Dear friends of Massey College, chers collègues,
Senior Fellow Lily Cho who has been appointed at Vice-Provost, International at Western University – congratulations Lily! And Haroon Siddiqui will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation at their annual gala in June. Félicitations!
Please continue to send me your accomplishments so we may continue to celebrate you.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. Aubie and Esther-Rose Angel Leadership Prize Reception
April 4 | 6:30pm
In recognition of Dr. Angel’s extraordinary voluntary service to our community, Massey College has created a special prize in his honour in partnership with Friends of CIHR along with many generous donors – the Dr. Aubie and Esther-Rose Angel Leadership Prize. RSVP.
Science @ Massey Lunch – Curling: A Whole Different View on the Science of Rocks and Frozen Water
April 5 | 12:30pm
Join Science at Massey for a lunch with Matt Glandfield, Director of Business Operations at Massey College. Matt is active in the sport of curling having recently competed on the provincial level and on the World Curling Tour. Currently, he is the President of the High Park Club in Toronto and a representative of the Ontario Curling Federation.
No RSVP necessary.
Book Launch – Cross-border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America
April 10 | 5:00pm, Upper Library
Twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles. Cross-Border Cosmopolitans reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America’s Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history. Author and Massey Alum Wendell Adjetey will present on the book with Senior Fellow Alexie Tcheuyap. Q&A to follow.
Massey Dialogues – The Politics of Play: Digital Games in the Canadian Context
April 12 | 5:00pm
Our panel of game scholars, makers, and players including Prof. Christopher Young, Prof. Gerald Voorhees and Kaelan Doyle Myerscough will convene to discuss Canada’s role as one of the most prominent game-producing nations in the world, ranking third behind the United States and Japan. This eminence is reflected not only in Canada’s status as home to major AAA gaming studios, but also the rise of Canadian video game live-streaming celebrities and Canadian-based gaming non-profits, who have been making gaming careers more accessible to women, queer folk and BIPOC for more than a decade. Moderated by Junior Fellow Christine Tran.
The GOWN: African Scholars Awards and Reception
April 14 | 3:00-6:00pm, JCR & Upper Library
The Massey community is invited to attend The University of Toronto African Alumni Association’s annual awards ceremony as well as a networking reception. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Vice-President International, professor Joe Wong.
Senior Fellow Luncheon
April 18 | 11:45am
You are invited to join the final Senior Fellow Luncheon and Lecture of the 2022-2023 term. Visiting Scholar Ghizal Haress will speak on What is Happening in Afghanistan Under the Taliban?
Book Launch – Jack Austin’s Unlikely Insider
April 18 | 4:30pm, Junior Common Room
Join us for a conversation with former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin as he discusses his political memoir: Unlikely Insider: A West Coast Advocate in Ottawa, a forward-looking reflection on challenges facing Canada and Canadians.
5:00pm – In Conversation with Jack Austin & Senior Fellow Tom Axworthy
5:30-6:00pm – Book Signing and Reception
Jack will also be hosting events at the Munk School and Toronto Metropolitan University – all from the community are invited to join.
Book Launch – Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice
April 19 | 5:00pm, Junior Common Room
You are invited to attend the book launch of Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice by Senior Fellow Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah. The authors will be in conversation and hold a Q&A, followed by a reception.
Exhibition Launch of Jalal Nazari’s In the Garden
April 22 | 5:00-7:00pm
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Join us for a rare opportunity to view a collection of Persian Calligraphy in our Roberston Davies Lower Library from April 22-28. Learn about Persian artistic culture, calligraphy and poetry.
You are invited to the Opening Reception on Saturday, April 22. The artist and 2021-2022 William Southam Journalism Fellow Alum, Jalal Nazari, will teach us how to hand-carve calligraphy pens and provide a live demonstration of Nastaliq calligraphy.
Reception and remarks will be from 5:00-7:00pm in the Junior Common Room.
Exhibition viewing is in the Lower Library.
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Book Launch – Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda, edited by Senior Fellow Anver M. Emon
April 27 | 4:00-6:00pm, Upper Library
Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. Authors Rabiat Akande, Atiya Husain and Kent Roach with editor Senior Fellow Anver Emon will be in conversation with Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia of Canada. The contributors identify the limits of democratic accountability in the operation of our shared institutions of government. The intellectual and critical perspectives contained in the book will engage with the practical and multi-dimensional aspects of redressing the policies and institutions that enable systemic Islamophobia.
A reminder that the college is closed on Friday of this week – myself and the Massey College staff wish those celebrating Easter, marking Passover and those fasting for Ramadan our best wishes.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Ron Diebert listed as one of 20 Canadian trailblazers by Reader’s Digest, full list here. https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/canadian-heroes/#:~:text=Ron%20Deibert%20(,where%20they%20are.%E2%80%9D
Congratulations to Massey Alum Sandhya Mylabathula, who won the public’s favorite award in the Toronto final of Ma thèse en 180 secondes! (3-Minute Thesis competition) hosted at Massey last week. She presented her thesis on concussions which you can see starting at 36:15 here. https://www.youtube.com/live/hU4EdQVqJTU?app=desktop&feature=share
Senior Fellow Kumar Murty has won the 2023 Canadian Mathematical Society’s Jeffrey-Williams Prize https://cms.math.ca/awards/jeffery-williams-prize/nomination-information/
Senior Fellow Allan Peterkin was awarded the US-based Health Humanities Consortium Visionary Award for his leadership at the University of Toronto (see: www.health-humanities.com)
Alum Sivani Baskaran is a 2023 #CASFutureLeaders! This group of elite Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars will blaze a trail toward science leadership. Congratulations Sivani! https://www.cas.org/about/futureleaders?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SOC_CAS_ORG&utm_term=&utm_content=69381988-80ed-43c5-bc30-b8a6f43313d6&utm_campaign=GLO_ACD_STH_CFL_AWS
Quadrangle Society Member Hannah Chan-Hartley wrote program notes for the orchestra performance at the National Arts Centre last week. https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/notes/30526 | Hannah’s comments https://twitter.com/hanchanhartley/status/1641132380592242688
Junior Fellow Alison D’Cruz wrote an op-ed on Supporting Mature International Students – Read it here.
Visiting Scholar Alum Sabreena Delhon hosts Humans of the House, a new podcast from The Samara Centre for Democracy interviewing former MPs on what the job is really like. It is top of the Government Chart on Apple Podcasts.
Alum Marc Desormeaux interviewed on BNN regarding the federal budget released last week. Read it here.
Junior Fellow Jean-Paul Soucy has published an Op Ed in the Globe and Mail – AI could revitalize local journalism, but only if we demand better digital municipal records in Globe and Mail, read it here.
À bientôt,
Nathalie
