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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 5h

📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD.

Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers

📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27

#digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral

A long hallway flanked by a series of floor to ceiling mirrors that reflect infinitely. The text overlay is Call for Applications: 2026-27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship. The deadline is November 25, theme is Doubles, Doppelgangers.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Are you our next New Media & Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow?

You might be if you’re:

✔️ A recent PhD in the humanities
✔️ Working in new media / journalism
✔️ Bringing research to the public

Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Deadline: Nov 25, 2025
🔗 uoft.me/nmph26-27

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow! Join Paul Downes for a talk about Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) and its film adaptation, exploring how violence is defined and justified in environmental activism.

📍 Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College
📅 October 7, 2025 | 5:00–7:00pm
ℹ️ https://uoft.me/bRG

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 2d

✨ Join the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Circle of Fellows in 2026-27!

Apply for our Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship

🧩 Annual Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Deadline: Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 Details & FAQs: uoft.me/vph26-27

A blurred and double exposure image of a group of pedestrians walking on a busy street at night. The text overlay is Call for Applications: 2026-27 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship. Deadline is November 25, 2025. Theme is Doubles, Doppelgangers.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 5d

🎧 With Opened Mouths: The Podcast brings artists, poets, performers, activists & curators into the conversation, giving them space to speak in their own voices. Qanita Lilla reflects on how podcasting extends dialogue beyond the museum and shapes her curatorial practice.

👉 https://uoft.me/bSN

Portrait of Qanita Lilla and a colourful, swirling abstract graphic for the With Opened Mouths Agnes podcast.

Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 5d

🤖 Who’s Afraid of AI?

📅 Arts Festival: Oct 19–25, 2025
📅 Conference: Oct 23–24, 2025

This week-long inquiry explores how AI is shaping creativity, collective imagination, and intelligence itself.

Keynotes by Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li

👉 Learn more https://uoft.me/ai-2026

Two outstretched hands connected by a web of red strings. In the center, white letters inside black circles spell out “WHO’S AFRAID OF AI?” evoking both a cat’s cradle and a neural network.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 6d

Join Paul Downes for a talk about Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) and its film adaptation, exploring how violence is defined and justified in environmental activism.

📍 Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College
📅 October 7, 2025 | 5:00–7:00pm
ℹ️ https://uoft.me/bRG

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 6d

📰 The October 2 JHI newsletter is out!

Featuring:

🎙️ Podcast Series 2 Episode 3 + JHB podcast studio
🎙️ Qanita Lilla and the With Opened Mouths podcast
📣 Fellowship calls
📅 Events

…and more

👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/...
Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 7d

👋Faculty @utoronto.ca ! Want to amplify your research?

join us for a workshop about JHI funding opportunities available to faculty members, including Fellowships, Scholars-in-Residence, Working Groups and Program for the Arts.

Register: uoft.me/JHI-funding-...

An open book on a table with pages fanning out. Twinkling stars rise from the pages. Text overlay is JHI How-to: Navigate JHI Funding Opportunities. Tuesday, October 14 from 1pm to 2:30pm. Learn about:
-JHI Circle of Fellows
-Scholars in Residence
-Working Groups and more
-Spotlight on Program for the Arts
More info and register: uoft.me/JHI-funding-2025

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 7d

🎙️When you picture a cowboy, who comes to mind? John Wayne? Karina Vernon shares another history, one told through the songs of Black cowboys, revealing a hidden archive that stretches from the Canadian prairies to Texas cattle drives and back to West Africa.

🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

Speech bubbles in red and teal and a portrait of Karina Vernon. Text overlay is Humanities at Large, a podcast from the Jackman Humanities Institute. With host Melissa Gismondi. Unearthing the Songs of Black Cowboys with Karina Vernon.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 8d

📢Scholars in Residence is always a JHI highlight! Pairing undergraduate students with faculty supervisors, SiR fosters closeknit, multidisciplinary humanities communities

Interested in becoming a Faculty Supervisor? Apply by November 19

EligibiIity and info uoft.me/sir-2026

Groups of students and a professor, sitting on the grass in summer, having a discussion. Text overlay is: 2026 Jackman Scholars in Residence Call for Proposals: Faculty SupervisorsSupervise a team of 5 outstanding paid RAs for 4 weeks and receive $2,000 in research funds, while joining a dynamic community of researchers across U of T:

-Program runs May 4 to 29, 2026
-25 in-person projects across UTSG, UTM, and UTSC
-Humanities & interpretive social science projects
-Deadline: November 19, 2025 at 5:00pm

Open to research- and teaching-stream faculty in any unit affiliated with the Jackman Humanities Institute: Arts & Science, Architecture, Law, Music, OISE, iSchool, UTM, and UTSC.

https://uoft.me/sir-2026

Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 8d

Join U of T’s university-wide commemoration for Orange Shirt Day & the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in the Great Hall at Hart House.

