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SUMMARY:What Winter Did to Us: A Nature & Poetry Walk 
DESCRIPTION:Join 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.  \n\n\n\nSpring is coming to Milwaukee. So is Ada Limón. Prepare for both with a patient\, plodding ramble through Downer Woods\, featuring reflective writing exercises\, group poetry readings\, and acts of radical attention. The walk will commence at 3:30 sharp at Curtin Hall‘s 1st floor lobby and will end with a fire circle outside of Merill Hall. Bring a pen\, warm clothes\, sturdy shoes\, and a willingness to be here\, with poetry in the natural world.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\n…the leaves come. Patient\, plodding\, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us\, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us\, the hurt\, the empty. Fine then\, I’ll take it\, the tree seems to say\, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm\, I’ll take it all.  \n\n\n\n– From “Instructions on Not Giving Up\,” Ada Limón  \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nAda Limón the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States\, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. You can catch Ada Limón\, the Spring 2025 speaker for UWM’s Distinguished Lecture Series\, at the Student Union on April 15\, 7-9 PM.  \n\n\n\nUWM students can also submit their original poems inspired by the theme “Poetry in the Natural World\,” as curated by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon. These poems will be compiled into a special anthology\, As We Are\, representing the UWM community in all its natural habitats. The collection will be presented to Ada Limon during her lecture and reading on Tuesday\, April 15th.   \n\n\n\n—  \n\n\n\nThe Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) fosters innovative research and community engagement at the intersection of the humanities\, arts\, and sciences. C21’s theme for 2024-2025 is Slow Knowing: The Pace of Being Human\, with programming and sponsored research that calls attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models and short attention spans that increasingly define human responses to 21st century social\, political\, and ecological challenges.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/nature-poetry-walk-distinguished-lecture-series-companion-event/
LOCATION:Curtin Hall\, 3242 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI with Meghan O'Gieblyn 
DESCRIPTION:Golda Meir Library\, 4th Floor Conference Center \n\n\n\nJoin 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 the 2018 Believer Book Award.  \n\n\n\nAt a moment when we are outsourcing many intellectual and creative tasks to machines\, it’s worth thinking about the point of thinking itself. Is it a means to an end\, or an end in itself? Are humans just “stochastic parrots\,” mindlessly producing language in a way that is not so different from AI\, as some tech luminaries contend\, or is there something more going on in our minds?   \n\n\n\nWhile these questions may seem new\, they harken back to older debates about the relationship between thought and language\, freedom and necessity\, and the fine line that exists between attention and automaticity. Long before the advent of digital technologies\, two twentieth century philosophers\, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil\, wrote about some of these questions through the lens of the technologies of their times. Their writing anticipates many of the challenges of the age of AI and calls attention to the more ordinary and insidious ways that consciousness becomes ossified by social convention\, as well as the moral and political risks that arise when we fail to “think what we are doing.”  \n\n\n\nFree street parking available in neighborhoods near venue. Paid parking available at the Union Garage (Lot #22). \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served at 3:30 PM. Lecture begins at 4 PM. This event is free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrior registration is requested for the purposes of estimating attendance. Please complete the form below. No personal information will be collected. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event was organized by AI and the Humanities\, a C21-sponsored collaboratory formed to consider one of the most pressing questions for higher education: what is the future of humanities in the context of AI?   \n\n\n\nPart of C21’s Slow Knowing program series. 
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/meghan-ogieblyn/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library\, 4th Floor Conference Center\, 2311 E Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We’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).   \n\n\n\nWorkshop led by Katharine Beutner. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited. Registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n—  \n\n\n\nThis event was organized by Slow Growing in the Time of Trees\, a C21-sponsored collaboratory formed to cultivate an interdisciplinary creative space that examines the long duration of tree-time in the face of human and non-human interventions.  \n\n\n\nPart of C21’s Slow Knowing program series. 
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/slow-growing-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Center for 21st Century Studies\, 3243 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kyle Whyte: Kinship\, Our Experience of Time\, and Environmental Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:C21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte\n\n\n\n\n\nGolda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center \n\n\n\nJoin 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 of Michigan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nWe are often given mixed signals about the relationship between our responsibility to take action to address climate change and our sense of time. Is there a climate crisis that is so urgent that we must take whatever measures are necessary to lower carbon footprints? Or will buying too much into emotions of urgency generate hasty solutions that actually stymie progress? Some Indigenous traditions offer ethics based on responsibility and kinship that present ways in which time and ethics can be aligned\, allowing us to be urgent but moral\, and address the physical causes of climate change while fostering solidarity with the communities who experience climate injustice.  \n\n\n\nDr. Whyte’s research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples\, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations\, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty\, environmental justice\, and the anthropocene. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \n\n\n\nThe Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) fosters innovative research and community engagement at the intersection of the humanities\, arts\, and sciences. C21’s theme for 2024-2025 is Slow Knowing: The Pace of Being Human\, with programming and sponsored research that calls attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models and short attention spans that increasingly define human responses to 21st century social\, political\, and ecological challenges.  \n\n\n\nFree street parking available in neighborhoods near venue. Paid parking available at the Union Garage (Lot #22). \n\n\n\nDoors open at 5:00pm. Refreshments will be served before and after the talk.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Prior registration is requested.  \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email C21 at c21@uwm.edu. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttend Virtually\n\n\n\nCan’t make it in person? You can join us via Teams by clicking the button below. \n\n\n\n\nATTEND VIRTUALLY NOW\n\n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 272 140 071 995 7 \n\n\n\nPasscode: Ki3gh3r7 \n\n\n\nDial in by phone \n\n\n\n+1 414-253-8850\,\,549903673# United States\, Milwaukee \n\n\n\nFind a local number \n\n\n\nPhone conference ID: 549 903 673#
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/slow-knowing-kyle-whyte/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library\, 4th Floor Conference Center\, 2311 E Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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