Taft Reads
The Taft Research Center fosters interdisciplinary community and collabortion by sponsoring faculty-organized reading discussion groups on topics and themes of broad interest.
Open to all, groups are coordinated by faculty from Taft member units who receive $300 per year to facilitate group meetings. Proposals for new groups are accepted on a rolling basis.
Religious Studies
Jenny Caplan
Coordinator
Rather than replicating (in an ersatz way) a traditional religious studies program, with its specialists in distinct religious traditions, the Religious Studies Reading Group operates as a kind of lab for the study of significant issues that touch upon religious histories, texts, traditions, cultures, and communities.
Global Pre-Modern Studies, ca. 600–1700
Joanna Huh, Christopher Platts & Susan Longfield Karr
Coordinators
This group aims to create a diverse community of colleagues—current and emeritus faculty, graduate students, staff, and scholars and curators in the greater Cincinnati area—to exchange ideas, share work-in-progress, participate in research roundtables, and foster collaboration in research, teaching, and public
Critical Pedagogy & Writing Pedagogy
Alecia Beymer
Coordinator
A learning community for faculty and graduate students interested in developing and discussing what it means to invite critical, culturally sustaining, responsive, and inclusive writing practices in all disciplines.
Critical Theory
Alecia Beymer
Coordinator
This group invites an informal approach to engaging with and reading critical theory across disciplines.