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May 2013
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Thursday 30 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things
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An Inquiring Minds lecture by Oron Catts, Director, SymbioticA, Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA.
In 1906 Jacques Loeb suggested making a living system from dead matter as a way to debunk the vitalists’ ideas and claimed to have (...)
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Friday 31 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA double feature w/ Adelaide Cohalan and Devon Ward : SymbioticA presents two talks from the current roster of Master Biological Arts students
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Sensory Trap: Communication and collaboration with honeybees in the ultraviolet
During this talk Adelaide Cohalan will present ideas that she has been working on as part of her proposal for her final year Masters project, Sensory Trap. Sensory Trap intends to explore the (...)
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June 2013
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Wednesday 05 |
A public lecture by David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Davis.
Terror and catastrophe are commonly distinguished as (respectively) man-made and natural phenomena, but there is increasing evidence for seeing them as historically related. There is also a strong case for (...)
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Thursday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Witness to Disaster: Journalists and Journalism in Hurricane Katrina
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A public lecture by James O’Byrne, NOLA.com.
Katrina brought into high relief the role of journalists as first responders, as integral to disaster response as police, fire and rescue personnel. The unprecedented nature of the collapse of the Federal seawalls protecting New Orleans (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
The Business School is hosting an information evening for its Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) programs.
We invite you to attend the upcoming information evening which will give you the opportunity to learn about the programs (...)
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Friday 21 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Agency in Movement Symposium : Free one day Symposium presented by SymbioticA
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The Agency in Movement symposium employs a variety of disciplines to explore the complex relations between movement and vitality.
Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a “body” and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is (...)
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Monday 24 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - Call for Paper: ROGE-2013 (London-UK): International Conference of Restructuring of the Global Economy : ROGE-2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Academy of Business & Retail Management is proud to have an established record to organising and managing international academic conferences. Please join us for one of our annual conferences in location given below. All our Conference seek to elucidate a wealth of issues (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
Sharks, Camera, Action! is a forum and a mini film festival, focused on sharks and their relatives, which aims to encourage, inspire, and educate the general public about the important role that these animals play in our oceans. Our goal is to facilitate communication about sharks and their (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The socioeconomic pattern of Aboriginal health: the evidence and consequences
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Carrington Shepherd is a senior analyst at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, with qualifications in economics and statistics (BEc) and health sciences (PhD). His research focuses on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and the use of (...)
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July 2013
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Wednesday 03 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Worshipers of the Cross and Eaters of Pork': Food, Conversion and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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A public lecture by Eric Dursteler, Associate Professor History Department, Brigham Young University.
One of the central credos of food studies is Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s famous aphorism, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” What Brillat-Savarin sensed (...)
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Monday 08 |
8:00 - SYMPOSIUM - ACHRC 2013 Meeting : Spaces and Networks for the Humanities: Building Research Environments
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The 2013 annual meeting of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA.
This year’s meeting will provide opportunities for those engaged with humanities-based research to discuss many of the key issues related (...)
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Thursday 18 |
The 2013 Vincent Fairfax Oration by Tony Cripps Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Bank Australia.
Tony Cripps will talk through his banking experiences in markets across different continents, and how financial services should change and respond to meet the political and regulatory challenges (...)
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Friday 19 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - PEG Scientific Meeting - Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Research
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Tuesday 23 |
18:00 - ALUMNI EVENT - The 2013 George Seddon Lecture : Is Central Perth Getting Better? – A View from Seddon Perspectives
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The Annual George Seddon Lecture series will be presented this year by Peter Newman, John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University.
The lecture will present perspectives on the liveliness, greening, residential qualities, regeneration projects, foreshore and (...)
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Friday 26 |
14:00 - ORATION - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final : An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present - their time 3 minutes!
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The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.
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August 2013
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Thursday 01 |
18:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2013 Salek Minc Lecture : Engaging Possibility: Access Programs at MoMA
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Carrie McGee from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present the annual Salek Minc Lecture for 2013 on Thursday 1 August 6pm at the UniClub Theatre Auditorium.
Carrie McGee and her colleagues at the MoMA have won international respect for their unique efforts to make the MoMA’s (...)
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Friday 02 |
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - HERE&NOW13 Disability and the Arts Symposium : Enabling people with disability access to, and involvement in the arts
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As part of the HERE&NOW13 exhibition program, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is hosting the 'Disability and the Arts' Symposium on 2nd and 3rd of August.
This two-day symposium brings together a range of Western Australian organisations to discuss the importance of enabling people (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - Call for Paper: IACP-2013 (Paris-France): International Academic Research Conference : IACP-2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Academy of Business & Retail Management is proud to have an established record to organising and managing international academic conferences. Please join us for one of our annual conferences in location given below. All our Conference seek to elucidate a wealth of issues (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Australian agriculture and global food security : 2050 Food - Lecture Series
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A public lecture by Winthrop Professor Kadambot H.M Siddique, AM FTSE, Director, The UWA Institute of Agriculture.
Cost: Free, Register: http://2050food.eventbrite.com.au/#
Australia is currently a net food exporting country and about 70% of the food produced is exported. The (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
A public lecture by David Konstan, Professor of Classics at New York University
Lucretius’ poem On Nature presents a detailed overview of ancient atomic physics, as developed within the school founded by Epicurus. It has some remarkable features: not just atoms, but tiny, non-detachable (...)
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