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June 2013
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Wednesday 05 |
A public lecture by David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Davis.
Terror and catastrophe are commonly distinguished as (respectively) man-made and natural phenomena, but there is increasing evidence for seeing them as historically related. There is also a strong case for (...)
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Thursday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Witness to Disaster: Journalists and Journalism in Hurricane Katrina
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A public lecture by James O’Byrne, NOLA.com.
Katrina brought into high relief the role of journalists as first responders, as integral to disaster response as police, fire and rescue personnel. The unprecedented nature of the collapse of the Federal seawalls protecting New Orleans (...)
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Monday 10 |
18:00 - SEMINAR - Year 10 and 11 Student Information Evening : Information session for Year 10 and 11 students and their parents
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Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.
Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject selection (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
18:00 - SEMINAR - Year 10 and 11 Student Information Evening (repeat session) : Information session for Year 10 and 11 students and their parents
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Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.
Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject selection (...)
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July 2013
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Tuesday 16 |
8:45 - STUDENT EVENT - A Day in the Life of an Architecture Student
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Studying Architecture at UWA will equip you with the essential skills in critical thinking, providing you with a strong foundation in architectural design.
If you're curious about what all this means in reality sign up for our 'Day in the Life of..' event with other Yr 11 & 12 (...)
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August 2013
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Wednesday 07 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Blush of the World: Bonnard's Nudes and the Disembodied Look
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The Blush of the World:
Bonnard’s Nudes and the Disembodied Look
This lecture sets out to provide a framework within which one might begin to look at Bonnard’s canvasses depicting his wife, Marthe, in the rituals of washing and bathing. It suggests that the most common way of (...)
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Sunday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2013 Open Day : Join us for our Centenary Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)
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Friday 23 |
The Department of Culture and the Arts Emerging Curator Program supports the skills development of new curators of contemporary visual arts and craft. DCA's Visual Art, Craft and Writing Project Officer Daevid Anderson and HERE&NOW13 Curator Katherine Wilkinson will discuss this rewarding (...)
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Thursday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Water Sensitive Cities Seminar Series - August 2013 : The inaugural seminar of the Water Sensitive Cities Seminar Series for the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (Western Region).
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How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100? Australia’s current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra 5.5 million people. Whether we want a ‘Big Australia’ or not, Australia’s 21st century is likely to see rapid and continual growth – if (...)
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September 2013
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Tuesday 03 |
18:00 - SEMINAR - Mature-age Entry Information Evening : Find out about UWA's Mature-age entry pathways
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Mature-age entry provides flexibility for entering UWA, particularly if you don't have any previous academic results.
Anyone who is 20 or over on 1 March of the year of entry qualifies for our mature-age entry pathways.
This information session will provide guidance to mature-a (...)
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Friday 20 |
In cities around the globe this Friday, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered car parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day.
A team of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture students from The (...)
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October 2013
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Friday 11 |
17:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Exhibition Opening + Book Launch : Stan Hopewell: God is Love + Bliss + People Who You Can't Meet Face to Face
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Winthrop Professor Ted Snell, AM CitWA, Director of the Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia invites you to attend the opening of three exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 11 October 2013. Doors open: 5pm.
STAN HOPEWELL: GOD IS LOVE // BLISS // (...)
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Monday 14 |
14:00 - EVENT - Art After Death Symposium : A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death
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Art After Death
A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and
other issues affecting artists after death
Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource
An artist’ (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts will host a public workshop, part of the national Office of Learning and Teaching research project ‘Recasting Terra Nullius - Indigenising Built Environment Education and Practice'.
The workshop is organised in conjunction with (...)
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Friday 25 |
13:00 - TALK - Documenting and Presenting Performance : Cultural Knowledge and Experience Embodied in Musical Recordings, Objects and Images
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Jennifer Post, an ethnomusicologist, is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow working with the John Blacking Collection at the Callaway Centre, UWA.
In this talk, Jennifer will explore the way saved sounds, objects and images hold stories and conjure memories of music-making (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Lipid Membranes of the Past and Future : Public talk with visiting Artist/Researcher Juan M. Castro (Waseda University, Tokyo)
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Life in all its diversity, as we know it today, could not have developed without an organic membrane. All living cells are surrounded by this outer wall or soft boundary. This talk presents an artistic and multidisciplinary perspective on the organic membrane and its potential as a media of (...)
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Thursday 31 |
From almost the first moment of colonisation in 1829, the question of how to best harness and make use of Perth's riverfront setting has taxed the minds of its citizens and administrators.
To develop or not to develop, to reclaim or not to reclaim, to retain the broad green doorstep created in (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 15 |
19:15 - EVENT - Luminous Dreams - Geraldton : Lighting up the silo with a futuristic Geraldton tale
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On the evening of Friday 15 November a dramatic tale of Geraldton’s future, imagined through the eyes of artists and local high school students, will be projected onto the CBH silo at the Port, with a soundtrack simulcast on Radio Mama 100.5FM.
The Luminous Dreams project was developed (...)
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Monday 25 |
The exhibition showcases the Design project work of Architecture and Landscape Architecture students at UWA completed during 2013. Included are speculative design studies of a wide range of projects and building types, finely illustrated in both three dimensional model form as well as computer (...)
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Friday 29 |
17:30 - LAUNCH - Westerly magazine launch : The Westerly Centre, in partnership with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, will launch the latest issue of Westerly magazine
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Westerly will launch issue 58:2 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
The launch is being held in conjuction with the Bliss exhibition, for which the Westerly Centre was campus partner.
This special edition, On Beauty, has been guest edited by long-term former editor, Dennis (...)
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