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Displaying from Thursday, May 10, 2012
 May 2012
Thursday 10
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Violin Cello Duo: Sophie and Jasmin Parkinson Stewart Website | More Information
Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.

15:00 - SEMINAR - Classics & Ancient History/Archaeology Joint Seminar: Dr Ueli Brunner : The Gardens of the Queen of Sheba: Irrigation and hunt in ancient Yemen Website | More Information
Visiting scholar Dr Ueili Brunner has spent many years working in Yemen and shares with us his insights into the Sabean culture.

A short introduction sheds light on the environment and characteristics of the Sabean culture. The wealth of the Sabeans was generated by trade but the (...)

17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Dr Amara Lakhous - "Reforming Islam from the Outside" : Multi-Award Winning Author Dr Amara Lakhous is an Algerian-born Muslim writer. He is the recipient of the Italy’s Premier Literary Award. More Information
Born in 1970 in Algiers in a Berber family, Amara Lakhous is the sixth of nine children. He studied at Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after (...)

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Evensong : Choral Evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers Website | More Information
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.

This week's service features an extraordinary work for triple-chorus by 16th century Italian composer Andrea Gabrieli, and music by Gustav (...)
Friday 11
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: UVR-induced vitamin D: essential for immunoregulation? More Information
Dr Shelley Gorman from Telethon Institute for Child Health Research will give a talk on "UVR-induced vitamin D: essential for immunoregulation?" in the Microbiology & Immunology Seminar room, Friday, 11 May 2012 at 09.00am. Vitamin D is synthesised in the skin after exposure to (...)

15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Dr Anthony Dillon : Political correctness is not helping indigenous Australians More Information
Abstract: The disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal people in this country remains a high priority for all. An assumed major barrier to addressing the needs of Aboriginal people are cultural differences. Difference between groups, whether they be groups based on race, gender, age, location, etc. (...)
Monday 14
13:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Distinguished Visiting Teacher Public Seminar - Professor Pip Pattison DVC (A) University of Melbourne : “Students' experiences of the new curriculum at the University of Melbourne" Website | More Information
Professor Pattison will review the impact of significant curriculum change at the University of Melbourne, with a particular focus on students’ experiences of new undergraduate and graduate courses. She will describe how students have reacted to new courses and reported on their experiences, and (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Will Australia's Personal Electronic Health Records Improve Your Health? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Associate Professor David Glance, Director, UWA Centre for Software Practice.

From July 2012, Australians will be able to register for their own Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). The PCEHR will potentially allow consumers to have access to a (...)
Tuesday 15
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Secrets of the mind : International health expert will reveal causes of brain degeneration in dementia Website | More Information
Although the risk of developing dementia increases with age – in most people with dementia, symptoms first appear after age 60. Dementia is not a part of normal aging. It is caused by a fatal disease that affects the brain. Dementia is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Secrets of the Mind: The challenge of unraveling the causes of brain degeneration in dementia Website | More Information
A public lecture by Peter Passmore, Professor of Ageing and Geriatric Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast.

Once considered a rare disorder, dementia is now seen as a major public health problem that is seriously affecting thousands of older Australians and their families.

Al (...)
Wednesday 16
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Maximising the economic value of biosolids: creating catchment and waterway restoration, climate adaptation, and business improvement – all at once! Website | More Information
Robert Humphries1, Tom Long1, Katrina Walton2 and David Allen3 Water Corporation of Western Australia1, Chemistry Centre of Western Australia2, MBS Environmental3

Most Australian water utilities strive to direct stabilized wastewater sludges, or biosolids, to beneficial uses. However (...)

18:00 - PRESENTATION - Year 10 and 11 Parent Information Evening : Prospective student information session for parents of Year 10 and 11 students Website | More Information
Our free information sessions will give you a head-start on making your child's Year 10 or 11 experience a positive one.

You'll hear about UWA's new course structure, how you can help your child choose their upper-school subjects and important dates to keep in mind.

UWA (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Creating Tools for Medical Image Computing Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Ron Kikinis, Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

For the last decade, Professor Kikinis has focused on creating a software platform to make it easier to translate engineering prototypes for image (...)
Thursday 17
6:30 - PERFORMANCE - Dawn Eucharist : Dawn Eucharist for Ascension Day with the Winthrop Singers Website | More Information
Join the Winthrop Singers bright and early to celebrate the Feast of The Ascension.

William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices

Reading: Matthew 5: 38-48

Motet: Philips, Ascendit Deus

13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : String Quartet Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh Website | More Information
2011 Flora Bunning Memorial prize winners Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh present and exciting program for string quartet, featuring Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"

15:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar: Professor Emeritus Timothy Earle : A Political Economy Analysis for Pacific Prehistory Website | More Information
Visiting Scholar Professor Emeritus Timothy Earle, from Northwestern University, Illinois, and supported by the Society of Antiquaries of London presents a seminar bringing together case studies from his many years of research in the Pacific.

The development of chiefdoms was a political (...)

18:00 - PRESENTATION - Year 10 and 11 Parent Information Evening (repeat session) : Prospective student information session for parents of Year 10 and 11 students Website | More Information
Our free information sessions will give you a head-start on making your child's Year 10 or 11 experience a positive one.

You'll hear about UWA's new course structure, how you can help your child choose their upper-school subjects and important dates to keep in mind.

UWA (...)
Friday 18
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: The development of a tetracycline-based gene regulation system to study H. pylori pathogenesis and persistence : PhD Final Seminar More Information
Ms Alexandra Debowski will give a talk on "The development of a tetracycline-based gene regulation system to study H. pylori pathogenesis and persistence" in the Microbiology & Immunology Seminar room, Friday, 18 May 2012 at 09.00am. A limited number of genetic tools are available to (...)

15:00 - EVENT - Colloquium: Changing Thinking to Reduce Anxiety : Translational potential of cognitive bias modification More Information
This talk,will highlight recent efforts from our lab to increase the translational potential of cognitive bias modification by improving understanding of how it works, and determining how it compares to other established treatments.

15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson: PROJEKTET : Resident Artists talk at SymbioticA Website | More Information
The immune system can be seen as the metaphorical factor of applied performance, which makes the latter artistic practice more than simply social work. Transposed into a functional nomenclature, the immune system makes a larger body stay healthy by encountering visitors (pathogens) by way of (...)


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