6.5 Minutes With... | Robert Smith
6.5 Minutes With... C21
In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with…,” graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Robert Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO) at Marquette University. He discusses his journey in community-based research and engagement by emphasizing the importance of "slow knowing" in his work, which, he explains, involves deliberate reflection and sustained inquiry. Smith highlights his projects, including a transatlantic study on legal activism against racial colonialism and a prison education program. He stresses the significance of local...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Samira Payne
6.5 Minutes With... C21
In this episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…, graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Samira Payne, an educator and outdoor enthusiast, who discusses her journey into hiking and her role as a volunteer leader for Outdoor Afro, a nonprofit organization that reconnects Black people to nature. She emphasizes the importance of slow care and defines it as being present and actively listening to one's surroundings. Payne highlights the benefits of nature for self-care, health, and community building, encouraging newcomers to start with simple outdoor activities and gradually engage in group...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Charmaine Lang
6.5 Minutes With... C21
C21 Graduate Fellow, Jamee Pritchard, interviews Charmaine Lang, Ph.D, a certified healing centered coach and organizational development consultant, about her work on slow care. Lang helps clients find joy and balance in their personal lives and careers and specializes in creating sustainable, people-centered operations and cultures of care. Her work is deeply rooted in Black Feminist Praxis. Charmaine earned a Ph.D. in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lang defines slow care as intentional pausing and community support, a practice she observed in...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Desiree McCray
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Desiree McCray, a womanist scholar, explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and Black religion and culture. She advocates for "slow knowing" and "slow care" in education, public theology, and activism, emphasizing intentionality, community, and radical empathy. McCray describes slow knowing as a radical act of resistance against the frantic pace of modern life, promoting rest and mindful engagement. Slow care, she explains, involves resisting the urge to overload students with information, instead fostering an inclusive space for critical engagement. She highlights the value of...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Mark Freeland
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, discusses the cyclical nature of time in indigenous worldviews, particularly among the Anishinaabe. He contrasts this with the linear time concept in Western cultures, emphasizing the importance of place and relationships in indigenous understanding. Freeland highlights the challenges of translating indigenous concepts into Western languages and the need for dialogical knowledge production. He also addresses the intergenerational process of decolonization,...
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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.
info_outlineAmerican Studies professor Psyche Williams-Forson talks about her most recent book project and the importance of digging deep into understanding individual food choices.