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The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center is an intellectually vibrant and nourishing hub for interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations that demonstrate the importance of the humanities and humanistic social sciences in understanding and positively reshaping our world. We offer a range of university and public humanities programs that bring people together. We provide fellowships and awards to faculty and students conducting original research as well as to our 15 member units to enrich their students' experiences.
Our theme for the 2026–27 academic year is Counter. Join us for lectures, workshops, and events that foreground counterintuitive insights from the humanities and social sciences! Upcoming programming will center questions of quantification, representation, opposition, and exchange to explore a range of methods, topics, and encounters that reveal the shape of systems, desires, and connections. Given what the humanities and social sciences are up against, what kinds of accounting does the current moment demand? How can we ensure our knowledge and practices count? Read more about the theme here.