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 facilitators asked us to imagine “the great empty cup of attention” …

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. Don’t miss Parts 1 and 2 of this series: “Reshaping the …

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. Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, “Reshaping the Humanities Through …

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. Part 1: Reshaping the Humanities Through Executive Orders In his first …

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 complex astronomical knowledge relatable by stripping down details, connecting concepts to …

Check Out the C21 Site Archive!

Over our 50+ year history, C21 has served as the proud host of many events, publications, movements, and experiments. We have begun an initiative to give our web content a second life on the Internet Archive. If you are curious …

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.