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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE JACKMAN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE 2016-2017 FAITH LAROQUE, A CHISEL TO CARVE LIGHT THOUGHTS, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS: JACKMAN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT, 2016-2017 1. Overview 2016-2017 1 1.1. The First Ten Years 1.2. Annual Theme: Time, Rhythm, and Pace 1.3. Art at the Institute: “All This Time” 2. Message from the Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute 5 3. New Activities in 2016-2017 8 3.1. Community Partnership Workshop 4. Research Communities 11 4.1. Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue 4.1.1. JHI-Mellon Early Career Faculty Fellows 4.1.2. JHI-Mellon Graduate Fellows 4.2. Digital Humanities Network 4.2.1. JHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow 4.2.2. JHI-UTSC Digital Humanities Fellowship 4.3. Scholars-in-Residence 5. Fellows 22 5.1. Jackman Humanities Institute Circle of Fellows 5.2. Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellows 5.3. Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow Sherry Farrell Racette 5.4. Distinguished Visiting Fellow Christine Ross 5.5. Postdoctoral Fellows 5.6. Graduate Fellows 5.7. Undergraduate Fellows 5.8. News from Alumni Fellows 6. Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts 61 6.1. Overview of Activities and Chronological List of Events 6.2. Site of Memory: Religion, Multiculturalism & the Demands of the Past 6.3. Artist in Residence Julien Prévieux 6.4. Indigenous Futurities 6.5. John Wallis at 400: Science, Mathematics & Religion in 17th-c. England 6.6. Reich, Rhythm & Repetition: Patterns in Music, Speech & Science 6.7. Law’s New Home: Reflections on Time with its Neighbours 6.8. Kanata by Treaty: Treaties, Confederation, Indigenous Languages 6.9. Kent Monkman: Shame & Prejudice, A Story of Resilience 6.10. The Rhythm of Thought 6.11. Time, Calendrics & Cyclicality in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia 6.12. Of Roots & Creativity 6.13. Salvatore Sciarrino: Luci mei traditrici (The Killing Flower) 6.14. Rhythms of Social Change: Time, Rhythm & Pace in Performance 6.15. Kristin Ross 6.16. Filming Age: “Piano Lessons” (from Alice Munro) 7. Additional Activities in 2016-2017 86 7.1. Conference: Humanities in the 21st Century: The Research University in the World 7.2. Marquee event with the Faculty of Music: Experimental Time 7.3. Visit of Anand Pandian 7.4. Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Jackman Gifts 8. Jackman Humanities Institute Working Groups 91 8.1. Overview of Activities and List of Public Events 8.2. The Affect Project 8.3. The Art & Science of Immunization 8.4. Animals in the Law and Humanities 8.5. Critical Approaches to Middle East Studies: Subjects, Culture, Political Formations 8.6. Critical China Studies 8.7. Digital Mapping: Tracking Sense, Space & Time 8.8. Disruptions: Indigenous Literatures of the Americas 8.9. Filming Age 8.10. Imagining and Inhabiting Resource Landscapes 8.11. Im/Migration, Mobilities, Circulation 8.12. Medieval East Asia 8.13. Native Performance Culture & the Rhythm of (Re)Conciliation 8.14. Nineteenth-Century Time 8.15. Queer Theory 8.16. What If: Counterfactual Languages & Thought 9. Looking Ahead to 2017-2018 121 9.1. New Director, Alison Keith 9.2. Annual Theme, 2017-2018 9.3. Art at the Jackman Humanities Institute: Morning Star 9.4. Research Communities 9.5. Fellowships in 2017-2018 9.6. Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, 2017-2018 9.7. Jackman Humanities Institute Working Groups, 2017-2018 10. Governance 147 10.1. Jackman Humanities Institute Governance 10.2. Advisory Board Members, 2016-2017 10.3. Council of Humanities Institute Deans, 2016-2017 10.4. International Humanities Advisory Board, 2016-2017 2. MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE JACKMAN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE ROBERT B. GIBBS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY 5 Message from the Inaugural Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute, 2007-2017 Robert B. Gibbs The theme for this year, Time, Rhythm and Pace, was a particularly exciting focus for truly diverse activities at the Jackman Humanities Institutes, doubled by the awareness that we were completing our first ten years and my cycle as Director. Rhythm thus became key to many of our activities focusing on music and on improvisation, not only amongst the fellows and in the program for the arts, but also as we marked the new beginning with a new director, Alison Keith. Our activities were expanding and participation was very high. Our circle of fellows not only produced much great scholarship, they explored creative arts in alliance with their research. Thus we had presentations that included video, dance, poetry, and music, and still connected directly to academic scholarship at each turn. Perhaps the sense of the end of the director cycle instigated greater freedom, or perhaps the energy of the group that was assembled produced this remarkable