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Displaying from Thursday, October 22, 2015
 October 2015
Thursday 22
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Light Events : A 2015 International Year of Light Lecture Website | More Information
A public lecture by Rebecca Baumann, artist.

Light is capable of transforming spatial environments - an intangible material which can be manipulated and sculpted. It has the power to affect us psychologically, as well as alter our perception of the world around us. In this presentation (...)
Sunday 25
19:00 - EVENT - Mozart Mayhem Concert : Join us for an evening of Mozart concerti! Website | More Information
Join us for an evening of all Mozart concerti performed by local champion soloists Paul Wright, Robert Gladstones and Raymond Yong accompanied by a chamber orchestra of brilliant young musicians.

The program will include Piano Concerto No.12, Horn Concerto No.2 and Violin Concerto No.5.
Tuesday 27
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Giant Waves on the Open Sea: Mariners' tall tales or alarming fact? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Paul H Taylor, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Giant waves are rare, and seldom recorded by reliable oceanographic instruments. However, on 1 January 1995 a sensor on a platform in the central North Sea recorded a giant 60ft high wave crest, so (...)
Wednesday 28
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Tales of the ex-Apes Website | More Information
A public lecture by Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina.

Human evolution is the scientific narrative of who we are and where we came from, which for any other society would be considered to lie in the domain of kinship and origin myth. All such (...)

 November 2015
Wednesday 04
18:00 - EVENT - Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties Website | More Information
A public lecture by Corioli Souter, Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum and Adjunct Lecturer in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia.

Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties is an Australia Research Council (ARC) funded project that is making a (...)
Tuesday 10
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Approaches to Sexuality and Gender Diversity : UWA Research on National and International Perspectives Website | More Information
How are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT) represented in the press, social media, popular culture, and politics? How do these depictions influence, mirror, or misrepresent the way LGBT people perceive themselves and articulate their identities? And what health implications do (mi (...)
Thursday 12
18:15 - PUBLIC TALK - *Sold Out* The Spice of Faith: Jesuits and the Arts and Emotions of 'Accommodation' Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Chair of Latin Humanism, The University of Western Australia.

To what extent did early modern Jesuits evince what we might call 'transcultural empathy' for the non-European peoples they encountered in the overseas (...)
Tuesday 17
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - "Mum and Dad, it's your turn to grow up" � kids becoming teenagers Website | More Information
A public lecture by Elina Hermanson, Head of Adolescent Health Services, City of Helsinki, Finland.

As an adolescent medicine physician, Elina Hermanson meets teens with worries and sorrows that need the attention of a professional. Some have obvious troubles that could have been (...)

 February 2016
Saturday 13
11:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Unwritten Stories: Objects, Power and Shared Histories Website | More Information
Presented by the WA Museum in association with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies as part of the 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' exhibition.

Join expert presenters as they discuss the meaning and value of objects as an unwritten insight into human cultures across time, and the (...)

 March 2016
Monday 07
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Architecture, Labour, Capitalism: the architect as worker Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean, Yale School of Architecture.

"Architecture is not a career; it is a calling!"

This lecture will examine the problems for the architectural profession when it heeds this cry. Because we too often believe that (...)
Wednesday 09
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Looking Back To Go Forward: why marine management needs lessons from the past Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology.

This lecture introduces marine environmental history (MEH) and its relevance for marine management. It will present some of the underlying concepts, theories and methods, and present the (...)
Thursday 10
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Taking a Shortcut Through the Long Grass : The 2016 Grace Vaughan Memorial lecture by Dorinda Cox, Project Officer, Keeping Kids Safe Project Website | More Information
The 2016 Grace Vaughan Memorial lecture by Dorinda Cox, Project Officer, Keeping Kids Safe Project, Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA and Managing Director of the Inspire Change Consulting Group.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 35 times more (...)
Thursday 17
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Critically Engaged Medical Humanities: the model of 'Life of Breath' Website | More Information
A public lecture by Jane Macnaughton, Professor of Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK and Co-Director of the Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities.

Can the arts and humanities make a real difference to clinical practice and research? This lecture takes up that challenge (...)
Monday 21
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Where Do We Find Hope When Facing A Terminal Illness? : **FULLY BOOKED** Website | More Information
A public lecture by Paivi Hietanen, oncologist and psychotherapist, Helsinki.

As an oncologist and psychotherapist Paivi Hietanen has met many cancer patients and their family members who struggle with anxiety and depression when facing a life threatening illness. Her lecture will deal (...)
Tuesday 22
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - What Egyptian Mummies tell us about the History of the Nile Website | More Information
A public lecture by Christophe Lécuyer, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre Planètes, Environnement, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

Samples of tooth enamel and bone have been obtained from Egyptian human and animal mummies (...)

 April 2016
Wednesday 06
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Beginning of String : Part of the 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' lecture series Website | More Information
A public lecture by Associate Professor Jane Balme, Archaeology Discipline Chair, UWA.

String may have its antecedents in the behaviour of our ancestors, however subsequent use by our own species (Homo sapiens sapiens) to create complex tools, symbolic items and to colonise new (...)
Tuesday 12
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How useful are Bioinoculants? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Miranda Hart, School of Biology, University of British Columbia and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The use of bioinoculants (bacteria or fungi) is a common practice in many managed systems. In some cases, this practice is essential and plants will not grow (...)
Thursday 14
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony : the case of the Starachowice factory slave labour camps Website | More Information
A public lecture by Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina.

This lecture will examine three issues: the problems involved in using survivor testimony as the sole or primary source to write on otherwise undocumented aspects of (...)
Monday 18
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Medieval War in Modern Memory Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Andrew Lynch, Director, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence of the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia.

War is perhaps the predominant theme in what is called 'medievalism' – the imaginative reception and reconstruction of (...)
Tuesday 26
18:00 - EVENT - Shakespeare - 400 - Emotions Website | More Information
In the 400 years since his death in 1616, Shakespeare has stirred at least as many emotions among his publics. This event will present highlights from the research of scholars working in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800), exploring some of (...)


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