Summer at the Jackman Humanities Institute means... Announcements! JHI New Media and Humanities Journalism Fellow

Margaret Reid Dissertation: Investing in yourself? Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age Ph.D. 2018, Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson University joint program M.I. 2012 University of Toronto B.A. (Honours) 2009 University of Toronto in Philosophy and English Margaret has worked as a Documentary Producer for King Squared Media and a Radio Host and Producer for CHRY 105.5 FM. She has written extensively about the culture of journalism, Canadian media policy, and educational and pedagogical issues. In the coming year, Margaret will be considering the humanities within the public university in a weekly public podcast called lower case truth. She will also be working with CBC Ideas and will concurrently hold a fellowship with the Massey College Society of Fellows. The New Media and Journalism Fellowship at the Jackman Humanities Institute will begin in 2018-2019 and Margaret Reid will be the first incumbent. The fellowship is designed to support journalists at the beginning of their careers who seek to bring humanities research out of the classroom and academic monograph, and into broader public discussion across multiple media platforms. URL: https://maggiemreid.com Artist-in-Residence at the JHI in 2018-2019 -- David Rokeby

The University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies and the Jackman Humanities Institute are delighted to announce distinguished Canadian digital media artist David Rokeby as the 2018-2019 JHI Artist-in-Residence. The Institute’s newly enhanced Artist-in-Residence program will welcome one distinguished artist to participate in the rich intellectual life of the Jackman Humanities Institute during the fall and winter semesters each year. The 2018-2019 program is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. During the upcoming academic year, David will also teach an innovative graduate course in the Centre. The 2018-19 theme of JHI's events is Reading Faces--Reading Minds. David will be a part of an intellectual community involved in public events, lectures, and workshops.

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David Rokeby is an internationally renowned new media, electronic, video, and installation artist who has been exploring human relationships with digital machines for 35 years, starting with Very Nervous System in 1982. His interests have ranged from the issues of digital surveillance in such works as Watch (1995), Guardian Angel (2002) and Sorting Daemon (2003) to critical examination of the differences between the human and artificial intelligence (e.g. The Giver of Names, 1991; and n—Cha(n)t, 2001). He is a recipient of a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (Canada), a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art (Austria), and a “BAFTA” award (U.K). In his art and publications, David has also probed the social, political, and psychological challenges posed by emerging technologies, and conversely, how these can be used to expand the dialogue about what it means to be human in our contemporary world. Undergraduate Fellows at the JHI in 2018-2019 We are happy to welcome our tenth cohort of senior undergraduate students in the coming year. They'll each be working with one of our 12-month Faculty Research Fellows on an independent study project that is relevant to the annual theme of Reading Faces--Reading Minds.

Talise Beveridge, FAS English, History, and CriminologY James Fleck Undergraduate Award in the Humanities Project: Close Reading of FBI COINTELPRO Documents Supervisor: Michela Ippolito

Grace Egan, FAS Peace, Conflict & Justice Studies Dr. Jan Blumenstein Undergraduate Award in the Humanities Project: Heritage for Peace and Inclusion: the politics of heritage, memory, and belonging in post-conflict and decolonizing multicultural societies Supervisor: Rebecca Kingston

Nisarg Patel, FAS English (Literary Studies program) Dr. Michael Lutsky Undergraduate Award in the Humanities Project: Faces-Places: On (Re-)Presentation of the Colonial Subject and the Gaze of Empire Supervisor: Maria Subtelny

Nolan Sprangers, Faculty of Music; minor in Study of Religion Jukka-Pekka Saraste Undergraduate Award in the Humanities Project: Reviving Music and Mythology in Stravinsky’s Orpheus Supervisor: Rebecca Kingston

Karen Wang, UTSC Arts, Culture and Media (Art History program) Milton Harris Undergraduate Award in the Jackman Humanities Institute Project: Reading the World’s Oldest Primer: How the ‘Newly-Compiled Illustrated Four-Word Glossary’ reflects the Face and Mind of Ming China Supervisor: Jennifer Nagel

Corals Zheng, FAS English; minor in Political Science Zoltan Simo Undergraduate Award in the Humanities Project: Genre as Heuristics Supervisor: Michela Ippolito

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Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, 2018-2019 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Artist project broadsheet series (part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea); July 2018—April 2019 Christine Shaw, Blackwood Gallery / UTM Visual Studies

Robert Fones: Signs, Narratives, Forms Exhibition, Summer 2018 Barbara Fischer, Art Museum / Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design

Narrative Performances Performance and panel discussion, Societe Rencevales 13-14 August 2018 Dorothea Kullmann, FAS French and Medieval Studies

Reading Frankenstein: Then, Now, Next. A Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818-2018) Symposium/Exhibit/Public Reading 26 October 2018 Paolo Granata, SMC Book & Media Studies program; Alan Bewell, FAS English; Randy Boyagoda, Principal, SMC Markus Dubber, Director, Centre for Ethics; Yiftach Fehige, FAS, IHPST; Charlie Keil, Principal, Innis College; Jean-Olivier Richard, SMC Christianity & Culture program; Simon Rogers, John M. Kelly Library at SMC; Terry Robinson, UTM English & Drama; Avery Slater, UTM English & Drama; Daniel White, UTM English & Drama

