Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship for Professor Farzaneh Hemmasi

In the fall of 2023, Professor Farzaneh Hemmasi holds a Jackman Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship. Her project is entitled “Sound, Community, and Tolerance in Toronto’s Kensington Market” During the fellowship period, she will be working on a website sharing the multimodal outcomes of a community engaged ethnographic research project called the Kensington Market Soundscape Study on the perceived increase of sound and noise in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood’s public realm since March 2020, the beginning of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The multi-faceted website will include sonic and visual documentation of KM community members accounts of their experiences with neighbourhood sound and annotated, neighbourhood soundscape recordings in online maps of Kensington Market.