“We’re going to have to see what happens.” That was Donald Trump’s characteristically blank response, at a Sept. 23 White House press conference, to a reporter’s question about whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose his bid for reelection six weeks later.

Do you consider yourself an ally to immigrants and artists of color? White viewership’s failure to utilize an intersectional lens when analyzing works of art results in biased interpretations, partial or thwarted exhibition opportunities and hindered diversity in available academic scholarship, which in turn further perpetuates the problem.

Kennan Ferguson, professor of political science at UWM and former director of C21, has just published Cookbook Politics (Penn Press, 2020), an exploration of cookbooks as political objects. In it, Ferguson argues that cookbooks highlight aspects of our lives we rarely recognize as political—taste, production, domesticity, collectivity, and imagination—and...

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) has for more than 50 years been committed to fostering innovative research at the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences and supporting University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty and graduate students. In keeping with this mission C21 is collecting statements of solidarity issued...

In a commencement speech to Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace tells a story that sounds like this: “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”

Originally published in Gagarin Magazine (Italy), this interview has been reprinted here with permission. Antonio Gramentieri, aka Don Antonio, is a musician, producer, and journalist. He has worked, as a studio engineer or a musician, with artists such as David Hidalgo, Jim Keltner, Evan Lurie, Marc Ribot, John Convertino, Giant...

The short story of the U.S. 21th century is the tale of four disasters. The first was the response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001–the invasion and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the ensuing era of permanent war and suffering in the greater Middle East. The second was the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

by Angela Maiello Angela Maiello is an Italian media scholar, editor, and translator of Radical Mediation: Cinema, Estetica, e Tecnologie Digitali, (Cosenza, Italy: Pellegrini Editor, 2017). She originally published her essay in Italian at Fata Morgana Web; she has translated it for publication here. The restrictive measures we are living through these days...

By Richard Grusin (Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Mid-way through the Trump presidency, it seems apparent that the greatest terrorist threat to American social and political order is not radical Islamism, cyber warfare, migrants, or climate change, but the threat of Trump’s tweets. We often...

By Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello (Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of LGBT+ Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) *The following blog post originally appeared on The Intersex Roadshow and is reprinted here with permission. A memo was recently leaked from the Department of Health and Human Services. In it, the HHS defines...