Events
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Slow Film Series: Twilight
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAfter 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 …
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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 …
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Slow Silencing: Panel Discussion
Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesCurtin 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 …
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Slow Film Series: Nainsukh
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesExperimental 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, …
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Collaboratory & Working Group Applications Due
FeaturedAbout C21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges. Collaborative project funding provides an …
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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Carving Workshop with Daniel Minter
Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 West Brown Deer Road Milwaukee, WI 53217Call & 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 …
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What Winter Did to Us: A Nature & Poetry Walk
Curtin Hall 3242 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States +1 moreJoin Sociocultural Programming and the Center for 21st Century Studies for a nature and poetry walk celebrating the work of Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Spring is coming to Milwaukee. So is Ada Limón. Prepare for …
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Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI with Meghan O’Gieblyn
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGolda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the AI and the Humanities Collaboratory for lecture by Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God Human Animal Machine and the essay collection Interior States, which won …
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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Writing Workshop
Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesWe’ll engage in a generative writing workshop about art and the most generative of living things: fungi. Come with a writing implement and paper, or birch bark, or whatever material you want to use for composition (and perhaps decomposition). Workshop …
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Kyle Whyte: Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility
FeaturedGolda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for our featured 2024-25 lecture with Kyle Whyte, the George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University …