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
Calls for Funding
JHI Undergraduate Fellows 19-20
Application deadline: Friday 3rd, May 12:59
JHI DH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Application deadline: Monday 22nd, April 23:59
JHI CEHR Early Career Fellowship
Application deadline: Monday 22nd, April 23:59
JHI NM-PH Postdoctoral Fellow
Application deadline: Monday 29th, April 23:59
Visiting PH Faculty Fellow 19-20
Application deadline: Friday 5th, April 23:59
Graduate Fellowships, 2019-2020
Application deadline: Monday 18th, March 23:59
JHI Announcements
Applications due 29 March 2019
Deanna Del Vecchio, PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), talks about her JHI Graduate Fellowship and how it’s helped her make progress on her dissertation.
Professor Paolo Granata (Book and Media Studies, St. Michael's College), on why he applied for the Jackman Humanities Institute Program of the Arts and how it transformed his collaboration network.
Three new themes set the JHI's future course
JHI receives major funding for public humanities initiative
JHI Blog: Humanities at Large
Submitted by Maria Subtelny on March 22 2019.
Maria Subtelny, JHI Faculty Research Fellow in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
The Persian tradition of advice literature dates back to pre-Islamic times and the Middle Persian, or Pahlavi, works of the Sasanian period. It was one of the…
Submitted by Michela Ippolito on March 20 2019.
Michela Ippolito
JHI Faculty Research Fellow in Linguistics
As Kendon (2004) says “gestures are an integral part of the act of producing an utterance”. In Kendon’s work, a gesture is a visible action that is used as part of an utterance, and an…
Submitted by Rebecca Kingston on March 20 2019.
Rebecca Kingston
JHI Faculty Research Fellow in Political Science
Plutarch (46-120 CE), author of both the Parallel Lives and Moralia, had a tremendous impact on the development of European intellectual life throughout the early-modern period…
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