What's On at UWA

Mozart's Requiem has an almost mystical status within the canon of Classical choral music. The Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (PUCS) is delighted to present "Genesis of a Requiem," a concert which explores two masterworks which were among the key influences on Mozart's composition: Michael Haydn's Requiem in C Minor, and Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. PUCS is thrilled to welcome back distinguished soprano Katja Webb, who returns to Perth for this concert along with performances with WA Opera in November. The concert also features the outstanding Fremantle Chamber Orchestra, and soloists Caitlin Cassidy, Andrew Sutherland and Thomas Friberg.

In January 1772, a 15 year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart participated in the performance of a Requiem Mass for the Archbishop of Salzburg, Sigismund Graf von Schrattenbach. Wolfgang's father Leopold Mozart held the position of deputy Kapellmeister (director of music), and the recognised prodigy Wolfgang frequently performed as a part of the court orchestra. The Requiem for the Archbishop was composed by Johann Michael Haydn (younger brother of Josef Haydn), who was Kapellmeister at the time, and whom had had a close association with the Archbishop. The profoundly moving work was no doubt heavily influenced by the death of Haydn's infant daughter early in 1771.

Michael Haydn's Requiem had a profound impact on the young Mozart, who made extensive use of themes from the Requiem in his own compositions. Twenty years later, when Mozart was commissioned to compose his own Requiem, he used the Michael Haydn work as a model for its structure, as well as revisiting many of Haydn's themes and ideas in his own work. Listeners familiar with the Mozart Requiem will be astonished by the parallels and common themes between the two works.

Mozart also modelled much of his liturgical writing after another master composer, George Frideric Handel. For the Requiem, he naturally turned to Handel's own funeral compositions, including an elaborate Anthem for the Funeral of Queen Caroline in 1737. Mozart's familiar opening introit is based extensively on the opening chorus of Handel's anthem (a fact which was acknowledged by Mozart himself).

The two masterpieces on the program are surprisingly neglected - the performance of the Handel Anthem will be the first in Western Australia, and the performance of the Haydn Requiem may be only the second.

Tickets will be available at the door, via BOCS online, at their ticket outlets or by phone 9484 1133

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares. The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftsmen and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall. Incorporating a dedicated Junior Upmarket and Gourmet section. Parking and entry are free and the venue is easily accessible. Two ATMs onsite.

Professor Jeremy Keenan is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Professor Jeremy Keenan will explain events in North Africa from 2003, the year in which the US launched its ‘second’ or Saharan-Sahelian front in the Global War on Terror (GWOT), to the toppling of the Gadhafi regime in Libya in August-September 2011. In so doing, the talk will explain how the GWOT and ‘Arab Spring’, as it has become known, are linked.

The Confucius Institute is running our last intake of the year. We offers an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from beginner to Advance levels.Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.

The Confucius Institute will be running our 4th intake of our Chinese Language courses. We offers an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from Beginners to Advanced levels and our NEW Business Chinese. Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.

Dr Darren Jorgensen, writer, researcher and Assist. Prof., Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA, Dr Ric Spencer, artist, writer and curator at Fremantle Arts Centre, Dr Tony Hughes-d'Ath, writer, cultural historian and Assoc. Prof., English and Cultural Studies, UWA, and Thomas Hoareau, prize-winning Western Australian artist, will form a panel of four speakers. Their challenge is to deliver an engaging, informative talk of only seven minutes on a painting of their choice from the current exhibition Recent Past: Australian painting of the 70s and 80s, followed by questions from the audience. Strictly timed, the speeches will challenge the presenters to encapsulate the essence of their ideas in a considered, direct and engaging way.

Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.

Akira Kurosawa directed and co-wrote Ikiru in 1952. Filmed in black and white, it ostensibly tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat and section chief who spends virtually his entire life working in a city office. Neither Watanabe nor anyone else in the office actually does anything much that is worthwhile or productive. They shuffle and stamp papers that simply move from useless pile to useless pile. They may look as if they are actually getting something done, but not only does it become clear that they are doing nothing but also that they are meant to be doing nothing, and also that they on some level, aware that they do nothing. The office, with piles and piles of neatly tied and stacked folders, is itself in effect a façade—a stage set—and in some ways a quite beautiful one.

