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” …

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 …

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: …

C21 Announces 2025-26 Research Fellows

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 …

C21 Receives Wisconsin Humanities Council Major Grant

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 …

Reproductive Justice Collaboratory Event

The Reproductive Justice Collaboratory at C21 aims to create a space where researchers at UWM and reproductive justice community advocates in Milwaukee can work together to address systemic injustices disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and other women and trans people of …

“Muslims in Milwaukee: Place, Relationality, Activism” Panel Presentation

The Muslim Milwaukee Project hosted an event titled “Muslims in Milwaukee: Place, Relationality, Activism” on November 13, 2024. This inaugural event of the UWM MENA Affinity Group showcased the project’s decade-long community collaboration and ethnographic work, offering a comprehensive exploration …

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.