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Massey 2017 2018 News Principal Segal ending five years of service 2 2017 CBC Massey Lectures 7 Celebrating Massey’s partnership with First Nations peoples 17 Symposium addresses the social implications of data-driven decision making 21 Connecting with fellow activists at Massey College 27 From the Don of Hall 47 Life at Massey College What's inside From the Principal 1 MASSEY COLLEGE is a graduate students’ residential community Degrees awarded 1 affiliated with, but independent from, the University of Toronto. Principal’s Announcement 2 It provides a unique, congenial, and intellectual environment Announcing new title 4 Contact us Junior Fellows’ Lecture Series 4 for graduate students of distinguished ability in all disciplines MASSEY COLLEGE to share in a rich and stimulating community. News from the Masters Emeriti 5 4 Devonshire Place Massey Grand Rounds 6 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E1 CBC Massey Lectures 7 Gala Dinner: Carol Off 8 Y SINCEREST THANKS to the many < masseycollege.ca > Press Club evenings 8 From the Massey community members and friends < www.facebook.com/MasseyCollege > William Southam Journalism Fellows 9 Editor who contributed to this issue in one way M THE PRINCIPAL Journalism Outreach update 10 or another — the Principal and the Officers of the College; Masters Emeriti John Pearson’s four faces of peace 10 Hugh Segal Fraser and Ann Saddlemyer; Emily Mockler, Programs and Events Coordinator; Corporation Fellows’ Gaudy Night 11 Tel: 416-978-8448 Library report 12 Darlene Naranjo, Catering Manager; Elena Ferranti, Administrative Assistant; h [email protected] Chef Joe Frey; Senior Fellows Patricia Fleming, Judith Skelton Grant, Barbara Panel on independent Senate 13 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Massey-Goodenough update 13 Sherwood Lollar, David Malone, John Massey, Donald Rickerd, and Kim Stanton; Elena Ferranti Book History & Print Culture 14 Senior Fellows Emeriti Marie Korey and Anna Luengo; Alumni Tom Angier, Tel: 416-978-2549 Writer-in-Residence 15 Steven Baldner, Aiden Bruen, Vincent Gaudet, Sheryl Loeffler, Kari Maaren, and h [email protected] Scholars-at-Risk 15 Alexandra Sorin, as well as the many other Alumni who sent in their news; Massey Moot / Massey Debate 15 Junior Fellows Natalie Brunet, David Gafni, Benjamin Gillard, Chizoba Imoka, BURSAR Inaugural Chapel Symposium 16 Joyee Chau Mississaugas establish Massey office 16 Kelsey Jacobson, Symon James-Wilson, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Tel: 416-978-8447 Sunrise Ceremony/High Table 17 Owen Kane, Andrew Kaufman, Julia Kim, Sasha Kostenko, Alexander Koven, h Franklin Forum on AI 18 Saquib Mahmood, Katie Menendez, Arsalan Mir-Moghtadaei, Katarina Neskovic, [email protected] Renewable energy panel 18 Moses Okumu, Johanna Pokorny, Bianca Ponziana, Nick Reynolds, RJ Reid, DEAN, FELLOWSHIPS, CIFAR Massey Talk: AI 18 Jim Robson, Ashkan Salehi, Alexander Sarra-Davis, Daniel Szulc, and Alice Zhu; PROGRAMS, AND LIAISONS Conversation: Barbara Sherwood Lollar 19 Quadranglers Angela Ferrante, Sandra Martin, and Ceta Ramkhalawansingh; Amela Marin Walter Gordon Massey Symposium 21 Tel: 416-978-2891 The Massey Entrepreneurs 21 Visiting Scholar Lou Clancy, Head of Journalism Outreach; Alan Galey, Director, Book History & Print Culture Collaborative Specialization, U of T; Carol Off, Fax: 416-971-3032 Massey Arts / Peter Herrndorf 22 h [email protected] Dignity, grace, beauty and warmth 23 CBC Radio; Alex Bozikovic, Architecture Critic, The Globe and Mail; Shona Cook, College photo 24 Publicity Manager, Penguin Random House Canada; Janie Yoon and Joshua ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN, Clarkson Award citations 26 Greenspon, House of Anansi; and Chris Reed, Publicist, U of T Press. STUDENT LIFE Connecting: Ceta Ramkhalawansingh 27 For photographs, my thanks go to BDS Studios, Jason Brennan, Dhoui Chang, Zoe Imani Sharpe Senior Residents & Visiting Fellows 28 Tel: 416-978-2891 Milan Ilnyckyj, and, for the annual shot of our community in the Quadrangle, Reflections: Donald Rickerd 29 h [email protected] Historians’ Night 31 to Lisa Sakulensky. – Anthony Luengo, Editor Senior Fellows’ lunches 31 LIBRARIAN Accessibility Committee 32 P.J. MacDougall Quadrangle Society 33 Tel: 416-978-2893 Audeamus anniversary 33 h [email protected] Bill Graham Centre Visiting Scholar 33 Dine at Massey PROGRAM AND EVENTS Massey College Book Club 34 COORDINATOR Bow Tie Announcement 35 Emily Mockler Kitchen Creations 36 Photography by Dhoui Chang Tel: 416-978-2894 The LMF reports 37 h [email protected] Environment / Sports / Diversity 38 Hart House Hancock Lecture 39 CATERING MANAGER Community Service 39 Darlene Naranjo Interfaith Dialogue / Music Club 39 Tel: 416-978-2894 Holiday Gaudy / Literary Prizes 40 h [email protected] Gender and Sexual Diversity 40 Health Committee 40 CONSULTANT, HUMAN RESOURCES Massey‘s First Porter 41 Elena Romanova Alumni Association reports 41 Tel: 416-978-8447 From the 1960s 42 h [email protected] From the 1970s 43 We always welcome members of the Massey community From the 1980s 44 to dine in Hall before any functions. All you need do PORTER’S LODGE From the 1990s 45 is call the Porter at 416-978-2895 by 1 p.m. Tel: 416-978-2895 h [email protected] From the 2000s 46 of the same day to make reservations. From the Don of Hall 47 SUMMER RENTALS Bursar’s Report / Staff News 48 h Annual appeal 49 summerresidence MasseyNews 2017–2018 • Life at Massey College • Toronto • October 2018 @masseycollege.ca RUNNING COLUMNS This is the 49th annual about life at Massey College. The 2018–2019 edition is scheduled for Thank you, donors! 