effect. We also had our first Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Fellow, Sherry Farrell Racette in the circle of fellows. It is the first such fellowship at any Humanities Centre or Institute that we could find. The cycle of fellows, including the selection of next year’s went well, as we also drew to a conclusion the Mellon Postdoctoral fellows with the selection of the last cohort for 2017-2019. The Program for the Arts and the Working Groups continued at a great pace. Several exhibitions and artists drew audiences in the thousands, and the working groups hosted a score of events with a series of hundreds of meetings. In the Program for the Arts we helped sponsored both the Kent Monkman exhibition and the Canada by Treaty exhibition, to say nothing of the other 13 events. We hosted 15 working groups. This now normal cycle of events and programs was extremely successful this year. The Jackman Humanities Institute is a presence across the university in a very public way, engaging many people. We have recently augmented our programming significantly by launching a series of new research communities; each has met with manifest and multifold success. We launched three communities of research in 2016-2017 and a fourth is in development. For each of the three now-launched communities, we were able to develop a new management structure. Each of the three communities’ directors was renewed and devoted a great deal of energy and insight into making the three groups flourish. There were several events and about 45 faculty and students involved in the South-North Dialogue with University of the Western Cape; there are now just over 300 members of the Digital Humanities Network, including 150 research faculty; and in May 2017, 10 humanities faculty members worked with 50 undergraduates students who were Scholars-in- Residence—and almost 1,000 students applied for those 50 slots. In terms of the most important metric, participants, these three research communities have grown rapidly and expansively. In terms of a more familiar metric, funding, we have seen each attract internal funding and also external with the Mellon foundation. Colleges, Faculties, the Vice-Provosts office, and the Library have all contributed resources to these new research communities. And of course, the most important aspect is the emergence of different kinds of scholarship and research engagements that all of these people are producing with these resources. The fourth new community is based on community exchange research, and we are collaborating in part with the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP), but also pushing directly with research as the focus. We held an international workshop in June 2017 with a core group of University of Toronto faculty, and explored how the Jackman Humanities Institute can support and further their work. As with the other communities, the power to convene across the university makes the Jackman Humanities Institute all but unique: each community has faculty members from five or more of your faculties, to say nothing of a range of disciplines. These new communities show how committing resources and support to a faculty leader can dramatically multiply the capacity of the Jackman Humanities Institute. We created structures to delegate authority for research communities, and then chose people whose research was closely allied to these projects, and the results were inspiring. For the health of the Jackman Humanities Institute, both these new communities and their directors must rotate, but to establish a second cycle—(3-5 years)—allows the 6 Jackman Humanities Institute to initiate some very important research opportunities. Each of these communities addresses a distinct dimension of humanities research and advances the goals of a range of our leading scholars. The end of the cycle of my directorship was managed with careful attention to the transition. We began the process to select the next director early and produced an opportunity for a strong and constructive transition. Alison Keith has worked with me on many of the plans for the last months of my term, and prepared for a large group of new initiatives next year. It has been a pleasure to take time with her, and indeed, to try to put things in motion in the directions that she will now move. One example particularly noteworthy example is a shared and ongoing conversation with the producer of CBC Ideas, to inaugurate what will become a semi-annual humanities forum with the Jackman Humanities Institute and the CBC in partnership. We marked the transition in many ways, including with meetings with the Donor, with the staff, with the Deans and the Advisory Board, by redecorating the Director’s office, and with one last visit to the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) meeting in Capetown, South Africa in August 2017. We also held a series of events in June, including an international conference, a cocktail party in honour of the Donor, and a meeting of the International Humanities Advisory Board.

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