October 10: , on-air

Join KEXP, Nia Tero, and Amplifier for Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022. With special on-air programming all day, and the “Thriving Peoples Thriving Places” installation opening in KEXP鈥檚 Gathering Space, with artwork featuring Indigenous women leaders who have made significant contributions to Indigenous rights and guardianship, and free posters while supplies last

Free |

October 11, 7:00 PM: , Elliott Bay Book Company

A dual book launch and conversation with history professors Moon-Ho Jung and Vicente Rafael. Moon-Ho Jung presents his book on Asian and Asian-American radicalism and the making of the US National Security state: Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (University of California Press, 2022) and Vicente Rafael (History) presents his book on the recent president of the Filipines, The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Duke Univ. Press, 2022).

Free |

October 12, 3:30 PM: , online

Presented by: Dr. Ugo Edu, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA

This talk draws on different moments, fictitious and non-fictitious, to explore our commitments to the anti-racist work needed to move towards health equity. It asks for an interrogation of what is meant by 鈥渉ealth鈥� and how that definition or those definitions inform/s what can be envisioned as health equity. By asking whether we are sure we want health equity is to invite reflection on our commitments and willingness to sacrifice over performative gestures and statements that often contradict stated goals.

Free |

October 13, 3 PM:, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC)

A year in rural Nepal engaged in public health practice and clinical care launched Mary Anne Mercer鈥檚 career in global health. She will talk about Beyond the Next Village with Dr. Deepa Rao and respond to comments and questions from students.

Free |

October 13 – 16: , Meany Hall – Studio Theatre

Feature: Chamber Dance Company shifts focus, reimagines repertoire in return to stage, 91探花News

This year鈥檚 program, ()听performed in the intimate Meany Studio Theatre, celebrates听a broad sweep of听contemporary dance听styles. Guests from Seattle鈥檚 professional dance community join the听Chamber Dance Company to perform excerpts from Crystal Pite鈥檚 10 Duets on a Theme of Rescue, and David Rouss猫ve鈥檚 haunting听and tender听work,听Stardust. Completing the program are听new works听created by second year MFA students, Gary Champi, and Jenn Pray, that will be performed by company members with guests from the Department of Dance.

Discounts available to 91探花employees and students |

Autumn Quarter:

The College of Arts & Sciences is launching its initiative by inviting students, faculty, and staff to join a campus-wide reading experience, followed by conversations about how we can enhance teaching and learning at the 91探花.

(in person or Zoom).

October 14, 7:30 PM: , Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

Transcultural acoustic/electronic performance featuring S忙unn Thorsteinsd贸ttir, cello; Steve Rodby, bass; Richard Karpen, pianos and electronics; Juan Pampin, live electronics; Ted Poor, Drums/Percussion; Breana Tavaglione, autoharp and found sonic objects; Wei Yang, guzheng, flutes, and piano; Cuong Vu, trumpet. An evening of enigmatic musical exploration traversing and blurring genre boundaries.

Free |

October 14 – 16: Artist Visit: Donna Huanca, Henry Art Gallery听

Performance plays an integral role in the work of Berlin-based artist Donna Huanca. Join the Henry for a weekend of artist-activated programs in conjunction with Huanca’s large-scale, immersive installation . The artist will visit the museum for a conversation with Jazmina Figueroa preceding two days of durational performances by Parisjoy Jennings and Kim Thompson.

October 14, 6 PM:

October 15 – 16:

As the 91探花community returns to campus, consider taking advantage of campus perks available to 91探花employees and students:

• Free admission to the and
• Discounted tickets to performances by Meany Center, School of Drama, Department of Dance, School of Music, and more

Robyn Orlin

Video & Article:

September 27, 4 PM: , Hutchinson Hall

Known in South Africa as a “permanent irritation,” Orlin will shed light on her creative process with the help of funny and surprising situations.

Free |

September 30 – October 1, 8 PM: , Meany Center for the Performing Arts

A critique of shifting power relationships for the 20th anniversary of the end of Apartheid. Playful, ironic and featuring dancer and performance artist Albert Ibokwe Khoza, the work is a journey through the seven deadly sins that Orlin considers a 鈥渞equiem for humanity.鈥�

91探花Faculty, 91探花Staff, 91探花Retirees and 91探花Alumni Association (UWAA): 10% off regular-priced single tickets, subject to availability. A valid 91探花ID (e.g. Husky card or UWAA card) is required; limit of one ticket per valid ID |

September 26 – October 7: , various locations

Shop thousands of posters at the HUB鈥檚 annual poster sale! Poster sale proceeds benefit the HUB Director鈥檚 Art Award, supporting 91探花student artists by purchasing and displaying their work in the HUB Permanent Art Collection, and the HUB Scholarship, assisting students involved in ASUW, GPSS, RSOs, and HUB student employment in reaching their full potential as leaders, regardless of financial situation.

