Events
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Story Cart: Attention with Adam Carr – Beach Class
Klode Park 5960 N Lake Dr, Whitefish Bay, WisconsinWelcome to Beach Class! Among the waves, sand and stones, this morning will be devoted to “attention experiments” along Lake Michigan. Our time together will include a series of facilitated beach combing activities — inspecting what’s on the beachfront, spending …
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Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio
939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesC21's Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group presents a book talk by UWM History professor David DiValerio about his newly published book Mountain Dharma. This event is free and open to the public. About Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic …
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Story Cart: Attention with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – Open Attention Walk
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesIn the middle of a neighborhood block party, we’ll send people on undirected wanders. If they come back, we’ll ask them how it went. Madeleine will be taking interviews from 2:00 - 5:00 PM. C21 will be present to vibe …
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Human Club: Disappearance Jail Wisconsin discussion and workshop
Marquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTake a trip with Human Club to the Haggerty Museum of Art for a discussion and workshop about art and the impact of incarceration with artist Maria Gaspar along with Dr. Robert S. Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research Teaching …
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State of the Humanities MKE
FeaturedCurtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOverview Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and Milwaukee organizations might sustain, expand, and care for the humanities across our city. In October 2024, the Consortium for Humanities …
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Story Cart: Attention with Symphony Swan – Memory Activation
FeaturedThe CR8TV HOUSEAbout Memory Activation Memory Activation, led by artist and THE CR8TV HOUSE founder Symphony Swan Zawadi, focuses on the celebration and reconciliation of family histories through archival photographs, artifacts, and other forms of ephemera. The work invites participants to tap …
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Story Cart with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary
FeaturedMarquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary At the Haggerty Museum of Art's Community Art & Wellness Retreat, we'll attend to silence, noise, and everything in-between. Then, we'll talk about it, recording our conversations for the Story Cart's digital archive. …
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Call for Graduate Public Humanities Programming
DEADLINE: November 16, 2025, 11:59 PM APPLY NOW Master’s and Doctoral students in any discipline at UW-Milwaukee are invited to propose an event or program to the Center for 21st Century Studies for the Spring 2026 semester. Selected submissions will …
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Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop
Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesPrompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by - but are also prototypes for - contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …
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Call for Research Fellows
DEADLINE: December 5, 2025, 11:59 PM 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 …