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
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
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'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...
🔍 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.
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.
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
Excited to see this out in the world! This article is a result from my year of working alongside Ari, Theo, and Lydia. Here we attempted to grapple with the ways that capitalist frontiers have always been voluminous, and are increasingly moving more explicitly into "non-terrestrial realms".
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!
We've decided to discount The Essential Mike Davis collection through tomorrow night
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sx salon: a small axe literary platform invites submissions. We publish three issues per year and accept submissions on a rolling basis. Please review the style requirements below before submitting.
Visit our webpage: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/subm...
🌎 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...
one of the many important things I learned from Sylvia Wynter is that capitalism (specifically dispossession by accumulation) is a belief system (not just, say, a social-economic system). it is deified and worshipped. dig this: it’s a religion, faith, theology. we follow it.
terror-making anew and familiar, a nexus of white supremacy and its pillars of misogyny-empire-capitalism-heteropatriarchy-nationalism-ecocide.
there are no cheeky clap backs for this thick and stretched out hatred of difference (human, extra-human, and otherwise).
respite is a dream.
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!
"The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere"
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
A laboratory of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory, 6 King Street, 1899
CfP: Co-Laborating for Change? The future of peace and security in an age of crises
25-27 June 2025
@ifshhamburg.bsky.social
We are looking for contributions that engage with participatory and collaborative research methods in the study of contemporary and future crises
ifsh.de/file/Events/...
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
AusSTS2025 @aussts.bsky.social is going to be here in Naarm/Melbourne in July, sponsored by Deakin's Science and Society Network + @sthv.bsky.social The call for proposals is now OPEN (closes 15 March) so please submit + spread the word: aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
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
An American summary
minor theory
at HouseHold Books, Cincinnati
30 Jan at 6pm
by the Taft Research Center
a reading group on the university, cultures of thought and study, and community building amidst political and environmental uncertainty
We will be discussing All Incomplete by Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
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