On the Occasion of the Installation of
Nathalie Des Rosiers,
Principal of Massey College
À l’occasion de la cérémonie d’installation
A Panel Discussion
“Ethics, Community and Leadership”
Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 2:00pm
Abella Moot Court Room, J250, Jackman Law Building
RSVP to sroberts@masseycollege.ca
Leading change and cultivating engaged communities are perennial challenges for every generation—and for today’s generation more than most. Situated in the University of Toronto, Massey College is an interdisciplinary graduate and professional college where students, through fellowship with members of the broader society, explore and advance the tenor of discourse on compelling issues. Whether students ultimately occupy positions in the academy, or the non-profit, public or private sectors, they are leaders in the making. Like all institutions of higher learning, ours is a critical enterprise. How do we ensure that students become the best leaders possible? What ethical guideposts should direct their actions and trajectory?
Massey College regroupe des étudiants et étudiantes de toutes disciplines, triés sur le volet. Ces étudiants et étudiantes seront les chefs de file dans leurs domaines. Comment nous assurer qu’ils et elles poursuivront leur travail avec un sens de l’éthique inspirant et adapté aux réalités modernes?
MODERATOR—Modératrice
Nathalie Des Rosiers
Principal, Massey College
PANELISTS—Panellistes
Tracey Lindberg: The Ethics of Reconciliation
Author & Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Christine Karcza: The Challenges of Inclusion
Accessibility Advisor & Activist
Molly Shoichet: The Drive to Science Engagement and Commercialization
University Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Daniel Weinstock: The Ethics of the Engaged Researcher
James McGill Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Michael Tulloch: The Ethics of Community Building
Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Nathalie Des Rosiers is the Principal of Massey College. Previously, she was a Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Ottawa-Vanier, and serving as Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. She practiced law in London, Ontario, with Lerners LLP, and was also Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University. She has served as President of the Law Commission of Canada, Dean of the civil law and common law sections at the University of Ottawa, and Vice-President of Governance at the University of Ottawa. She was also general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. She is a Member of the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Christine Karcza’s I can do this! attitude, shaped from managing the challenges of her own disability, engages others to push their boundaries, question their attitudes and implement innovative solutions to overcome barriers. As Massey College Senior Fellow, she is working with the Massey community and the Accessibility Committee to realize her dream that, someday, a student with a disability can be a resident in college. Christine is one of the first recipients of the Clarkson Laureateship, and has received the Diamond Jubilee Medal, as well as volunteer service awards from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Province of Ontario, the City of Toronto and the Ontario March of Dimes. She teaches Accessibility and Inclusion at Ryerson University.
Tracey Lindberg is a citizen of As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation, Rocky Mountain Cree, and hails from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community. She is an award-winning writer for her academic work and teaches Indigenous law at the University of Ottawa. She has taught Indigenous Studies and Indigenous law for all of her academic career, including a Canada Research Chair position in Indigenous legal orders, knowledge and laws. Her critically acclaimed book Birdie was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award and the 2016 edition of CBC's Canada Reads. In 2018, Dr. Lindberg was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Tracey Lindberg currently lives on Algonquin territory.
Molly Shoichet served as Ontario’s first Chief Scientist in 2018 where she worked to enhance the culture of science. She currently leads a laboratory of 25 and has graduated 190 researchers. Her research is focused on drug and cell delivery strategies in the central nervous system; she is also actively engaged in translational research and science outreach. She is the only person to be inducted into all three of Canada’s National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) and Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and was the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for North America in 2015.
Michael Tulloch, a Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, has a distinguished career of service as a member of the Canadian judiciary, a Crown prosecutor, a private practice lawyer, and a renowned writer and professor. He has led systemic reviews of the justice system at various levels, provided leadership on legal and judicial committees, designed and delivered international justice sector reform programs, and contributed to civic, charitable, and community development initiatives. He has also been involved in judicial education through the National Judicial Institute and international judicial reform programming through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada, where he helped launch and implement a multi-year judicial reform program in Jamaica.
Daniel Weinstock is a professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. From 2002 to 2011, he was the Founding Director of the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal. He is the Director of McGill's Institute for Health and Social Policy. In 1998, he was awarded a fellowship both to the Rockefeller Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and to the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. In 2004, he was made a Prize Fellow of the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Foundation, and in 2008, he received the Prix André-Laurendeau from the Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences. He was awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Public Policy Research in 2017. Ses recherches lui ont valu d’être une personnalité bien connue du monde médiatique.
