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📣 Calling University of Toronto faculty! If you have an idea for a lecture series, exhibit, or performance and need some funding, apply to the JHI Program for the Arts. Our theme next year is "Dystopia and Trust". Deadline March 20. Info + application link 👇 https://uoft.me/bg3

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The Looting Lab's United Fruit Company Papers talk and workshop for tomorrow has been postponed. Replacement lecture is by Simon Mackenzie, a criminologist and renowned expert on the illicit antiquities trade, who will talk about trafficked Cambodian heritage. Register https://uoft.me/temple

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UTM grad student Isra Saymour co-leads The Looting Lab, an interdisciplinary research community exploring looted cultural heritage and its social, economic, and political impact. Read more about her inspiration for creating this JHI Working Group. https://uoft.me/bkI

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This Friday! The Looting Lab (a JHI Working Group) invites you to a hands-on exploration of the contested history of the United Fruit Company Papers, led by UTM Library archivist Christopher (Cal) Long. Hybrid talk and workshop Feb 28 | 2pm to 4pm Details at www.lootinglab.ca/ufc

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Francesca Econimo is a scholar of philological, linguistic, and historical Classics, whose focus is on Roman literature, in particular Flavian epic poetry. She is a 2024-25 A&S Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities. More about Francesca https://uoft.me/bja

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Join the Blackwood March 1st! Alongside a weeklong presentation of Paolo Patelli and Giuditta Vendrame’s 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘴 (February 26 to March 5), Patelli will discuss this new iteration of the artwork in conversation with architects and urbanists Sneha Mandhan and Scott Sorli. 1/2

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🎵 TONIGHT! Don't miss the 2025 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Music, Joy, and the Good Life" and reception with Daniel KL Chua, Chair Professor of Music, University of Hong Kong. More info http://uoft.me/2025W... 1/2

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👋Did you know that the Scholars-in-Residence program, run by Victoria College and the JHI, is in its 10th year? 😀 JHI's Associate Director Kimberley Yates wrote an overiew of SiR. Check it out! https://uoft.me/biW

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🔔 Deadline THIS MONDAY! Wondering if you should apply for SiR 2025? Read what Mitzi Badlis, Kaini Mendoza-Price and Tiana Milacic thought about their experiences when they participated in SiR 2024. Read the article https://uoft.me/biT Apply https://uoft.me/sir2025

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📣 The JHI is excited to announce that Qanita Lilla will be our 2025-26 New Media Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Qanita is currently Associate Curator Arts of Africa, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University. More info https://uoft.me/biS

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📰 Check your inboxes! The JHI newsletter is out now and includes an announcement of our 2025-26 New Media Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Qanita Lilla, Scholars-in-Residence,open calls & much more. Get yours 👇 February 20 issue mailchi.mp/utoronto/... Subscribe http://ow.ly/C0Ex50J...

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🎭 MAR 7 | 1-4PM The Artistic Co-Directors of Good Old Neon join us for ‘Turning math into theatre,’ where we’ll discuss David Auburn’s “Proof.” We’ll discuss the meaning, process and significance of the mathematical proof — among other things! Register at bit.ly/TS03-07

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👋University of Toronto researchers! Join our online workshop on sustaining long-term humanities & social science projects! Info: uoft.me/bi2

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📣 Calling University of Toronto faculty! If you have an idea for a lecture series, exhibit, or performance and need some funding, apply to the JHI Program for the Arts. Our theme next year is "Dystopia and Trust". Deadline March 20. Info + application link 👇 https://uoft.me/bg3

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🎵 The JHI invites you to the 2025 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Music, Joy, and the Good Life" and reception on February 24, 2025, with Daniel KL Chua, Chair Professor of Music, University of Hong Kong. Seat are limited so register early! More info uoft.me/2025Wiegand 1/2

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👋Humanities and social sciences researchers at @UofT...Are you looking for ways to boost your research profile and prominence? If so, join our next JHI How-to workshop! February 25 from 1pm to 2:30pm on Zoom 👉 More info https://uoft.me/bdP

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📹Next up in the JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series is a talk by David Nieborg (Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media). Nieborg was a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2023-24. youtu.be/fcDt5VxW-n8...

