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Displaying from Thursday, September 07, 2017
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September 2017
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Thursday 07 |
7:00 - Health & Wellness - Health Coaching : Free health coaching on campus
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Participants needed to assist our 4th year Post Graduate Health students in Health Coaching.
**What’s required from you**
2 sessions of about 1 hour each, 3-4 weeks apart, held at UWA at times convenient to yourself and subject to student availability
**What is Health (...)
13:30 - EVENT - Medical Research: A Student Perspective : Hear some of our current students discuss their research projects
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What is it like to be a Medical student in 2017?
We are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Medical School, come and hear four of our current students discuss their research projects and learn what it is like to undertake medical research here at UWA.
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA School of Music presents the 2017 Callaway Lecture : Richard Mills AM: Opera in the Mirror of History, Evolution or Extinction
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This year, the Institute of Advanced Studies and the School of Music celebrate the 50th anniversary of UWA’s tertiary education partner, West Australian Opera in inviting Dr Richard Mills to deliver the 2017 Callaway Lecture.
Richard Mills was artistic director of West Australian Opera (...)
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Friday 08 |
10:00 - EVENT - Psychology in Society Research Week Event : The School of Psychological Science showcases some of its research and its real-world implications
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The School of Psychological Science showcases some of its research and its real-world implications. With presentations on face recognition, misinformation and fake news, disaster preparedness, the challenges of automation, treatment of anxiety, and healthy ageing.
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - The phantom national? Using an �assemblage analytic� to understand national schooling reforms
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In this seminar, Dr. Glenn Savage will draw upon an emerging body of research on ‘policy assemblage’ within the fields of policy sociology, anthropology and critical geography, to consider how an assemblage analytic might help researchers better understand national schooling reforms in an era (...)
17:00 - Free Lecture Recital - UWA School of Music Presents Fridays@Five : Adam Pinto: Smalley Arranged
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Now in its third season, Fridays@Five is the ideal way to kick-start your weekend! Each session offers a unique musical experience to delight all music lovers, from young artist led concerts to informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind the scenes workshops to lectures and (...)
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Monday 11 |
14:00 - STAFF EVENT - WORKSHOP: Design Augmented Reality Experiences Using Aurasma : Event for mLearning Month - September 2017
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Aurasma is an augmented reality platform which could potentially change the way you interact with the real world. Recent UWA TechNode surveys at UWA indicate that most students have a mobile device. Given this, Aurasma opens up opportunities in an instructional and educational manner, as the need (...)
A public lecture by Professor Han Baltussen, the Walter Watson Hughes Professor of Classics, University of Adelaide and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
In this lecture Professor Baltussen will explore the rich repertoire of grief experiences from antiquity in an (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
With Associate Professor Clarissa Ball, Discipline Chair, History of Art, UWA School of Design, Director, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
The recent removal of Confederate statues in the United States has resulted in extraordinary acts of violence, heightened racial tensions and death (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Luther�s Reformation at 500: Luther and the Devil : This is an Institute of Advanced Studies and Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies series of lectures.
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“If the Devil says to you “Do not drink”, you should reply to him “On this occasion I shall drink and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount.” (Martin Luther). To Martin Luther and most of his contemporaries the devil was a theological and material reality – to be confronted (...)
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Zhejiang Art Academy Performance : Contemporary performance with spectacular dance, exceptional music and traditional Chinese instruments, drawing from centuries of Chinese history and folklore.
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To celebrate Confucius Institute Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sister State relationship between Western Australia and Zhejiang Province, the Confucius Institute at UWA presents a very special performance by the Zhejiang Art Academy - one of China’s most highly regarded performance (...)
19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the Library UWA Library Speaker : No taxation without representation: Discontent in early Perth
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About the talk
No one likes being taxed, but the first settlers of the Swan River Colony felt that taxation was doubly unfair. Not only had they moved to the other side of the globe to avoid such a heavy burden in the motherland, they weren’t yet making any money in their new ventures.< (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
The exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers. In 2017 four outstanding orchestral and choral concerts will feature Western Australia’s finest young musicians.
Main Stage: Innovation
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Thursday 14 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Introduction to the Deep History of Sea Country project
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For most of the last 65,000 years of human
occupation, sea level has been lower than
present but we know very little about this
submerged landscape. This project links with
ongoing work in the Dampier Archipelago,
and uses cutting edge marine and aerial
survey techniques to identify potential (...)
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Friday 15 |
9:30 - SEMINAR - Scholarly Publishing Seminar for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) : Improve your writing skills and increase your chances of getting published
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This seminar for ECRs will cover:
A) Introduction to Scholarly Publishing
• Origins of publishing and changes in publishing dynamics
• Tips and tools to help you navigate the journal publishing process
B) How to get published?
(Editors panel discussion around below topics) (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Indonesia: The Development of Contemporary Pesantren Leadership Auliya Ridwan
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A pesantren is a type of indigenous Islamic boarding school common across Indonesia. Traditionally, the main objectives of pesantren were to preserve religious teaching over
generations as well as to cultivate morality within their students or disciples. Pesantren, which are commonly hierarchical (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - The use of Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation in agriculture: A case study of the Tharu in Western Nepal / PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA: A STUDY OF A NEW VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
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Indigenous knowledge is an important basis for farming and survival in many parts of the world, particularly in Indigenous communities of the developing world. Indigenous knowledge and practices have a dual role in dealing with the problems of climate change. First, they help to reduce
greenhouse (...)
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Monday 18 |
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
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