Jackman Humanities Institute
JHI advances scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Toronto by offering a variety of ways for students, faculty and visiting scholars to network, learn from each other and to develop new interdisciplinary modes of understanding of the human experience. More
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JHI will focus on environmental humanities in the coming year
12-month and 6-month awards for Faculty Fellows
Information about Tracey Lindberg's residency at the JHI
Information on how undergraduate students can apply to participate in Scholars-in-Residence, May 2018
Information about how to subscribe to the JHI newsletter
JHI Blog: Humanities at Large
Submitted by Kim Yates on December 13 2018.
Knowledge versus Belief
Lunch discussion led by Faculty Research Fellow Jennifer Nagel (Philosophy)
11 October 2018
Human adults “read” social scenes automatically: without conscious effort, we see other people not just as physical objects moving…
Submitted by Kim Yates on November 16 2018.
By Jill Carter (Co-Convenor: Deep Time), October 2018
Deep Time Working Group members. Photo: Mehrangiz Monsef, 2018Taakwaakin (autumn) is for the Anishinaabeg a time of preparation. It seems most fitting, then, that on a miraculously mild day near…
Submitted by Kim Yates on November 01 2018.
Nicholas Galanin, Things are Looking Native, Native's Looking Whiter, 2012I continue to shape
Notes from a visit to the Art Museum
For a change of pace, I took the JHI Fellows for a tour of the exhibition I continue to shape (curated by cheyanne…
Our current exhibition
Reading, Again
12 Sep 2018 to 30 Jun 2019
Curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis
Reading, Again exhibition website at the Art Museum
Presented in conjunction with the Jackman Humanities Institute’s 2018–19 research theme Reading Faces, Reading Minds, this exhibition seeks to complicate how we think about perception. Works in a diversity of media confront the viewer with perceptual and conceptual disorientation