This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. We usually think about history as a series of events. These events, such as births, deaths, war, famine, or revolution, can affect the lives of people in a …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. This week, Slow Digest examines the concept of “slow” in a more literal sense than most applications of slow knowing. The operative theme for the sources below is …
6.5 Minutes With…Yevgeniya Kaganovich In a new podcast episode of 6.5 Minutes With…, our director, Jennifer Johung, sits down with artist and UWM professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich as she discusses her collaborative research and art project, Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, …
This week, Slow Digest offers three articles by scholars, or groups of scholars, who explore or reflect on the rewards of slow(ish), interdisciplinary, exploratory, and highly collaborative scholarly practices. Patricia Hill Collins, “LOOKING BACK, MOVING AHEAD: Scholarship in Service to …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Cooking: Worth its Wait in Flavor One of my core olfactory memories is the smell of my great-grandmother’s white beans and ham slowly cooking …
C21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center Join 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 …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Reading When the Sky is Falling: A Testimony to Dystopian Fiction When I was younger, I was one of those deep readers who could …
Slow movements—across food, cities, science, scholarship and more—call attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models, rapid rewards, and short attention spans that increasingly seem to dominant human responses to 21st century …
Application Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024 Background A UW System Center of Excellence, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) builds a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Each year, C21 offers fellowships to UWM faculty and …
Nestled away in snowy, isolated Anatolia, public school art teacher Samet yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. He finds a silver lining in Nuray, a fellow teacher and firebrand who forces him to confront what he can’t …
