• 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. …

  • 51 Gallery Night 

    Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Explore galleries across 51’s campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukee’s Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out prints and Picassos with exhibitions honoring prolific collectors. More into artifacts than art? Head to the American Geographical Society Library to learn more about the history of American explorations of Antarctica.

  • Story Cart: Trust & the Vote Exhibition Opening

    Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    With an historic U.S. presidential election on the horizon, 51’s Center for 21st Century Studies, in the summer of 2024, interviewed over 60 people in Milwaukee County about their relative trust or distrust in the U.S. voting system. Story facilitators …

  • 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 …

  • Research Fellowship Applications Due

    Application Deadline:   Friday, December 6, 2024 Background A UW System Center of Excellence, 51’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 51 faculty and …

  • 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: …

  • Spring Hangout

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

    Curtin Hall, 9th Floor “...mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.” ― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster  We get it. The weather …

    Free
  • 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