• Research Fellowship Applications Due

    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 and …

  • UW System Faculty Lecture Series: Derek Handley 

    This virtual event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Click here to register. The UW System Faculty Lecture Series and The Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM proudly present Derek Handley: Struggle for the City: …

  • Spring Hangout

    939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Curtin Hall, 9th Floor “...mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.” ― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster  We get it. The weather …

    Free
  • Slow Film Series: Twilight

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer — known only as “The Giant” — responsible …

    $5
  • Collaboratory Application Webinar

    C21 Director Jennifer Johung will host a virtual information session via Teams at 9:00 AM on Friday, February 28, covering C21's 2025-2026 Call for Collaboratories and Working Groups.  Prior registration is required. Register here. This session will cover: Dr. Johung …

  • Slow Silencing: Panel Discussion

    Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Curtin Hall, Room 939, 3243 N. Downer Ave. Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Muslim Milwaukee Project for a panel discussion with Milwaukee artists Amal Azzam and Liala Amin. This event is free and open to the …

    Free
  • Slow Film Series: Nainsukh

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Experimental filmmaker Amit Dutta is a singular presence in Indian cinema... This debut feature, shot on 16mm film, is an imagined biopic of Nainsukh, an 18th-century miniature painter from the Himalayan Kangra Valley. Taking inspiration from that age-old visual form, …

    Free
  • Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Carving Workshop with Daniel Minter

    Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 West Brown Deer Road Milwaukee, WI 53217

    Call & Response artist-in-residence Daniel Minter pays a visit to Lynden Sculpture Garden as part of Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, a C21 Collaboratory. The Collaboratory brings together Lynden artist-in-residence Yevgeniya Kaganovich, her collaborators—Lisa Moline, Lane Hall, Kate …

    Free