Slow Digest: A World of Gifts, Not Commodities

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, and researched by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The valleyedge by edgebare field by fieldI walked through it through you rain by raincold by coldroot absenceand the purposeful …

Slow Digest: Urbanism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. To at least some degree, living in an urban environment necessitates embracing speed. City dwellers have things to do and places to go. When it takes a long …

The Latest From Our ’24-’25 Research Fellows

Check out these updates from our current cohort of research fellows: Elana Levine is professor of media, cinema, and digital studies in the Department of English. During the 2024-25 fellowship year, she has been working on a new book, Soap Opera: …

Slow Digest: Pausing, Healing, Asking for Help

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, C21 Graduate Fellow, Jamee Pritchard, interviews Charmaine Lang, Ph.D, a certified healing centered coach and organizational development consultant, about her work on slow care. Lang defines slow care as intentional pausing and community …

Slow Digest: Television

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I came across slow TV during the fall semester of 2023 while in the midst of studying for my preliminary exams. While the …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.