in honour of Dr. Ursula Franklin, who was a beloved Senior Fellow and the first woman to be made University Professor at the University of Toronto – on a topic at the intersection of Science, Engineering, Public Policy and Society.
20 NOV 9:00am-3:45pm : United for Justice: War Crimes Against Ukraine’s Children Symposium
You are invited to join the symposium in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, the Ukrainian Embassy and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. Organized by Payam Akhavan. #60anniversary
24 NOV : POWER TO THE ARTS: Reimagining Relationships in the Canadian Creative and Cultural Sector Symposium
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30 NOV : Conference on the Arctic and International Relations
The conference will focus on prospects for enhancing cooperation. Organized by Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon.
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CBC MASSEY LECTURES 2023 EVENTS WITH ASTRA TAYLOR
Massey College, in partnership with CBC and House of Anansi Press presents the annual CBC Massey Lectures. Do not miss this year’s Massey lecture: The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor.
26 SEPT 12:00-2:00pm : Lunch with Astra Taylor
Join us for a special luncheon for the Massey community featuring Astra Taylor, the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer, in the Upper Library. (Price: $60.00 including tax).
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26 SEPT 5:00-6:30pm : 2023 CBC Massey Lecture Book Launch
Massey will be hosting the annual special reading, book signing and reception for Astra Taylor at the college. Registration is full, but you can sign up for the waitlist.
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27 SEPT 7:00pm : 2023 CBC Massey Lecture with Astra Taylor @ Koerner Hall
In her 2023 CBC Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor explores how insecurity is an essential feature of our entire capitalist system.
Tickets for this can be purchased directly from the Koerner Hall website.
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REFLECTING ON CBC MASSEY LECTURES LUNCHEONS
In celebration of Massey College’s 60th anniversary, we have invited past CBC Massey Lecturers to offer a fresh perspective on the themes of their lecture. Join us in the Upper Library for the two-course plated lunch, followed by reflection and remarks from the past lecturers or special guests. An audience Q&A will follow. 11:45am-2:00pm.
- September 15 – Senior Fellow The Hon. Adrienne Clarkson 2014 CBC Massey Lectures “Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship”
- October 4 – Senior Fellow Janice Stein 2001 CBC Massey Lectures “The Cult of Efficiency”
- October 17 – Senior Fellow John Ralston Saul 1995 CBC Massey Lectures “The Unconscious Civilization”
- October 25 – William Southam Journalism Fellowship Advisor Ian Williams presents Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 CBC Massey Lectures “Conscience for Change”
- October 31 – Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan 2017 CBC Massey Lectures “In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey”
- November 3 – Tanya Talaga 2018 CBC Massey Lectures “All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward”
- November 6 – Sally Armstrong 2019 CBC Massey Lectures “Power Shift: The Longest Revolution”
- November 6 – Michael Ignatieff 2000 CBC Massey Lectures “The Rights Revolution” (reception at 5:00pm)
- November 13 – Miglena Todorova presents Doris Lessing’s 1985 CBC Massey Lectures “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”
- November 15 – Senior Fellow Ron Deibert 2020 CBC Massey Lectures “Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society”
- November 22 – Jennifer Welsh 2016 CBC Massey Lectures “The Return of History”
- November 28 – Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers presents Frank Underhill’s 1963 CBC Massey Lectures “The Image of Confederation”
- December 11 – Ronald Wright 2004 Massey Lectures A Short History of Progress. Details to come.
ARTS AT MASSEY
8 SEPT 7:00pm : Triple Reading: Three Canadian Poets
Following the Welcome BBQ, you are invited to the poetry reading and reception with McGill-Queen’s University Press authors Senior Fellow John Reibetanz, Alum Gabrielle McIntire and Ed Carson. Their books will be available for purchase.
12 SEPT 6:30pm : Kriegsfilme Screening at Innes Town Hall
Join Kriegsfilme for a special screening at 7:00pm. Reception begins at 6:30pm. The penultimate round of voting to help select the film is open.
