dream machine 1:  seismicity 
Monday, November 4, 2–4pm 
Taft Research Center  

Listen with and consider the history of geophones in making and unmaking worlds. Optional readings: selections from Macarena Gómez-Barris’s The Extractive Zone and Adam Bobbette’s Sound of Magma. The session will center a score/prompt for development of individual practices and research

ZANE L. MILLER SYMPOSIUM: CONVERSATIONS IN THE CITY 
Root Shock: The Trauma of Displacement in American Cities & Cincinnati’s West End
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove
November 6, 5:30
Cincinnati Museum Center

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of her foundational book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It with a talk about the psychological trauma of urban renewal in America. Fullilove developed the concept of Root Shock, “the trauma stress reaction to the destruction of all or part of one’s emotional ecosystem,” through her oral history-based investigations with Black Americans displaced by urban renewal. She will share her findings in this anniversary address while also providing an update on the evolution of our understandings of urban renewal-related trauma since the book’s publication twenty years ago. Further, Fullilove will place the history of Cincinnati’s Lower West End and Kenyon-Barr Urban Renewal Project within its larger national context. 

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The Parables RPG Play Session with Jay Africa
November 14, 4­–6pm
Africana Studies Student Lounge, French Hall 3616
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4f37VGW

The Parables is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) set in the universe of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Jay Africa will run two virtual game sessions. Nov 14 is “On the Road,” playing as travelers coming together as Earthseed. Nov 15 is “Acorn,” playing as young Earthseed building its first established community. 

Sights of Self through Storytelling
Marina Vladova, MPH
November 15, 2024, 3-5pm
Clifton Court Hall Room 1110 or via Zoom
Registration required: https://bit.ly/NMCA

Reflections on our ACH Narrative Medicine Workshop Experience
Following an introductory talk, Marina will be joined by two Akron Children's Hospital parents for Reflections on their ACH Narrative Medicine Workshop Experience

Workshop: Narrative Medicine and You
The program will conclude with a Q&A, followed by a sampler Narrative Medicine workshop for those who attend in-person.

Colorblind Nationalism and the Future(?) of Race and Racism in the U.S.: Turning Your Dissertation Into a Career Building Scholarly Agenda
Marcus Brooks
Friday, November 15, 3pm
Taft Research Center

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The Parables RPG Play Session with Jay Africa
November 15, 4–6pm 
Africana Studies Student Lounge, French Hall 3616
Registration required: https://bit.ly/3BHQ1Li

The Parables is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) set in the universe of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Jay Africa will run two virtual game sessions. Nov 14 is “On the Road,” playing as travelers coming together as Earthseed. Nov 15 is “Acorn,” playing as young Earthseed building its first established community. 

dream machine 2: electromagnetism  
with Celeste Oram
Monday, November 18, 1–3pm 
Taft Research Center & Zoom 
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4hutxxI 

Use and make EMF (electromagnetic frequency) microphones to listen with the hidden sounds of infrastructure and technological devices, considering the electromagnetic spectrum as resource and space of law. Optional listening: Determi-Nation podcast, by Darrah Blackwater, incl. Spectrum Sovereignty Explained with Mariel Triggs and Māori Spectrum Rights with Antony Royal. The session will center a “collective worldmaking” score/prompt from Celeste using participatory radio.

Asymptomatic Mean Value Expansions for Solutions to Nonlinear Equations
Dr. Juan Manfredi
Thursday, November 21, 4–5pm 
Rec Center Room 3250

Harmonic functions in Euclidean space are characterized by the mean value property and by expectations of stopped Brownian motion processes. This equivalence has a long history with fundamental contributions by Doob, Hunt, Ito, Kakutani, Kolmogorov, Levy, and many others. In this lecture, I will propose ways to extend this characterization to solutions of non-linear elliptic and parabolic equations. The non-linearity of the equation requires that the rigid mean value property be replaced by asymptotic mean value expansions and Brownian motion by stochastic games, but the main equivalence remains when formulated with the help of the theory of viscosity solutions. Moreover, this local equivalence also holds on more general ambient spaces like Riemannian manifolds and the Heisenberg group. I will present the details of this equivalence for the p-Laplace equation in Euclidean space and in the Heisenberg group.

Co-sponsored with Mathematical Sciences

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The Maravillas: Gangs, Aging, and Mattering in East Los Angeles
Randol Contreras, University of California - Riverside
Friday, November 22, 3pm
Tangeman University Center, Rm. 419

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Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart’s Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Friday, November 22, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center

What can we Learn from Exiled Scholar Networks about Academic Freedom in the USA?
Nazan Bedirhanoglu Balaban, PhD, Xavier University
Friday, September 20, 2024, 3 pm
Taft Research Center

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Relative Deprivation, Sense of Belonging, and Activism for Social Change: Analyzing Inequity in Educational Context
Dr. Amanda Brockman, Northern Kentucky University 
Friday, October 4, 2024, 3pm 
Taft Research Center

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

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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

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 

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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

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Taft Student Open House 
Wednesday, October 30, 3:30–5pm 
Taft Research Center