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Displaying from Monday, August 12, 2013
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August 2013
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Monday 12 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Lifting Africans out of poverty : an overview of the strategy and activities of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
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The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
sets clear targets: by 2020 its research efforts will have contributed to lifting 11 million Africans out of poverty and to restoring 7.5 million hectares of land into sustainable use.
IITA's Deputy Director General for Research, Prof Ylva (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
Speakers:
Farah Karim-Cooper
(Head of Research, Shakespeare's Globe)
"Reading Tactility in the Early Modern Playhouse", and
Ian Donaldson
(Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor ANU, CHE Advisory Board)
"Noli Me Tangere: Interpreting a taboo"
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Women and Social Justice in Islam : Professor Anis Ahmed will provide an insight into women's status in Islam
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The lecture will explore Islamic approaches to gender discrimination and gender justice. It will highlight the Qur'anic view of gender justice, human rights and legal status of female evidence in Islamic law. Professor Ahmad is the Vice Chancellor of Riphah International University, Islamabad (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Chris Wortham and Julianne Baird: All�s well that ends well
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The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations (...)
19:00 - TALK - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : The Calling: reflections on today and yesterday
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About the Speaker
Susan Prescott is Winthrop Professor at The University of Western Australia and a practising paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital in Perth, where she specialises in treating children with asthma and allergic diseases. Her research in this field is internationally (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Anti-Anti-Witchcraft: Why Humanitarian Concerns About "Witchcraft Violence" in Africa are Misplaced
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A public lecture by Adam Ashforth, Helmut F. Stern Professor, Institute for the Humanities, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.
In recent years a number of international organisations and humanitarian groups, along with refugee activists and (...)
19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Election Forum : Forum to hear election policies of major parties on matters important to faith communities.
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Interfaith Election Forum - An Ecumenical and Interfaith forum Strengthening our social fabric: a discussion of what really matters in this election. The event is hosted by the Ecumenical Social Justice Roundtable in partnership with UWA Chaplaincy and the Centre for Muslim States and Societies.
Gu (...)
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Thursday 15 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Hackett Brass (Dr Alan Lourens and Friends)
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday
18:00 - RECITAL - Voices from Venice : 18th-Century Italian Music and the Ospedali Grandi
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A public lecture and performance by Julianne Baird.
By the early eighteenth century Venice’s once considerable economic power had ebbed to a point where culture, rather than trade or manufacture, was her most characteristic field of activity. She drew visitors in huge numbers from all (...)
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Friday 16 |
8:30 - EVENT - Transformative leaders: Driving schools from good to great : A leadership forum: for aspiring and novice leaders
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Are you an aspiring or novice leader? Are you interested in lifting student achievement?
Here you will engage in roundtable discussion of strategies to raise student performance. Speakers will share their insights into transforming organisations from good to great.
Katherine Wilkinson, Curator of HERE&NOW13, will be accompanied by artists in a discussion-oriented tour of the exhibition.
HERE&NOW13, presented as a part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of emerging Western Australian Artists, will for the first time (...)
It is back again!...Over 100,000 books in more than 40 categories on sale plus CDs, DVDs and sheet music. Find us under the clock tower (Winthrop Undercroft).
Money raised from this great sale will help create a world where every child has a safe and happy childhood.
Friday 16 (...)
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Saturday 17 |
10:00 - FUNDRAISER - Zumbathon 4 Telethon : Shake your booty for charity
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Get grooving to the charity beat with Zumbathon. Shake youre booty for Telethon at the UWA Recreation and Fitness Cemtre, Saturday 17 August from 10am-2pm (come for as long or as little as you like). Professional instructors will be on hand to show you the moves so you can lose yourself in the (...)
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Sunday 18 |
15:00 - PERFORMANCE - Keyed Up! Roy Howart : Continuing in the Keyed Up! tradition, the School of Music is proud to host internationally distinguished artists in 2013. Indulge your senses in the renowned acoustic of the Callaway Music Auditorium and give your Sunday afternoons a new dimension!
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Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both a pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of few British artists repeatedly (...)
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Monday 19 |
7:00 - CANCELLED - EVENT - ISS Health and Wellbeing Month : Attention All International Students! A month of fun and health awaits you!
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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International Student Services will be launching its Health and Wellbeing Month at UWA next Monday, 19th August.
The event will kick start with FREE weekly yoga/pilates classes starting on (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
13:00 - EVENT - The Raine Study : A Unique WA resource for health and medical researchers
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The prospective longitudinal design of the Raine Study allows causal pathways of complex conditions such as cardiovascular, respiratory and psychiatric disease to be investigated. The Raine Study has already contributed to scientific research in many ways and led to novel discoveries across a range (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - The Raine Study � A unique West Australian resource for health and medical researchers. : The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world.
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The Seminar:The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Roy Howat and Paul Wright: Impressionism, Violin & Piano
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The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Objects of social change : the women's movement and things that liberate
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A public lecture by Professor Alison Bartlett, Gender Studies, The University of Western Australia.
What kinds of objects can be said to have changed the world? This lecture investigates the associations between materiality and memory, the ways that material culture shapes our lives (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : An Impressionist Account of Water Pollution in China with Allusions to Mel Gibson’s Apocalyto.
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After presenting a brief introduction and overview (based mainly on journalistic and secondary source articles), I rapidly show a succession of mostly web images picturing China's water pollution.
Stills from Mel Gibson's movie Apocalyto are gradually introduced to weave a comparison (...)
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