Slow Digest: A Story Fellow’s Reflections on Attention

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, …

Slow Digest: Five Kinds of Attention (Stories From Five Milwaukeeans)

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 …

mycollective: Slow Growing in the Time of Trees – Artist Reception

Artist reception for mycollective: Slow Growing in the Time of Trees exhibition at Lynden Sculpture Garden with an unveiling of Matthew Vivirito’s Framework, the second work in Lynden’s MATERIALIZE series of outdoor projects. About the Exhibition Slow Growing in the Time of Trees presents …

Slow Digest: Time to Take a Break

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 …

C21 Research Fellows Presentations

About Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for concluding presentations from our 2025-26 cohort of research fellows. Centering the humanities in the belief that groundbreaking ideas come from diversity of opinions, disciplines, and experiences, each year, C21 offers fellowships …

Slow Digest: Amelia Bader

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digestwill feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, multimedia …

Slow Digest: Listening as Archive

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 …

Slow Digest: Amal Azzam

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. This special extended episode of 6.5 Minutes with …

A Story Cart Zine: Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 1

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 …