The Senior Members Committee of Hart House presents an annual series of alumni-student dinners for an intimate group of Hart House members who are alumni, students, faculty, and staff.
Overview
Each dinner features a guest speaker who discusses a broad range of areas from business, politics, education and the arts. A question and answer session will follow the speaker's presentation.
The dinners include a meet the speaker reception with hors d’oeuvres, and a superb meal based around a theme inspired by the evening's topic accompanied by selected wines.
Tickets may be purchased in series of 3 or 6, or individually.
The 2019-2020 series features:
- October 16, 2019: Catherine Gildiner: author of "Too Close to the Falls" will discuss her new non-fiction book “Good Morning Monster”.
- November 6, 2019: Tim Stewart, teacher and army piper “Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919: A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment”
- December 11, 2019: Professor Shauna Brail, Director, Urban Studies Program at Innis College “Ride-Hailing: Transforming Urban Mobility”
- January 22, 2020: Ann and Ross Stuart, Stratford Stage Manager “A Brief History of the Hart House Theatre”
- February 12, 2020: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Professor emeritus and Google fellow “What is a thought?”
- March 18, 2020: John Monahan, Hart House Warden since 2015 “100 years of Hart House at UofT”
Guest Speaker
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Shauna Brail
Professor
Prof. Shauna Brail, PhD is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Urban Studies Program, Associate Director, Partnerships & Outreach, School of Cities at the University of Toronto and from January – June 2019, is Director of the Master of Urban Innovation program at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
She is also Director of the Urban Studies Program.
As a champion of experiential learning, Shauna led the development of academic internships and community-engaged learning in the Urban Studies Program for over a decade, working with students, university administrators and partners at urban-focused institutions across the city.
