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Inside C21 is a podcast exploring the research in the humanities that helps us face the 21st century. A production of UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies. You can listen to the most recent episode, as well as all past episodes on C21’s website: https://uwm.edu/c21/media/inside-c21-podcast…

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  • May 1, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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Episode 7: Conversations with Arijit Sen and Camille Mays

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 38:55


Listen in on conversations with C21 conference organizer and former C21 Fellow Arijit Sen (Architecture & Urban Planning, UWM) and Milwaukee activist Camille Mays, founder of Peace Garden Project MKE. Arijit discusses his success in his courses as they pivot to online learning and what he hopes people will learn from the pandemic. Camille discusses Milwaukee and how COVID-19 is affecting the city’s urban population, including Wisconsin’s in-person voting that occurred on April 07, and offers some silver linings to the pandemic.Inside C21 was hosted and created by C21 graduate fellow Mallory Zink. The opening song was created by former C21 graduate fellow Allain Daigle. Other music and closing song were created by Brad Stech. You can find more information about the Center for 21st Century Studies and the podcast at our website: https://uwm.edu/c21/ This Episode’s Guests:Arijit Sen (UWM)Milwaukee Environmental Justice LabThe Field SchoolThis is Milwaukee (also featuring Camille Mays)Arijit’s book, Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the CityCamille MaysPeace Garden Project MKEAn interview with Mays on Picturing Milwaukee (Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School)Mays is a Milwaukee partner and mentor in the Humanities Action Lab’s Climates of Inequality project: “Urban Blight as Environmental Injustice”Voted best local activist of 2019 by Shepherd ExpressMore information about singing bowls

Conversations with Kavita Daiya and Chris Cantwell

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2020 26:15


Listen in on conversations with C21’s upcoming speaker Kavita Daiya (English, George Washington University), author of Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India and forthcoming, Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in South Asia and the Diaspora and C21 Faculty Fellow Christopher Cantwell (History, UWM). Kavita gives us a sneak peek of her upcoming lecture and forthcoming book, discusses researching ‘forgotten histories’, and how to go about working on interdisciplinary projects. Christopher Cantwell talks about his book project, The Bible Class Teacher: Memory and the Making of American Evangelicalism and his digital history project, “Gathering Places”. Inside C21 was hosted and created by C21 graduate fellow Mallory Zink. The opening song was created by former C21 graduate fellow Allain Daigle. Other music and closing song were created by Brad Stech. This Episode’s Guests:Kavita Daiya (George Washington University):Upcoming talk, March 06 at 3:30: Graphic Migrations: Hannah Arendt, Statelessness, and South Asia Across Media https://uwm.edu/c21/event/kavita-daiya-graphic-migrations-hannah-arendt-statelessness-and-south-asia-across-media/Upcoming Brown Bag discussion, March 06 at 12:00: Discussion of work from her upcoming book, Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora. Brown bag reading can be downloaded here: https://uwm.edu/c21/event/brown-bag-discussion-w-kavita-daiya/Her book, Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and the National Culture in Postcolonial India. http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0786She edited the essay collection Graphic Narratives of South Asia and South Asian America: Aesthetics and Politics. https://www.routledge.com/Graphic-Narratives-about-South-Asia-and-South-Asian-America-Aesthetics/Daiya/p/book/97803673655541947Parition.org website. http://www.1947partition.org/ Find her on instagram @gwenglishprof Christopher Cantwell (UWM)Digital Humanities Awards and projects can be found here. http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/voting/?fbclid=IwAR3ybv0tSDoRe0so9G9VQk_6nDwH7_Zhhm_VWK0NSzdJsjYL4yQ1e38_hEUCheck out Christopher’s project, “Gathering Places” https://liblamp.uwm.edu/omeka/gatheringplaces/Check out Amanda Seligman’s (UWM) project. http://mismanageadrenaline.blogspot.com/2019/05/russian-bots-found-poem.html Book recommendations: Daniel Vaca, Evangelicals Incorporated; Books and the Business of Religion in America https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980112Scott C. Esplin, Return to the City of Joseph; Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/79fzt2pt9780252042102.html

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