New Senior Fellows Announced
The Chair of the Governing Board of Massey College is pleased to announce the new Senior Fellows selected by the Nominating Committee and elected by the Governing Board at its most recent meeting. We congratulate all the elected Senior Fellows and will welcome them officially at the upcoming events. This year, we welcome (in alphabetical […]
Massey College Governing Board Chair Wins Prestigious Award
Last night, the Canadian Urban Institute awarded Alan Broadbent, Chair of Massey’s Governing Board the prestigious Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award, reflecting his life-long commitment and myriad of initiatives to build and strengthen the quality, balance and fairness of urban life. A long time Senior Fellow and Governing Board member, Alan Broadbent’s service beyond Massey […]
[The Owl] A Culinary Passport
BY EMILY MOCKLER To borrow from James Beard, the quintessential new-world gourmand: “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” In the same spirit, the range and quality of our gustatory experiences in Berlin and Helsinki inspired me to recreate various dishes upon return. Here are samplings from two of my most memorable meals… REICHSTAG […]
Book Launch: Remaking Policy by Senior Fellow Carolyn Tuohy
Please join our Senior Fellow Carolyn Tuohy on Tuesday, October 16th – 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Boardroom at the Observatory Munk School of Global Affairs – 315 Bloor Street West RSVP HERE https://dev-massey-college.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tuohy_EVITE.pdf
[The Owl] ¡Buen Provecho!
A pinch of Latin culture in the kitchen BY SILVIA ROSA Just off the plane, some 8,181 kilometers from home in São Paulo, I arrived at Massey College late on a September night last fall. Almost as soon as the sun was up, I found breakfast in Ondaatje Hall. When I walked in, the first […]
[The Owl] Berlin Index Vs Helsinki Indeksi
BY SIOBHAN ROBERTS Berlin Index German population in millions: 82.6 German per capita annual sausage consumption in kilograms: 4.5 German per capita annual meat consumption in kilograms: 29.2 Apropos sausage-inspired idiom: “Mit der Wurst nach dem Schinken werfen”— “Throw the sausage after the bacon” (bacon being more valuable than sausage in Middle High German times, […]
Dr. Victoria Kaspi to Deliver the 2018 CIFAR Massey Talk
Solving the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts Every day, as many as 1,000 extremely fast and powerful bursts of radio waves flash out of the sky from beyond our galaxy, and we know very little about them. Join Dr. Victoria Kaspi, Director of Director of CIFAR’s Gravity & the Extreme Universe program, as she explains what we know, […]
First Senior Fellow Luncheon on The Varsity
An article about our first Senior Fellow Luncheon, our series under the new guidance of Prof. Jennifer Jankins and Prof. Mohamad Tavakoli, appeared today on The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s Students Newspaper. Thanks to our Junior Fellow Audrey Rochette and to Prof. Heidi Bonhaker for being such amazing speakers! After a nearly two-year inquiry, a […]
[The Owl] Righting Wrongs in a Broken System
Amanda Carling is using a course on wrongful convictions to expose how the legal system is stacked against Indigenous people and other marginalized communities BY NATALIE ALCOBA People like to make excuses about how hard it is to change things. This is what Amanda Carling tells me sitting in the University of Toronto law school, […]
[The Owl] To My Massey Fellows: How Can I Forget?
BY ESTHER KARIN MNGODO This is what I remember, The first time I met Jim He told me about Michelle He told me, he married well. When I met her, the seventh fellow, I believed him. He took me around the city in his Jeep Bought me a Coca Cola and some chips On the […]
