{"id":13203,"date":"2025-08-22T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/?page_id=13203"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:49:32","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-p-banner\"><div class=\"uwm-p-banner--single\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/08\/Banner-1500px400px_FY27_Spliced-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Three photographs of C21 events from the 2025-2026 academic year, including the artist Kite giving an artist talk on March 12, 2026, C21 Story Fellow Symphony Swan leading an attention workshop on April 11, 2026, and panelists Michael Carrier and Jodi Eastberg speaking during the State of Humanities MKE panel on October 30, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"uwm-bg-white uwm-u-py-80\"><div class=\"uwm-l-container--base uwm-l-container--overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 id=\"h-center-for-21st-century-studies\" class=\"wp-block-heading size-h1 heading-separator\"><strong>Center for 21st Century Studies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left size-p-lg uwm-u-mb-30 wp-block-paragraph\">Building a community&nbsp;of thinkers to address the pressing questions of our time, since 1968.&nbsp;Through fellowships, project support, and programming, C21 provides multiple points of access and honors multiple ways of knowing to support a shared vision for the humanities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<div class=\"uwm-p-card uwm-p-card--color-head uwm-p-card--contact uwm-u-mb-40\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--profile-header\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--profile-header-text\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--title\">Center for 21st Century Studies<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uwm-p-card--body\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--content\">\n<ul class=\"uwm-c-list--contact uwm-c-list--cleanlist\">\n<li><i class=\"fa-solid fa-envelope fa-fw\"><\/i><a href=\"mailto:C21@uwm.edu\">C21@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i class=\"fa-solid fa-mobile-screen-button fa-fw\"><\/i><a href=\"tel:414-229-4141\">414-229-4141<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i class=\"fa-solid fa-location-dot fa-fw\"><\/i><span>929 Curtin Hall, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/contact\/#join-our-mailing-list\" class=\"uwm-p-card--link\">Join our mailing list<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"uwm-bg-gray uwm-u-py-80\"><div class=\"uwm-l-container--narrow uwm-l-container--overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center alignwide size-h2\" id=\"h-program-spotlight-uwm-authors-in-conversation\">Program Spotlight: UWM Authors in Conversation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center size-p-lg wp-block-paragraph\">Discover the ideas, stories, and&nbsp;scholarship&nbsp;of UWM authors in the humanities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/current-programs\/uwm-authors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/09\/UWM-Authors-in-Conversation-Fall-2026-750px500px-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Promotional image for UWM Authors in Conversation\" class=\"wp-image-16136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/09\/UWM-Authors-in-Conversation-Fall-2026-750px500px-1-1.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/09\/UWM-Authors-in-Conversation-Fall-2026-750px500px-1-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Through this series, C21 invites UWM authors to share their newly published books with the campus community and the wider public. These conversations offer an opportunity to hear directly from authors about their work, research, creative processes, and the ideas that inspire their latest publications.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/current-programs\/uwm-authors\/\">Learn more about UWM Authors in Conversation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"uwm-bg-white uwm-u-py-80\"><div class=\"uwm-l-container--narrow uwm-l-container--overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center alignwide size-h1\" id=\"h-2026-27-is-the-year-of-slow-action\">2026-27 is the Year of Slow Action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it mean to act with deliberation, care, and consistency\u2014and to do so in community? As the Center for 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Century Studies enters the third and final year of our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/slow\/\">SLOW<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;research and programming arc, we turn from the epistemological and relational dimensions of slowness toward its practical and political possibilities.&nbsp;<strong>Slow Action<\/strong>&nbsp;names a mode of engagement that purposefully resists the logic of zero-sum efficiency in favor of durable, values-rooted ways of being and doing together. These forms of action are not rigid or unchangeable but rather are flexible, responsive, and deeply attuned to the world we each move through. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/current-programs\/\">Read our full statement about Slow Action<\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Logo for Slow Action \" class=\"wp-image-15727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/07\/Slow-Action-Logo-Circle-Black-Wide-2-1-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"uwm-bg-gray uwm-u-py-80\"><div class=\"uwm-l-container--base uwm-l-container--overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row uwm-l-row--4\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 id=\"h-news\" class=\"wp-block-heading heading-separator default\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border uwm-u-mb-40\"><li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/slow-digest-slow-and-small\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/11\/SD-Slow-and-Small-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/11\/SD-Slow-and-Small-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/11\/SD-Slow-and-Small-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/11\/SD-Slow-and-Small-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2026\/11\/SD-Slow-and-Small.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/slow-digest-slow-and-small\/\">Slow Digest: Slow and Small<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">This week\u2019s edition of Slow Digest explores how we can make meaningful changes in our environment. 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