Slow Digest: More Than A Feeling

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is adapted from More Than a Feeling: Performativity, Sincerity, and Sociality in the Art of the Affective Turn, a master’s thesis by Katie Waddell, Managing Director of C21, adapted for Slow Digest by Jamee Pritchard. …

Slow Digest: Nathaniel Stern

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. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Collaboratory & Working Group Applications Due

About C21 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 …

Information Session: C21 Collaboratory Applications

C21 Leadership Team will host an information session about the FY27 collaborative project application in person, at C21, with a virtual option on Tuesday, March 3, 9-10 AM.  C21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and …

Slow Digest: Symphony Swan

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. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Slow Digest: Minding the Humanities Gap

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee Pritchard. “THE GAP BETWEEN THIS ROOM & THE COMMUNITY IS TOO BIG,” wrote one audience member during the State of the Humanities MKE panel discussion. The comment, submitted anonymously …

Story Cart With Adam Carr – Crystal Quest

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 …

Slow Digest: The Humanities Cannot Stay the Same

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. In October of 2025, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted a panel on the current state of the humanities in Milwaukee. The panel, moderated by C21’s Director …

Cactus Book Club with C21: Attensity!

C21’s Story Cart program invites you to join Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, for the April 2026 edition of the Cactus Book Club. Cactus Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room …

Practices, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation 

Join the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.