Slow Digest: Nathaniel Stern

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will 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, …

Slow Digest: Symphony Swan

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will 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, …

Slow Digest: Minding the Humanities Gap

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee Pritchard. “THE GAP BETWEEN THIS ROOM & THE COMMUNITY IS TOO BIG,” wrote one audience member during the State of the Humanities MKE panel discussion. The comment, submitted anonymously …

Slow Digest: The Humanities Cannot Stay the Same

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. In October of 2025, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted a panel on the current state of the humanities in Milwaukee. The panel, moderated by C21’s Director …

Slow Digest: The Politics of Looking

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Symphony Swan, a C21 Story Fellow, hosted a memory activation workshop last November at CR8TV House, a community arts organization on Milwaukee’s North Side. Once Swan’s childhood …

Slow Digest: Murals of Community Care

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by Anna Mansson McGinty, Faculty in Geography and Women’s & Gender Studies and C21 Lead Faculty Advisor. In November, I had the opportunity to participate in a very meaningful and engaging conversation with Milwaukee-based …

Slow Digest: Prompting a More Human Future

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Last month, I attended a Slow AI workshop sponsored by C21’s Human Club that centered on the practice of prompting — the everyday act of giving language-based …

Slow Digest: Higher Education in Wisconsin Prisons

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. Higher education programs within the Wisconsin prison system have long been characterized by limited access, exclusionary practices, and slow advancement. For decades, deliberate policy choices have eroded educational …

Slow Digest: Kitonga Alexander

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will 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, …

Slow Digest: Family, Ephemera, & The Archive

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Ceceilia Loeschmann. Photographs, videos, documents, and other ephemera often exist as objects of memory, valuable to the families and individuals that create, collect, store, and steward them.  Anna Woodham explores …