Slow Digest

Slow Digest is our weekly digital publication that exists celebrate and supplement slow knowing, C21’s 2024-2025 theme. Some editions of the Slow Digest feature essays, insights, and annotations from C21 staff and stakeholders. Others consist of a collection of recommendations for further reading, curated around a particular slow topic.


6.5 Minutes With… C21

A small podcast showcasing BIG ideas, listen to episodes of 6.5 Minutes With… C21 below!

6.5 Minutes With… is produced, edited, and hosted by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. Select episodes are hosted by C21 Director Jennifer Johung.

Click the “i” to the right of each episode to see a description, reading recommendations, and other episode notes.


Recorded Talks

The Center for 21st Century Studies has a long history of bringing cutting-edge scholars to UWM for guest lectures, whether through our themed speaker series, conference keynotes, or dialogues with other scholars on exigent issues. Beginning in 2011, C21 began compiling recordings of these guest lectures on the C21 YouTube page. Please visit this page to see all of our recorded lectures.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.