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JHI Blog: Humanities at Large
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on October 15 2021.
Michael Nylan (Jane K. Sather History Chair, University of California-Berkeley) is a truly interdisciplinary scholar. Her single goal is to know as well as possible the extant texts and artifacts that her historical subjects knew during the early…
Submitted by Sonja Johnston on September 08 2021.
JHI Alumni Spotlight features past Fellows and their current work
Danielle Taschereau Mamers was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHI from 2017 to 2019, during the themes of Indelible Violence: Shame, Reconciliation, and the Work of…
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…
Our current exhibition
Birds of a Feather
28 Oct 2020 to 25 Jun 2021
Curated by Ameen Ahmed
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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.