Slow Knowing: An Immersive Podcast
February 13 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the UWM Planetarium for an immersive podcast release party under a simulated starry sky.
Listen to a conversation C21 recorded with Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute, who discusses the Anishinaabe worldview, and unpacks how language and cultural specificity can shape a person’s relationship to time, space, and even the moon and stars.
Dr. Freeland will be present to take audience questions post-podcast.
The podcast episode release will be accompanied by an exploration of moon phases, tides, and moon gazing with Planetarium Director Jean Creighton, including an interactive activity to engage directly with the phases of the moon.
This event is free and open to the public.
Mark Freeland is the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UWM. His research critically identifies the role of Indigenous worldview as an integral component of cultural and linguistic translations.
The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) fosters innovative research and community engagement at the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences. C21’s theme for 2024-2025 is Slow Knowing: The Pace of Being Human, with programming and sponsored research that calls attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models and short attention spans that increasingly define human responses to 21st century social, political, and ecological challenges.
C21’s podcasts are produced by Graduate Fellows Jamee Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao.
The UWM Planetarium connects the community to the beauty of the night sky and the wonders of the cosmos through live, interactive programs that engage audiences in entertaining, innovative, and accessible ways. By bringing people together, we spark curiosity and share science in a welcoming atmosphere for all.