September 30, 7 – 9 PM: , Henry Art Gallery

Free |

October 1, 3 PM: , Volunteer Park

Join Henry OffSite 鈥� Soft Services artist Chlo毛 Bass and author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for a conversation about the body and colonialism, intimacy and loss, cruising and alienation, communal possibility, and intimate transgression. The conversation will focus on the embodied experiences produced through interaction with Soft Services’ stone sculptures, and examine how acts of noticing open the door for new engagements with social and environmental landscapes. The dialogue will be punctuated by readings from Sycamore’s genre-bending book The Freezer Door (2020), portions of which are set in Volunteer Park.

Free |

Upcoming:

October 6:

• Department of
• , Meany Center
• , Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

October 7:

• , Meany Center

October 12:

• , Anthropology

New research reveals significant changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on the initial migration of humans from Asia to North America.

The international , led by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and published Dec. 9 in Science Advances, provides a new picture of the circulation and climate of the North Pacific at the end of the last ice age, with implications for early human migration.

The Pacific Ocean contains around half the water in Earth’s oceans and is a vast reservoir of heat and carbon dioxide. However, at present, the sluggish circulation of the North Pacific restricts the movement of this heat and carbon dioxide, limiting its impact on climate.

The international team of scientists used sediment cores from the deep sea to reconstruct the circulation and climate of the North Pacific during the peak of the last ice age, roughly 21,000 years ago. Their results reveal a dramatically different circulation in the ice age Pacific, with vigorous ocean currents creating a relatively warm region around the modern Bering Sea.

“Our data shows that the Pacific had a warm current system during the last ice age, similar to the modern Atlantic Ocean currents that help to support a mild climate in Northern Europe,” said lead author , a faculty member at the University of St. Andrews.

The warming from these ocean currents created conditions more favorable for early human habitation, helping address a long-standing mystery about the earliest inhabitants of North America.

“According to genetic studies, the first people to populate the Americas lived in an isolated population for several thousand years during the peak of the last ice age, before spreading out into the American continents,” said co-author , a professor of anthropology at the 91探花 who studies early communities in the North Pacific.

This hypothesis has been termed the “Beringian Standstill,” and a significant question is where this population lived after separation from their Asian relatives, before deglaciation of the massive ice sheet covering the northern third of North America allowed them to reach and spread throughout the Americas. The new research suggests that these early Americans may have lived in a relatively warm refugium, or habitable refuge, in southern Beringia, on the now submerged land beneath the Bering Sea. Due to the extremely cold climate that dominated other parts of this region during the ice age, it has been unclear, until now, how habitable conditions could have been maintained.

“Our work shows how dynamic Earth’s climate system is. Changes in the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere can have major impacts on how effectively humans may inhabit different environments, which is also relevant for understanding how different regions will be affected by future climate change,” said third author , a postdoctoral researcher in atmospheric sciences at the 91探花.

Wills researches the overturning circulation in the North Pacific, and did climate modeling work to help understand what the paleoclimate data 鈥� compiled by researchers at the University of St. Andrews and the University of California, Irvine 鈥� would mean for the region鈥檚 climate.

“The warm currents revealed by our data would have created a much more pleasant climate in this region than we might have previously thought,” said second author , a research scientist at the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment in France.

“This would have created milder climates in the coastal regions of the North Pacific, that would have supported more temperate terrestrial and marine ecosystems and made it possible for humans to survive the ice age in an otherwise harsh climatic period.”

The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council. Other co-authors are from Scripps Institution of Oceanography; the University of California, Irvine; and the University of California, Riverside.

For more information, contact Fitzhugh at fitzhugh@uw.edu, Wills at rcwills@uw.edu and Gray at william.gray@lsce.ipsl.fr. Contact Rae via communications manager Christine Tudhope, Christine.Tudhope@st-andrews.ac.uk, 01334 467 320 or 07526 624 243 (mobile).

Adapted from a from the University of St. Andrews.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Re/frame: Still Life

August 20, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM |

BJ Cummings with James Rasmussen & Paulina Lopez
August 20, 7:30 PM |

#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

August 20, 8:00 PM |

The popular Burke Trivia Night is back鈥攖his time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

Join the Burke Museum online on the third Thursday of every month at 8:00 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. This month will welcome guest hosts from the听Holocaust Center for Humanity.

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Crossing North Podcast

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Crossing North听is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.听Crossing North听is produced and hosted by Colin Gioia Connors, lecturer of Scandinavian Studies, with Kristian N忙sby, visiting lecturer of Danish.

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What is Seattle鈥檚 story? Who does it belong to? How did we get to where we are now?