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👋Applications are now being accepted for Jackman Scholars-in-Residence 2025! SiR participants get a $1000 Scholar Award and have the opportunity to contribute to original faculty research projects in an immersive research experience. Deadline February 24 uoft.me/sir2025

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Chris Miller's current projects examine death, dying, and nonreligion, through analyses of obituaries, Death Cafés, and green burials. He's our 2024-25 JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Learn more about Chris and his JHI fellowship research https://uoft.me/bh9

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Julien Lefort-Favreau is our 2024-25 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on political and economic changes in the publishing market, as well as the environmental impact of the book industry. More about Julien https://uoft.me/bh8

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📣 Audra A. Diptée will be our 2025-26 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. Audra is an Associate Professor of History at Carleton University who specializes in Caribbean history. We're thrilled to welcome her for our theme year, Dystopia and Trust! More info uoft.me/bh7

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Starting the week off right ☕

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TODAY! 4-6 PM You're invited to a new speaker series on Women and Contemporary Italian Theory. This series aims to establish a dynamic platform for scholars, faculty, and students both in Toronto and beyond to share their research, ideas, and foster academic collaboration. 1/3

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📣 Calling University of Toronto faculty! If you have an idea for a lecture series, exhibit, or performance and need some funding, apply to the JHI Program for the Arts. Our theme next year is "Dystopia and Trust". Deadline March 20. Info + application link 👇 https://uoft.me/bg3

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📰 Check your inboxes! The JHI newsletter is out now and includes an announcement of our 2025-26 Visiting Public Humanities Fellow Audra A. Diptée, Calls for Scholars-in-Residence, JHI's Program for the Arts, and Graduate Fellowships, plus events & more. Get yours 👇

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👋Humanities and social sciences researchers at @UofT...Are you looking for ways to boost your research profile and prominence? If so, join our next JHI How-to workshop! February 25 from 1pm to 2:30pm on Zoom 👉 More info https://uoft.me/bdP

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In Otherworld, Camille Turner uses performance, photography, installation, and digital media to continue her long-standing and wide-ranging exploration of Canada’s connection to the transatlantic slave trade. On at Art Museum at the University of Toronto until March 21. uoft.me/otherworld/

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📰 We've still got a lot 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 February 6. Subscribe http://ow.ly/zWwp50C...

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🎙️ Have you listened to our podcast yet? The podcast features conversations between JHI Fellows and host Melissa Gismondi on the theme of Absence. All Series 1 episodes are available now! 👉 Listen on your favourite platforms and please share! uoft.me/jhi-podcast

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📹In this video, Associate Professor Shami Ghosh shares his research on approaches to death and dying in historical perspective, and how attempts to ensure immortality relate to how people arrange their lives, their provisions for their properties, and the economic systems in which they lived.

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👋Applications are now being accepted for Jackman Scholars-in-Residence 2025! SiR participants get a $1000 Scholar Award and have the opportunity to contribute to original faculty research projects in an immersive research experience. Deadline February 24 uoft.me/sir2025

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Karina Vernon researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian and Black Canadian literature, archives, critical pedagogy, and Black-Indigenous relations. She's one of our 2024-25 JHI Faculty Research Fellows. Learn more about Karina and her JHI fellowship research uoft.me/bfd

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2024-25 Faculty Research Fellow Ato Kwamena Onoma's current work examines mobility, identity, belonging, and inter-communal relations through the prisms of epidemics and phobia, and the faith-based segregation of interment spaces. More about Ato https://uoft.me/beI

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📣 The JHI is excited to announce that Gina Starblanket will be our 2025-26 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow. Gina is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Governance University of Victoria. More info uoft.me/bei

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📰 Check your inboxes! The JHI newsletter is out now and includes an announcement of our 2025-26 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow Gina Starblanket, plus Fellows' profiles, events & more. Get yours 👇 January 23 issue ow.ly/rkUQ50ULL7I Subscribe http://ow.ly/C0Ex50J...

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Opening on January 8 at Blackwood Gallery! The Art Gallery Problem is an exhibition that considers how objects and bodies are put to work in galleries and museums through appropriating a common math problem. Curated by Fraser McCallum and partly supported by JHI's Program for the Arts 1/3

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