Slow Digest: Attensity!

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. On April 1, C21 will lead an edition of the Cactus Book Club focusing on the book Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of …

Art in the News

This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi, an exhibition curated by Jennifer Johung, PhD, Professor of Contemporary Art and Architecture and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, was recently …

Slow Digest: Mich Dillon

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Save the Date: Book Talk on Black Feminist Resistance

C21’s Reproductive Justice Collaboratory and La Revo Books will host a book talk called “A Conversation About Black Feminist Resistance in Trying Times” with authors Nessette Falu (Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil) and Stacie McCormick (We are Pregnant with …

Slow Digest: Slow Care in the Media

This week’s Slow Digest is a compilation of slow care media recommendations from the C21 staff: Managing Director Katie Waddell, and Graduate Fellows Chloe Kwiatkowski, Ceceilia Loeschmann, and Jamee Pritchard. This week, through a collection of recommendations from C21 staff, …

Kyoung Ae Cho’s “Slow Art” Featured in TextielPlus

Kyoung Ae Cho, a former 2024-25 research fellow, was recently profiled in Textiel Plus, a Dutch fiber art magazine. The article, published in both Dutch and English, is titled “The Slow Art of Kyoung Ae Cho” and explores her art …

Slow Digest: AI, Environmental Problem or Miracle Solution?

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellows Yuchen Zhao and Ceceilia Loeschmann. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days, used for tasks like writing emails to creating images and powering research. But behind the convenience is a growing question: What does all this computing cost …

Slow Digest: More Than A Feeling

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is adapted from More Than a Feeling: Performativity, Sincerity, and Sociality in the Art of the Affective Turn, a master’s thesis by Katie Waddell, Managing Director of C21, adapted for Slow Digest by Jamee Pritchard. …

Slow Digest: Nathaniel Stern

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

State of the Humanities MKE Report

The Center for 21st Century Studies is pleased to release the State of the Humanities MKE Report, a synthesis of insights from our recent panel discussion and community conversations. Hosted by C21 and moderated by Director Jennifer Johung, the event …