📰 The Jan 8 JHI Newsletter is out! Featuring a message from Director Alison Keith, 2026–27 New Media & Public Humanities Fellow, fellows profiles, the Alumni Research Lecture Series, events and more 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

🤖🧠Join us for the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet". Professor Teresa Heffernan explores what happens when centuries of studying human society and culture collide with algorithms, data, and AI. More info: uoft.me/2026Wiegand

🎶 Join an interactive vocal masterclass on Black American Music traditions. Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin will coach singers one-on-one in front of a live audience. Watch, learn, or participate! Places are very limited. More info https://uoft.me/c2p

👋 You're invited to this free talk by Audra A. Diptée. She'll present her most recent work which explores the relationship between power and historical production in the twentieth century Caribbean as well as its impact on the region’s future. Info uoft.me/c3F

🎶 @UofTMusic and JHI’s Program for the Arts welcome Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin for a series of events in early 2026. On Feb 5, she’ll explore African American vocal legacies and influences and give a live performance featuring jazz, blues, gospel, soul, and R&B. Info: https://uoft.me/c2o

📰 We've got so much going on over the next few months—workshops, lectures, discussion panels and more—and all of them free! Sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss out. Next issue comes out January 8. Subscribe uoft.me/jhi-news

See you in the new year! The Jackman Humanities Institute will be closed from December 22, reopening January 5.

📅 January 5–7, 2026 📍 Victoria College 🎥 In person/livestreamed What does it mean to do asexual history? This three-day conference bridges early modern studies and asexuality studies to explore compulsory sexuality, disability, race, and queer histories. 👉 More info crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

🤖🧠Join us for the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet". Professor Teresa Heffernan explores what happens when centuries of studying human society and culture collide with algorithms, data, and AI. More info: uoft.me/2026Wiegand

👋 You're invited to this free talk by Audra A. Diptée. She'll present her most recent work which explores the relationship between power and historical production in the twentieth century Caribbean as well as its impact on the region’s future. Info uoft.me/c3F

Did you miss this year’s Annual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities? Professor Simon Coleman looks at why English cathedrals continue to attract large numbers of visitors, even as many churches close or take on new roles. 👉 Watch now

👏👏 Congratulations also to our 2026-27 Six-Month Faculty Research Fellows! • Susana Bejar • Michael Chazan • Valentina Napolitano • Alejandro Paz • Martin Revermann • Atsuko Sakaki

👏👏 Congratulations to our 12-Month Faculty Research Fellows for next year! • Kevin Coleman, UTM Historical Studies • Kajri Jain, A&S Art History/Visual Studies • Larissa Lai, Canadian Studies Program/A&S Department of English • SA Smythe, Faculty of Information

📰 The December 11 JHI Newsletter just dropped! ✨ Meet the 2026-27 Faculty Research Fellows ▶️ Missed the Jackman Annual Lecture? Catch up now 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

📅 January 5–7, 2026 📍 Victoria College 🎥 In person/livestreamed What does it mean to do asexual history? This three-day conference bridges early modern studies and asexuality studies to explore compulsory sexuality, disability, race, and queer histories. 👉 More info crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

🤖🧠Join us for the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet". Professor Teresa Heffernan explores what happens when centuries of studying human society and culture collide with algorithms, data, and AI. More info: uoft.me/2026Wiegand

🎙️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 @julienlf.bsky.social

🎙️ 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

📰 The November 27 JHI Newsletter is out! Featuring: 🎧 Podcast Series 2 Wrap-up 🌟 Bright Ackwerh Exhibition 📰 Fellows News 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

📰 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 November 27. Subscribe uoft.me/jhi-news

✨ Deadline Alert! ✨ Apply 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

✨ Deadline Alert! ✨ Join the JHI’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 #PublicHumanities #ResearchFellowship

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for winning the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction! Leanne, JHI 2025-26 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, will be joining us from January 12 to 26, 2026. www.writerstrust.com...

