Founded in 1968, C21 has a storied history. It has been home to some of the most field-defining conferences and has been a must-stop for the most important thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the sidebar, you can find our complete online archive, which features not only a timeline of hosted events across the last several decades but also posters, photographs, and other memorabilia that tells the story of the Center’s legacy.

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.