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Graduate student fellows with the International Policy Institute in the 91±¬ÁÏ Jackson School of International Studies have begun publishing a 13-part series of blogs exploring aspects of the intergovernmental Arctic Council as a 21st-century institution.

Absurdity and abstraction, artistic dualisms, long-held family memories — and even some gentle voodoo — mingle together in the annual exhibition by 91±¬ÁÏ art and design graduate students, on display through June 25 at the Henry Art Gallery.

Issues of social justice, incarceration and the politics of race and gender — past and present — will be the focus as hundreds of scholars, teachers, labor activists and artists gather at the 91±¬ÁÏ June 22-25 for the annual conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

Timing is everything, they say. In the latest episode of his Documents that Changed the World podcast series, Joe Janes of the 91±¬ÁÏ Information School explores how an overload of critical information helped trigger the stock market crash of 1929, and thus the Great Depression. “This is a story about fortunes lost, lives ruined, a world plunged into a decade of depression, the end of an era,” Janes says in the podcast. “And, a story of infrastructure. And like any…

The Disklavier is an electromagnetic piano that — like the 91±¬ÁÏ-created encephalophone recently reported on by the Seattle Times — is played by brain waves alone, via an electroencephalogram. 91±¬ÁÏ audiences can see and hear this new technology in “Music of Today: The DXARTS Spring Concert,” April 6, in Meany Hall.

91±¬ÁÏ astronomy professor Eric Agol is part of the large team of researchers that has just announced confirmation of several Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets orbiting a star about 40 light-years away.

Recently published research from the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) using ancient Earth as a stand-in for hypothetically habitable exoplanets has been highlighted by NASA in a feature article. Leading the research was Giada Arney, who was a 91±¬ÁÏ astronomy doctoral student when doing the work and is now with NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center.

Ralina Joseph, 91±¬ÁÏ associate professor of communication, has guest co-edited a special triple issue of the interdisciplinary journal Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society with her former mentor and dissertation adviser, Jane Rhodes of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Joseph’s own article in the issue focuses on the creator of the television show “Grey’s Anatomy,” set in Seattle. The special edition, the guest editors wrote, resulted from a panel discussion called “The Right…

It’s almost unheard-of for a university class to spark global press attention — and offers of book deals — before instruction even begins. But such is the case with the 91±¬ÁÏ Information School’s new course, “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data.”

Poet activists from around the nation will gather for daylong 91±¬ÁÏ conference Feb. 3 on creativity in activism — and then give full voice to that creativity in performances 7 – 10 p.m. at the Seattle Public Library. All are welcome.

91±¬ÁÏ School of Law professor Sean O’Connor has filed a brief in the famous “Blurred Lines” music copyright case, arguing for full composition credit for those who worked in the “aural tradition” and did not use traditional musical notation.