The Center for 21st Century Studies

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Fostering innovative research at the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences since 1968. Through fellowships, project support, and programming, the Center provides multiple points of access and honors multiple ways of knowing.

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2024-25 Year in Review

This year, the Center for 21st Century Studies had an amazing new team, a great group of summer Story Cart fellows, and a supportive Advisory Council. We supported a cohort of seven faculty research fellowsthree collaboratories, and nine working groups. Our annual theme, Slow Knowing, explored the pace of being human, spawned a weekly blog, and inspired a podcast reboot. We engaged hundreds of people over the course of 33 C21-produced events, co-sponsored programs, and Story Cart activations.

You can read the full post and a letter from Jennifer Johung, C21 Director, here.

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  • 2024-25 Year in Review
    Letter From the Director Dear Friends, At the end of our last event, an attention lab hosted by members of the Strother School of Radical Attention, one of the workshop …
  • Slow Digest: Humanities III
    This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the third essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. …
  • Slow Digest: The Humanities II
    This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the second essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. …
  • Slow Digest: The Humanities I
    This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the first essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. …
  • Slow Digest: If a Light Year Were a Grain if Rice
    In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with C21,” Jean Creighton, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium, explores the concept of slow knowing by emphasizing the importance of making …

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