{"id":13298,"date":"2025-08-25T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/?page_id=13298"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:35:23","slug":"slow-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/slow\/slow-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/Slow-Care-2-Circles-Blue-Center.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13340\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px.jpeg\" alt=\"Logo for &quot;Slow Care&quot; with the words &quot;slow care.&quot; The word &quot;slow&quot; is circled with a &quot;W&quot; that emits a soft glow.\" class=\"wp-image-13408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-about-c21-s-2025-26-theme\">About C21&#8217;s 2025-26 Theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Social distance. 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Amidst these pressing concerns, this year, the Center for 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Studies aims to activate <strong>\u201cSlow Care\u201d\u2014a practice that places deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites that together foster long-term visions of collective life <\/strong>across generations and communities of humans and non-humans, as well as ever-evolving technologies and ecologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As C21 enters year two of <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/slow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SLOW<\/a>, our 3-year thematic arc wherein we explore and enact slower-paced embodied modes of kinship and situation, we ask: How might the short-term efficiency models that dominate our personal and political landscapes feed ideologies of zero-sum competition and unchecked disruption? Do the humanities offer an antidote to the anti-social turn? Can communities succeed where institutions have failed? 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