After he learns he has terminal cancer—a fact that the doctors lie to him about—Watanabe immediately becomes desolate. It is by means of this palpable despair that Watanabe becomes aware that he is faced with a problem that goes beyond his impending death. The nature of that problem is the focus of this talk.

Ikiru is a case in which a philosophical problem is presented and a solution offered in situ, that is, in the context of a particular life and the concrete problems encountered in it. It is, in many ways, both prior to and more powerful than treatments of the problem in professional philosophy. More through visual than verbal narrative, Kurosawa intimates that in the face of death not only Watanabe, but we too, are alone.

Join Jonathan Holloway, the Artistic Director of Perth International Arts Festival 2012-2015, as he outlines the benefits the Festival will provide to the Perth arts and business community in the coming years. He will discuss how he was instrumental in the transformation of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival turning it into a financial success and the benefits it brought to the city. He will also discuss his plans for Perth International Arts Festival as it celebrates its 60th festival in 2012 and over the next four years.

Before coming to Perth Jonathan spent six years as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in the UK. Under his stewardship, the festival and its city were transformed: Norwich tripled ticket sales, turnover increased by over 600% and audiences increased from 35,000 to 330,000, becoming the fourth largest city-based festival in the UK.

Jonathan’s vision for Perth is to draw visitors to the city and the Perth Festival with world-class artists and performances, to nurture the arts roots of the region as well as offer a program of international and regional artistic exchanges and to increase ticket sales by engaging those who do not traditionally engage with arts festivals, using accessible programming and participation.

Presented in association with Perth International Arts Festival and supported by the UWA Business School

For bookings please contact Club Reception on 6488 8770 or visit www.universityclub.uwa.edu.au

Members $45/Guests $55 Or $450 for a table of 10

Price includes a sit down two-course breakfast and presentation.

The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.

Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to staff, honours and postgraduate students.

For more information about the Expo along with details on the presentations being held throughout the evening please go uwa.edu.au/postgradexpo

Nahid Afrose Kabir has recently taken up a position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. Currently, Dr Kabir is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. In this lecture, Dr. Kabir will talk about her book “Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media.”

In Britain’s highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, “Young British Muslims…” provides an in-depth understanding of British Muslim Identity through the following social constructs: migration history, family settlement, socio-economic status, religion and culture, and the wider societal environment.

Dr. Kabir was a visiting fellow (Aug. 2009 – July 2011) in Islam in the West program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, USA. Her current research project is titled, “An Understanding of the Identity of Muslim Youths and Young Adults in the United States of America.” Nahid Kabir is also the author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (London: Routledge 2005).

Set your tastebuds to global roaming as we celebrate one of the highlights of Multicultural Week on Thursday 6th October 2011. All members of the community are invited to the moonlit surrounds of the Guild Village to feast on over 50 food stalls and a banquet of International entertainment. MCW is a joint event between International Student Services and UWA Guild Activities Department!

A UWA engineering qualification combines practical and theoretical learning in an exciting and engaging environment that will make you a sought-after graduate, with an internationally recognised education.

To find out more about how to become an engineer, come along to one of our free Engineering Information Evenings and talk to us about commencing your engineering career at UWA.

The information evenings will cover course and career options, the types of engineering available to study, what the course entails, entry pathways available and how to apply through TISC.

The UWA Music Students' Society presents it's 3rd concert of the Semester. This concert will showcase works composed by students and performed by UWA Music Students.

The 2011 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas has invited a range of speakers to discuss how the population dynamics predicted by mid-century will affect how we live. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and the raising and sharing of ideas.

