6.5 Minutes With... | Yevgeniya Kaganovich
6.5 Minutes With... C21
In this episode, Jennifer Johung, director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, spends 6.5 minutes with Yevgeniya Kaganovich, a Belarus-born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based artist, whose hybrid practice encompasses jewelry and metalsmithing, sculpture, and installation. She is also a professor at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Kaganovich discusses her on-going projects and installations at the Lyden Sculpture Garden and explains the implications of tree time, earth time, and human time within the context of C21’s theme of Slow Knowing. Her...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Jennifer Jordan
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Mishiikenh Altiman
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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."
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6.5 Minutes With... | Leah Penniman
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Rayna Andrews
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Psyche Williams-Forson
6.5 Minutes With... C21
American Studies professor Psyche Williams-Forson talks about her most recent book project and the importance of digging deep into understanding individual food choices.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Josh Sbicca
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
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6.5 Minutes With... | James Levy
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Emily Contois
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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).
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6.5 Minutes With... | Joseph Ewoodzie, Jr.
6.5 Minutes With... C21
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.
info_outlineAnthropologist Josh Rivers talks about loneliness and connection as they manifest in video game development.