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Displaying from Saturday, September 29, 2012
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October 2012
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Monday 01 |
14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - UWA Crawley Campus Tour 1 October 2012 : An enjoyable and informative walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus
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The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus on the Queen's Birthday long weekend Monday public holiday (1 October 2012).
These tours are for prospective students who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the (...)
19:00 - EVENT - UWA Information Session in Melbourne : The University of Western Australia invites prospective Australian and international students residing in Melbourne to attend an information evening to learn more about studying at UWA.
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If you reside in Melbourne and are considering applying for an undergraduate, postgraduate coursework or research degree at the University of Western Australia, you may wish to attend our information session on Monday, 1 October 2012 at the Crowne Plaza, Melbourne.
You will have the (...)
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Tuesday 02 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Neurodevelopmental disorders: Are our current diagnostic labels fit for purpose?
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A Public Lecture by Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford.
Many children have specific developmental difficulties affecting specific areas such as reading, language, maths, motor co-ordination, attention or social skills. A range of diagnostic (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
Extreme rainfall over the south and north-west of Western Australia and the Sydney region of NSW over the last fifty years has been modelled using a Bayesian hierarchical approach based on statistical extreme value theory. Spatial variability of the extreme rainfall distribution is modelled using a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Growth headwinds in China and Japan: implications for the Australian economy
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An ‘Inquiring Minds’ lecture by Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, UWA Business School.
This lecture will review recent economic development in China and Japan and will examine the likelihood that either country will overcome barriers to further economic growth. It will draw (...)
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Thursday 04 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Guitar Ensemble
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Choral Evensong : Evensong at St George's College Chapel
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Responses: Smith
Canticles: Gibbons Short Service
Anthem: The words to say I love you - Jacqui Ellison (UWA composition student)
19:00 - FREE LECTURE - Ronald M & Catherine H Berndt Biennial Lecture 2012 : The rights and blights of the politics of Indigenous higher education
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Prof N M Nakata (B.Ed.Hons. PhD) is the first Torres Strait Islander to receive a PhD in Australia. He is Director of Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs and Professor of Australian Indigenous
education at the University of New South Wales.
RSVP by Thursday 27 September (essential for catering (...)
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Friday 05 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 7th Annual National Indigenous Legal Conference : Pathways to tomorrow: innovations and intersections in law, land and justice
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The National Indigenous Legal Conference Committee invites you to attend the seventh annual National Indigenous Legal Conference to be held on the 5th and 6th of October.
The conference will be held at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and The University of Western Australia (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Evolutionary Biologist's Nightmare: Sex, Sperm and Society : Public talk with Boris Baer (CIBER)
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The reproductive biology of social insects, being the social bees, ants, wasps and termites is truly spectacular, as a number of characteristics reported are either absent or very rare in other species. For example, social insect queens are the world’s record holder for long-term sperm storage (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
9:30 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of an Arts Student : Experience a typical day in the life of a UWA Arts Student : Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be an Arts student at UWA?
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"A Day in the Life of an Arts Student" gives year 10-12 students the opportunity to explore some Arts majors currently available at UWA, particularly Archaeology and Anthropology.
Students will participate in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMSS lecture on Pakistan-Us Relations : Where are they heading? Visiting Fellow from Deakin University Dr Claude Rakisits
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Bilateral relations between Pakistan and the US have never been easy at best of times. However, in recent times these have become tense and difficult. Given Pakistan’s critical role in the lead up to 2014, when the Coalition forces will be leaving Afghanistan, what sort of bilateral Pakistan-US (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Looking at Japan through Masculinity: From Salarymen to Herbivores
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A lecture by Romit Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, UWA.
This public lecture looks at the tremendous social, cultural, and economic changes Japan has undergone over the six decades since the end of World War Two, not through conventional frameworks, but through a lens of (...)
19:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Engaging with strangers in a violent era: stories from the Solomon Islands
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The late nineteenth century was a time of violence throughout the Solomon Islands and nowhere was this violence more devastating than the Western Solomons. Even as they remember this violent past, however, people of the Western Solomons today also remember war captives who were incorporated into (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
Huge range of fiction, general, reference and children’s books plus gift items at bargain prices.
Co-op Members receive extra 10% discount off Sale prices.
Sale runs until Wednesday October 31st and New titles are added daily.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : The seasonal hydrodynamic habitat of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret, Israel)
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Physical processes in lakes are the result of a large number of different mechanisms occurring over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales affecting ecosystem function in a variety of ways. Hence, a deep understanding of the lake hydrodynamics and its variability is essential in understanding (...)
A public lecture by Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne.
Who should take responsibility for climate change? ‘Weather of mass destruction’ is no less catastrophic a risk than ‘weapons of mass destruction’ or terrorism, but it has not produced (...)
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Thursday 11 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: Highlights of Graduating Students
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
18:00 - FESTIVAL - Spring Feast - 2012 UWA Multi Cultural Week : Spring Feast is one of the largest and most diverse events on campus. It celebrates multiculturalism through food, dance, and entertainment.
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Spring Feast
Thursday 11th October
6pm @ Guild Village
"Spring Feast" - two words that, over the years, have become synonymous with UWA's Multicultural Week Festival. This massive food festival is one of UWA's largest on-campus events attracting thousands of people from the (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music & ARC Centre for the History of Emotions presents: 2012 Callaway Lecture: Richard Egarr
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)
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