Speakers:

*Population Trends - Dr Tom Wilson, Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Centre for Population Research. *Social Capital and Sense of Community - Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Deputy Director, Centre for Built Environment, UWA. *Urban Spaces - Professor Shane Murray, Dean, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. *Rural Demography and Social Dynamics - Winthrop Professor Matthew Tonts, Head, School of Earth and the Environment, UWA. *Environmental Sustainability and Population Growth - Chuck Berger, Director of Strategic Ideas, Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne.

Registration Cost: $70 standard | $55 concession

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Mohammed Benghezal will give a talk on surface properties of urease and persistence of H. pylori in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 7 October 2011 at 9:00am. Helicobacter pylori enzyme urease facilitates gastric colonisation by neutralising the acidic pH. A number of in vitro studies have demonstrated urease-dependent activation of monocytes, macrophages and epithelial cells resulting in cytokine and chemokine production and recruitment of inflammatory cells, suggesting an immune modulation role of urease in vitro. A structure-based insertion mutagenesis analysis of the urease complex performed in our laboratory identified a discrete region on the enzyme surface that is needed for persistence of H. pylori in a mouse model of infection. This result confirms a non-enzymatic role of urease in establishing chronic infection. The abundance of urease (10% of the cell weight) and the fact that it is secreted in the extracellular medium support the idea that the surface of the urease interacts directly with host components important for the host-pathogen interaction and immune modulation enabling bacterial persistence.

The School of Anatomy & Human Biology at the University of Western Australia will be holding a memorial ceremony in honour of those who have donated their body to the University to further medical and scientific teaching and research.

The families of donors are invited to attend the ceremony.

For further information and to register attendance, please contact Vicki on 6488 3288 by 16 September, 2011.

We are living in a period of ecocultural disintegration. The complexity and diversity of culture and ecology (ecocultural diversity) is being removed and/or homogenised by powerful forces all tied to modernity, global development and now, climate change. In some respects we are now all in the position of Indigenous peoples who have a lived experience of the desolation of their endemic sense of place and culture. But now, as global ecosystems and the climate change, the whole earth as ‘home’ becomes alien to us. Despite the scale and power of these transformations to our home at all scales, we generally lack the concepts to understand the negative and positive dimensions of our situation. This presentation will examine what I call ‘psychoterratic states’ with particular emphasis on the concept of solastalgia, developed by me to explain the lived experience of negative environmental change to a loved home environment. In this case, the loved home environment is Perth and its location within South West, Western Australia. I will conclude with some thoughts about positive concepts that oppose solastalgia that might bring about genuine sustainability and human happiness ... even in Perth.

Friday talk with SymbioticA resident artist Amy Congdon Date: 7 Oct 2011 Time: 3:30pm Venue: SymbioticA HQ Speaker: Amy Congdon

Current resident Amy Congdon will be talking about a selection of her previous projects and research interests. As well as this she will be reflecting on her experiences so far as a resident and how this has changed and expanded her ideas. Working with completely embroidered scaffolds and primarily skin cells Amy's current work focuses on the intersection of textiles and the body.

Amy Congdon is a textile designer whose work revolves around the blurring of roles that is occurring between science and design. Having completed a BA in Contemporary Textiles she went on to graduate in 2011 from the MA Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

An embroiderer by training she has a particular research interest in the use of traditional textile techniques being re-appropriated into new areas, most specifically the use of digital embroidery to produce medical implants. Amy’s practice falls within the category of critical design, in that it seeks to create work intended to provoke debate around the crafting of materials from living matter and whether we are reaching a stage where the body is becoming the ultimate luxury commodity.

Registrations are now open for an upcoming professional workshop entitled DNA: The good, the bad and the ugly. This lively two day workshop addresses everything you ever wanted to know about DNA but were too afraid to ask. The workshop is fun, interactive, and highly relevant for all lawyers, police officers and law enforcement personnel who need to know how to tackle DNA evidence. You will be taken from absolute first principles to what to ask the experts and how to understand and evaluate their answers. The workshop will be held over two days - Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October - and costs $750 per person. Attendants are awarded a certificate of completion and 7 CPD points (if applicable). A limited number of places are available so REGISTER NOW to ensure you don't miss out!