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Issue 19 the Newsletter of the Edinburgh University Club of Toronto (EDUCT) January 2009 Issue 19 The Newsletter of the Edinburgh University Club of Toronto (EDUCT) January 2009 Message from the President Club and Alumni Events The 2009 Burns Nightcap Happy When Hogmanay to Thursday, January 22, 2009, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm (three days before Burns) Where Bow & Arrow Pub, 1954 Yonge St., Toronto (just north of Davisville subway) you all. Since our Details All are part of the entertainment last issue, EDUCT RSVP Margaret Reid, [email protected] 416-536-8501 x7802 or 416-697-2807 has held two EDUCT Curling FunSpeil very successful events. In early November, Mark When Saturday, 28 February, 2009, 3:30 pm for 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm ice time Kingwell provided a lecture on art Where Leaside Arena, on Millwood at Laird Details Limited numbers so book early; cost $20 each. Watch for details re. clothing and footwear. and philosophy to a packed Allow time for drinks afterwards. house at the Centre for Social RSVP Joshua Gillespie, [email protected] 416-835-7447 Innovation (page 2). Mark gave a or: Emily Bain, [email protected] 416-435-4607 superb talk and admirably guided EDUCT Annual Dinner a very good discussion, simultaneously answering When Friday, April 24, 2009, 6:30 pm questions and acting as referee to Where The Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto Details Paul Kennedy, Producer and Presenter of CBC Radio’s famous programme “Ideas”, and a rather opinionated audience. an Edinburgh alumnus (M.Litt. 1976) will be our after-dinner speaker. We are very grateful to Mark for his RSVP Joshua Gillespie, [email protected] 416-835-7447 time and expertise. In early December, Simon Miles Annual General Meeting and Doors Open Toronto Tour and Paul Bradley combined forces When Sunday, May 24, 2009, 1:30 pm to organize our third staggeringly Where The Offices of Fraser Mackenzie, 48 Yonge Street, Toronto fun whisky tasting. Donald Gillies’ Details Meeting to be followed or preceded by a tour of The Four Seasons Centre for the powers of persuasion enabled the Performing Arts , our new Opera and Ballet building RSVP Joshua Gillespie, [email protected] 416-835-7447 club to once again enlist the support of Sir Iain Noble who kindly provided three of his Scotch INSIDE THIS ISSUE whiskies. And this year, in addition, • Club and Alumni Events we were fortunate enough to • Mark Kingwell on Art and Philosophy have four Irish whiskies (page 3). • The Sixth Anniversary of EDUCT Unfortunately, not enough was • Edinburgh University Remains at Number 23 in the World imbibed to produce any • Tasting Irish and Scottish Whiskies • Edinburgh Geography Centenary Fund: Progress Report significant gossip for the general • The Royal Forth Yacht Club Bell Rock Race of 1951 readership of the newsletter. • Bradley’s Birthday Bash Benefits Bursaries For the coming year, the Board • New Members/Member News • Appreciations has been hard at work organizing • Canadian Politics 101 our standard annual events, like • Treasurer’s Report / Membership Dues our Burns Nightcap and Annual • Tired of Telemarketers? Dinner, and also new events, such • A Visitor’s Reminiscences – Part II • Are You On Our List? as the Curling FunSpiel, which you will see on the events calendar on this page. Please keep your eyes Do you know of other Edinburgh alumni in Toronto? Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. peeled for notices of upcoming events. We very much hope to see you there. {}1 EDUCT News January 2009 Mark Kingwell on Art and Philosophy Mark also introduced us to his recent book, Concrete Reveries: Mark Kingwell is a Consciousness and the City, household name for through his discussion of the Canadians. He is a phenomenon of the architectural prolific writer, on a mega-project, that has manifested remarkably broad range itself mostly in the form of museums. of topics. His frequent Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim appearances in the Museum, Libeskind's Jewish Museum popular press, on in Berlin and his addition to the television and radio, in Royal Ontario Museum represent Canada and the United some examples. As Mark puts it in States, make one Concrete Reveries, "Now (the wonder how he finds museum) is self-displaced by the time to take a breath, let alone relax. Yet his latest book, which he museum as artifact, the so-called has co-authored with Joshua Glenn and illustrator Seth, is a guide destination building visited more for to nothing less than the fine art of idling. No, not the sort of relaxing its exterior than after anything that most of us will think of, such as flaking out in front of the within. Functionally, such museums television, but the art of using our free time in a manner absolutely might as well remain