“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 …

World Languages and Cultures Collaboratory Event Held in November

On November 19th, 2024, the World Languages and Cultures collaboratory hosted an event during UWM’s International Education Week that highlighted the critical importance of multilingual skills in today’s professional landscape. The event, which was called Language Works, drew an impressive …

Slow Digest: Matter, Object, Tree

6.5 Minutes With…Yevgeniya Kaganovich In a new podcast episode of 6.5 Minutes With…, our director, Jennifer Johung, sits down with artist and UWM professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich as she discusses her collaborative research and art project, Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, …

Call for Proposals: Live Streaming Symposium: Communities of Play

The Serious Play/Digital Cultures Collaboratory invites proposals for an online symposium on live streaming of games and other performative media. Presentations will be made by video and ideally will involve elements of unscripted or improvised performance. Contributions selected for the …

New Collaboratory: #ArtinHigherEd

We’re pleased to announce a new C21 Collaboratory for the 2019-20 academic year: #ArtinHigherEd: The Role of University Art Collections and Museums.

Josh Rivers Named a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow

Congratulations to Josh Rivers for being named a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow for next year! Josh is a PhD student in the Anthropology department at UWM as well as a member of C21’s “Serious Play” Collaboratory. The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation offers fellowships …

Inaugural Group of C21 Collaboratory Awardees

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) is pleased to announce the first awardees in our new C21 Collaboratory initiative, which offers grants for interdisciplinary research collaborations among UWM faculty, students, staff, and members of the community. Awardees include Erica …

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.