✨ Deadline Alert! ✨ Are you our next New Media & Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow? ✔️ 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

🚨 SiR Faculty Supervisor call deadline is TOMORROW. Faculty @utoronto.ca - don't miss your chance to be a Supervisor for Scholars in Residence! Pairing undergraduate students with faculty supervisors, SiR fosters closeknit, multidisciplinary humanities communities. Info uoft.me/sir-2026

🌟We’re honoured to welcome Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - JHI’s 2025–26 Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Her upcoming lecture will use story to create a decolonial space for us to come together and imagine futures beyond our present moment. 👉 Info: uoft.me/LBS @biidaasamose.bsky.social

🚨 Finalize those applications! Deadlines are NEXT TUESDAY! ✔️#DigitalHumanities Fellow uoft.me/cdh26-27 ✔️New Media #PublicHumanities Fellow uoft.me/nmph26-27 ✔️Visiting Public Humanities Fellow uoft.me/vph26-27#DigitalHumanities#PublicHumanitiesInfo and application forms at the links ☝️

📰 The November 13 JHI Newsletter is out! Featuring: 🌟 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Visit 🎧 Podcast Series 2, Episode 5 💰 Funding Calls 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

📷 For our final episode of Humanities at Large Series 2, 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. 🎧 Listen now uoft.me/jhi-podcast

👋 Have you visited JHI's 2025-26 Art Exhibition? Proof of Life explores material debris from the end of the world, considering the aftermath of our present-day ruin. Works by Ernesto Cabral de Luna, boring earth, Shannon Garden-Smith, and Jenine Marsh. 👉 More: uoft.me/jhiart

📰 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 November 13. Subscribe uoft.me/jhi-news

✨ Annual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities ✨ This year, Simon Coleman will explore how England’s cathedrals - once dismissed as dinosaurs and relics of the past - have reemerged as powerful spaces of public religion, attracting millions of visitors each year. Info: uoft.me/AJL2025

📢 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

✨ 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

✨ 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 #PublicHumanities #ResearchFellowship

📢Deadline coming up! Faculty @utoronto.ca - don't miss your chance to be a Supervisor for Scholars in Residence (SiR)! Pairing undergraduate students with faculty supervisors, SiR fosters closeknit, multidisciplinary humanities communities. Apply by November 19 Info uoft.me/sir-2026

Meet U of T student Chloe Gordon-Chow, curator of the JHI's Art Exhibition Proof of Life. The exhibition includes works by Ernesto Cabral de Luna, boring earth, Shannon Garden-Smith, and Jenine Marsh. Profile uoft.me/bXH

📰 The October 30 JHI Newsletter is here! Featuring: 🎧 Podcast Series 2, Episode 5 🖼️ Meet the Curator 💰 Funding Calls 📅 Upcoming Events …and more! 👉 Read now: mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Not subscribed yet? Sign up uoft.me/jhi-news

🌿 Death, nature, and renewal. 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. 🎧 Listen now uoft.me/jhi-podcast @cmillerphd.bsky.social

✨ Annual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities ✨ This year, Simon Coleman will explore how England’s cathedrals - once dismissed as dinosaurs and relics of the past - have reemerged as powerful spaces of public religion, attracting millions of visitors each year. Info: uoft.me/AJL2025

📰 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 30. Subscribe uoft.me/jhi-news

📢 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

✨ 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

🎉 Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to celebrate the launch of Eric Jennings' book Vanilla The History of an Extraordinary Bean. Eric is Chair and Distinguished Professor in History and worked on his book while he was a JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. 👏 Congratulations Eric!

✨ 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 #PublicHumanities #ResearchFellowship

🎙️Have you been listening to Humanities at Large? This season explores life and death in ancient Greece, Indigenous histories, the songs of Black cowboys, Canadian "print nationalism", natural burials, and reimagined Iraqi marshlands. Haven’t tuned in yet? Check it out 👇 uoft.me/jhi-podcast