Dear Friends, There is always something about late summer – time that runs both fast and slow, the need to do something and also do nothing, and the gradual acceptance that we’re returning to familiar routines – that always surprises …
Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 2 continues where Vol. 1 left off, documenting the workshops and attention exercises of C21’s Story Cart: Attention. This mobile, community-based storytelling project brings humanities practices into public spaces across Milwaukee. Developed through workshops led by …
In April 2026, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted its inaugural graduate-led public humanities program, “En-Vision: Toward a Queer Ethics of Slow Care,” led by Isabella Fincher. The program explored creative practices and embodied experiences of slow care among …
Dear C21 Friends, As another year comes to a close, I’m thinking back to our opening event: the State of the Humanities MKE panel that has quietly been shaping our vision at the Center. As humanities leaders across Milwaukee from …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is a statement about the Center’s 2026-2027 theme of Slow Action, written by C21’s Director, Jennifer Johung. What does it mean to act with deliberation, care, and consistency—and to do so in community? As the Center …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Adam Carr, one of C21’s Story Fellows, as he reflects on his process of creating three attention experiments during the 2025-26 academic year for C21’s theme of Slow Care. In the past week, …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was edited by by Managing Director Katie Waddell. C21 graduate fellows selected the featured interviews. Audio was edited by Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. From September 2025 to May 2026, C21’s Story Cart project introduced Milwaukeeans to …
As the C21 staff prepares for next week’s Slow Digest, which will preview our Story Cart: Attention interviews highlighting how Milwaukeeans practice slow care through deliberate attention, this week is an invitation to pause. Take a breath. Inhale…Exhale… Let’s practice …
Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digestwill 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, multimedia …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Grief is an ongoing process that ebbs and flows depending on the day, the month, the weather, a random song, or the unexpected encounter with my mother’s …
