Taft Research Center

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

We're hiring! Application review begins May 1 for 2025–27 Postdoctoral Fellowship. jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati…

Visualizing Narratives: A Pathway to Reflection, Empathy, and Advocacy Asha White, Kennedy Heights Art Center @TaftResearch

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

Shot out to the @TaftResearch for supporting Dr. Holly McGee’s Drink N’ Think series. Amazing stuff.

We had a great Critical Walk in conversation with Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Co-sponsored by @TaftResearch and the School of Environment and Sustainability.

Join us for the 2025 Taft Research Center keynote with Ruha Benjamin, co-sponsored with @UC_ArtSci, on Friday, March 7, on the liberating power of the imagination. RSVP here: taft.center/3WD55Bx

TODAY, 11:30am is the Imagining America National Gathering Thematic Workshop at Taft! @ImaginingAmer staff lead activities to identify issues, local assets & strengths in the Cincy region. The goal: generate ideas for the 2025 theme! Contact taft@ucmail.uc.edu to participate.

Are you a recent humanities PhD interested in a career advancing the public good? Apply by March 12, 9 PM ET to be an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow and put your humanities skills to work: bit.ly/4gaAzWz

Bring your leftover seeds, heirloom, community-collected, native or organic seeds, and pick up some seeds for the new year. Herbs are easy to grow in pots and can be used in cooking or dried for tea. 5/5

Seeds, plotting, growing, and tending are all forms of collective worldbuilding and worldmaking. We invite you to think about the stories that seeds carry, and how medicinal herbs sustain, nurture and bond us. 4/5

Join us on Monday 1/27, 12:30–2:30pm for "In-Relation with Seeds with Zayaan Khan" both in-person at the Taft Research Center & via Zoom. We'll host a seed exchange after! RSVP: taft.center/4htkyfk 1/5

We're excited to be part of the planning committee for the @ImaginingAmer 2025 National Gathering! Join us Monday 1/22, 5:30pm at the downtown @cincylibrary for the opening welcome & reception! eventbrite.com/e/2025-imagini…

TODAY at noon via Zoom! @rowanlear will discuss seedwork in the context of institutions & art practices, drawing on their work with the Glasgow Seed Library, ongoing contestations, & broader collaborations within the global north seed community. Register: bit.ly/3DJf3ur

TODAY! 12/13 12:30–2:30pm People's Banner Workshop with Migiwa Orimo Register for this and all Taft events here: bit.ly/m/TaftResearch…

New year, new semester, new thematic programming! Check out Taft's January event lineup of Radical Worldmaking lectures, workshops, pop-ups and more: conta.cc/4hdx8zq