@taftcenter.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary hub for conversations and collaborations that span the humanities, social sciences, and beyond at the University of Cincinnati
Taft is excited to offer a new research seminar for Fall 2025, open to all advanced undergrad and early grad students at University of Cincinnati!
🧵 Repair 🛠️
Dr. Harshavardhan Bhat (@harshco.bsky.social)
Tuesdays 4–6:50pm | 3 credits
HUM/SOSC 4010-001 & 7010-001
Taft Research Center
TODAY at Taft!
⚰️ Archiving LGBTQ+ Stories in Francophone Cultures: A Look at Cemeteries and Social Media in Morocco
Denis Provencher, NC State University
📅 Thursday, April 17, 4pm
This Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures departmental lecture is free and open to the public!
Don't miss these two events happening TONIGHT at Taft!
🗣️ Data Say What? with Elissa Yancey from A Picture's Worth and Viann Barnett from HER Cincinnati, 6pm.
🧶 Untangling Data, featuring artifacts presented by students in @harshco.bsky.social's Race and Data Taft Research Seminar, 6-9pm.
We are hiring! Application review for our 2025–27 Postdoctoral Fellowship begins May 1! Applications for our 2025–27 Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Assistantship are due April 14! taft.center/m/apply
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🔍 Data Say What? Research for Community Impact
Elissa Yancey, A Picture’s Worth & Viann Barnett, Recovery Services at HER Cincinnati
Wednesday, April 16, 6pm
Hear insights about working with community experts and how they define and collect data through a lens of trust-based research.
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Event information with QR code to register
🌊 Tide Over
Saturday, April 12, 10:15a–6p
Village Green Foundation & Boxelder Community Room, Northside
📋 Full schedule & register: taft.center/4j3OteO
A one-day, multi-site gathering to explore questions of entanglement, interdependence & care through reading & writing circles, workshops & a walk.
⏳ In Process: Amy Lind with Margaret Power
Anti-Fascist Solidarity Movements and Political Memory in Authoritarian Chile, 1970-1980s
Thursday, April 10, 10am–noon
Join us for our next works-in-progress discussion featuring Taft Center Fellow Amy Lind! 💬
📅 More info & RSVP here: taft.center/3CCk7Re
Today!
The Opioid Crisis and How to Avoid Another One
A roundtable organized by Isaac Campos featuring
David Courtwright, University of North Florida
David Herzberg, University of Buffalo
Joel Sprunger, University of Cincinnati
Wednesday, April 2, 4–6pm
300 Braunstein Hall
We're hiring! The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati is pleased to announce a search for a 2025–27 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow. We've made some exciting changes to this year's program! jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
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Cincinnati-area undergrads: Join the Taft Research Center & Department of Sociology May 5–9 to expand your research horizons and professional networks while gaining experience working with different methods of data collection & analysis.
Applications due April 11: taft.center/41KOZHY
minor theory
March 27, 7pm
Downbound Books
4139 Apple Street, Northside
RSVP: taft.center/40Hrw9O
Join us for a series of discussions about the university, cultures of thought and study, and community building amidst political and environmental uncertainty.
Taxonomía
Wednesday, March 26, 3:30–5pm
Taft Research Center
Join us for a translingual performance art piece crafted by Javier Cardona Otero. Free & open to the public, registration required. taft.center/4gjkY75
RADICAL WORLDMAKING, session 3
Pandemic Punctuations | 3:20–4:00pm
Moderated by Kathleen Grogan, Anthropology
Shobha Kansal, Sociology
Sara Katanchian, Economics
RADICAL WORLDMAKING, session 2
Voice | 2:10–3:10pm
Moderated by Siham Bouamer, Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures
Holli Carrell, English
Olga Sanz Casasnovas, Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures
Brittney Lynn Smith, History
RADICAL WORLDMAKING, session 1
Movements | 1–2pm
Moderated by Amy Lind, School of Public &
International Affairs
Barbara Besendorfer, Asian, Eastern European & German Studies
Maralyn Doering, Sociology
Yash Sharma, School of Public & International Affairs
WORLDBUILDING, session 2
Values and Other Frames | 11:10am–12pm
Moderated by Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara, History
Jacob Ebbs, Philosophy
Mallory Rock, School of Public & International Affairs
WORLDBUILDING, session 1
Math and Other Models | 10–11am
Moderated by Yizao Wang, Mathematical Sciences
Mel Andrews, Philosophy
Lora Newman, Mathematical Sciences
Sansanka Wijesiri, Mathematical Sciences
Worldbuilding & Radical Worldmaking Symposium
Thursday, March 27, 10am–4pm
Taft Research Center
Join our 2024–25 Taft Dissertation Fellows for cross-disciplinary conversation about their research, methods, and practices. Moderated by 2024–25 Taft Center Fellows. Free and open to the public!
