Events
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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 …
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Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis workshop explores language as a vital creative material and as a medium for collaborative authorship. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will engage questions of imagination, translation, and meaning-making in the age of AI.
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Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Opening Day)
FeaturedKenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.
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Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.