interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations

Taft Research Center offers an array of university and public humanities programs designed to bring people together across the 15 Taft-member departments in the humanities and social sciences, and beyond.

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Period. 

The 2025/26 Taft Research Center theme Period. invites us to think about time, perspective, punctuation, rhythm, and speed. While periods can signal the end of something—a definitive statement, break, full stop, end of discussion—they also suggest cycles, intervals, and return. With the 2025/26 theme Period. we will explore how humanities and social science scholars punctuate time, history, and our ideas for audiences within and beyond the academy. What is the point of humanities and social science research? What do we include and what do we leave out in our work and writing? In exploring both the public-facing and backstage of humanistic inquiry, we will examine how the humanities and social sciences connect us to the fleshy rhythms of life.  Read the full theme description here


Worldbuilding and Radical Worldmaking 

Join the Taft Research Center for our 2024/25 thematic programming series where we host distinguished visiting scholars, artists, activists, and makers, alongside our own faculty and students, to develop techniques to anchor, imagine, and speculate about new worlds while transforming our own. What are the horizons of radical worldmaking? How can we use methods, practices, and ways of knowing from the humanities and social sciences to extend them?   

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250405 TRS Carnegie2

Atmospheres Public Program–Performances & Listening Scores
Saturday, April 5, noon
The Carnegie Gallery
1028 Scott Blvd 
Covington, KY


250410 IP Amy Web

In Process
Amy Lind with Margaret Power
Anti-Fascist Solidarity Movements and Political Memory in Authoritarian Chile, 1970-1980s
Thursday, April 10, 10am–noon
Taft Research Center 
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250416 APW Web

Data Say What? Research for Community Impact
Elissa Yancey, A Picture’s Worth & 
Viann Barnett, Recovery Services at HER Cincinnati
Wednesday, April 16, 6pm
Taft Research Center

250417 IP Siham Web

In Process
Siham Bouamer with Denis M. Provencher
Globalizing Moroccan Culture: Identity, Representation, and Cultural Flows
Thursday, April 17, 10am–noon
Taft Research Center 
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250416 TRS RAD Web

Race and Data Public Programming–Untangling Data
Wednesday, April 16, 6–9pm 
Taft Research Center






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Edwards I, Suite 1110
47 Corry Boulevard
Cincinnati, OH 45221