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April

Let's Talk About Guilt

Heidi Maibom and Charlie Kurth
Thursday, April 9, 4–5pm | Downtown Main Library, 3 South Room E, 800 Vine St | Register

Guilt tends to be loved or loathed. Those who love it view the emotion as moral ballast: guilt helps us see that we’ve done something wrong and the awful feeling it brings is not just penance, but a goad for us to make amends. Loathers see guilt as an anchor that weights us down. Not only can we be plagued by guilt when we have done nothing wrong—as we see in survivor guilt or the guilt we feel after harming others in a freak car accident—but guilt also too often leads us to self-loathing and depression. What, then, are we to make of guilt? In her inaugural Taft Distinguished Professor lecture, Heidi Maibom is joined by Charlie Kurth to discuss their book, Good Guilt, Bad Guilt: A Philosophical Guide to a Complicated Emotion.

Reading & Conversation: In Practice

Chandra Frank
Tuesday, April 14, 11am–1pm | Taft Research Center Gallery

Join 2024-27 Taft Professor of Public Humanities Chandra Frank for her inaugural public office hours to read text fragments, alone or together, as part of In Practice, a pop-up public humanities reading room focused on radical pedagogies and creative unlearning.

Tidal Pedagogies Workshop

Chandra Frank
Thursday, April 16, 11am–1pm | Taft Research Center Gallery

Join 2024-27 Taft Professor of Public Humanities Chandra Frank for an interactive workshop on how tides and water shape our understanding of pedagogy. How might we think with relation, movement, and currents in our teaching and creative practices? This workshop will make use of materials featured in the In Practice reading room. No preparation is required.

What We Know So Far: The Life & Legacy of Charles McMicken

Anne Steinert and the 2026 McMicken Research Cohort
Tuesday, April 21, 1–2:30pm | Taft Research Center | Register

How should the University of Cincinnati best tell the story of our founding donor Charles McMicken? Join 2025–27 Taft Professor of Social Justice Anne Delano Steinert and 2026 McMicken Research Cohort 11 undergraduates dedicating a year to exploring McMicken’s life and legacy, as they share their findings to date.