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.

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...

By Richard Grusin Richard Grusin is Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11. This essay was originally published on Fata Morgana Web in English and Italian. I am writing this short piece during Passover 2020, shortly after...

by Maureen Ryan In a well-timed bid for the attention of television audiences brimming with New Year’s resolve, Netflix released Tidying Up this January, a domestic advice program starring the Japanese organizational expert Marie Kondo, whose 2014 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up topped bestseller lists. On each episode of Tidying Up, Kondo...

by Molly McCourt (PhD Candidate in English, C21 Graduate Fellow) My research focuses on social constructions of masculinity that have captivated the collective American imagination since the nation’s fraught beginnings. Through the lens of period pieces in 21stcentury television, I examine the myth of the self-made man and his pursuit...

By Allain Daigle and Krista Grensavitch For the last two years, C21 Graduate Fellow Allain Daigle and C21 Tennessen Scholar Krista Grensavitch have been collaborating on short videos that explore feminist teaching practices. Krista is a PhD candidate in History; Allain is a PhD candidate in English. Together, we’ve worked...

By Sean McLernon Global warming is terrifying for many people under the age of 30, and, as someone in that cohort who hopes to make it to old age, I’m a bit worried myself. Working as an environmental news reporter reminds me daily of the bleak long-term outlook. There’s no quick...

More than 4,000 groups and websites have signed on to support a day of protest against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, scheduled for Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Among the groups supporting the day of Web protest are the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, BoingBoing, Demand Progress, the Electronic...

By: Emily Clark Roughly one mile down Michigan Avenue from the complex of hotels constituting this year’s Modern Language Association annual convention, the MLA Subconference was about as far from the MLA as is ideologically possible within a one-mile radius. Explaining that it “is in no way affiliated with or...

 Dark Side of the Digital conference plenary speaker, Micha Cárdenas, doesn't simply query the 'dark side' of digital enthusiasm through her scholarship, she actively confronts the intersections of bodies, technologies, movement and politics through performance. Milwaukee residents (and visitors!) and UWM students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to do the...