This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. Higher education programs within the Wisconsin prison system have long been characterized by limited access, exclusionary practices, and slow advancement. For decades, deliberate policy choices have eroded educational …
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, …
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice.
Event Details C21’s Story Cart project and Symphony Swan, ’25-’26 Story Fellow present W(rites) of Spring, a radical attention workshop with artist Mia Rimmer. As the land transitions out of winter into bloom, W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Ceceilia Loeschmann. Photographs, videos, documents, and other ephemera often exist as objects of memory, valuable to the families and individuals that create, collect, store, and steward them. Anna Woodham explores …
Jamee Pritchard talks with Milwaukee storyteller and community historian Adam Carr about what it means to practice slow care in a world that moves too fast. Reflecting on what he calls our “wounded landscape of care,” Carr shares his walking practice, his weekly ritual of eating soup by the lake, and the quiet rebellion of being purposefully inefficient.
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Every Saturday at the intersection of South 76th and Layton Avenue in Greenfield, Wisconsin, from 10 a.m. to noon, a group of 30 or more protesters line …
DEADLINE: December 5, 2025, 11:59 PM 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 …
The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary At the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Community Art & Wellness Retreat, we’ll attend to silence, noise, and everything in-between. Then, we’ll talk about it, recording our conversations for the Story Cart’s digital archive. …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. Slow care, as C21 frames it in previous Slow Digest posts, asks us to place deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites that sustain shared life over …
