Junior Fellow Lecture Series: Envy
On Tuesday November 4th 2014 at 7:45 p.m. in the Upper Library, join us for the Junior Fellow Lecture on the topic of “Envy”, the second in our three-part series of sins. We have a great panel of Junior Fellows lined up for you. Julian Dyer (Economics), “Envy, Mistrust and other Behavioural Artefacts: How history and […]
David Macfarlane Presents…
On Monday, November 3, 2014, Quadrangle Society Book Club hosts David Macfarlane, the author of: The Danger Tree: memory, war and the search for a family’s past A performance piece by the author in collaboration with the composer and musician, Douglas John Cameron. This personal history of a Newfoundland family and World War I has […]
Adrienne Clarkson Presents the Last 2014 Massey Lecture
The 2014 CBC Massey Lectures by Adrienne Clarkson Tuesday, October 28 – Toronto, Ontario Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music Purchase Tickets “What is the paradox of citizenship? It is that we are most fully human, most truly ourselves, most authentically individual, when we commit to the community. It is in the mirror of our […]
Emilie Nicolas, Junior Fellow Honoured in Ottawa
Emilie Nicolas, Junior Fellow and a Vanier Scholar is one of the five 2014 laureates of the Governor General’s Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case. She was awarded for being “an outstanding campaigner for women’s human rights, dignity, autonomy and equality of opportunity.” His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada […]
Massey Lecture #4 in Vancouver: Ubuntu
Wednesday October 22 – Vancouver, BC The Chan Centre – University of British Columbia, 7 pm Purchase Tickets “Several million years ago, in the Great Rift Valley, one of our earliest ancestors sat by a fire, shaping humanity’s first tool, a hand axe. These exquisite objects are the first utterance of a new emergent consciousness: […]
Massey Lectures Next Stop: Saskatoon
Monday, October 20 – Saskatoon, Sask The Broadway Theatre, 7 pm Purchase Tickets “The injunction to help others as part of one’s duty to one’s country integrates a sense of place with a sense of self. We have interpreted citizenship as a consensual contract with certain emotive elements, such as a high regard for our […]
Massey Lecture 2 – Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship
Tuesday, October 14 – Halifax, Nova Scotia Rebecca Cohn Auditorium – Dalhousie Arts Centre, 7 pm Purchase Tickets “The term dêmokratia means, literally, people power. As such, Athenian democracy, as articulated by figures such as Pericles, seemed to be free, tolerant, liberal, and engaging. The Greek word for virtue was ‘arete’, and this quality was popularized together […]
Alex Sodiqov & Family Arrive to Canada
Members of the Massey College community extend a warm welcome to Massey Scholar-at-Risk Alexander Sodiqov, a PhD candidate studying conflict resolution at the University of Toronto, who was permitted to leave Tajikistan and arrived in Canada on Wednesday, where he will continue his studies. His wife and daughter joined him a day later. Mr. Sodiqov was […]
What Is A Deadline?
Did you know a deadline was an actual line on a printing press and anything that was typeset after that line would be cut off? Or that a “slug” wasn’t just the name of a story? Turns out, much of our journalism vernacular comes from the printing presses of a bygone era. CBC reporter Jody […]
Massey College Welcomes Hugh Segal
Hugh Segal, the fifth Master of Massey College, joins Massey after four decades in the public, private, academic and not-for-profit sector. He is a former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister in the 1990s, a former Associate Cabinet Secretary in Ontario in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, and in June, 2014, he finished […]
