Calls marked with (*) must have projects related to our 2026-27 theme “Doubles, Doppelgangers”. All deadlines are 4:00pm ET unless noted. Dates subject to change.
- Faculty Research Fellows: closed
- New Media Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow: closed
- JHI Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow: closed
- Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow: closed
- Scholars-in-Residence Faculty call for proposals: closed
- Scholars-in-Residence Student Applications: closed
- Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellows: closed
- Program for the Arts: opens February 3 | closes March 24 (on theme preferred)
- UTSC-JHI Digital Humanities Fellow: opens March 3 | closes April 14
- Undergraduate Fellows: opens March 10 | closes April 21*
- UTM-JHI Annual Seminar: opens end of January | closes April 24
- Working Groups: opens March 17 | closes May 12
- Writing Retreat: opens March 31 | closes April 28
- Grant Writing Bootcamp: opens March 31 | closes May 5
2026-27: Doubles, Doppelgangers
Doubles, mirror images, and infinite recursive nesting of identical structures are omnipresent in nature and in culture. Our stories rely on concepts such as the play within a play, game within a game, dream within a dream, mise en abyme, self-representation, halls of mirrors, replicas/worlds in miniature, imposters, cycles, microhistories and metanarratives. Within our reflections on mind, thought, and metaphysics, we explore reality as (nested) simulation, infinite or eternal spaces or beings, cosmologies where each thing reflects/contains each other thing, hauntings/ghostly echoes/premonitions, and reflections into infinity. Our reflections of nature, whether human, biological, or computational, rely crucially on notions of recursion, recurrence, fractals, and the distortions that accrue across them (mutation, tradition, drift). In disciplines across the humanities, we observe the use of fractals, spirals, images contained in themselves, doubles, reflections (of reflections of reflections), and rhizomes. What might an exploration of doubles and recursion reveal about the ways that we reflect our realities?