About Memory Activation Memory Activation, led by artist and THE CR8TV HOUSE founder Symphony Swan Zawadi, focuses on the celebration and reconciliation of family histories through archival photographs, artifacts, and other forms of ephemera. The work invites participants to tap …
Dear Friends, Welcome back and hello to those who are new around here! Over the summer, up on the 9th floor of Curtin Hall, Katie and I have been building on the conversations and collaborations, workshops and research, that we …
DEADLINE: November 16, 2025, 11:59 PM APPLY NOW Master’s and Doctoral students in any discipline at UW-Milwaukee are invited to propose an event or program to the Center for 21st Century Studies for the Spring 2026 semester. Selected submissions will …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is a reflection and introduction to this year’s theme of Slow Care. At 3:56pm on September 27, 2024, my mother took her last breath. In the …
Overview Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and Milwaukee organizations might sustain, expand, and care for the humanities across our city. In October 2024, the Consortium for Humanities …
Take a trip with Human Club to the Haggerty Museum of Art for a discussion and workshop about art and the impact of incarceration with artist Maria Gaspar along with Dr. Robert S. Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research Teaching …
In the middle of a neighborhood block party, we’ll send people on undirected wanders. If they come back, we’ll ask them how it went. Madeleine will be taking interviews from 2:00 – 5:00 PM. C21 will be present to vibe …
Welcome to Beach Class! Among the waves, sand and stones, this morning will be devoted to “attention experiments” along Lake Michigan. Our time together will include a series of facilitated beach combing activities — inspecting what’s on the beachfront, spending …
Letter From the Director Dear Friends, At the end of our last event, an attention lab hosted by members of the Strother School of Radical Attention, one of the workshop facilitators asked us to imagine “the great empty cup of attention” …
In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with C21,” Jean Creighton, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium, explores the concept of slow knowing by emphasizing the importance of making complex astronomical knowledge relatable by stripping down details, connecting concepts to …
