Lectures Conferences and Symposiums
Events
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The Privilege of Play
The Digital Cultures Collaboratory (sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies), in cooperation with the Honors College and Student Involvement, is very excited to present a series of Fall Geek Weekend events on the afternoon of Friday, October 20th.  …
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Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI with Meghan O’GieblynÂ
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGolda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the AI and the Humanities Collaboratory for lecture by Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God Human Animal Machine and the essay collection Interior States, which won …
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Kyle Whyte: Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility
FeaturedGolda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center 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 …
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Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio
939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesC21's Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group presents a book talk by 51ÁÔÆæ 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 …
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State of the Humanities MKE
FeaturedCurtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOverview 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 …
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Practices, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI ConversationÂ
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.  Â
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Aesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite
FeaturedArts Center Lecture Hall 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice.