TST Graduate Students' Association (TGSA)

Happy New Year! The first TGSA Board meeting of 2018 will be held on January 10th from 3:00-5:00pm. All regular meetings of the TGSA board are open to all TGSA members so please feel welcome to attend.

Agenda

We are celebrating the end of term with a skate night! We will gather at the Natrel Rink at Harbourfront Centre (235 Queen’s Quay West) starting at 4:00pm. Snacks and treats will be provided. There is space for a picnic dinners, and a licensed cafe (Boxcar Social) right beside the rink if we need a warm-up. Don’t have your own skates? No problem! Rentals are available at the rink! Further details, including rental prices, are available in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/376460876136987/

We hope to see you there!

We look forward to building our scholarly community together on March 23rd at Knox College. Submissions for our 2018 conference are now open. For further details please visit https://tgsa.sa.utoronto.ca/conference/

Twice each term TGSA sponsors an award competition for members presenting at conferences. We are pleased to announce we had two winners for our Fall 2017 competition.

Shaun Brown of Wycliffe College. Shaun presented his paper entitled “George Lindbeck’s Early Israelology: A ‘Catholic Protestant’ Perspective on the Reformation” at this year’s AAR in the Ecclesiological Investigations Unit section “Church Perspectives on the Legacy of the Reformation” on Sunday November 19.

Jun Sato of Wycliffe College.  Jun presented his paper entitled “Grammaticalization of Qatil Verbs in Biblical Hebrew,” at this year’s SBL in the “Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew” Program Unit.

TGSA extends its congratulations to Shaun and Jun on their successful presentations. Members – keep your eyes open for our next Conference Travel Grant competition in 2018.

Thinking of going to AAR/SBL this year? TGSA wants to organize transportation to and from Boston. We can get a group flight discount if 10 or more people fly on the same itinerary, and we can cut down on costs by carpooling. Interested? Please fill out this online form to let us know by noon on November 1st 2017. 

We have scheduled our Fall 2017 meeting dates as follows:

• Wednesday October 11th, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
• Monday November 13th, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
• Thursday December 7th, 9:00am – 11:00am

All general board meetings are open to all TGSA members. If you would like to be added on to the agenda to be able to speak to the board at a meeting, please contact an executive member of the board at least 2 days beforehand.

Proposed Agendas

December 7th

November 13th

October 11th