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Displaying from Sunday, March 11, 2012
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March 2012
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Tuesday 13 |
20:00 - EVENT - Visiting Speaker : Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations
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Illustrated story of the rise and fall of the Boans Department Store, from its beginnings in 1895 to the Myer takeover in 1984. Will show the Jewish influence underpinning the company's commercial success.
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Wednesday 14 |
Fire stick farming of hunter-gathers preceded the development of agriculture. Fire continues to be a major land management technique and contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In the last two decades satellites have provided at regional and global scales unprecedented amounts of data on active (...)
A public lecture by Michael Levine, Winthrop Professor of Philosophy and Jacqueline Boaks, The University of Western Australia.
Talk of leadership seems to dominate public discourse. Many of us have images of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a moral leader harnessing and focussing the hopes of (...)
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Thursday 15 |
7:00 - MEETING - UWA Mental Health Professional Network : Discussion on whether 'University study is a pathway for mental illness rehabilitation?'
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It is with great pleasure that Counselling and Psychology Service and Student Services invite you to attend a discussion on whether ‘University study is a pathway for mental illness rehabilitation?’ at our next Mental Health Professionals Network (mhpn) meeting. This meeting is suitable for (...)
Adam is showcasing some of his favourite contemporary repertoire along with some new works, Adam presents a lunchtime concert like no other.
18:00 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - SOLD OUT - The sexualisation of girls and the digital age: navigating the debates, averting moral panics and responding to another challenge for gender equality : The 2012 Grace Vaughan Lecture
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Speaker: Donna Chung, Winthrop Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, The University of Western Australia.
In the last decade there has been increasing concern by a cross section of the community about what has been termed the sexualisation and ‘pornifcation’ of children (...)
The Winthrop Singers, UWA's chamber choir, perform an Evensong service every Thursday this semester at St Thomas More College.
Responses: Rose
Psalm 139
Old Testament Reading: Genesis 45:4-14
New Testament Reading: Hebrews 2:5-9
Canticles: Farrant in g minor
Anthem: Pearsall Tu es (...)
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Friday 16 |
15:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Professor LOUISE SHARPE (University of Sydney) The role of attentional biases in the development and management of pain
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The literature investigating attentional biases in chronic pain has been mixed, however, a recent meta-analysis has confirmed the presence of attentional biases in chronic pain patients that are similar to those observed in patients with anxiety disorders. However, unlike the anxiety disorders (...)
18:30 - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - FIRST ORDINARY MEETING OF CONVOCATION : FIRST ORDINARY MEETING OF CONVOCATION
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CONVOCATION, THE UWA GRADUATES ASSOCIATION
invites all graduates and other members of Convocation
to attend its
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING
with reports from
the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson
the Warden of Convocation, Associate Professor (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
7:00 - EVENT - Bike Week Breakfast 2012 : Ride your bike to UWA and be rewarded with breakfast
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It’s on again, the UWA Bike Breakfast. All UWA cyclists welcome. On Wednesday 21st March ride your bike to Riley Oval and be rewarded with breakfast catered by Uni Club.
Breakfast from 7.00am until 9.00am. So cycle down to UWA and help celebrate all things cycling. Great prizes will be on offer.
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Semipermeable Public Lecture Series : Presented by SymbioticA & Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA
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Alien Agencies: Research-Creation and Ethnographies of the Nonhuman
A public lecture by Dr Christopher Salter, Director, Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Art and Technology.
What does it mean that nonhuman matter “performs”? How can contemporary (...)
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Thursday 22 |
1:00 - EVENT - The Case for an Apology by the Australian Mental Health Professions to Aboriginal and Islander peoples : Close the Gap Event - Seminar
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The Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing is hosting a Seminar presented by Professor Alan Rosen, Research Psychiatrist, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle.
Over many years, psychiatric professionals have dominated the lives (...)
12:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - �Iran�s Nuclear Programme - Regional Perspective� : The Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA to attend a public lecture on “Iran’s Nuclear Programme - Regional Perspective”
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Iran’s nuclear programme has been a cause of concern for the international community.
US and Israel are convinced that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Iran claims that it
has no intention to produce nuclear weapons and its nuclear activities are to sustain a
peaceful nuclear power programme (...)
The Winthrop Singers, UWA's chamber choir, perform an Evensong service every Thursday this semester at St Thomas More College. This week is our special 5th Anniversary Evensong where we will officially induct new choristers into the choir.
Responses: Rose
Psalm 95
Old Testament Reading: (...)
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Friday 23 |
15:00 - Colloquium: Speaker PROF GORDON BROWN (University of Warwick) - Relative rank effects in consumer behaviour and social judgement: From cognitive models to social inequality
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Models of judgement and decision-making suggest that the relative ranked positions of options within a context influences judgement and choice. I will summarise evidence for the relative rank principle in a number of different social and applied contexts, ranging from actual product choice through (...)
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Monday 26 |
12:00 - EVENT - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Anna Nowak presents "Thoracic Cancer Medicine"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on:
"Thoracic Cancer Medicine" by Professor Anna Nowak from School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Being an ecologist in Western Australia: Life in a biological wonderland caught in a minefield of polarized debates
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A public lecture by Professor Richard Hobbs, 2011 WA Scientist of the Year.
Professor Hobbs studies the patterns and processes of life - species and how they interact, ecosystems and how they work - and how humans intersect with and affect these species and ecosystems. Working as an (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The 2012 Francesco Vanzetti Memorial Lecture : Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto
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18:05 - FREE LECTURE - Lecture on Dante : Emeritus Professor John Scott will deliver the 2012 Francesco Vanzetti Memorial Lecture on Dante's Purgatorio.
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"Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto"
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Wednesday 28 |
We invite you to attend one of our upcoming information evenings which will give you the opportunity to learn about the programs on offer, to discuss your study options, meet Business School staff and have all your questions answered before applying for your chosen course.
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