Taft Research Center - University of Cincinnati

?? On Friday, March 7, Taft is proud to present its 2025 Worldbuilding and Radical Worldmaking Keynote Lecture, Incubating Imagination: Possibilities & Practices Toward Liberatory Learning. We invite you to explore the liberating power of the imagination with award-winning scholar, writer and educator Dr. Ruha Benjamin. ?? Read the UC News event announcement for more info about the FREE event. https://lnkd.in/gaVS3FSS Co-sponsored with University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences.

TODAY, Monday, 3/3, 11:30am: The Taft Research Center presents 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. ?? Every institution has stories to explain and affirm its origin, rituals, and values. These stories are passed down in many ways, including within the physical spaces we inhabit together. In her inaugural lecture, 2025–27 Taft Professor of Social Justice Professor Anne Delano Steinert will explore two pieces of UC’s history—stories of the university’s founding donor, Charles McMicken, and the full-body radiation experiments conducted by UC physicians between 1960–1972—and contrast the ways we tell their stories on our campus today and how we might tell them more truthfully in the future. ??? Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gyc98FkG

Congratulations to Taft Professor of Social Justice Dr. Anne Delano Steinert on this honor!

The Taft 2025 Worldbuilding and Radical Worldmaking Keynote Lecture is just over a month away! Explore the possibilities and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds of learning and being?with this year's speaker, Dr. Ruha Benjamin. Learn more below and register for the FREE event here: https://lnkd.in/gwipbMVe

Visit Taft TODAY, 11:30am-1:30pm for the Imagining America National Gathering Thematic Workshop! Imagining America staff will guide participants through a creative exercise to identify pressing concerns, important regional and national issues, and local assets and strengths to uplift in the Cincinnati region. Through group discussion, reflection, and a lunch break, we will generate ideas for the 2025 IA National Gathering theme! Contact [email protected] if you would like to participate.

Are you a graduate student that needs designated time and space to get some?writing?done? We get it! Join the Graduate Student Writing Accountability Sessions throughout the spring semester, starting TODAY, 1/23 at 12:30. These sessions will provide structured time, a quiet space, light refreshments and comradery as you make progress on seminar papers, theses, dissertations and more. ?? Register via GetInvolvedUC today! ?? Dates Thursday, January 23, 12:30–3:30pm, Clifton Court Hall 5280 Tuesday, February 11, 12:30–3:30pm, Clifton Court Hall 5280 Wednesday, February 26, 10am–4pm, Taft Research Center Tuesday, March 11, 10am–1pm, Clifton Court Hall 5280 Wednesday, April 2, 10am–1pm, Langsam 462 Tuesday, April 22, 10am–4pm, Taft Research Center Wednesday, May 14, 10am–3:30pm, Taft Research Center Co-sponsored with The Graduate College at University of Cincinnati and Learning Commons.

Introducing Taft Research Seminars, debuting this spring as the latest addition to our thematic programing lineup! Offered through the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences, two credit-bearing interdisciplinary research courses taught by Taft Postdoctoral Fellows Harshavardhan Bhat and Megan Gette are open for student enrollment this semester. Read the UC News story here:

New year, new semester, new thematic programming at Taft! Check out the January event lineup and register for upcoming Radical Worldmaking lectures, workshops and pop-ups. Join our email list for the latest event info, news stories, application deadlines and more. https://lnkd.in/gpZ-BB84 University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

?? First Academic publication out?? "Capturing Congolese Women’s Memories of War and Peacemaking"?? Issue n. 7 (2024): Close Encounters in War and Personal Narratives. Experience, Memory, and Storytelling in the Journal of Close Encounters in War. The concluding contribution of this special issue by Marie-Rose Tshite is Capturing Congolese Women’s Memories of War and Peacemaking, interweaves narratives gathered from oral history interviews of over 30 women and highlights materials from their own personal archives towards correcting the official record of war and peacemaking in the DRC that excludes women’s experiences, actions, memories, and memorabilia. Four narratives of the Sun City women are shared those are from Mme Aurelie Bitondo, Mme Faida Mwangilwa, Mme Marie-Rose Kambere and Mme Jeannine Mukanirwa. Stories of men in power and men who took up arms, whether governmental or rebel group actors, have dominated Congolese public discourse about the first and second civil wars and the 2003 Pretoria peace agreement that was to end them. The male-centred narration of war and peacemaking in public discourse, institutional archives, and even academic study has perpetuated the exclusion of the narratives of Congolese women who struggled for peace. This article contributes to re-establishing the central role that women had in the peacemaking process after the war and the unknown history of women’s war and peace activism in the DRC to contribute to the field of feminist peace and security studies and studies of women in war and peace histories, particularly in the Global South? (infra, p. 280). Here is the link to the article ?? https://lnkd.in/g_TMhNcN ?????? I would like to take this time to say a heartfelt Thanks to Dr. Anne Runyan Stephen Bryant Prateek Srivastava for encouraging and guiding me throughout the all process. Taft Research Center - University of Cincinnati Julie Leftwich, J.D., M.A. Amy Lind University of Cincinnati United States Institute of Peace Kerry Byamungu Yali RLC EA ALUMNI RDC Salama Women's Institute (SAWI) VLF - RDCongo AU WPS Bineta Diop Femmes d'Exception du Congo FDEC National Democratic Institute (NDI) Lindsay Robinson

The Taft Research Center is pleased to announce a new pilot program in partnership with University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences. Taft will underwrite the program and travel costs of 1 faculty member and 2 doctoral students to attend the National Humanities Center summer residency programs in 2025. Applications are due Monday, January 13, 2025 for faculty and Friday, January 10, 2025 for doctoral students. Please see the attached calls for applicants for more information.