The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts supports a range of events from small to large designed to enhance, improve and raise the profile of the Arts at the University of Toronto. Activities may include visitors, lecture series, symposia, exhibitions, performances, or other imaginative and arts initiatives, which will serve to foster the work of the Jackman Humanities Institute and to represent the leading scholarship of the humanities at the University of Toronto. Each year there will be a priority for at least one event that engages the wider public. The Program gives priority to activities that range across multiple units and across more than one campus.
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I don’t do Math: A Photography Exhibition by Ann Piché
Roberta Buiani (New College)
Exhibition at the D.G. Ivey Library, September/October 2025
Letters from Albania: The Manifesto Collective on Art, Politics and Trust
Yi Gu (UTSC Arts, Culture, Media) and Tong Lam (UTM Historical Studies)
Two-day event series, September 2025
Who’s Afraid of AI?
David Rokeby (A&S Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies)
Artists’ participation in conference, October 2025
Finding Fanon: Artist, Healer, Activist
Jill Carter (A&S Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies) and Roy Moodley (OISE APHD)
Four-night performance series at Luella Massey Theatre, October 2025
Sacred Space: Conflicts and Convergences
Joseph Clarke (A&S Art History)
Exhibition, performance and conference, November 2025
Our waters flow in the air
Barbara Fischer (DAN Visual Studies and Art Museum)
Major exhibition curated by Yantong Li, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. September to November 2025
Stim Cinema
Christine Shaw (UTM Visual Studies and Blackwood Gallery)
Exhibition with tri-campus screenings, January to March 2026
A Celebration of Black History through Music
Darren Hamilton (Faculty of Music)
Visiting Speaker, February 2026
New Approaches to Slaving and Slave-Trading in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Seth Bernard (A&S Classics)
Conference, April 2026
The Art of Trust: Documenting the Act of Puppetry
Lawrence Switzky (UTM English & Drama) and Elspeth Brown (UTM Historical Studies)
Event series, April 2026
Black Theatre in the US and Canada
Leticia Ridley (UTM English & Drama) and Signy Lynch (UTM English & Drama Studies)
Public symposium, May 2026
Into the Archives
Anver Emon (Faculty of Law)
By-invitation artist workshop, Fall 2025 and public lecture, Winter 2026
Not My Mother Tongue
Henrjeta Mece (OISE Social Justice Education)
Event series, Fall 2025 and Winter 2026
Papers and Gardens
Anjali Nath (UTM ICCIT) and Shahrzad Mojab (A&S Women & Gender Studies)
Visiting Speaker Behar Behbehani, Spring 2026