empty." divorced from any reference to work. For all of us poor frazzled folk, And adding to the richness of the The Idler’s Glossary is obviously what we should have read at afternoon was that throughout the school. And yet, it is the fourteenth book that Mark has produced in talk Mark discussed the work of as many years. Those fourteen works are listed below. If you cannot several important Canadian artists, find them in your bookstore, Mark assures us that all of them should including Edward Burtynsky, David be readily available, either used or new, on Amazon.ca and Bierk, James Lahey, Ken Lum, Kelly Amazon.com. Or, failing that, on eBay. Mark, Michel de Broin, and Blue Mark, who is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Republic. His interpretations of, and received his M.Litt., in Philosophy and Literature, from Edinburgh. commentaries on, some of their This was reason enough to persuade him to talk to EDUCT. And prominent works was most judging by the reception from the thirty or more members and stimulating. guests, everyone was delighted that he had accepted our In no small part, however, the wider invitation to talk to us on 1 November. Although much of his talk tour we enjoyed was also due to drew from his recent book, Opening Gambits: Essays on Art and the provocative questions from an Philosophy, the afternoon provided a much wider tour. audience quite capable of Opening Gambits argues that there is a strong equivalence demonstrating that they could between the artistic process and that of exploring our world indeed find the creative exploration through philosophical examination. One thread connecting these of ideas a very enjoyable pastime two ways of engaging with the world is that they are both forms of for idlers such as themselves. We high-level play. The true intent behind ‘play’ in this context is as an had advice on how to argue for activity that has an objective of its own, but can create more money for the arts: try unexpected insights or consequences purely as a result of the Socratic seduction rather than activity. (Indeed, this brings to mind the notion of exploratory play deduction. We argued the merits reflected in the operation of Summerhill, the famous school in and faults of Libeskind’s crystal on England, run by the experimental educator, A. S. Neil. Such a the Royal Ontario Museum. We notion was, for example, very distinct from the directed play of the appeared to agree on the Montessori school system.) creativity of Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin. In sum, we all {2} EDUCT News January 2009 appeared to have a very good time playing with the tensions to be The Sixth Anniversary of EDUCT found in art and in philosophy. In short, we make very good idlers! To mark the sixth anniversary of the And our thanks go to Mark for making it such a delightful afternoon. foundation of the Edinburgh To explore these, and many other ideas, in more detail, pick up a University Club of Toronto, a past copy of Opening Gambits, of Concrete Reveries, of The Idler’s presidents’ lunch was arranged at La Glossary, or indeed any of the other books by Mark listed below. Maquette restaurant in Toronto. This auspicious event occurred on For more information about Mark Kingwell, visit his University of December 10, 2008. Toronto profile online. Our photograph shows the past Books by Mark Kingwell presidents together with their special 1. A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism guest, Josh Gillespie, the current (Penn State University Press, 1995). Elaine and David Spitz Prize president of EDUCT. Left to right: for outstanding work in liberal-democratic theory; Questia Simon Miles (2006-2008), Josh Librarians Top 16 Books on Justice. Gillespie, Paul Bradley (2004-2006), 2. Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink James Hunter (2002-2004). (Viking, 1996). Finalist, Gordon Montador Book Prize for Social Commentary; Maclean’s magazine Top Ten Book. 3. Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac (Viking, 1998). Globe and Mail Notable Book for 1998; finalist, Gordon Montador Book Prize for Social Commentary; Drummer General’s Award for Non-Fiction; Los Angeles Times Notable Non-Fiction Book; Baltimore City Paper Top Ten Non-Fiction Book, 2000. 4. Marginalia: A Cultural Reader (Penguin, 1999). 5. Canada: Our Century [with Christopher Moore] (Doubleday, 1999). Globe and Mail Notable Book for 1999. 6. The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen (Viking, The past presidents tabled a motion 2000). Globe and Mail Notable Book for 2000. to make this lunch an annual event. 7. Practical Judgments: Essays in Culture, Politics, and Unsurprisingly, the motion was carried Interpretation (University of Toronto Press, 2002). unanimously. 8. Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life (Viking, 2003).
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