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MASSEY MUSIC SALON
The Massey Music Salons return this fall, celebrating the College’s 60th anniversary with an eclectic mix of events that honor the past and look to the future. Save the dates! Join us for formal dinner before the salons.
04 OCT : Music Salon – Beautiful Scars: An Evening with Tom Wilson
You are invited to attend the first Music Salon of the year – musician Tom Wilson will be in conversation with Journalism Fellow alum Michael Barclay.
20 NOV : Music Salon: Explorations in Multi-Media Piano with Eve Egoyan
Internationally celebrated pianist and Massey alum Eve Egoyan will be in conversation with Quadrangle Society Member Hannah Chan-Hartley.
BOOK CLUB AND MASSEY LOVES TO READ
- October 2 – Book Club: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart. Revisiting the first book read by the Massey Book Club. #60anniversary
- October 12 – Book Launch: Frontiers of Gender Equality by Professor Rebecca Cook
- October 19 – Book Launch: Everything There Is by Senior Fellow MG Vassanji
- November 6 – Book Club: The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez
- December 4 – Book Club: The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
HIGH TABLES AND CELEBRATIONS
Registration is open for the first three High Tables of the year.
- Thursday, September 28 – 60th Anniversary High Table
- Friday, October 13 – Indigenous Heritage Celebration High Table
- Friday, October 27 – Muslim Heritage High Table
- Friday, November 17 – Pride High Table
- Friday, November 24 – High Table Celebrating Cultural and Creative Industries in Canada
- Saturday, December 2 – Kids and Family Holiday Party
- Saturday, December 9 – Winter Gaudy
COMMUNITY NEWS
AWARDS
- Senior Fellows Ann Hutchison and James Carley, distinguished scholars from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS,) will be awarded honorary degrees in recognition of their service and immense scholarly contribution to the University and support of students, marking the first time that St. Michael’s has accorded such an honour to a married couple. Read more here.
- Massey’s Chair in Human Rights Payam Akhavan was elected to the Institute of International Law during their 150th session in Angers, France. He is the fifth Canadian to be elected, among a global community of distinguished judges of international courts and tribunals and notable scholars and diplomats.
- Junior Fellow Otuto Chukwu has been awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship by the Government of Canada through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- Toronto screening room to be renamed after Oscar award-winning director and Massey Member of the Quadrangle Society Norman Jewison. Read about it here.
- Junior Fellow Batu Kaya is one of the two masters level students in Ontario to be awarded the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars award funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. More info can be found here.
NEWS
- Alum Florence Ashley is quoted in the Star. Read it here.
- Alum Jack Cunningham analyzed the Yevgeny Prigozhin plane crash. Listen here.
- Senior Fellow Raywat Deonandan was interviewed on COVID-19 case numbers and what it means today.
- Journalism Fellow alum Omayra Issa produced and led The Prairies Got Something To Say published in CBC’s Black on the Prairies is nominated for an Online Journalism Award, honouring excellence in digital journalism around the world.
- Senior Fellow Prabhat Jha is quoted in Global News. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Jillian Kohler has recently published a paper for the UNDOC on food and corruption. Read it here.
- Senior Fellow Allison McGeer commented on a new variant of COVID-19. Read here.
- Junior Fellow Leighton Schreyer had their perspective essay The Clinic That Cried Safe published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Senior Fellow Neil Seeman wrote an Op-Ed on advancing the economy – why universities must stop valuing specialization over range.
- Senior Fellow Molly Shoichet joins PRiME as new Scientific Director for Precision Medicine Initiative.
- Alum Anjum Sultana wrote an Op-Ed in the National Observer on child-responsive climate finance and was interviewed on CTV about International Youth Day.
REMINDERS
- Current Junior Fellows, Visiting Scholars, Journalism Fellows, Quadrangle Society and Senior Fellows – Please register for your Massey headshot with Dewey Chang on Sept 7, 8 or 11.
- The kitchen will reopen on September 5 and we look forward to welcoming you for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
