Two models in the world of Métis fiddling : John Arcand and Andy DeJarlis

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The Social Poetics of the Red River Jig in Alberta and Beyond : Meaningful Heritage and Emerging Performance

The Red River Jig is a fiddle tune and a dance form that have particular resonance for First Nations and Métis peoples in Northern and Western Canada. Here I follow the dance form’s practice across diverse settings in time and space. This article is a part of a larger project in which I am analyzing the nexus of Métis identity, performance, and heritage; using Michael Herzfeld’s concept of “social poetics” (2005) to gauge the Red River Jig not only as a representative form of Métis heritage, but as a performative form that emerges in social interaction. Here I first chronicle its performance through time and then describe its form and manners of learning this form in contemporary contexts in Alberta and Western Canada more generally. Finally, I examine the Red River Jig, or aspects of the Red River Jig, emerging in other dance forms as well as other performative circumstances beyond the categorical boundaries of music and dance to consider the social poetics of the Red River Jig within greater spheres of practice.La gigue de la Rivière Rouge est une mélodie jouée au violon ainsi qu’une danse qui ont une résonance particulière pour les Premières Nations et les Métis du nord et de l’ouest du Canada. Je m’intéresse ici à la pratique de ce modèle de danse dans différents cadres temporels et spatiaux. Cet article fait partie d’un projet plus vaste dans lequel j’analyse le lien entre l’identité, la représentation et le patrimoine métis en utilisant le concept de « poétique sociale » de Michael Herzfeld (2005) pour évaluer la gigue de la Rivière Rouge non seulement en tant que forme représentative du patrimoine métis mais encore comme une forme performative fruit de l’interaction sociale. En premier lieu, je retrace ici sa mise en scène à travers le temps avant de décrire sa forme et son mode d’apprentissage dans des contextes contemporains en Alberta et dans l’ouest canadien plus généralement. Enfin, j’analyse la gigue de la Rivière Rouge, ou certains de ses aspects, telle qu’elle émerge dans d’autres danses ainsi que dans d’autres contextes performatifs au-delà des frontières catégoriques de la musique et de la danse, afin de considérer les poétiques sociales de la gigue de la Rivière Rouge à l’intérieur de sphères de pratiques plus vastes

Engaging Farmers, Culinary Schools, and Communities in Value-Added Production to Strengthen Local Food Systems

Value-added products can generate farm income and improve community food access, yet lack of available kitchen infrastructure and labor can limit farm production capacity. This project explored how community-based culinary schools might fill the gap. A unique “product share” model was identified and piloted, meeting the collective needs of farmers, a culinary school, and urban consumers. By researching farmer crop availability and business model preferences, and aligning value-added production with community food preferences, we demonstrate a successful pilot indicative that similar initiatives can be replicated in other metropolitan areas, with potential to engage cross-disciplinary extension professionals

Culture in Transit: Digitizing and Democratizing NYC’s Cultural Heritage

Presentation from the MARAC conference in Pittsburgh, PA on April 14–16, 2016. S4 - Culture in Transit: Digitizing and Democratizing NYC’s Cultural Heritage

A Survey of Photoperiodic Response and Morphological Variation Across a Latitudinal Gradient in Threespine Stickleback

x, 36 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Natural biological variation exists at different geographic scales. We compared phenotype distribution across latitude, region and habitat type in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to determine local adaptation. To quantify variation in photoperiodic response, the day length cue was used to time sexual maturation and morphological characters across these various scales. Using lab-reared lines, we developed an index of sexual maturation and experimentally determined critical photoperiod for Alaskan and Oregon populations. Results showed that photoperiodic response existed in Alaskan but not Oregon populations. We also collected morphological data and made comparisons between wild Alaskan and Oregon populations and found similarities within habitat type across latitude but differences across region and habitat type. These data support the hypothesis that local adaptation results in variation across geography and habitat and, in stickleback, parallel evolution of morphological phenotypes within similar but geographically distant habitats.Committee in Charge: William E. Bradshaw, Chair; William A. Cresko; Christina M. Holzapfe

BIBFRAME, Europeana and DPLA: The Future of Open Cultural Heritage?

This paper offers an in-depth look at current issues and challenges faced by libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions, including current trends in metadata harvesting, public access, and institutional interoperability to develop a deep understanding of the current practice and way forward for cultural heritage information access

Examining the paradoxes children experience in language and literacy learning

Paradoxes are particularly problematic in literacy as they often complicate learning. However, identifying and examining them can also tell us something about the inherent problems within social, political, and educational systems. This paper reports on an analysis of a total of 205 AJLL articles and editorials, published between 2011 and 2021. The purpose of the study was to identify the paradoxes associated with student language and literacy learning. The systematic literature review identified 311 instances of paradoxes across these 205 articles. Thirty instances of paradoxical terminology associated with student literacy learning were selected from the 311 instances. The excluded 271 instances of paradox were associated with policy contexts, teacher performance, and accountabilities, which are outside the scope of this article. The research in the 205 articles found that literacy learning was shaped by the skills of literacy learning, the complexity of student learning through standardised approaches, and textual plurality. The contexts of literacy learning spanned the virtual and real, the implications of national testing on local situations, and the changing nature of text and what it means to be literate. This review identified that students negotiate paradoxes associated with the risks of standardised testing, the narrowing of the writing curriculum, and understanding the variety of textual forms and practices. Identifying and examining these paradoxes will help address some of the persistent problems in literacy learning faced by students and teachers

Kato-Nakayama spaces, infinite root stacks, and the profinite homotopy type of log schemes

For a log scheme locally of finite type over C, a natural candidate for its profinite homotopy type is the profinite completion of its Kato-Nakayama space. Alternatively, one may consider the profinite homotopy type of the underlying topological stack of its infinite root stack. Finally, for a log scheme not necessarily over C, another natural candidate is the profinite \'etale homotopy type of its infinite root stack. We prove that, for a fine saturated log scheme locally of finite type over C, these three notions agree. In particular, we construct a comparison map from the Kato-Nakayama space to the underlying topological stack of the infinite root stack, and prove that it induces an equivalence on profinite completions. In light of these results, we define the profinite homotopy type of a general fine saturated log scheme as the profinite \'etale homotopy type of its infinite root stack

Targeted knockdown of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase in rice mesophyll cells.

We generated antisense constructs targeting two of the five Rubisco small subunit genes (OsRBCS2 and 4) which account for between 30-40 % of the RBCS transcript abundance in leaf blades. The constructs were driven by a maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) promoter known to have enriched expression in mesophyll cells (MCs). In the resulting lines leaf, Rubisco protein content was reduced by between 30-50 % and CO2 assimilation rate was limited under photorespiratory and non-photorespiratory conditions. A relationship between Rubisco protein content and CO2 assimilation rate was found. This was associated with a significant reduction in dry biomass accumulation and grain yield of between 37-70%. In addition to serving as a resource for reducing Rubisco accumulation in a cell-preferential manner, these lines allow us to characterize gene function and isoform specific suppression on photosynthesis and growth. Our results suggest that the knockdown of multiple genes is required to completely reduce Rubisco accumulation in MCs