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SUMMARY:Cactus Book Club with C21: Attensity!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 1\, 5:30-7:30 PM\n\n\n\nCactus Club\, 2496 S. Wentworth Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI 53207\n\n\n\nFree & open to the public; no registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC21’s Story Cart program invites you to join Katie Waddell\, C21 Managing Director\, for the April 2026 edition of the Cactus Book Club.  \n\n\n\nCactus Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization\, collective\, mutual aid group\, or business chooses a book and recommended bookseller\, then leads the discussion.  \n\n\n\nThe April selection\, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of Attention\, expands upon the attention activist manifesto championed by C21’s partners at the Strother School of Radical Attention\, and offers an opportunity for the attention activism-curious to explore why our attention matters\, how to choose attentional agency over digital enthrallment\, and why awareness is even better with friends. \n\n\n\nC21’s recommended bookseller is Boswell Book Company. Mention Cactus Book Club at checkout to receive a 10% discount! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\nCheck out our Slow Digest post about Attensity! for a teaser.  \n\n\n\nDon’t have time to finish the book before April 1? Fill in the gaps with the Strother School for Radical Attention’s  Toolkit for Attention Activism and their Attention Lab podcast on Apple Podcasts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nAbout Attensity!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement\n\n\n\n“We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped\, gutted\, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation of this vital capacity by a handful of tech companies is harming us all\, reducing our very selfhood to that which can be quantified\, bought\, and sold—and shaking the foundations of our democracy. \n\n\n\nTo push back against this “human fracking\,” we need more than individual willpower or isolated efforts. We need a movement of collective resistance. Such a movement is beginning to bloom\, and in this radical\, first-of-its-kind guide\, The Friends of Attention show us how to join the fight. We meet welders\, nurses\, poets\, and surfers\, all of whom are engaged in attentional practices. We learn to seek out sanctuaries—theaters and museums\, houses of worship\, dance parties—where together we can take refuge from the frackers. Attention Activism takes our apocalyptic present\, turns it on its head\, and reveals new vistas of human flourishing.Drawing on a rich legacy of critical intellectuals and the creative wisdom of diverse traditions\, Attensity! calls on us to come together to defeat the greedy dehumanizing forces of brute instrumentalization—and re-enchant the world.” Read on… \n\n\n\nThe Friends of Attention is a collective of activists\, artists\, and thinkers. Three editors and long-standing “Friends” helped Attensity! take shape: D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of history of science at Princeton University. Alyssa Loh\, a filmmaker\, co-directed the short film “Twelve Theses on Attention.” Peter Schmidt is the Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Cactus Club\n\n\n\nCactus Book Club (CBC)\, organized by Cactus+\, meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization\, collective\, mutual aid group\, or business chooses the book and recommended bookseller\, then leads the discussion. CBC covers sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction\, with a focus on works by women\, LGBTQ+\, BIPOC\, and/or otherwise under-published groups. Members don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. Registration is not required. 18+. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart: Attention\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/attensity/
LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S Wentworth Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Graduate Students,Health and Well-being,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students
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SUMMARY:Collaboratory & Working Group Applications Due
DESCRIPTION:Application deadline: Friday\, April 3\, 11:59 PM\n\n\n\nAccess complete application instructions here.\n\n\n\nHybrid information session: This event has passed. Watch the recording via Teams (UWM login required).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nC21 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 opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines\, across university and community partnerships\, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to generate new ideas and knowledge.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers funding for two distinct categories of collaborative projects: working groups and collaboratories. Working groups provide opportunities for collaborative study\, research\, and discussion of a common subject of interest. Collaboratories provide opportunities to bring new\, humanities-informed ideas and knowledge to many different audiences both on and off campus. Collaboratories are also foundational to the Center’s annual programming.   \n\n\n\nWhile the criteria for working groups will remain largely unchanged from previous years\, collaboratory proposals must include a contribution to C21’s Day of Action\, slated for the Spring 2027 semester. The Day of Action will celebrate the culmination of SLOW\, C21’s 2024-27 thematic cycle\, and will align with C21’s 2026-27 theme\, Slow Action. Slow Action will explore how the practices\, methodologies\, histories\, and theories of collective organizing across communities and institutions might provide insight for building values-rooted systems and deliberate actionable pathways that endure over time to support shared goals.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers two distinct funding tiers for collaborative research projects: \n\n\n\nCollaboratories are collaborative projects devised with a specific project or public outcome in mind. Priority will be given to projects with budgets of up to $5\,000.  A portion of awarded funds must be used to support programming for the Day of Action and/or related contributions.   \n\n\n\nWorking Groups gather for ongoing discussions\, networking\, and idea generation. They may be newly formed or pre-existing groups with an ongoing dialogic process or collaborative project. They do not necessarily have to have a fully formed project plan with a final deliverable in mind. Working groups are awarded $500. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\nC21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please review application details in full and contact C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/collab-deadline-2026/
CATEGORIES:Academic Dates and Deadlines,Academic Dates and Deadlines,Alumni & Community,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,SLOW,Virtual Event,Workshops
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