• Call for Graduate Public Humanities Programming

    DEADLINE: November 16, 2025, 11:59 PM APPLY NOW Master’s and Doctoral students in any discipline at UW-Milwaukee are invited to propose an event or program to the Center for 21st Century Studies for the Spring 2026 semester. Selected submissions will …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

    Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Prompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by - but are also prototypes for - contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …

  • Call for Research Fellows

    DEADLINE: December 5, 2025, 11:59 PM Background A UW System Center of Excellence, 51ÁÔÆæâ€™s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21), builds a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Each year, C21 offers fellowships to 51ÁÔÆæ faculty …

  • Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    This workshop explores language as a vital creative material and as a medium for collaborative authorship. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will engage questions of imagination, translation, and meaning-making in the age of AI.

  • Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    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.   

  • Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    This groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI. 

  • 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.  Â