In April 2026, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted its inaugural graduate-led public humanities program, “En-Vision: Toward a Queer Ethics of Slow Care,” led by Isabella Fincher. The program explored creative practices and embodied experiences of slow care among …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is a statement about the Center’s 2026-2027 theme of Slow Action, written by C21’s Director, Jennifer Johung. What does it mean to act with deliberation, care, and consistency—and to do so in community? As the Center …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Adam Carr, one of C21’s Story Fellows, as he reflects on his process of creating three attention experiments during the 2025-26 academic year for C21’s theme of Slow Care. In the past week, …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was edited by by Managing Director Katie Waddell. C21 graduate fellows selected the featured interviews. Audio was edited by Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. From September 2025 to May 2026, C21’s Story Cart project introduced Milwaukeeans to …
As the C21 staff prepares for next week’s Slow Digest, which will preview our Story Cart: Attention interviews highlighting how Milwaukeeans practice slow care through deliberate attention, this week is an invitation to pause. Take a breath. Inhale…Exhale… Let’s practice …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Grief is an ongoing process that ebbs and flows depending on the day, the month, the weather, a random song, or the unexpected encounter with my mother’s …
Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 1 emerges from C21’s Story Cart: Attention, a mobile, community-based storytelling project that brings humanities practices into public spaces across Milwaukee. Developed through workshops led by C21’s Story Fellows, the toolkit introduces attention activism, a practice …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. On April 1, C21 will lead an edition of the Cactus Book Club focusing on the book Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of …
Skyward Ho! At Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market, we’ll meditate on the sky with our mind, body and soul with Story Fellow Adam Carr and yogi Matthew Lewis (@stillhoneyblk), gathering thoughts on sanctuary and refuge, especially for attention. Then, we’ll talk …
Crystal Quest At the Greene Geological Museum’s Darwin Day celebration, we’ll ask you to find the mineral that moves you the most. Who knows? Maybe you’ll glean some ancient wisdom from a rock of ages. Then, we’ll ask you to …
