Massey Venture Society introduces: The Bull Pen
Venturing Forward: Rethinking Canada for an unexpected 21st century
One question – many answers: What does it mean for Canada to venture forward?
That question feels newly urgent in the wake of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos: World Economic Forum address, which framed our moment as a “rupture” and challenged middle powers to act with strategic imagination.
Several Junior Fellows have been asking for a space to unpack what that means – from the vantage of our own disciplines.
Enter: The Bull Pen.
Not a panel. Not a lecture. A working conversation: interdisciplinary, candid, guided and constructive – where we test ideas, challenge assumptions, and leave with sharper questions than we arrived with.
Massey Venture Society knows that a time of venturing forward calls upon diverse entrepreneurial ways of thinking and doing. Entrepreneurship does not only mean startups or profit-maximization (although it often does)! It’s also about virtuous experimentation, institutional imagination, and the kind of entrepreneurial risk-taking and invention that creates durable, ethical public value. Even, and especially, under conditions of uncertainty and rupture.
Join the Massey Venture Society on February 11th for an inaugural conversation in the Massey “Bull Pen”. We’ll bring together JFs and a few invited special guests across the four disciplinary areas we represent: Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences.
Join us on February 11th in the Upper Library before formal dinner, for a moderated conversation, and pre-dinner light refreshments.
Organizing JFs: Anne-Marie Fowler, Rayan Awad Alim, Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau
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