🎨 Don’t miss Proof of Life, curated by Chloe Gordon Chow Today’s spotlight: Jenine Marsh, detail from Within or beyond my means (3), 2021. Flowers, synthetic rubber, wire, train-pressed coins, acrylic varnish, steel. Photo courtesy of the artist. Info: uoft.me/jhi25-26

🔍 Continuing our look at Proof of Life, curated by Chloe Gordon Chow Shannon Garden-Smith, In a hare’s form III, 2021. Pigmented gelatin, plant clippings, lamp cord, approximately 18” x 18” x 18”. Photo: Lfdocumentation. One of two lamps on display. Info: uoft.me/jhi25-26

🖼️ Proof of Life is closing soon, curated by Chloe Gordon Chow Today we’re highlighting Ernesto Cabral de Luna, La Vida en Tres Quebradas / Trocitos de Memoria (2025) 👉 More info uoft.me/jhi25-26 Info: uoft.me/jhi25-26

🎙️Humanities at Large Series 2 featured incredible discussions, make sure to listen! Here's Episode 6. 📷 Photographer Tamara Abdul Hadi reflects on how seeing a place through someone else’s lens can shape how we imagine it. Tamara was our 2024-25 Artist in Residence. 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️We're sharing the entire Series 2 lineup this week. Here's Episode 5. Chris Miller and Melissa Gismondi discuss the growing movement toward natural or “green” burials and what these practices reveal about our relationship with death, nature, and the cycles of life. 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️We're featuring series 2 of Humanities at Large all week. 📚 Books, Amazon, algorithms... and democracy. Julien Lefort-Favreau explores Canadian “print nationalism” and why publishing still matters for public life. 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast Julien Lefort-Favreau

📣 JHI welcomes Randy Boyagoda as incoming Director and Dean’s Special Advisor in the Humanities beginning July 1, 2026. More: uoft.me/boyagoda-jhi

🎙️ In case you missed any episodes of Humanities at Large, we're featuring them all week. Here's episode 3 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️ Looking for something to listen to? Revisit Series 2 of Humanities at Large. Here's Episode 2. 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️ Did you miss any of our Humanities at Large podcast? Catch up now! In episode 1, archaeologist Sarah Murray talks about how fire reshaped life, death, and rebirth in ancient Greece...from cremation rituals to iron smelting to mythic cauldrons. 🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️ Curious about fresh perspectives on today's, and yesterday's, issues? Listen to Humanities at Large. While we work on Season 3, we're highlighting our Season 2 guests again! Don't want to wait? Check all episodes out now uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎉Join us as we celebrate the publication of JHI Director Alison Keith’s full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest known female author of Latin poetry. ✍️ More info and registration uoft.me/sulpicia

Elizabet Nisenbaum is a a 2025–26 JHI Undergraduate Fellow studies the relationship between the body, space, and the human/monstrous divide. Her project explores human and non-human relationships in dystopian literature and cinema. 👉 Learn more about Elizabet https://uoft.me/cjV

Lia Iannarilli is completing a double major in English and Political Science. Her fellowship research project is titled Pipe Dreams: Petro-Masculinity, Fossil Fiction, and Cultural Dystopias of Canadian Extractivism. 👉 Learn more about Lia https://uoft.me/co9

📣 JHI welcomes Canisia Lubrin as the 2026–27 Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Poet and fiction writer, author of Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain, and Code Noir, and winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Carol Shields Prize. More: uoft.me/dvf26-27

📰 The May 14 JHI Newsletter is here! Featuring: 📣 2026-27 Distinguished Visiting Fellow Canisia Lubrin 📄 Fellows Profiles 📚 Alumni publications 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

📚 We’re pleased to share a selection of recent publications by JHI alumni, many of whose fellowship research is reflected in these books. Congratulations to all the authors! More https://uoft.me/cob

🎉Join us as we celebrate the publication of JHI Director Alison Keith’s full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest known female author of Latin poetry. ✍️ More info and registration uoft.me/sulpicia

🚨Deadline TOMORROW Humanities researchers at the University of Toronto! If you're planning to apply for a SSHRC Insight/Insight Development Grant, register for our intensive bootcamp. This peer support program will end with a full working draft of your application! Info: uoft.me/JHI-bootcamp...

🎭 From War Horse to Little Amal, Handspring’s innovative puppetry has reached audiences around the world. Don’t miss an evening of films, a talk, and a book preview on Handspring Puppet Company. Free admission with registration. Space is limited. 👉 Register uoft.me/handspring

🚨Deadline May 12🚨 Have you got an idea for collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research? Your group can get space at the JHI for meetings and funding for events for one year. More info https://uoft.me/chT

🎹🎶 TOMORROW! Attend an evening of music with Eve Egoyan, whose program explores Armenian heritage, memory, and modern identity through works by composers from Armenia and the diaspora. Introductory film by Su Rynard and a post-concert discussion with Araxie Altounian https://uoft.me/egoyan

Sue White’s planned gift for the Rodney White Environmental Studies Scholarship will provide lasting support for generations of students, and honour the legacy of a renowned scholar, loving husband and devoted father. Learn more: bit.ly/4uylMg7

📣 Deadline EXTENDED May 12 Planning to apply for a SSHRC Insight Grant or Insight Development Grant but don’t know where to begin? Humanities researchers at the University of Toronto can sign up for our intensive bootcamp to jump-start your app. Info: uoft.me/JHI-bootcamp...

