ANNUAL WARNER E. VON ROSENSTIEL LECTURE
A Mamluk's Odyssey: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Identity in the Age of Napoleon
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University Shreveport
Thursday, October 3, 3:30pm
Clifton Court Hall, Room 5280
Indigenous Peoples' Day Convergence 2024
Presented by the Urban Native Collective
Friday, October 11–Monday, October 14
Contemporary Arts Center, 21C Museum Hotel, & Jacob Hoffner Park
Slavery in Two Worlds: East Africans in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Kristina Richardson, University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 15, 4–5:30pm
5401 Aronoff (DAAP)
In 1645 Iberian authorities issued the first license to trade slaves from Mozambique to Brazil. But the story doesn't start there. Muslim traders had been bringing slaves from Mozambique into Iraq since at least the 800s. What historical dynamics come to the fore when we tell these histories together and consider the longue durée of the East African slave trade? We will approach these histories in Brazil and Iraq through three lenses: plantation slavery, organized rebellions, and processes of creolization.
Co-sponsored with Phi Beta Kappa, Office of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Departments of History and Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures, and Programs in Asian Studies and Middle East Studies.
Rhyme and Reflection: Exploring Positionality through Hip Hop Pedagogy
Brittney Smith, News Literacy Project
Wednesday, October 16, 4pm
Taft Research Center
Immerse yourself in an enlightening session with groundbreaking science educator and news literacy specialist Brittney Smith. Participate in an interactive workshop focused on crafting positionality statements to enhance self-awareness and engagement with education—whether you are a formal classroom educator or not. This engaging event will highlight hip hop pedagogy and story creation, feature Brittney’s current research on the experiences of Black girls in AP Biology courses and offer insights for empowering Black girls for STEM and medical futures.
Co-sponsored with the Narrative Medicine Compassionate Arts and Healing (NMCAH) Taft Interdisciplinary Research Group, Department of English, and UC Clermont Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
Behind the Screens: A Digital Scholarship Workshop
Rich Shivener, York University
Friday, October 18, 2:30 - 4:30pm
Clifton Court 2220
This workshop will help participants plan for transforming existing written essays and ongoing research into digital scholarship projects. Digital scholarship is time intensive and raises questions for emerging and established scholars alike. How do I compose with code? Should I find a collaborator? Where do I submit my production? Understanding approaches to digital scholarship as well as locating tools and media for it are vital when beginning a project. By the end of the workshop, participants will have myriad resources and working plans for drafting their first digital publication.
Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
Friday, October 18, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center
projects & process: diy methods 2024
Monday, October 21, 2–4pm
Taft Research Center
Read and make zines inspired by DIY Methods 2024, the "mostly screen-free, zine-full, remote-participation conference on experimental methods for research and research exchange" organized by Sarah Rayner and Anne Pasek of Low-Carbon Research Methods. Zine makers from the conference will join via Zoom to discuss their projects and processes.
Co-sponsored with Taft–DAAP Visual Cultures Research Group
The Peace Corps and the Paradox of US–African Relations
Julius Amin, University of Dayton
Thursday, October 24, 11am
Taft Research Center
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies
Patient and Family Perspectives for Trauma Informed Ethics Consultation: Reflections on a Pilot Study
Elizabeth Lanphier, Sachika Singh, and Dani Clark
Thursday, October 24, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center
Trauma-informed ethics consultation (TIEC) is a framework first described in the literature in 2021, to integrate trauma-informed care principles in clinical ethics consultation practice. As a novel framework, further elaboration of trauma-informed ethics consultation theory and practice is needed, especially for translating theory into practice. This talk will present a pilot project for an interactive narrative and a case-based focus group methodology, designed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary stakeholders and community members, to elicit understanding about ethics consultation and insights into trauma informed practices from patient and caregiver perspectives.
Skilling and Mis-skilling Managers:The Indian Institute of Management, Business Education, and Indian Capitalism
Douglas E. Haynes, Dartmouth College
Thursday, October 24, 4pm
620 Swift
Co-sponsored with History, Sociology, and Management Studies
Douglas E. Haynes discusses Shailaja Paik's award-winning book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
Friday, October 25, 3:30–5pm
Taft Research Center
Taft Floats Open House & Kickoff Event
Friday, October 25, 3–5pm
Elliston Poetry Room, Langsam Library, Suite 646
The Taft–DAAP Visual Cultures Research Group welcomes existing and new members to a showcase of the work the group has done and introduction to the 2024/25 theme–Provisions.
JAMES C. KAUTZ 2024 LECTURE
Katrine Loken, Norwegian School of Economics
October 25, 5–7pm
Lindner Hall
Co-sponsored with Economics
Fathoming: h2o Critical Soundwalk
Saturday, October 26, 2–4pm
Roebling Bridge–Ohio River–Freedom Center
Register here: https://bit.ly/3Ymy0ec
Fathoming is an act of sounding depths and understanding [to grasp]. How might listening with the Ohio River and its infrastructure deepen understanding of the history of slavery, the Underground Railroad, and use of waterways as a border and violent means of control? Beginning at the Roebling Bridge (KY side), we will walk and listen together, ending at the Freedom Center. Participants will be invited to use hydrophones to listen through water and with the vibrations of infrastructure. As a tool to sound and measure water’s depths, hydrophones will allow participants to attune to the materiality and histories of water that inform a what Glissant describes as a “poetics of relation.”
LICHTER LECTURE SERIES IN JUDAIC STUDIES
Through the Eyes of a Child: What the Jewish Sunday School Movement Can Teach Us About American Jewish History
Laura Yares, Michigan State University
Tuesday, October 29, 7pm
Taft Research Center
Co-sponsored with Judaic Studies
Worlding Vampires
Julia B. Ellingboe and Katherine Castiello Jones
Tuesday, October 29, 4pm
Taft Research Center
How do vampires provide us with genre-fiction metaphors to discuss oppression, exploitation, and hope? How does one make the asymmetrical play between predator and prey meaningful and interesting? Game designers Julia Ellingboe and Katherine Castiello Jones discuss their many years of collective worldbuilding and the act of translating serious topics into interactive narratives.
Co-sponsored with the School of Communication, Film & Media Studies, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology, and the Games and Animation Program
Taft Student Open House
Wednesday, October 30, 3:30–5pm
Taft Research Center
Meet Center staff and other Taft students while you learn about our public programming, spring courses, awards, and research opportunities.