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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Events chosen to reflect the JHI annual theme, Strange Weather
Announcement of awards: 2019-2020 Working Groups at JHI
Amitav Ghosh will visit Toronto 7-11 October 2019
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JHI Blog: Humanities at Large
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on November 21 2019.
Stephanie Bernhard (PhD English, University of Virginia, 2017) is the JHI New Media and Public Humanities Early Career Fellow for 2019-2020. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University, where she specializes in the environmental…
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on November 15 2019.
Andrew Brown (Ph.D. English, Yale University, 2019) is JHI's Digital Humanities Network Postdoctoral Fellow. Andrew’s fellowship research project uses text mining and mapping tools in order to track how the inhabitants of the early modern Atlantic…
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on November 08 2019.
Chiara Graf, a Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Graduate Fellow in the Humanities, gave a recent Fellows' Lunch talk about affect and rationality in Roman philosopher, scientist, and tragedian Lucius Annaeus Seneca's (c.1 BCE-65 CE) Natural Questions.…
Our current exhibition
Weather Amnesia
18 Sep 2019 to 30 Jun 2020
Curated by Yuluo Wei
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