Introducing: Slow Digest

Slow movements—across food, cities, science, scholarship and more—call attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models, rapid rewards, and short attention spans that increasingly seem to dominant human responses to 21st century …

Wisco Soundoff in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Wisco Soundoff, a collaborative voter engagement event organized by C21 and DoSomething, was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on September 27, 2024. You can read Tamia Fowlkes’ article, “National nonprofit wants to know what’s on Gen Z’s mind, …

2025-26 Call for Research Fellows

Application Deadline:   Friday, December 6, 2024  BACKGROUND  A UW System Center of Excellence, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) builds a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Each year, C21 offers fellowships to UWM faculty …

Story Cart featured on Spectrum News

The Mobile Story Cart and Summer Story Team was featured on Spectrum News on July 26, 2023. The feature includes an interview with Story Team facilitator, Jamee Pritchard. Watch it here!

Story Experience Showcase featured in UWM Report

The UWM Report featured the work of the Story Experience fellows from last month’s showcase event. Read more here! Story Experience Fellow applications are still being accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here!

C21 Director Anne Basting announced as 2023 Unstoppable Voters Fellow

The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters program views creative risk-taking as an opportunity for engaging civic dialogue. Each year, the program supports fellows in carrying out projects that mobilize voters and confront “anti-voter attacks.” C21’s Director, Anne Basting, has …

C21 Director Anne Basting featured on NYT First Person Podcast

The New York Times podcast First Person explores the diversity of opinions through the stories they originate from. This week, C21 Director Anne Basting discusses her experiences working in a locked Alzheimer’s unit, and how she came up with a …

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.