In-person & livestream options available.

uoft.me/bRU

#OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation #EveryChildMatters #UofT

The survivor's flag is raised at U of T.

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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 9d

Survivors’ Flag raised across #UofT ahead of Orange Shirt Day & the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡 uoft.me/bRP

The Survivors’ Flag is raised at U of T St. George

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 9d

📰 So many things happening already! Don't miss out - be the first to find out about our funding calls and events by signing up for our newsletter.

Next issue comes out October 1.

Subscribe uoft.me/jhi-news

Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 12d

🎶🎭 Medieval theatre with a twist! JHI’s Medieval World Drama Working Group, with PLS & CRRS, presents The Strong Man / Soul and Body, with live music, puppets & merriment. Sept 30–Oct 8 across Toronto.

📍 JHB 100: Oct 2 & 3
💻 Zoom: Oct 2
ℹ️ More info: https://uoft.me/bRw

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 13d

🎭 You’re invited to a 3-night celebratory performance intervention marking the 100th anniversary of revolutionary theorist Frantz Fanon’s birth. Each evening will feature short plays that imagine Fanon in dialogue with anti-colonial thinkers he never met.

Info 👉 https://uoft.me/fanon

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 14d

Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 15d

📸 “i don’t do math” is a photographic series by Ann Piché on dyscalculia. By pairing abstract images with formulas, the exhibition makes visible both the frustrations and the resilience of those navigating a world shaped by numbers.

Free and open to all 👉 https://uoft.me/bQI

Abstract background in grey and black. The text overlay is "i don't do math" Ann Piché. September 25 to October 15, 2025. Reception: September 25 at 5pm. Exhibition tour: September 27 at 2pm/ D.G. Ivey Library at New College, University of Toronto. Panel discussion: September 29 at 4pm. Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 16d

👋Faculty @utoronto.ca ! Want to amplify your research?

join us for a workshop about JHI funding opportunities available to faculty members, including Fellowships, Scholars-in-Residence, Working Groups and Program for the Arts.

Register: uoft.me/JHI-funding-...

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 19d

📖 Our 2024-25 Year in Review has arrived! Browse this overview of activities that took place during our theme year "Undergrounds/Underworlds", including our Art Exhibition, Fellows, Research Communities, Working Groups, Program for the Arts, and so much more!

👉 https://uoft.me/YiR

A stone walkway bordered by a curved, pale stone balustrade with vertical slats. Dense green foliage and tall, leafy trees rise closely behind the railing, partially illuminated by light. The scene is dark, suggesting nighttime or deep shade. The tiled ground is made of dark, square cobblestones. The text overlay is The Jackman Humanities Institute Year in Review 24-25.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 20d

🎥 Attend the screening of this cinematic time capsule of Cold War Albania, which interlaces fiction and documentary to probe collective memory, socialist mythologies, and the post-socialist condition. With artist Armando Lulaj and art historian/curator Raino Isto.

Info: uoft.me/bMt

A line of about 30 people carrying an extremely long animal skeleton mounted on a stand. They are walking across a field with the shell of a building behind them. Text overlay is Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems (2011–15) by Armando Lulaj. A cinematic time capsule of Cold War Albania - Film Screening and Reception. September 19, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Innis 222, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto. More info: uoft.me/bMt.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 20d

📰 It's here - the September 18 JHI newsletter!

Featuring:

🎙️ Podcast Series 2 Episode 2
📝 2024-25 Year in Review
📣 Fellowship calls
📅 Events
…and more.

👉 Read now mailchi.mp/utoronto/...
Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 21d

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 21d

🎙️ Series 2 Episode 2: Indigenous history is not a side story but the foundation of how we understand the past. Aroha Harris explains why all history is Indigenous history, and how Māori ways of thinking about time, place, and connection can reshape our shared future.

🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

Speech bubbles in red and teal and a portrait of Aroha Harris. Text overlay is Humanities at Large, a podcast from the Jackman Humanities Institute. With host Melissa Gismondi. The Future of History is Indigenous with Aroha Harris.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 22d

You’re invited to this Interdisciplinary panel discussion on how contemporary art can build trust amid neoliberal erosion, digital surveillance, forced migration, and the rise of populism. With Albanian artist Armando Lulaj and art historian/curator Raino Isto.

Info uoft.me/bMs

Black and white image, very dark and atmospheric. A man dressed in a black suit and white shirt and in shadow is holding open a steel gate to a room from which light emanates. The text overlay is Letters from Albania: The Manifesto Collective on Art, Politics, and Trust. Discussion panel with Armando Lulaj and Raino Isto. September 18, 2025 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at SS2098, Sidney Smith Hall
100 St George Street, Toronto. More info: uoft.me/bMs.

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