Join us for the opening reception of our fall exhibition Public Collectors Publication Survey (9/4-11/4) featuring a lecture by @marc-fischer.bsky.social ‬on 9/4, a zine workshop on 9/5, and two tables at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair 9/6–7! Register: taft-uc.trumba.com

Interested in working collaboratively across the humanities and social sciences and with local community organizations? Sign up now for our fall Taft Research Seminar on Repair (HUM/SOSC 4010 & 7010)with @harshco.bsky.social and help produce a community-sourced zine in partnership with SWELL! 1/3

We are committed to supporting scholars with the structure and community they need to advance their writing goals. From writing retreats and weekly write-on-sites to workshops and accountability groups, see our September offerings and register at taft.center/writes. `

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

🔍 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.

🌊 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...

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

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!

Due to illness, tonight’s Monsterhearts 2 x Imagination session has been CANCELLED. We apologize and hope to see you at future Taft events!

📆 *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.

TODAY, 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...

🌎 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

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!

Join us Monday, March 3 at 11:30am for the inaugural lecture of the 2025–27 Taft Professor of Social Justice Anne Delano Steinert: "The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Space(s) for Truth-Telling at UC." RSVP: taft.center/4jECEwY

Mark your calendars! Friday, March 7, 1–3pm 3230 Campus Recreation Center Join us for a staged reading of the #TurnawayPlay, followed by expert panel discussion with abortion researchers. Co-sponsors UC Sociology, CCM Acting & UC WGSS

Tomorrow! Wednesday, February 5, 12–2:30pm Join Dr. Felicia Denaud for an interactive seminar on Black Power politics across the revolutionary 1960s. Register: taft.center/40so570

Today! Critical Walk in conversation with Viral Justice Join us for winter walk and reflection on themes from Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, co-sponsored with the School of Environment and Sustainability. Meet at Sitwell's Act II at 12:30pm taft.center/40mw0m0

Tonight! minor theory / All Incomplete by Harney & Moten January 30, 6pm Household Books 2533 Gilbert Avenue RSVP: taft.center/42lUFdf minor theory is a series of discussions about the university, cultures of thought & study & community building amidst political and environmental uncertainty

Join us Friday, March 7 for the 2025 Taft Research Center keynote with Ruha Benjamin, co-sponsored with the College of Arts & Sciences at @uofcincy.bsky.social. Come learn about the liberating power of the imagination. RSVP here: taft.center/3WD55Bx