Women in Song: A Week with the Open Program Residency, 3-10 November 2018 Myrto Koumarianis, Ph.D. cand., Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies Cassandra Silver, Ph.D. cand., Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies Tamara Trojanowska, Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies

HOSOKAWA Opera Double Bill: The Raven and The Maiden from the Sea Performance and panel discussion, 17 January 2019 Wallace Halladay, Faculty of Music

Voices in the “Ayre”: Early Modern Songscapes and the Music of Henry Lawes Public Recital and Recordings, 9 February 2019 Katherine Larson, UTSC English

Out at School Performance, 21-29 June 2019 Tara Goldstein, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, OISE Jenny Salisbury, Ph.D. cand., Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies JHI Working Groups in 2018-2018 Working groups meet monthly to discuss a focused topic. Click the links for information about what each group will be working on, and how to get in touch.

Afterlives: Institutionality, Survival, Pedagogy (new) Leads: Kyle Kinaschuk, Ph.D. student, English; Tavleen Purewal, Ph.D. student, English; Karina Vernon, UTSC English

Bridging Disciplines in Manuscript Studies (new) Leads: Kari North, Ph.D. cand., FAS History; Suzanne Akbari, FAS English and Medieval Studies

Building Environmental Humanities at the University of Toronto (renewal) Leads: Alexandra Rahr, FAS Centre for Study of United States; Andrea Most, FAS English; Caroline Holland, Ph.D. cand., FAS English

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Critical China Studies (renewal) Leads: Yiching Wu, FAS East Asian Studies; Sida Liu, UTM Sociology

Entitlement (new) Leads: Laura Colantoni, FAS Spanish & Portuguese; Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, FAS Spanish & Portuguese and Cognitive Science program

Latin American Racial Technologies through the 21st Century (renewal) Leads: Susan Antebi, FAS Spanish & Portuguese; Luisa Schwartzman, UTM Sociology; Valentina Napolitano, FAS Anthropology

Native Performance Culture and the Rhythm of ReConciliation: Re-Membering Ourselves in Deep Time (renewal) Leads: Jill Carter, FAS Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies; Myrto Koumarianis, Ph.D. student, Drama. Theatre & Performance Studies

Postsecular or Postcritique? New Approaches to Reading Religion (new) Lead: Alex Eric Hernandez, FAS English

Practices of Commentary (new) Leads: Markus Stock, FAS German and Medieval Studies; Walid Saleh, FAS Study of Religion and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

Refiguring Iranian Studies (new) Leads: Jairan Gahan, FAS Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations; Mohammad Tavakoli Targhi, UTM Historical Studies; Jennifer Harris, FAS History; Delbar Khakzad, Ph.D. student, Study of Religion

Simmel Discussion Group (new) Leads: Willi Goetschel, FAS German and Philosophy; Dan Silver, UTSC Sociology

Sovereignty and the State in South Asia, Past & Present: Mediating Divine and Secular Power (new) Leads: Karen Ruffle, UTM Historical Studies; Nika Kuchuk, Ph.D. student, Study of Religion Featured Event The Law Speaks / Speaking the Law: Jurisdiction between the Legal Academy and the Humanities

Panel One -- Reconciling Jurisdictional Claims: Child Welfare and Indigenous Youth Panel Two -- Jurisdiction in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences Panel Three -- After Jurisdiction

Lawyers talk about jurisdiction all the time. As socio-legal scholars have repeatedly reminded, “jurisdiction” can mean that the law speaks or to speak the law. Jurisdiction is the law’s answer to questions about what the law addresses and who speaks for the law. But in the humanities, studies of jurisdiction often extrapolate from the legal technicalities to broader, often abstract, claims about culture, knowledge, and the epistemic possibilities of knowing. Between the law and humanities lies a fundamental difference in the attention paid to the technicalities of formal jurisdictional rules. To what extent might the humanistic tendency toward the more abstract, metaphorical use of jurisdiction help expand the scope of legal scholarship, while informing a more robust humanistic engagement with the technicalities of law so familiar to lawyers and law professors? This fundamental question about jurisdiction between law and the humanities is not merely speculative. Rather, it is broached at a time of ‘reconciliation’ in Canada, in the wake of a national apology for Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Program. That state project had the aim of culturally wiping out Canada’s

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indigenous population by targeting their children, taking them away from parents and communities to “teach the Indian” out of them. Despite the closure of such programs, the effects of that program are deeply entrenched in the Child Protective Services system across every Canadian province, where children at risk are removed from parental care and put into state-sanctioned foster care. Some estimates indicate that more indigenous children are in state managed care than were ever ‘enrolled’ in the residential schools across the country. As Provinces and Indigenous communities battle over who has legal jurisdiction over the bodies of indigenous children, this workshop is built on the idea that the very concept of ‘jurisdiction’ remains pregnant with possibilities that conversations such as this workshop can make real and meaningful as Canadians explore and expound upon the meaning of reconciliation.

