Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for our featured 2024-25 lecture with Kyle Whyte, the George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan.

This event is free and open to the public. Learn more and register: uwm.edu/c21/event/sl...

Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the AI and the Humanities Collaboratory on April 10 for a lecture by Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of God Human Animal Machine and the award-winning essay collection Interior States.

Learn more and register here: uwm.edu/c21/event/me...

April 3 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join Sociocultural Programming and the Center for 21st Century Studies for a nature and poetry walk celebrating the work of Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Learn more: uwm.edu/c21/event/na...

March 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Call & Response artist-in-residence Daniel Minter pays a visit to Lynden Sculpture Garden as part of Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, a C21 Collaboratory.

Learn more and join us: uwm.edu/c21/event/sl...

Questions about our open Call for Collaboratories?

C21 Director Jennifer Johung will host a virtual information session via Teams at 9:00 AM on Friday, February 28, discussing C21’s 2025-2026 Call for Collaboratories and Working Groups.

Registration is required: lnkd.in/ggNYreZR

Each year, C21 offers fellowships that provide the time, space, and collegial support to generate new knowledge and ideas.

Please join us in congratulating our 2025-26 Research Fellows:

Sharity Bassett
Katharine Beutner
Kidiocus Carroll
Lynn Goerdt
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Nan Kim
Gabriela Nagy

We are excited to announce that C21 has received a Major Grant from Wisconsin Humanities for our project, "Attention Activism in Milwaukee." This funding will help us conduct our Attention Activism event in May, as well as further develop the Story Cart.

#WHGrantee

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C21 is proud to announce that we have been selected to participate in The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes's “Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies” research initiative.

C21 will collab with UW-Madison, offering public lectures, workshops, etc. on “Aesthetics, Art, and AI.”

Join C21 and the UWM Planetarium on February 13, 3-4pm for an immersive podcast release party under a simulated starry sky.

Listen to a conversation C21 recorded with Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute.

Learn more: uwm.edu/c21/event/im...

C21 supports research projects through an annual call for collaborations among faculty, graduate students, academic staff, and community members.

Applications are due Friday, March 28, 2025 (for July 1, 2025 – June 1, 2026 funding).

Learn more and access applications: uwm.edu/c21/opportun...

The Reproductive Justice Collaboratory at C21 aims to create a space where researchers and community advocates in Milwaukee can work together to address systemic injustices disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and other women and trans people of color.

This Friday consider attending:

Jennifer Johung, director of C21, spends 6.5 minutes with artist Yevgeniya Kaganovich, who discusses her ongoing projects at the Lyden Sculpture Garden and explains the implications of tree time, earth time, and human time within the context of C21’s theme of Slow Knowing.

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Since 1968, the Center for 21st Century Studies has fostered innovative research at the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences, supporting emerging and established scholars, publishing new research, and hosting conferences, lectures and other events.