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Displaying from Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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October 2015
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Tuesday 27 |
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by Christine Hertler whose talk is entitled
A trip to the islands. Early migrations to the Sunda Shelf and the palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in Java
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Recently South Asia has undergone a number of tensions. Pakistan and India view each other as the problem, while at the same time the region suffers from natural and other threats such as lack of energy, water resources, and migration of peoples. The panel discussion explores the possibilities of (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Giant Waves on the Open Sea: Mariners' tall tales or alarming fact?
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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 (...)
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA, presented by Robin Dennell and entitled
No Longer Marginal. 10 reasons why China is important in palaeoanthropology
For the full abstract and flyer for this event please visit the URL provided below.
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Wednesday 28 |
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by John McNabb whose talk is entitled
Symmetry, cognition and the Acheulean of the British Middle Pleistocene
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17:30 - EVENT - MBA Information Evening : Meet MBA and Graduate Certificate professors, students and alumni
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Learn about the courses on offer, discuss your study options, meet Business School staff and students and have all your questions answered before applying for your chosen MBA or Graduate Certificate course.
The evening encompasses information on the MBA Full Time, MBA Flexible, Graduate (...)
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 (...)
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Thursday 29 |
Don't miss the UWA Friends of the Grounds Plant Sale on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th October between 12 and 2pm in the Taxonomic Garden, near the Botany glasshouses.
There are exotic and native plants as well as succulents and herbs. Sales are cash only and prices are around $5 with (...)
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Friday 30 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology Seminar Series : Framing Australianness
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Are current shifts towards globalisation impacting Australian identity, and how is Australian-ness being framed in the public sphere? These questions steer this thesis and are considered through a different lens in each of the five articles that constitute its core. While much contemporary research (...)
View a rare cross-section of projects designed by students of architecture over the school's history, recalling memories of its various homes, pedagogues and practicioners.
Opening Friday 30 October, 6pm
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November 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier : The Institute for Respiratory Health presents Raine Visiting Speaker Prof Bill Cookson
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Prof Bill Cookson of Imperial College London discusses "Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier". A light lunch follows the presentation.
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 (...)
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Thursday 05 |
16:00 - TALK - Archaeology Seminar : Why Do Universities Distrust Field Researchers? Indigenous Knowledge and Research Encounters
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The Rethinking Indigeneity project has been running for 22 years amongst the indigenous people of southern Africa's Kalahari. This 7-phase project has examined the nature of research encounters and how indigeneity is constructed through these encounters. This project has recognised some research (...)
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Friday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Implementation and Evaluation of a text based Korean language course for intermediate and high-intermediate university students
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Teaching Korean language to intermediate and high-intermediate university students presents several challenges. Among these, language material and learner autonomy are among those aspects more in need of a solution. Firstly, classroom material should be not only of interest to students, but at the (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Presentation of the film "Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern" and ensuing discussion
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Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern is a 2005 co-production of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies film unit, Australian National University, Canberra and Arcadia Pictures, New York. Directed and produced by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon working in association with the anthropologist (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Approaches to Sexuality and Gender Diversity : UWA Research on National and International Perspectives
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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 (...)
19:00 - TALK - Talk : The Celluloid Piano: at the movies with Eileen Joyce
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The final 2015 meeting of the Friends of the UWA Library will be held on Tuesday 10 November at 7.30pm in the Tunley Lecture Theatre in the School of Music. Dr Victoria Rogers will present a talk entitled The Celluloid Piano: at the movies with Eileen Joyce. Born in Zeehan, Tasmania and raised in (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
Where did lasers come from? How have lasers gone from being a solution in search of a problem to being a multi-billion dollar industry? What might lasers do for us in the future? Come along and find out!
Patric Helean and Hans Bachor will give an exciting public lecture on lasers with (...)
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Thursday 12 |
Contemporary views of Turkey tend to focus on the country’s links and connections with the Middle East and/or Europe. However, the country’s considerable contacts with Asia, both historically and in the present, have remained largely obscured. Japan, in particular played an important role for (...)
18:15 - PUBLIC TALK - *Sold Out* The Spice of Faith: Jesuits and the Arts and Emotions of 'Accommodation'
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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 (...)
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