Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St. George Street M5R 2M8 Toronto, ON, Canada

Join the Dramaturgies of Resistance JHI Working Group as D.N. Rodowick introduces Seven Bridges (Kant) - his recent experimental film project about thinking and walking. Followed by a conversation with Ian Balfour and Rebecca Comay and a Q&A. Friday, April 30 | 1:00pm EST Register http://ow.ly/lXg650EqjBo

Open Calls Reminder We've got a number of open calls, including a newly added 3-day FREE Blogging Workshop in May! Also Undergrad, Graduate and JHI-UTSC DH Fellows, Working Groups, and UTM Seminar. All you need to know in one place http://ow.ly/uXMW50EpLAK

As an end-of-the-year celebration, we are delighted to present a livestreamed performance of Kafka’s Ape from Johannesburg, South Africa, and several discussions and workshops with the creators, director Phala Ookeditse Phala and actor Tony Miyambo. Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11am EST | Kafka’s Ape (livestreamed from Johannesburg, South Africa)... 1pm EST | Roundtable Discussion of Kafka’s Ape with the creators and UofT professors and artists Wednesday, April 21, 2021 11am EST | Forms of Encounter: Exploding the Artist Talk 1pm EST | Workshop on acting with/animating objects, props, and puppets Kafka’s Ape is an internationally renowned adaptation of Czech author Franz Kafka’s short story, A Report to an Academy, set in post-apartheid South Africa. In Kafka’s text, an ape named Red Peter presents the tale of how he learned to imitate humanity in order to assimilate and survive. In this version, which centres Black South African artists and their experiences, Phala and Miyambo highlight the complexities of identity in the twenty-first century and invite us to explore, through an animal’s gaze, the relationship between self and other. Phala Ookeditse Phala is a director and actor and a curator at the Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator for the arts in Johannesburg, South Africa founded by visual artist William Kentridge. Tony Miyambo is a South African performer, puppeteer, clown, and comedian. Their award-winning, physically virtuosic performances have appeared in theatre festivals around the world. Full event schedule and registration links http://ow.ly/tbzZ50EoKBj Greeting from Phala and Miyambo to the University of Toronto in the YouTube clip below https://youtu.be/tklo-tERIfc University of Toronto University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science University of Toronto Mississauga English & Drama, UTM Centre for Humanities Research The Centre for the Less Good Idea

Are you a humanities or interpretive social science scholar interested in publishing your first monograph but don’t know where to begin? Drop-in to @CRIS_UofT's online session! April 27 | 10:30am to 12pm EST More info http://ow.ly/rUix50EgGWh... This session will explore lessons learned from humanities and interpretive social scientists who have recently published their first monograph. The researchers will share their lived experiences, insights, advice and tips on how they overcame some of their challenges. While this event is focused on the experiences of humanities and interpretive social science scholars, anyone in the University of Toronto community interested in academic monograph publishing can learn from the collective wisdom presented in this panel. Session Moderator: Prof. Alison Keith, Dept. of Classics; Director, Jackman Humanities Institute Panelists: Anjuli Raza Kolb, Associate Professor, Dept. of English (UTM) Katie Kilroy-Marac, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology (UTSC) Funké Aladejebi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History (UTSG)

The humanities has a very unique and specific voice, particularly in this time....We shouldn’t be afraid to speak a little louder. Read more about University of Toronto Three Minute Thesis 2021 winner Faraz Alidina, third-year PhD student, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. http://ow.ly/6rKe50El0tS

Event alert - TOMORROW! How has cinema represented and re-imagined historical and future concepts of the collective? Find out by joining some great speakers throughout the day and by watching a screening of Spit the Broom in the evening. A Q&A with director Madeleine Hunt takes place after the screening. Join for some of the day or the whole day! Tuesday, April 13 | 9:00am to 7:00pm EST... More info and link to join http://ow.ly/CFJL50EkJ9W This symposium and film screening event will bring together a core group of scholars working on questions of collectives and collectivity in relation to moving image media. The symposium will explore how cinema has represented and re-imagined historical and future concepts of the collective. Notions of how collectives emerge, cohere, and are sustained are central to our contemporary politics and they are indebted to moving image culture’s figuration of collectives and collectivity. While film and media scholarship has long been interested in spectatorshipthe collective experience of watching films in a cinemait also has engaged in a sustained investigation of the inextricable relation between aesthetics and politics. Film movements from diverse geopolitical contexts have mobilized the raw power of the moving image to foment collective action. This symposium will examine questions of the formation of, desire for, and reshaping of collectives and collectivity as elaborated by moving images.