Welcome to听Rainy Day History,听a podcast by the Museum of History and Industry’s Youth Advisors. Seattle is famous for its coffee beans and digital machines, but it hasn鈥檛 always been that way. We鈥檙e diving into history to uncover what it means to be a Seattleite both in the past and the present. This isn鈥檛 your everyday museum podcast鈥攊t鈥檚 completely teen-researched, written, and produced!

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Few people have spent as much time studying mammals in the Arctic as , a 91探花 polar scientist and expert on marine mammals.

One exception would be Inuit subsistence hunters, who for generations have relied on these mammals for nutritional, economic and cultural reasons. A new documents the experience of these hunters and what it might show about changing conditions for polar bears on Greenland’s east coast.

“Our research was motivated by the importance of obtaining local perspectives from subsistence hunters in East Greenland about the subpopulation of polar bears,” said Laidre, who is corresponding author on the paper. “There had not been an interview study for several decades, so a new interview survey was important to conduct, especially before starting an assessment of the subpopulation.”

She will be involved in the assessment over the coming years, which will be the first of its kind for the East Greenland polar bears.

Interviews led and conducted by the Greenland government gathered Inuit perspectives on hunting practices and management from full-time polar bear hunters, the only people allowed to hunt polar bears, in two communities along Greenland’s eastern coast. Tasiilaq is a community of about 3,000 people with 68 full-time polar bear hunters, and Ittoqqortoormiit is a community of less than 400 with 12 full-time polar bear hunters.

Questions covered hunting strategies and the effects of polar bear subsistence quotas introduced in 2006. The scientific aim was to gain an understanding of how climate change is affecting the polar bear subsistence hunt, and to document observed changes in polar bear distribution, numbers and biology over the past two decades.

A local partner interviewed 25 hunters, all men between the ages of 20 and 64, between December 2014 and March 2015. The interviews conducted in Greenlandic were conversational in nature, lasted about two hours on average, and were mostly held in people’s homes.

The last such survey in eastern Greenland was conducted in the 1990s. Other places, including Greenland’s west coast and the Canadian Arctic, have had more recent interview surveys.

Results of the East Greenland survey, when compared with similar questions in the 1990s, show that the hunt has shifted from being done from land to being done from boats, coinciding with reports that the ice-covered routes are becoming more treacherous.

Other , recently published in Frontiers in Marine Science, show that the hunt is happening earlier in the year than it did in the 1990s, with fewer people hunting in the summer months. About 80 percent of hunters in both communities also reported that polar bears are entering communities more often than in the past. Some hunters believed that there were more polar bears because of the quotas introduced in 2006, while others reported that the loss of sea ice is encouraging polar bears to stay closer to shore.

“Subsistence hunters provide an important perspective on the system that needs to be documented and included in the conservation and management of polar bears,” Laidre said.

Co-authors on the paper are at the 91探花Applied Physics Laboratory and at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. The research was funded by the Danish Ministry of Environment.

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For more information, contact Laidre at klaidre@uw.edu.

Adapted from a by Frontiers in Marine Ecology.

DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in the region about 4,000 years earlier.

The British archeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the early 1900鈥檚 named the Minoans after a legendary Greek king, Minos. Based on similarities between Minoan artifacts and those from Egypt and Libya, Evans proposed that the Minoan civilization founders migrated into the area from North Africa. Since then, other archaeologists have suggested that the Minoans may have come from other regions, possibly Turkey, the Balkans, or the Middle East.

Now, a team of researchers in the United States and Greece has used mitochondrial DNA analysis of Minoan skeletal remains to determine the likely ancestors of these ancient people.

Mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of cells, contain their own DNA, or genetic code. Because mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mothers to their children via the human egg, it contains information about maternal ancestry.

Results published May 14 in Nature Communications suggest that the Minoan civilization arose from the population already living in Bronze Age Crete. The findings indicate that these people probably were descendents of the first humans to reach Crete about 9,000 years ago, and that they have the greatest genetic similarity with modern European populations.

Read the .

Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos, 91探花 professor of medicine and genome sciences, is the paper鈥檚 senior author. He believes that the data highlight the importance of DNA analysis as a tool for understanding human history.

鈥淎bout 9,000 years ago,鈥� he noted, 鈥渢here was an extensive migration of Neolithic humans from the regions of Anatolia that today comprise parts of Turkey and the Middle East. At the same time, the first Neolithic inhabitants reached Crete.鈥�

鈥淥ur mitochondrial DNA analysis shows that the Minoan鈥檚 strongest genetic relationships are with these Neolithic humans, as well as with ancient and modern Europeans,鈥� he explained.

