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Center for 21st Century Studies
A small podcast with BIG ideas. Short audio introductions by the experts and community leaders hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
UWM Professor of Sociology, Jennifer Jordan, talks about her book project, Before Craft Beer: Lost Landscapes of Forgotten Hops, and the importance of studying the history of the interactions between commodity, craft, and landscape.
Mishiikenh (Vernon) Altiman talks about his role at the Electa Quinney Center at UWM, working with trees and maple sugaring, as well as alternatives to "trust."
Leah Penniman, co-founder and co-director of Soul Fire Farm, talks about /Black Earth Wisdom/ - Penniman's newest collection of essays and interviews that speaks to the multidimensional scientific and spiritual expertise of Black environmentalists.
Continuing the conversation about the role of trust in food justice efforts, C21 talks with Rayna Andrews, Executive Director, Advancement & Engagement for Food for Health in Milwaukee.
American Studies professor Psyche Williams-Forson talks about her most recent book project and the importance of digging deep into understanding individual food choices.
Sociologist Josh Sbicca talks through definitions of food justice and the work of the Prison Agriculture Lab to bring further context to the philosophies behind food and trust.
Related to the Trust in Context Roundtable, public historian James Levy talks about the power of history, sharing farming stories, and the Wisconsin Lands We Share initiative.
American, food, and media studies expert, Emily Contois, talks through the intersection of gender, food, and power and introduces her book, Diners, Dudes, and Diets (2020).
In the first episode of the Nourishing Trust series, a symposium exploring food and land justice efforts, sociologist Joseph Ewoodzie, Jr. talks about his most recent book, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson.
Leigh Mahlik, Art Curator for the UWM Art Collections and Mathis Gallery, talks about her experience co-curating the On Making Fairyland exhibition at the Mathis Gallery.
Filmmaker Ben Balcom reflects on the work and research he conducted as a C21 Faculty Fellow during the 2021-2022 year.
Director Mallory Catlett and artist Aaron Landsman talk about their latest book, /The City We Make Together/ and the stakes in understanding and participating in local government meetings.
Architecture Ph.D. student and former C21 fellow, Nasim Shareghi, describes her work on ethical architectural design.
Anthropologist Laya Liebeseller speaks to their work with table top role playing game communities and the importance of play. Liebeseller was a former C21 Graduate Student Fellow and current Ph.D. candidate at UWM.
Anthropologist Josh Rivers talks about loneliness and connection as they manifest in video game development.
Professor Keramet Reiter gives some detail about the consequences of solitary confinement, and begins to frame a longer discussion for thinking about changes in prisons for the future.
Anthropologist Barbara J. King talks about how nonhuman animals experience loneliness, and how we might reconsider our relationships with them as we try to alleviate our own isolation.
C21 Director Anne Basting has a conversation with anthropologist Jason Danely about the concept of the "lonely death" in Japan.
Anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-de Silva talks with Director Anne Basting about definitions of loneliness, including how we might think about the making and unmaking of the social infrastructures that create lonely societies.
David DiValerio, associate professor of religious studies and history at UWM, complicates our exploration of loneliness and isolation with some details from his research on the long-term meditative retreat in Tibetan Buddhism.
Our "Weaponizing Loneliness" roundtable will explore the ways loneliness is experienced and resisted by incarcerated individuals. To give us some historical context to the practice of solitary confinement in prisons, doctoral candidate Stephanie Gibson talks about her research on "monuments of trauma."
Ahead of our book launch event on February 23, 2022, historian Nigel Rothfels gives a sneak peak of his newest book Elephant Trails. Rothfels also gave us some connecting threads between his research findings and ways we might think about our Lonely No More! program in the context of animal history and our upcoming Nonhuman Kinship Roundtable.
Considering our dog and cat companions, relationships with animals may help alleviate loneliness. But what of robot pets? Sonia Zhang's work focuses on how social roboticists approach issues of loneliness as a health issue, adding more fodder to the Lonely No More! discussion.
C21's Lonely No More! Symposia title is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slapstick. UWM's Peter Sands, an expert in American literature, gives some insight into the significance of this novel for our current moments.
In this first episode of C21's newest mini-podcast series, UWM's Colleen Galambos provides some context to the latest national research on loneliness as a public health matter in the United States. Galambos's interview jumpstarts C21's Lonely No More! Symposia for the Spring 2022 semester.