Slow Digest: Humanities III

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the third essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Parts 1 and 2 of this series: “Reshaping the …

Slow Digest: The Humanities II

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the second essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, “Reshaping the Humanities Through …

Slow Digest: The Humanities I

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the first essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Part 1: Reshaping the Humanities Through Executive Orders In his first …

Slow Digest: If a Light Year Were a Grain if Rice

In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with C21,” Jean Creighton, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium, explores the concept of slow knowing by emphasizing the importance of making complex astronomical knowledge relatable by stripping down details, connecting concepts to …

Slow Digest: The Strother School of Radical Attention

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack with contributions from C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. You spend too much time on your phone. We all do, so don’t take it personally. This is by design. …

Slow Digest: Introducing Kyle Whyte

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. In the titanic world history, The Dawn of Everything, archaeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber trace the development of human culture and critique the idea …

Slow Digest: Discernment, Deliberation, Collaboration

In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with…,” graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Robert Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO) at Marquette University. He discusses his journey in community-based research and engagement by emphasizing …

Slow Digest: Artificial Intelligence & Humanity

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Meghan O’Gieblyn, in her book God, Human, Animal, Machine, explores the intersections of religion, technology, and consciousness. She writes from both a philosophical and personal lens about …

Slow Digest: Just Get Out There

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Samira Payne, an educator and outdoor enthusiast, who discusses her journey into hiking and her role as a volunteer leader for Outdoor Afro, a nonprofit organization that …

Slow Digest: A World of Gifts, Not Commodities

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, and researched by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The valleyedge by edgebare field by fieldI walked through it through you rain by raincold by coldroot absenceand the purposeful …

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.