• Mindfulness Under the Stars @ the Planetarium

    Manfred Olson Planetarium 1900 E 51 #139, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Take a break for 30 minutes of guided mindfulness and stargazing activities!  Hosted by the 51 Planetarium in partnership with the Student Health and Wellness Center and Human Resources.  Co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies for C21’s Slow …

  • Verified Reading Group with Milwaukee Public Library

    Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join Milwaukee Public Library librarians at the Center for 21st Century Studies for a small-group discussion of Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online by Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg. …

  • Slow Knowing Film Series: About Dry Grasses

    51 Union Cinema 2200 E 51, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Nestled away in snowy, isolated Anatolia, public school art teacher Samet yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. He finds a silver lining in Nuray, a fellow teacher and firebrand who forces him to confront what he can’t …

  • UW System Faculty Lecture Series: Derek Handley 

    This virtual event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Click here to register. The UW System Faculty Lecture Series and The Center for 21st Century Studies at 51 proudly present Derek Handley: Struggle for the City: …

  • Slow Film Series: Twilight

    51 Union Cinema 2200 E 51, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer — known only as “The Giant” — responsible …

    $5
  • Slow Film Series: Nainsukh

    51 Union Cinema 2200 E 51, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Experimental filmmaker Amit Dutta is a singular presence in Indian cinema... This debut feature, shot on 16mm film, is an imagined biopic of Nainsukh, an 18th-century miniature painter from the Himalayan Kangra Valley. Taking inspiration from that age-old visual form, …

    Free
  • What Winter Did to Us: A Nature & Poetry Walk 

    Curtin Hall 3242 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States +1 more

    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.  Spring is coming to Milwaukee. So is Ada Limón. Prepare for …

    Free
  • Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio

    939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    C21's Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group presents a book talk by 51 History professor David DiValerio about his newly published book Mountain Dharma. This event is free and open to the public. About Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic …

  • Practices, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation 

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.