• Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio

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

    C21'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 …

  • Story Cart: Attention with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – Open Attention Walk 

    Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    In 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 …

  • Human Club: Disappearance Jail Wisconsin discussion and workshop

    Marquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Take 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

    Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Prompting 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    This 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.