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Displaying from Friday, October 05, 2018
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October 2018
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Friday 05 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : “How do you think learning Korean will shape your future?" A Q methodology study into university student’s future language selves.
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Being able to speak a foreign language is often considered a valuable skill for university students, and to make foreign language learning at the university level more relevant to student’s future careers it is important to understand what learners want to do with the language and how they see (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Reference and the dynamics of discourse: The expanding function of null subjects in Kriol
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Kriol is an English-lexified creole spoken throughout the northern regions of Australia. Relatively little is known about the structural features of the language, and a comprehensive description of the language is yet to be produced. In this talk I will present the research I have undertaken as (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Bayliss Seminar : Identification of a novel family of Apicomplexan organellar
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12:00 - EVENT - Seminar Series : Thermodynamic modeling of ion transport
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14:30 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR : Desiring the Modern Boy: Beauty, Modernity and Masculinity in Interwar Japan
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This paper problematises the visual representation of the Modern Boy (mobo) in 1920s Japanese popular media as a site of contestation over what constituted desirable masculinity in early twentieth-century Japanese society. On the one hand, the mobo’s image as a beautiful commodified male points (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Carlisle King, 4pm Oct 5 in Weatherburn LT
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Speaker: Carlisle King (University of Western Australia)
Title: Generation of finite simple groups
Time and place: 4pm Friday 5 Oct 2018, Weatherburn LT
Abstract: Let G be a finite simple group. It is well-known that G is generated by a pair of elements – we say G (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Happily Single? It May Depend on Where You Live: how families shape single women�s well-being in three East Asian cities
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A public lecture by Lynne Nakano, Professor, Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The age of first marriage has been rising around the world but nowhere more rapidly than in East Asia. In contrast to patterns of (...)
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Monday 08 |
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Free Gamsat Biology Tutorial (UWA) | GradReady : This seminar is dedicated to covering the Biology section on the GAMSAT
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Don’t know where to start with your GAMSAT® Preparation? Struggling with the Biology section?
GradReady is running a FREE GAMSAT Tutorial that will give you the chance to focus on the Biology section of the GAMSAT Exam in an individual and dedicated 1-hour class.
Spots are (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Sleep/wakefulness control using optogenetics : School of Human Sciences Special Seminar by Raine Visiting Professor
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Professor Akihiro Yamanaka leads a team of researchers at the Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (RIEM) at Nagoya University, Japan. Professor Yamanaka is a pharmacologist by training but early in his career he developed a strong interest in (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
Deciding where to publish is an important step in the research process. Ensure that your research reaches the appropriate audience and maximise its discoverability and potential impact. Aim for top journals in your field and have confidence that your research outputs will count in UWA's internal (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations : The Nation and The Nature; The Power and Practice of Assembling Military Environmentalism on the Borders of India.
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This paper empirically examines and debates the specific governmental intervention of military environmentalism that set out to improve and protect the disputed Himalayan borders of India. Through employing the analytic of assemblage to study military environmentalism, the paper focuses upon the (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Postgraduate Opportunities: Arts Q&A + networking : Join us for Q&A session followed by networking with academics.
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Discover more about your postgraduate study options in Arts, Business, Law and Education and have all your questions answered.
Postgraduate qualifications have become an expectation in a global workforce and can be the defining factor in your future career pathway. Find out how you can (...)
17:30 - EVENT - Postgraduate Opportunities: School of Design information session : Explore your postgraduate options in Created and Creative Environments.
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Discover more about your postgraduate study options in Arts, Business, Law and Education and have all your questions answered.
Postgraduate qualifications have become an expectation in a global workforce and can be the defining factor in your future career pathway. Find out how you can (...)
A member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1983, June Craig became only the second woman (after Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver) to achieve Cabinet rank in Western Australia.
In 1987, asked about her time in government as only the fourth woman to be elected to (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A day in the life of Sinead � how technology makes all the difference
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A public lecture by Sinead Quinn, Occupational Therapist / Assistive Technology Consultant.
Come and listen to how Sinead, an Occupational Therapist and a person who has low vision, is using technology to make everyday life easier. When it comes to every day activities such as accessing (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations Annual Lecture 2018 - What has the #MeToo movement achieved?
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The proliferation of global #MeToo movement, and its sister hashtag, #TimesUp, has been a watershed moment, capturing the global imagination and breaking a longstanding and deafening silence on how those in senior, influential positions across all areas of society – politics, business, education (...)
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Thursday 11 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : "Excavating Prehistory’s Past: Some Themes in Investigating the Historiography of (Francophone) Archaeology in the Pacific"
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In this talk I present some of the most accomplished themes I have been exploring as part of the ARC Laureate Project ‘The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific’ (CBAP), led by Prof. Matthew Spriggs at ANU. CBAP is the first consolidated research program to investigate the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics colloquium : Interface dynamics: new mechanisms of stabilization and destabilization and structure of flow fields
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Interfacial mixing and transport are non-equilibrium processes coupling kinetic to macroscopic scales. They occur in fluids, plasmas and materials, over celestial events to atoms. Grasping their fundamentals can advance a broad range of disciplines in science, mathematics, and engineering. This (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Heritage and the Politics of Recognition
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This talk addresses work I am doing for a new book that, as part of its thesis, investigates the utility of theorizations in political philosophy around diversity and redistribution for understanding the political power and consequences of heritage. The politics of recognition is an attempt to both (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Morphological encoding in language processing
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This talk will be about how we plan and produce speech. More specifically, how do we put together words and sentences and what are the linguistic units that need to be activated and retrieved from long-term memory. Words can consist of smaller meaningful elements called “morphemes”, e.g. the (...)
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