* Please note: at this time, the Snider Visiting Fellowship program has been suspended pending a review of the program *
The Snider Fund was established in memory of Fletcher C. Snider, a distinguished lawyer and University of Toronto graduate. Since 1975, the fund has supported public lectures by individuals whose work is of general cultural and intellectual significance and is relevant to a broad audience. In 2005, the program supported by the Snider Fund was expanded to include the Snider Visiting Artist, who is resident at UTSC for an academic term.
Past Recipients
- 2011-12 Snider Visiting Artist: Martin Arnold, Toronto-based composer and performer.
- 2010-11 Snider Visiting Artist: Kim Adams, renowned Canadian sculpture artist.
- 2009-10 Snider Lecturer: Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University.
- 2009-10 Snider Visiting Artist: Andrew Staniland, National Grand Prize winner of CBC Radio's contemporary music competition, EVOLUTION.
- 2008-09 Snider Lecturer: Carol Off, award-winning journalist and host of CBC Radio's As It Happens.
- 2008-09 Snider Visiting Artist: Jiri Havelka, Alfred Radok Prize winner, and director of EXIT 89.
- 2007-08 Snider Visiting Artist: Michael Helm, Giller-nominated author of The Projectionist and In the Place of Last Things.
- 2007-08 Snider Lecturer: Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol.
- 2006-07 Snider Visiting Artist: Will Kwan, renowned visual artist.
- 2005-06 Snider Visiting Artist: Michael Redhill, Giller-nominated author of Martin Sloan, and poetry collection Building Jerusalem.
Other Snider Visitors
- 1999 John Gaskin Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland "Hume on Religion"
- 1998 Wayne Koestenbaum City University of New York "Voices of Opera Symposium"
- 1998 Stevan Harnad U. of Southampton "Learned Inquiry & the Net: The Role of Peer Review, Peer Commentary & Copyright"
- 1997 Gail Hawisher Centre for Writing Studies, U. of Illinois "The Electronic Classroom"
- 1997 Amy Raymond Humanities Colloquium
- 1996 Asha Varadharajan Author "Revisiting the Culture Wars"
- 1995 Humanities Colloquium "Wanderers, Pilgrims, and Explorers"
- 1994 Aaron Yair Dept. of Hebrew, U. of Jerusalem "The Ambiguous Impact of Climate Change at a Desert Fringe: Land & its Use in the Negev Desert, Israel"
- 1993 George Sperdakos Professional Actor Opening of L.L. Brown Theatre
- 1993 Julian Jackson U. of Wales "France and the European Crisis: From deGaulle to Disney"
- 1992 Verner Smitheram Philosophy, U. of PEI