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Displaying from Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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August 2019
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Thursday 22 |
Family violence and violence against women remain a major issue globally and in Australia. This affects migrant communities, including Muslim families, in Australia. In this presentation, Rachel Mathewson will outline the Home Affairs provisions and support provided for visa-holders affected by (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Past sea-level changes, environments and coastal demography. Is archaeology missing some critical factors? And if so, why?
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This talk has three main sections:
1. An outline of the main sedimentary processes controlling coastal and marine archaeological sites, with a focus on Australia's NW shelf. This is relevant because it is a critical control upon much archaeological work in NW Australia, but it is poorly (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Women, Inequality and the Butterfly Effect : The 2019 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Antoinette Kennedy AO
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The “butterfly effect” was coined in 1972 by Edward Lorenz in a talk titled “does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” It models how a small action can have a significant impact.
In this year’s Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture, the Honourable (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Linguistics Seminar : The challenges of community- led language and country maintenance
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What are the realities and challenges of community-led, on-country language-revitalisation/maintenance of Martu languages in the Western Desert today?
After graduating from the ANU in 2015 with Honours in Language Studies, Duke (Garry Earl-Spurr) moved to the East Pilbara in mid-2016 (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Lunchtime Concert | Irwin Street Collective and UWA Voice: Handel's German Arias
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week we welcome back the ever-popular Irwin Street Collective in conjunction with UWA's talented voice students (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : PhD Proposals
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In the wake of choice: Perth’s autonomous women’s engagement with the discourse of choice via post-abortion narratives presented by Dorinda ’t Hart.
Pro-abortion discourse generally presents abortion as an unproblematic event in the course of a woman’s (...)
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Monday 26 |
A public lecture by Paolo Boccagni, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Trento, Italy and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
All across social sciences and humanities, "home" has emerged as a unique research topic, despite its inherent ambiguity (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Anthropology and Sociology Public Lecture
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All across social sciences and humanities, “home” has
emerged as a unique research topic, despite its inherent
ambiguity, as it bridges a variety of divides - public vs
private, material vs immaterial, descriptive vs prescriptive,
“us” vs “them”. However, under conditions of (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - Should we say sorry? An examination of the treatment of people of Chinese cultural heritage in Western Australia between 1820s and 1970s.
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People of Chinese cultural heritage has been part of the history of Western Australia since the proclamation of the Swan River Colony. They in the past were subjected to certain policies, which were legal but arguably unjust in light of contemporary societal attitude towards equality and fairness (...)
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Anthropology and Sociology Research Workshop
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Interested Postgraduate Students and Early Career
Researchers whose research engages with themes of
migration, home, identity and belonging are invited
to attend a special research workshop with Professor
Paolo Boccagni. Participants will give brief presentations
summarising their research on these (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Research | Callaway Centre Seminar Series : Music Students' Society: The Great Debate
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
This week the Music Students' Society hosts a staff versus student 3-on-3 debate, tackling the twisty conundrum: 'Should music be political?'
Further information at music.uwa.edu.au
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Constructing the Baroque: women artisans on building sites in the seventeenth-century Vatican and Rome
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A public lecture by Professor Nicoletta Marconi, University of Roma Tor Vergata and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The contribution of female artists and craftswomen to the history of construction in early modern Rome forms an understudied part of the development of (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - WA Migration and Mobilities Update : ‘Belonging in Western Australia: Addressing Migrant and Refugee Inclusion’
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This year the Update tackles the important question of belonging, with the theme ‘Belonging in Western Australia: Addressing Migrant and Refugee Inclusion’. Each year around 200,000 people move permanently to Australia, and many more come temporarily for work or education – how are we, as a (...)
A public lecture by Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In medical terms critical care, also known as intensive care, is a specialized branch of medicine dedicated to diagnosing and treating life-threatening conditions. For this lecture, this term (...)
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Thursday 29 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | The Romantic Chamber Choir - Con-Cantorum
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The Romantic choral repertoire did not always use massed forces. Join Con-Cantorum as they perform 19th-century mini masterpieces by well-loved and lesser known composers.
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Friday 30 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The transmission of the intangible cultural heritage of porcelain production in mid to late 20th Century China (1950 - 2000)
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Traditional forms of craftsmanship and craft production are types of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), and their survival has been challenged by urbanisation, industrialisation, and globalisation. This urgency motivates my doctoral research on heritage craft production in China, with the aim of (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Lunchtime Concert | The Winthrop Singers
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week we shine a spotlight on The Winthrop Singers led by Nicholas Bannan to present a stunning program of choral (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : Marginality and the X Factor: Assessing the Applicability of the Zomia Hypothesis in the Context of Archipelagic Southeast Asia
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This paper begins with a critique of the marginality concept proposed by von Braun and Gatzweiler in Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology due to its neglect of dimensions of local agency. It then proceeds to consider Scott’s rethinking of peripheral societies in (...)
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September 2019
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Tuesday 03 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Communication breakdown in the governance of vaccine acceptance: the road to mandatory vaccination in Italy
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Italy’s extension of mandatory vaccination in 2017 was a response to a public health crisis many years in the making. Vaccination rates had been in steady decline for half a decade, culminating in a measles epidemic. With existing studies demonstrating the role of vaccine hesitancy, this study (...)
14:15 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Seminar Series 2019 : ‘At the Movies: Film Reviewing, Screenwriting and the Shaping of Screen Culture’
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At the Movies was a movie reviewing program that ran on the ABC between 2004 and 2014. Prior to that it was known as The Movie Show on SBS. Its presenters Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton co-hosted the programs for a total of 28 years. This presentation reports on research into At the Movies (...)
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