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March

Krista Franklin, Reading & Conversation 

Thursday, March 26, 4pm | Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library | Register

A reading and conversation with writer + artist Krista Franklin. Presented in partnership with Great Meadows Foundation and The Carnegies as part of Altered States: (A) Critical Response, the inaugural symposium dedicated to advancing critical discourse around contemporary art. Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist. She earned an MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Solo(s) (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). Her work has been published in Poetry magazine, The Offing, Black Camera, Copper Nickel, Callaloo, BOMB Magazine, Encyclopedia, Vol. F-K and L-Z, and the anthologies The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape (2018), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015), and Gathering Ground (2006).

Hard to Swallow, a screening and Q&A with Tunde Wey & Theo Schear 

Friday, March 27, 7–9pm | Esquire Theater, 320 Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220 | Register

Directed by Tunde Wey & Theo Schear, Hard to Swallow (2025) is an essayistic and reflexive, docuseries that recounts Wey’s explosive career while building a critique of the social structures that disenfranchise Black peoples globally. Traveling across the United States, Tunde investigates the ways food culture is shaped by race and class. Through unsparing interviews, poetic narration, and reflections on the filmmaking process, Tunde calls out individuals, systems and himself, prompting viewers to rethink their own position in system inequality. Official Selection at the 2024 SeriesFest and 2024 Cannes Series: Docuseries Competition.

Presented in partnership with the Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies, The Devou Good Foundation, Great Meadows Foundation, and The Carnegies as part of Altered States: (A) Critical Response, the inaugural symposium dedicated to advancing critical discourse around contemporary art. 

April

HISTORY
Charles McMicken

What We Know So Far: Research of the McMicken Research Cohort 

Tuesday, April 21, 1–2:30pm | Taft Research Center

The 2026 McMicken Research Cohort is made up of eleven undergraduate students who will dedicate one year to an exploration of the life and legacy of UC's founding donor, Charles McMicken. Born in Pennsylvania in 1782, McMicken made his fortune selling goods, land - and enslaved people. When he died in1858 he donated much of that fortune to found the University of Cincinnati. In 2022, the University of Cincinnati removed the McMicken name from all campus buildings, spaces, and organizations, but since that time little has been done to explain why. Most students and faculty know little about Charles McMicken or his connection to UC.
The students of the McMicken Research Cohort and Taft Professor of Social Justice Anne Delano Steinert will share their findings to date on the life and legacy of Charles McMicken and invite you to join a conversation about how the University of Cincinnati should best tell the story of our founding donor.