Join the Environmental Humanities Network, UofT on December 4, 2020 from 12-2 PM EST for a conversation with Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Professor at UPenn & Founder of the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities. Register via Eventbrite to receive Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3m2W80d

Join the University of Toronto Digital Humanities Network for their final Lightning Lunch of the year on Tuesday Nov 24, 2020 12-1:30pm: Archiving Black History & Culture.6

Postdocs! We're looking for a digital humanities fellow for our 2021-22 theme year PLEASURE. You'll work on your own research at the JHI as well as fostering the University of Toronto Digital Humanities Network. You'll also receive training, research and networking opportunities through the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) ... Info and application http://ow.ly/aUxJ50Cp93J. Deadline November 30!

Melissa J. Gismondi writes "At a time when the very planet we live on is transforming into an unfamiliar place, our sense of homeand what it means to miss itmay be challenged at its core. " Read her full Walrus article about homesickness http://ow.ly/ILCt50Cp3CG Melissa is the JHI's New Media and Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for 2020-21. Find out more about her work at the JHI this year http://ow.ly/jnCO50Cp3CH

Are you an academic who wants to learn how to write a variety of nonfiction genres such as essays, op-eds, and reviews? Apply now for our FREE Public Writing: An Introduction workshop March 17-20, 2021 led by @irinibus. Deadline is November 27. Who's it for?... This four-day workshop is intended for academics. The workshop is appropriate for scholars who have done a modest amount of public writing already, or who are looking for a way to begin. Who's eligible? You must have completed a doctoral degree in the humanities or social sciences to be considered for participation. What will you learn? You'll explore style and structure through writing exercises, readings, discussion, and sharing work. You'll also discuss some practical aspects of short-form nonfiction writing, such as thinking about audience, finding a suitable genre and outlet, and getting pieces published. Ideally participants will bring a project they would like to work on during the class. What's the format? This workshop will be offered online via Zoom. You must have an internet connection in order to participate. You'll be expected to be fully available throughout all four days of the workshop, 17-20 March 2021. This workshop is capped at a maximum of fifteen participants. Who's teaching this workshop? The workshop instructor is Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn). Information about her work as a writer is available at: http://ow.ly/BzUT50CiDGB The workshop will also feature guest appearances by David Perry (University of Minnesota) and Robyn Autry (Wesleyan University). More info and application form http://ow.ly/h8pG50CiDGC

Dr. Max Liboiron, JHI's 2020-21 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow, is giving a free workshop on "A Humble Laboratory? Running a Lab Based on Your Values," on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Register here: http://ow.ly/ANir50BBrbZ "...we'll discuss how to identify key values (gratitude? care? balance?) you want guiding your research & lab culture, including techniques to put those values into action during everyday lab activities. Researchers, managers & students at all levels welcome"

If you've been thinking about applying for any of our current open calls, now's the time since deadlines are approaching fast! All the info you need is in our special emailer http://ow.ly/NKlX50CnZjP

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Award Opportunity Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal/Indigenous Cultures, Sovereignties, and Languages University of Arizona... 2021-2022 academic year US$25,000 for 4 months (Sept to Dec OR Jan to Apr) Deadline to apply: November 15, 2020. Open to Canadian citizens and researchers with Indian Status (but no Canadian or American citizenship). Full details: http://ow.ly/rLYp50Az5jh

Join the next virtual Lightning Lunch - hosted by the Digital Humanities Network (DHN) and UTM's Collaborative Digital Research Space. Jennifer Ross (JHI-DHN postdoctoral fellow), Steve Hoffman (Sociology), and Tong Lam (Historical Studies) will speak on disaster, community, and preparedness. Tuesday, 29 September | 11:30am - 1:30pm... Register http://ow.ly/Vnw350Bhkg4

Join Everyday Orientalism this Friday, Sept 25 for the 9th instalment of their #EOTalks series: The Goddess Isis and the Kingdom of Meroe More info and registration link: http://ow.ly/a4cA50Bnm9q

We're looking for a Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow to be part of our 2021-2022 theme year - PLEASURE. Open to mid-career, tenured professors (outside UofT) who excel at transferring academic work to the broader public. Deadline: October 15. ... More info and application form - http://ow.ly/hvDH50Bv5pG Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash

The second event of Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics - a series of lectures and film screenings - is happening TODAY. Transnational Solidarities/Complicities Friday, September 18, 2020 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm EST... More info and registration link: http://ow.ly/QLWX50BaIvI

By Robyn Autry, JHI's Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2020-21 Opinion | Why Naomi Osaka's bold, beautiful Black hair matters http://ow.ly/avde50Bst0S via NBC News THINK

Join Everyday Orientalism this Friday, Sept 18 for the 8th instalment of their #EOTalks series: Classics and Africanisation in Postcolonial Ghana More info and registration link: http://ow.ly/Pnq750BfNHp

Tonight's the night! Get your JHI Faculty Research Fellowship application in before midnight tonight. Info and application link http://ow.ly/bAqg50Bspr8 Our 2021-22 Annual Theme is PLEASURE... Whether understood as light amusement or passionate pursuit, as pure enjoyment, sensual gratification, bliss or hedonism, pleasure may be the most agreeable motivator. Yet pleasure has been described as curious and appalling, one of modern civilizations most deadly poisons. Through its diverse manifestations as intellectual satisfaction and the pleasures of knowledge, across studies of media audiences, addiction, virtual sex when, and how, has pleasure become divorced from ideology, politics, and power? Uneasiness concerning pleasure resonates readily with humanists tendencies to formulate our subjects of study as constellations of problems, but is there space in our discourses for unironic joy? Photo: Lee Myungseong/Unsplash

Deadline tomorrow at midnight! Now accepting applications for Faculty Research Fellowships and Artist-in-Residence for our 2021-22 theme year: PLEASURE Info link http://ow.ly/bft050AHoQY... Whether understood as light amusement or passionate pursuit, as pure enjoyment, sensual gratification, bliss or hedonism, pleasure may be the most agreeable motivator. Yet pleasure has been described as curious and appalling, one of modern civilizations most deadly poisons. Through its diverse manifestations as intellectual satisfaction and the pleasures of knowledge, across studies of media audiences, addiction, virtual sex when, and how, has pleasure become divorced from ideology, politics, and power? Uneasiness concerning pleasure resonates readily with humanists tendencies to formulate our subjects of study as constellations of problems, but is there space in our discourses for unironic joy? Photo by Aliko Sunawang on Unsplash

We've got a new feature starting this month - the JHI Alumni Fellows' Spotlight. Meet the people behind past fellowships and catch up with what they're doing now. First up: Michael Nicholson, with us during theme year Time, Rhythm, and Pace (2016-17) http://ow.ly/4c7j50BobIc

Did you catch JHI's Director Alison Keith on CBC Radio's Ideas earlier this week talking about Epicureanism? The episode, Hedonism for Everyone, was part of their series called The Common Good. More information about the episode: http://ow.ly/hkul50Bndmr Listen to the MP3: http://ow.ly/sTtZ50Bndms

Robyn Autry is JHI's Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2020-21 and chair of the Sociology Department at Wesleyan University. Recently, she wrote the following opinion piece: http://ow.ly/d2s450Bng4Q Robyn is an interpretive sociologist with broad interests in cultural practices associated with black identity, memory and violence, and representation. Her work on the politics of museum development in the US and South Africa has been published in edited volumes and ...several journals, including Theory & Society and Museum & Society. Her book Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the US and South Africa compares post-apartheid and post-civil rights museum politics (Columbia University Press, 2017). Her current book project Selfishly Black, considers how we personally experience and make sense of collective phenomena like racism and colorism.

#ScholarStrikeCanada continues today. Head over to YouTube where the talks are being live-streamed from 9:30am EST http://ow.ly/7dWi50BmYKo Program info: http://ow.ly/PsF950BmYKq

Our September newsletter came out today and it's packed with lots of great content! Read it online http://ow.ly/BXh850Bmicq. Make sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter so you never miss humanities news, a funding call, or JHI event. Sign up form http://ow.ly/3PNL50AYK6S

Tune in to CBC Radio's Ideas. JHI's Director Alison Keith will be sharing her insights on Epicureanism. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas (click Listen Live)

Get all the U of T Humanities news delivered straight to your inbox! Never miss a funding call or JHI event by signing up for our monthly newsletter. September issue out next week. Sign up form http://ow.ly/OH5b50BfLKl