TODAY, 4pm at Taft, attend the lecture How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia with Darcie DeAngelo. 🐀 Learn how former war combatants use explosive-sniffing rats to detect decades-old hidden bombs across mine-ridden Cambodian land. 💣 FREE & open to the public!
13.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Due to illness, tonight’s Monsterhearts 2 x Imagination session has been CANCELLED. We apologize and hope to see you at future Taft events!
12.03.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📆 *DATE CHANGE* IN PROCESS featuring Siaham Bouamer and Denis M. Provencher has been RESCHEDULED to Thursday, April 17, 10am-12pm.
IN PROCESS is a works-in-progress series with Taft Center & Classics Fellows & invited interlocutors. Advanced registration required:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-process...
Playtime isn't over yet! Monsterhearts 2 x Imagination: A Manifesto, this Wednesday, 3/12, 4-6pm! 🎲 Explore how interactive play and worldbuilding can incubate revolutionary thought. FREE & open to the 18+ public, registration required: taft.center/4aIHJ3a
🗺️ 123 E McMicken Ave, 2nd Floor - OTR
Come see the #TurnawayPlay on UC's campus! Based on the Turnaway Study – an abortion research project exploring experiences of people denied abortion care and those who could access it. Followed by expert panel discussion with abortion researchers. Co-sponsored by UC Sociology, WGSS and CCM Acting.
05.03.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TODAY, Monday, 3/3, 11:30am at Taft: Don't miss the 2025–27 Taft Professor of Social Justice Inaugural Lecture, The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Space(s) for Truth-Telling at UC featuring Dr. Anne Delano Steinert! 📖🗣️ Reception to follow.
Register for the FREE event here: taft.center/4jECEwY
Today! 1:30pm, Taft Research Center
Join us for a talk by Assistant Professor of Sociology Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown in celebration of her new book SAY HER NAME: CENTERING BLACK FEMINISM & BLACK WOMEN IN SPORT.
Free & open to the public!
Join us 2/21, 10am–3pm, FEC & Zoom for Taft Faculty Writes! Open to all UC faculty, we'll work on independent writing projects alongside one another, taking short breaks to set goals, report progress, and move around. Co-sponsored with FEC. Register via OneStop: ce.uc.edu/FacDev/Works...
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🌎 Friday, 3/7, 6pm 🌍 2025 Worldbuilding and Radical Worldmaking Keynote, Incubating Imagination: Possibilities & Practices Toward Liberatory Learning with award-winning scholar, writer and educator Dr. Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social
Learn more & register for FREE here:
www.uc.edu/news/article...
We're excited to partner with the National Commission for Black Arts & Entertainment to host RADICAL PLAY 3/5 & 3/12! Come play Monsterhearts 2 & discuss Imagination: A Manifesto before and after @ruha9.bsky.social's keynote on 3/7. Register for all events here: taft.center/m/events
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TONIGHT! 2/17 5:30PM CCH 5280
Join us for a roundtable discussion about current initiatives led by Indigenous Peoples in Amazônia to support conservation, self-determination, and creative media making in a digital age.
Presented with SEaS & the Neihoff Center for Film & Media Studies
TODAY! 2/13, 1:30pm, Taft Research Center
Join us for a talk by Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Cassandra Jones in celebration of her new book BLACK SPECULATIVE FEMINISMS: MEMORY AND LIBERATED FUTURES IN BLACK WOMEN'S FICTION.
Free & open to the public!