Meet Lita Wanjiru Ngure, a climate justice organizer whose research engages environmental history, grassroots organizing, and geographies of care in Eastern and Southern Africa. 🔗 More about Lita: https://uoft.me/cmo

Kira Jensen studies political theory and environmental policy. Her project, Rights of Nature & The Powers of Politics, examines Ecuador’s eco-constitutionalism and how environmental rights take shape. 🔗 Learn more about Kira https://uoft.me/cml

👏 Congratulations to Katherine Blouin, who will be the 2026–27 UTSC–JHI Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow, an 18-month fellowship for UTSC faculty. Her project is The Past is Political: Documenting, Protecting and Teaching SWANA Heritage in Times of Crisis. 🔗 Details https://uoft.me/cmj

📰 The April 30 JHI Newsletter just dropped! Featuring: 📣 2026-27 UTSC-JHI Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow 📄 Fellows Profiles 💰 Calls for Applications 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

📣U of T humanities researchers! Planning to apply for a SSHRC Insight Grant or Insight Development Grant? Sign up for our intensive bootcamp to jump-start your app. This tri-campus peer support program will end with a full working draft of your application! Info: uoft.me/JHI-bootcamp...

🎹🎶 Attend an evening of music with Eve Egoyan, whose program explores Armenian heritage, memory, and modern identity through works by composers from Armenia and the diaspora. Introductory film by Su Rynard and a post-concert discussion with Araxie Altounian. Details https://uoft.me/egoyan

This Wednesday! Into the Archives with Jamelie Hassan: Reflections on Muslim Place-making and Art-making in Canada

🎤 Join this discussion on queer and trans studies’ engagement with negativity, its possibilities and limits, and how it shapes our understanding of queer and trans art, cinema, and literature. Open to all. More info https://uoft.me/ckl

🎬 You're invited to this talk by Damon R. Young, who explores how queer cinema engages with absence, pressure, and persistence, reshaping space and time across works from Pasolini and Akerman to Fassbinder, Haynes, and Gus Van Sant. More info https://uoft.me/ckk

💰 Call for Proposals! Have you got an idea for collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research? Your group can get space at the JHI for meetings and funding for events for one year. JHI Working Group applications are due by May 12, 2026 More info https://uoft.me/chT

Catherine Diyakonov studies global risk and governance across the humanities and sciences. Her project uses the Russo-Ukrainian War to examine how trust in institutions and democracies can shift during crisis. Learn more: https://uoft.me/cjO

🚨Deadline TOMORROW (April 21)🚨 Are you, or do you know, an advanced University of Toronto humanities undergrad? The JHI is offering scholarships, office space and access to mentors to advanced undergrads for their research during our theme year Doubles, Doppelgangers. Apply https://uoft.me/cem

Congratulations to our 2026-27 Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellows: 👏 Melanie K. Ng 👏 Ridhima Sharma 👏 Chu Wang They'll join us in July for our Doubles/Doppelgangers theme year! Full announcement https://uoft.me/cjN

📰 The April 16 JHI Newsletter is out! Featuring 2026–27 Graduate Fellows, fellows profiles, a working group spotlight, free workshops, and upcoming events. 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

Get up to $15,000 for your idea! Sponsored by UTM & the JHI, the aim of the Annual Seminar is to create an intellectual community that addresses a topic of scholarly importance, and which includes a public humanities component. More info https://uoft.me/brD

🎬 What does it mean to stay attached to life in the face of forces that seem to negate it? This talk looks at how queer cinema reshapes space and time, exploring how film engages with absence, pressure, and persistence across a range of works 👉 https://uoft.me/ciZ

📅 Tomorrow! Join the JHI for a practical workshop on converting your CV into a resume that will speak to employers outside of academia, covering how to reframe your research, writing, + analytical skills in language that resonates, without losing what makes your work valuable. https://uoft.me/cg5

💥Are you, or do you know, an advanced University of Toronto humanities undergrad? The JHI is offering scholarships, office space and access to mentors to advanced undergrads for their research during our theme year Doubles, Doppelgangers. 📅 Deadline to apply is April 21 👉 https://uoft.me/cem

💰 Call for Proposals! Have you got an idea for collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research? Your group can get space at the JHI for meetings and funding for events for one year. JHI Working Group applications are due by May 12, 2026 More info https://uoft.me/chT

Join the JHI for a practical workshop on converting your CV into a resume that will speak to employers outside of academia, covering how to reframe your research, writing, and analytical skills in language that resonates, without losing what makes your work valuable. https://uoft.me/cg5

The next session in the CRIS–JHI Book Publishing Series focuses on what happens after publication, with practical advice from faculty authors, a New Books Network editor, and a prize committee member. UTORid req'd More info: uoft.me/ciK

How can the body become a medium for art? This presentation explores an art–science research-creation practice that uses biophysical sensing to create interactive and computational artworks. Free public event! https://uoft.me/cgK

Meet Francesca Econimo - a scholar of philological, linguistic, and historical Classics, whose focus is on Roman literature. Her project examines islands as female domains in Flavian epic poetry. Learn more about Francesca https://uoft.me/chX

📰 The April 2 JHI Newsletter is out! Featuring: 🎬 Angelica Fenner on Die Reise nach Lyon ▶️ Watch: Teresa Heffernan on AI, science, and fiction 💼 Open calls 🛠️ Workshops 📅 Upcoming events …and more. 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up: uoft.me/jhi-news

💰 Call for Proposals! Have you got an idea for collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research? Your group can get space at the JHI for meetings and funding for events for one year. JHI Working Group applications are due by May 12, 2026 More info https://uoft.me/chT

Angelica Fenner revisits the filming locations of Claudia von Alemann’s 1981 film Die Reise nach Lyon (Blindspot) to explore its place in cinema and women’s history. Her video shares insights from fieldwork, reflection, and analysis. Check it out 👇