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The Jackman Humanities Institute advances scholarship at the University of Toronto by creating new networks -- both physical and virtual -- for interaction among humanities scholars, regardless of their discipline.

🎨 Don’t miss Proof of Life, curated by Chloe Gordon ChowToday’s spotlight: Jenine Marsh, detail from Within or beyond my...
06/05/2026

🎨 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

Museum at the University of Toronto

🔍 Continuing our look at Proof of Life, curated by Chloe Gordon ChowShannon Garden-Smith, In a hare’s form III, 2021. Pi...
06/04/2026

🔍 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.

If you’ve been meaning to visit, now’s a good time!

Info: uoft.me/jhi25-26

Museum at the University of Toronto

🖼️ Proof of Life is closing soon, curated by Chloe Gordon ChowToday we’re highlighting Ernesto Cabral de Luna, La Vida e...
06/03/2026

🖼️ 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)

If you haven’t made it yet, there’s still time to see the exhibition

👉 More info https://uoft.me/jhi25-26

Museum at the University of Toronto

🎙️Humanities at Large Series 2 featured incredible discussions, make sure to listen! Here's Episode 6.📷 Photographer Tam...
06/02/2026

🎙️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.

She revisits the Iraqi Marshes, layering her own images, family archives, and crowdsourced photographs over a Western photo book that once defined the region in the global imagination. Her project develops a decolonial vision of a landscape central to Iraq’s cultural identity and to her own.

Tamara was our 2024-25 Artist in Residence.

🎧 Listen now https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️Missed an episode? We're resharing the entire Series 2 lineup this week. Here's Episode 5.🌿 Death, nature, and renewal...
06/01/2026

🎙️Missed an episode? We're resharing the entire Series 2 lineup this week. Here's Episode 5.

🌿 Death, nature, and renewal.

Chris Miller and Melissa Gismondi discuss the growing movement toward natural or “green” burials - from simple shrouds to human composting - and what these practices reveal about our relationship with death, nature, and the cycles of life.

🎧 Listen now https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast

🎙️We're featuring series 2 of Humanities at Large all week.📚 What do books have to do with democracy? In episode 4, Juli...
05/29/2026

🎙️We're featuring series 2 of Humanities at Large all week.

📚 What do books have to do with democracy? In episode 4, Julien Lefort-Favreau examines Canadian “print nationalism” - the government-funded system that keeps Canadian publishing alive.

From Amazon to algorithms, he explores how publishing connects to free speech, public culture and the future of Canadian literature.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe on your favourite platform: https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast

📣 We're delighted to welcome Professor Randy Boyagoda as incoming Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Dean’...
05/28/2026

📣 We're delighted to welcome Professor Randy Boyagoda as incoming Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Dean’s Special Advisor in the Humanities for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2026.

Boyagoda, Professor in the Department of English, has collaborated with the JHI in many capacities since joining the University of Toronto in 2016. A writer, critic, and essayist, he has published seven books and contributes regularly to the New York Times, Globe and Mail, and The Atlantic.

👉 Read more: uoft.me/boyagoda-jhi

🎙️ In case you missed any episodes of Humanities at Large, we're featuring them all week. Here's episode 3When you pictu...
05/28/2026

🎙️ In case you missed any episodes of Humanities at Large, we're featuring them all week. Here's episode 3

When you picture a cowboy, who comes to mind? John Wayne? Clint Eastwood? 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.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe on your favourite platform: https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast


🎙️ Looking for something to listen to? Revisit Series 2 of Humanities at Large. Here's Episode 2.Indigenous history is n...
05/27/2026

🎙️ Looking for something to listen to? Revisit Series 2 of Humanities at Large. Here's 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.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe on your favourite platform: https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast

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🎙️ Did you miss any of our Humanities at Large podcast? Catch up now!In episode 1, archaeologist Sarah Murray talks abou...
05/26/2026

🎙️ 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.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe on your favourite platform: https://uoft.me/jhi-podcast

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