鈥淭hese results suggest the Minoan civilization arose 5,000 years ago in Crete from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in the region about 4,000 years earlier,鈥� he said. 鈥淥ur data suggest that the Neolithic population that gave rise to the Minoans also migrated into Europe and gave rise to modern European peoples.鈥�

Stamatoyannopoulos, who directs the 91探花Markey Molecular Medicine Center and who formerly headed the 91探花Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Medicine, added, 鈥淕enetic analyses are playing in increasingly important role and predicting and protecting human health. Our study underscores the importance of DNA not only in helping us to have healthier futures, but also to understand our past.鈥�

Stamatoyannopoulos and his research team analyzed samples from 37 skeletons found in a cave in Crete鈥檚 Lassithi plateau and compared them with mitochondrial DNA sequences from 135 modern and ancient human populations. The Minoan samples revealed 21 distinct mitochondrial DNA variations, of which six were unique to the Minoans and 15 were shared with modern and ancient populations. None of the Minoans carried mitochondrial DNA variations characteristic of African populations.

Further analysis showed that the Minoans were only distantly related to Egyptian, Libyan, and other North African populations. The Minoan shared the greatest percentage of their mitochondrial DNA variation with European populations, especially those in Northern and Western Europe.

When plotted geographically, shared Minoan mitochondrial DNA variation was lowest in North Africa and increased progressively across the Middle East, Caucasus, Mediterranean islands, Southern Europe, and mainland Europe. The highest percentage of shared Minoan mitochondrial DNA variation was found with Neolithic populations from Southern Europe.

The analysis also showed a high degree of sharing with the current population of the Lassithi plateau and Greece. In fact, the maternal genetic information passed down through many generations of mitochondria is still present in modern-day residents of the Lassithi plateau.

Co-authors of the study are Jeffery R. Hughey of Hartnell College; Peristera Paschou of Democritus University of Thrace; Petros Drineas of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Manolis Michalodimitrakis of the University of Crete; and Donald Mastropaolo, Dimitra M. Lotakis, Patrick A. Navas, and John A. Stamatoyannopoulos of the 91探花. The study was partially supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (5T32 GM007454), as well as from private funding.

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“Food waste is the single most significant contaminant in trash bins,” said Jack Johnson, a 91探花archaeology graduate student who leads the . “It is clear that most contamination stems from people throwing the contents of their on-campus meals, including foods and compostable/recyclable packaging, into trash bins,” he wrote in posted this week summarizing the project’s findings.

Finding ways to improve composting would cut the university’s waste expenses. It costs $145 per ton to dispose of trash compared with $55 per ton for compost, which ends up turned into nutrient-rich soil by . There is no fee for recycling.

Johnson and his students in an archaeology class spent five afternoons this fall sorting and weighing campus waste collected from two of the seven kiosks on Red Square. The kiosks include bins for trash, recyclables and compost. Clad in white, water-resistant jumpsuits, blue specialized gloves and breathing masks, the group wanted to see how effectively campus users were categorizing their waste.

Based on trash from the two kiosks in Johnson’s study, 67 percent of waste was diverted from landfills by people putting it in compost or recycling. Looking at campus recycling programs as a whole, 91探花Recycling finds that the diversion rate is 57 percent, though they are working to increase that to 70 percent by 2020.

“It’s definitely achievable,” Emily Newcomer, 91探花Recycling manager, said of the goal. “ 91探花is a city within a city, with people from all over the world. The challenge is helping everyone understand recycling and composting, and educating them on what goes where.”

The diversion rate in Johnson’s study fell to 54 percent when his group factored in whether campus users were correctly sorting their waste.

Trash bins showed the most miscategorizing, usually with items that should have been composted. Recycling bins revealed confusion too, where a quarter of the mass accumulated was compostable food waste 鈥� mostly liquids that should have been poured into the compost bin and then the bottle recycled. Contamination was only 7 percent in compost bins, suggesting that those who use the compost bins are accurate in identifying compostable materials.

Johnson and his research team estimate that only about 5 percent of what is thrown out on campus is actually trash 鈥� everything else could be recycled or composted. They suggest these ways to improve:

• Pouring out liquids. Most contamination in recycling bins was from food, usually liquids. Johnson estimates that at least 60 percent of recycling contamination would be eliminated if people simply poured out liquids before recycling.
• More education on what is compostable. Most carry-out containers of food purchased on campus are compostable, yet many campus users treat them as trash. Better labeling of containers might help with this, Johnson’s group points out.
• Increasing the number of campus compost bins. The researchers found that the kiosks accumulate 14 times more compost than trash, yet they point out that campus-wide there are more trash bins than compost bins.
• Increased promotion of incentives for reusable cups. Several hundred cups for coffee, soda and soup 鈥� about 7 percent of the waste examined by the team 鈥� were recyclable or compostable. The amount seems like “wanton wastefulness,” Johnson wrote, and it might be reduced if more people participated in programs like UW’s for bringing their own cups.

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For more information, contact Johnson at anamgorm@uw.edu, or Newcomer at 206-685-8928 or emilyn2@uw.edu.