3 publication in the fall of 2019. Submissions may be sent to the editor directly by e-mail ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Publications 9 h [email protected] or by mail to the College, no later than July 31, 2019. We welcome any comments. MasseyNews thanks the staff at Print3 Yonge & Eglinton for their support and Alexandra Sorin – President News of Senior Fellows 28 expertise. Every reasonable effort has been made to find holders h [email protected] Marriages, Births, In Memoriam 29 of any copyright material included. We would be pleased Kari Maaren – Toronto Coordinator News of Quadranglers 35 to have any oversights brought to our attention. h News of Alumni 41 Editor: Anthony Luengo • Desktop & Design: Brian Dench [email protected] Sapere Aude • Dare to be wise 2017–2018 • MasseyNews Degrees HIS LAST ACADEMIC YEAR once on an informal basis, and once was very busy, fruitful, and to speak at the Junior Fellow High Awarded awash in great events and Table. As a Senior Fellow at Massey, T All degrees awarded by the linkages for our Junior Fellows across and former Junior Fellow, her warmth University of Toronto unless the academic and professional and the reciprocal welcome is deep Photography by Milan Ilnyckyj otherwise specified. Our networks that are so important for and abiding. In her second visit, she congratulations to all concerned. building the futures to which they visited the Chapel Royal, spending aspire. I have always viewed doing so time with our First Nation partners as the primary Junior-Fellow-centred and the Massey community. FALL 2017 mission of the College. That we do We were also very fortunate last so in the Massey spirit of encouraging year to have five visiting fellows and Doctor of Philosophy interdisciplinary collaboration – across scholars: Andrea Fatona (from generations and within the context of OCADU), Lily Cho and Karen Krasny Daniel Anstett a diverse, hospitable, and welcoming (from York University), and Anthony Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community – makes the mission Bonato and Catherine Ellis (from both unique in its execution and Ryerson University). Their involvement Kevin Ka Hang Luk quite compelling in its purpose. in the life of the College was, in Mathematics When we take into account the addition to the benefit to them in Mark McConaghy activities of the Junior and Senior their sabbatical years, of immense From the East Asian Studies Fellowships, the Quadrangle Society, value to the life, activities, learning, Alumni, and joint occasions, we had Principal and experiences this year for both Aldea Mulhern close to 450 events over the the Junior Fellowship and the entire Religion academic year just completed, an all- Principal Hugh Segal community. Swathi Swiminathan time high. This packed issue of Notably over the past few years, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, Psychology MasseyNews very clearly reflects all we have worked with Junior Fellow of the Hon. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, that went on during the year. This is committees to raise awareness on Natalie Zajac Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, who a great credit to the many volunteers mental health and sexual harassment, Medieval Studies spoke with immense candour and in the fellowship and Quadrangle as well as to improve our readiness sentiment. At the High Table that night, Saba Mir Society, and to the College’s small to respond to problems that may arise. Chief Stacey Laforme (who has since Applied Psychology but very dedicated staff team, This work intensified last year and been re-elected Chief of the and Human with whom it is a great honour the Equity Secretariat and the LMF are Mississaugas First Nation) spoke with Development for me to work. planning to include education sessions a special poignancy and sincerity about Benjamin Gillard, the 2017-2018 on equity, diversity, and inclusion as the challenges and opportunities of Master of Global Affairs / Don of Hall, was an immense source part of the orientation for all new the Reconciliation agenda. These Master Business of support and leadership for not and continuing Fellows at the College. Chapel Royal opening events were Administration only the Junior Fellowship but also for The past year also saw an then followed by the Inaugural Chapel Navid Amiraslani the College as a whole. It was an intensification in the area of the Royal Symposium on February 1 and honour to work with him over the last governance of Massey College.