Loot Boxes: Video Game Gambling, Paying to Win, and the Question of Game Design Tuesday 19 June 2018, 3-5pm Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street Room JHB 100 Sponsored by the Semaphore Lab and the Digital Humanities Network

Abstract: A 'loot box' is a consumable virtual item purchased and redeemed within a video game to receive a random selection of virtual items. In the last eighteen months, their implementation in many major and independent titles has led to extensive controversy. For example, in April 2018, gambling authorities in Belgium and the Netherlands declared that loot boxes risk creating a new generation of problem gamblers, whilst China, the UK, US and Canada have expressed concern over whether that loot boxes lower the threshold of gambling by integrating 'games of chance' into otherwise skill-based gaming experiences. Despite public and policy outcry, research has not engaged with those who actually design and develop these systems: the voices of designers are missing from the debate. In this talk, Drs. Johnson and Brock will outline their present research program into this phenomenon, which is believed to be the first project to interview industry actors on loot boxes within video games development and integrate these voices into local, national and international debates about the regulation and funding of games development. They will outline their main research questions, interview data and findings to date, and potential directions for further investigation into loot box implementation, effects, and impacts on both policy and regulation, and video game players themselves.

Speakers: Dr. Mark R Johnson is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the intersections between play and money, such as eSports, live streaming, fantasy sports betting, gamification, and loot boxes. He has published in academic journals including Information, Communication and Society, The Sociological Review, Convergence, and Games and Culture, and his first book, The Unpredictability of Gameplay, is due out in late 2018 from Bloomsbury Academic. Beyond academia he is also an independent game developer and a former professional poker player. Dr. Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests include video games, social theory, digital cultures and political protest. Tom currently co-convenes the BSA Realism and Social Research Group and steers the BSA Theory Group. He is an Associate at the Centre for Social Ontology at the University of Warwick and is also the co-author of the edited book, Structure, Culture, Agency: Selected Paper of Margaret Archer (Routledge).

This event is free but registration is required due to space limitations. Light refreshments will be provided. Register at this EventBrite page.

Save the date! DHN Summer Conference on August 30th We are in the midst of planning our third annual DHN conference. The conference will take place on the 30th of August at the UTM campus. The keynote speaker will be Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), "Social Justice,

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Race, and the Digital Database". If you want to present a five-minute lightning talk, please send a presentation title and a very short abstract (200-250 words). Submissions are due Monday July 16th by 11.59pm and should be directed to the conference planning committee at dhn.admin@utoronto.ca with “DHN Conference Proposal” along with the specified track (e.g., “Research Talk” or “Practical Demos”) in the subject heading. All librarians, faculty, staff and students are encouraged to apply! This event will require a registration on Eventbrite -- check the DHN website for the link in July. Signing off for the summer! The Jackman Humanities Institute's programming for the 2017-2018 year is wrapping up, and the Institute will be getting ready for the coming year this summer. We will be undertaking two major tasks: a revision to the JHI website, and a new version of the annual report (we're still doing the big one, which you can see HERE; this will be a smaller, more accessible piece). The next newsletter will arrive in early September, and we will also be sending a weekly events list when there are JHI events taking place. If you'd like to receive the events list, please let us know. It may seem tranquil, cool, and quiet at the JHI, but we are working hard to make 2018-2019 an amazing year for our Fellows and community.

Mark your calendars -- 12 September 2018, 4-6 p.m. Our next exhibition of art, on the annual theme of Reading Faces--Reading Minds, will be curated by Lillian O'Brien Davis. The opening party will be on Wednesday 12 September.

Deadlines in 2018-2019 • JHI Faculty Research Fellowships for 2019-2020 on the theme

Strange Weather -- 17 September 2018 • Proposals for Artist-in-Residence in 2019-2020 on the theme

Strange Weather (UTSC Chairs only) -- 17 September 2018 • Proposals for annual themes in 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-

2023 -- 15 November 2018 • Scholars-in-Residence Faculty Supervisors -- 26 November 2018 • Scholars-in-Residence Student Participants -- 11 February 2019 • JHI Graduate Fellows -- 11 March 2019 • JHI-Mellon New Faculty Fellowships -- 15 March 2019 (travel to South Africa with the Aesthetic Education

research project) • JHI-Mellon Graduate Fellowships -- 15 March 2019 (travel to South Africa with the Aesthetic Education

research project) • JHI Program for the Arts -- 20 March 2019 • JHI-UTSC DH Faculty Fellowship -- 29 March 2019 • JHI Undergrad Fellows -- 15 April 2019 • New Media & Humanities Journalism Fellowship -- 17 April 2019 • JHI Working Groups -- 15 May 2019

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