Now accepting applications for Faculty Research Fellowships and Artist-in-Residence. Deadline September 16, 2020 for our 2021-22 theme year: PLEASURE http://ow.ly/bft050AHoQY Whether understood as light amusement or passionate pursuit, as pure enjoyment, sensual gratification, bliss or hedonism, pleasure may be the most agreeable motivator. ... Yet pleasure has been described as curious and appalling, one of modern civilizations most deadly poisons. Through its diverse manifestations as intellectual satisfaction and the pleasures of knowledge, across studies of media audiences, addiction, virtual sex when, and how, has pleasure become divorced from ideology, politics, and power? Uneasiness concerning pleasure resonates readily with humanists tendencies to formulate our subjects of study as constellations of problems, but is there space in our discourses for unironic joy? Photo by Nicolas Tissot on Unsplash

Join Everyday Orientalism this Friday, Sept 4 for their talk: Untold Stories at the Museum of the Bible. Artifacts, Provenance, and Bias in the Contact Zone More info and registration link: http://ow.ly/RcI350BfMga

You still have time to register for Friday's Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics - a series of lectures and film screenings investigating how moving image media contribute to formations of race, racism, and racialization from global perspectives. http://ow.ly/QLWX50BaIvI

Professor Naoki Sakais Distinguished Lecture on Equality and Nationality: How to Classify Humanity is the inaugural event for the JHI-UTM Seminar for 2020-2021 on Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics. The respondent is Professor Takashi Fujitani from the University of Toronto. Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics proposes a series of lectures and film screenings featuring scholars and creators of cinema and media in order to investigate how moving image media con...tribute to formations of race, racism, and racialization from global perspectives. In a time when racist politics and racial capitalism pose increasing physical and psychical dangers to communities across the world, it is critical to examine the histories, theories and role of cinema and media in shaping the geopolitical imagination of the relations between people and nation-states from micro and macro scales. Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics aims to create a sustaining conversation among junior, senior scholars and film creators across disciplines, institutions and geographical locations. For more info visit: http://ow.ly/QLWX50BaIvI

Join @EverydayOrientalism on Wednesday, August 26 for their talk: Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Greco-Roman World. More info and registration link: http://ow.ly/TY5x50AYDEy

Join the Art Museum at the University of Toronto for the last Art Talk Tuesdays online chat August 25. Learn more about the Art Museum's collections from the comfort of your own home. The chats are free and open to everyone. For more info and to register http://ow.ly/oAGt50ABOIM... Hart House

Join Everyday Orientalism tomorrow - Tuesday, August 18 - for their Zoom talk: Your Mummies, Their Ancestors? Caring for and About Ancient Egyptian Human Remains. For more info and registration link visit: http://ow.ly/kunp50AYypO

We are delighted to share with everyone the annual Winter School in the Humanities, held under the theme of Exodus, Movement, a/the People: Critical Thinking a...nd the Collective, and hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research(CHR), University of the Western Cape(UWC), and held in collaboration with the SARChI Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare(UFH), and Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change - ICGC - UMN, University of Minnesota(UMN) and the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto (UT), will convene remotely this year. #humanities #criticalhumanities #Blackmovement #theblackaquatic See more

Max Liboironscientist at Memorial University and JHI's 2020-21 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellowled the efforts to create a new policy at the university that requires any research involving Indigenous people to get their approval before moving ahead. "Under the new policy, getting the go-ahead and working with Indigenous groups should follow the Indigenous group's lead, and doesn't necessarily have to be a formal process, and while that will vary from projec...t to project, Liboiron said there is one common goal. "The end product is something that the Indigenous groups that are impacted can agree is good and right and true. Even if they disagree with some of the parts of it, that the process and how it's handled is good and right and true," she said." Read more about this trailblazing effort http://ow.ly/cWU150AYBvr

The Zoom talks continue over at Everyday Orientalism. Join them tomorrow for their talk: On Beyoncés Africa: African Perspectives on Black Is King http://ow.ly/M9Gd50AYxI4

Everyday Orientalism have scheduled some great Zoom talks! Join them tomorrow for their third talk: Egypts Comics Superheroes Confronting Egyptologys Colonial Legacies

Have you been checking out the Indigenous Film Series @Woodsworth? It's free and online! Tomorrow starting at 5pm: land/scape - a selection of short films created by Indigenous filmmakers. Guest Artist Alexandra Lazarowich. For more info about the films and a registration link, visit http://ow.ly/yCAl50ANGJR... Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto