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Displaying from Friday, September 14, 2018
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September 2018
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Friday 14 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Young and Unfit: Indonesian University
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The perceptions and behaviours which form Indonesian university students’ diet and exercise cultures are simultaneously an individual experience, a collective mode of identification and reflect diet and exercise trends across the economically developing world. As this generation of Indonesian (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar : Psycholinguistic gender differences in literary fiction
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Although psychological gender differences have been reported in a variety of domains, sometimes amounting to psychologists comparing them with the distance between Mars and Venus (Del Giudice et al., 2012, PloS One), linguists still debate about the magnitude of such differences in language use. I (...)
Everyone Googles ... but do you really know how to get the best out of Google Scholar for your research?
14:30 - SEMINAR - SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY : Ageing and quality of life in dissimilar housing arrangements & OWNING AUSTRALIA?
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Cheng Yen Loo
Ageing and quality of life in dissimilar housing arrangements: Comparisons between the lived experiences of older Chinese migrants from Malaysia and Singapore ageing in Australian home environments.
This presentation outlines a Phd research project that will compare the (...)
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Saturday 15 |
Please join us to celebrate the life of Kofi Atta Annan, UN Secretary-General 1997-2006, and the legacy of his tireless work for Ghana, Africa and global affairs. The tribute will feature Ghanaian cultural traditions, video footage and remarks by speakers from the UN, government, communities and (...)
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Monday 17 |
Researchers conducting systematic reviews in the health and medical sciences require an in-depth understanding of the Medline and Embase databases. This hands-on workshop will ensure you have a strong grasp on the functionality of these databases and how to use them to structure an accurate (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
A 'Talking Allowed' event with Dr David Glance, Director of the UWA Centre for Software Practice.
The way in which artists have represented the nature of surveillance illustrates Art’s unique and powerful ability to explore, explain, and critique surveillance's role in society. This (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Can Bede Explain the Great Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial? Georgina Pitt / PMRG :
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The sumptuous ship-burial at Sutton Hoo has long been associated with pagan cosmology and the heroic Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. Press coverage of the 1939 Sutton Hoo treasure trove inquest cited the burials described in Beowulf; scholarly works on Sutton Hoo continue to invoke Beowulf as an analogy (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Young people�s mental health - the what, why and how of supporting young people with mental health problems : The 2018 Robin Winkler Memorial Lecture by Professor Debra Rickwood
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The 2018 Robin Winkler Lecture by Debra Rickwood, Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra.
Youth mental health is of growing concern in Australia and internationally. It is now well-recognised that most mental health problems first emerge before the age of 25, and often (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Explorer�s Self-discovery: Matthew Flinders� Correspondence with Mauritian friends during, and after, his imprisonment on Isle de France (1803-1814)
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A public lecture by Professor Serge Rivière, 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Throughout seven years of exile, which was marked by frustration and hope, followed by disillusionment and anger born of an inability to influence events and an increasing sense of (...)
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Thursday 20 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Open Access for Researchers : Find out what Open Access is all about and how you can make your research openly available, where possible.
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Open Access (OA) benefits researchers through the increased collaboration, sharing and potential for engagement and impact that can come about due to the improved access to their research. Find out what OA is all about and how you can make your research openly available, where possible.
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Friday 21 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Expansion and modification of the lexicon of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay (NSW) in language revitalization.
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Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay are two languages from the north-centre of New South Wales and adjacent Queensland. Only a few words and phrases from these languages were regularly being used in the 1990s, when major reclamation efforts began. There has been a major expansion of use since then, albeit of (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology / Sociology Seminar Series : Practicing Autonomy in a Local Eduscape: Schools, Families and Choice
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In 1987 the Western Australian State Government released a policy document titled Better Schools in Western Australia: A Programme for Improvement in which it was contended that ‘Whereas once it was believed that a good system creates good schools, it is now recognised that good schools make a (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Peter Vandendriessche, 4pm Sep 21 in Weatherburn LT
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Speaker: Peter Vandendriessche (Ghent University)
Title: Classification of hyperovals and KM-arcs in small projective planes
Time and place: 4pm Friday 21 Sep 2018, Weatherburn LT
Abstract: Hyperovals (resp. KM-arcs) are point sets in PG(2,q) (resp. in AG(2,q)^D) (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
School of Indigenous Studies hosts this year’s National Indigenous Legal Conference in partnership with UWA Law School, Notre Dame Law School and the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia.
The conference will attract around 150 delegates from the legal profession and will (...)
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Political Science and International Relations : Getting past the 'warrior mind-set': Defining a unique institutional teleology for the military
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In her recent book, Rosa Brooks concludes that as the tasks being assigned to the military expand, it has become more difficult to define and limit its institutional role. This paper examines ways to understand the teleology of the military as a social institution (i.e. the institutional purpose or (...)
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Thursday 27 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
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