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The Jackman Humanities Institute is currently closed to the public. All staff members are telecommuting. All events, working groups, and fellowship activities are being provided online.

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UNC's Denial of Tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones Raises Bigger Questions About Higher Education

Robyn Autry - JHI's Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow, 2020-21, WNYC Studios - The Takeaway,

UNC's rejection of Nikole Hannah-Jones and the opacity of academic tenure in America

Robyn Autry - JHI's Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow, 2020-21, NBC Think - News, Opinion, Analysis,

PhD student wins 2021 Three Minute Thesis final for work on rhetoric in 13th century Persian literature

Gayatri Kumar, U of T School of Graduate Studies Gradschool E-News,

Will Trump be remembered as the worst U.S. president? That depends on how we treat disinformation

Melissa J. Gismondi - JHI's New Media and Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow 2020, The Toronto Star,

Trump's '1776 Commission' tried to rewrite U.S. history. Biden had other ideas.

Robyn Autry - JHI's Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow, 2020-21, NBC Think - News, Opinion, Analysis,

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Announcement of 2021-2022 Award

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Announcement of 2021-2022 Award

Announcement of 2021-2022 Awards

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JHI Blog: Humanities at Large

So You Want to Start a Blog? A Three Day Introduction to Blogging for Academics

Submitted by Sonja Johnston on June 02 2021.
By David Perry In May 2021, the Institute offered an intensive workshop entitled, “So You Want to Start a Blog? - A Three Day Introduction to Blogging for Academics,” online for the first time. The course was designed for scholars who were…
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Faculty Fellow Cara Krmpotich Awarded $200,000 to Build Mobile Community Research Kits

Submitted by Sonja Johnston on April 23 2021.
Cara Krmpotich, a 2020-2021 Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellow, has received $200,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Ontario Research Fund to build 20 “Mobile Community Research Kits” – self-contained backpacks that enable…
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Public Writing: An Introduction

Submitted by Sonja Johnston on March 24 2021.
Transformative. A gift. Phenomenal. Life-changing. These are just a few of the descriptions we received after the four day Public Writing: An Introduction workshop led by Irina Dumitrescu. Irina provided us with a summary of the workshop. by Irina…
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Lynne Cohen, Classroom in an emergency measures college, 1980. Gelatin silver print, 40.64 x 50.8 cm. Hart House Collection, HH2010.010. Promised gift of Norman Morcos. Courtesy of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Our current exhibition

Birds of a Feather

28 Oct 2020 to 25 Jun 2021
Curated by Ameen Ahmed
Exhibition site

Presented in conjunction with the Jackman Humanities Institute. Birds of a Feather is composed of artists’ works that directly respond to Jackman Humanities Institute Research Fellows’ projects. The works offer tools, commentary, and/or encouragement through visual or conceptual means. Silently, but not necessarily quietly, they image different forms of commonality and collectivity, incorporation and inclusion.