In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, Desiree McCray, a womanist scholar, explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and Black religion and culture. She advocates for “slow knowing” and “slow care” in education, public theology, and activism, emphasizing …
As a UW System Center of Excellence, C21 prioritizes building a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Each year, C21 offers fellowships that provide the time, space, and collegial support to generate new knowledge and …
We are excited to announce that C21 has received a Major Grant from Wisconsin Humanities for our project, “Attention Activism in Milwaukee.” This funding will help us conduct our Attention Activism event in May, as well as further develop the Story …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Slow Futurism in Africanfuturist Science Fiction As a spatial genre, science fiction challenges readers to perceive the world differently. It reconstructs space and place in relation to …
The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) has been selected to participate in a research initiative on “Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies” organized and funded through the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. In the 2025-26 academic …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. This edition of Slow Digest delves into the concept of slow violence, a term coined by Rob Nixon to describe the gradual, and often invisible forms of environmental …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Eat, Pray, Love, and Liberation: The Search for Rest Tricia Hersey, the founder of The Nap Ministry and author of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, argues that rest …
