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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Announcement of awards: 2019-2020 Working Groups at JHI
Amitav Ghosh will visit Toronto 7-11 October 2019
information about how to apply
This fellowship is offered for the first time, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
JHI Blog: Humanities at Large
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on September 19 2019.
Thursdays are special at the JHI. Our Fellows meet to share lunch and talk about their research in an open, supportive forum that always generates an interesting discussion. The first lunch for our 2019-2020 year got the ball rolling with…
Submitted by Jennifer Nagel on April 22 2019.
There’s something strange about the verb “to know”. It is one of the most common verbs—in English and in other languages—and we are ordinarily very generous in our use of it. We freely describe ourselves and others as knowing all sorts of things on…
Submitted by Bradley Hald on March 25 2019.
Bradley Hald, Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow in Classics
Long celebrated as the ‘most scientific’ historian of the ancient world, the fifth-century BCE chronicler Thucydides was also deeply concerned with human emotionality. His History of the…
Our current exhibition
Weather Amnesia
18 Sep 2019 to 30 Jun 2020
Curated by Yuluo Wei
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