This week, Slow Digest offers three articles by scholars, or groups of scholars, who explore or reflect on the rewards of slow(ish), interdisciplinary, exploratory, and highly collaborative scholarly practices. Patricia Hill Collins, “LOOKING BACK, MOVING AHEAD: Scholarship in Service to …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Cooking: Worth its Wait in Flavor One of my core olfactory memories is the smell of my great-grandmother’s white beans and ham slowly cooking …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Reading When the Sky is Falling: A Testimony to Dystopian Fiction When I was younger, I was one of those deep readers who could …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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!
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!
From the NEH: “In this highly competitive funding cycle, NEH funded fourteen percent of the Summer Stipend proposals that it received.” Handley’s “application was selected for support after completing a rigorous three-step review process.”
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 …
