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Displaying from Saturday, September 17, 2011
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September 2011
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Monday 19 |
12:00 - EVENT - Lung Institute of WA Medical Research Seminar : The molecular pathology of the innate immune system in treated HIV infection.
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Prof French is a physician/scientist who holds the positions of Winthrop Professor of Clinical Immunology in the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UWA and Consultant Clinical Immunologist at Royal Perth Hospital and PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth.
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Tuesday 20 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2011 Warren Jones Oration : “The Decade Ahead – Challenges for Australian Health and Medical Research”
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The Warren Jones Oration is given annually by an esteemed speaker of international significance, to inspire us to follow in Warren Jone’s footsteps and contribute to a better world. Enrty is free, but bookings are essential, via Jacky Jarrett.
Professor Douglas Hilton PhD FAA FTSE (Dir (...)
A public lecture by William Forde Thompson, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, NSW
Professor Bill Thompson is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the area of music psychology. Together with other researchers he has demonstrated that emotional (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - An Institute of Advanced Studies Power of Music Public Lecture
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Emotional communication in song and speech
Professor Bill Thompson is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the area of music psychology. Together with other researchers he has demonstrated that emotional communication is a multimodal process that operates similarly in both music and (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in urban development throughout
Perth. Such expansion has resulted in the unfortunate removal of large
amounts of endemic vegetation.
The vegetation that is retained is often already predisposed to premature decline, and is further impacted (...)
18:30 - PRESENTATION - Engineering Information Evenings : If your passion is to become an engineer, then give yourself a great career start and study engineering at UWA.
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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 (...)
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Thursday 22 |
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric : A free public lecture by Professor Tom Kvan.
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This lecture examines one of the most intense cities in the world. Hong Kong's irregular coastline and steep terrain has resulted in built-up areas that are compact. rich in spatial experience, all parts close to hills and water and connected by an exceptional public transport system.
T (...)
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Friday 23 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Molecular Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in Australia : Final PhD Seminar
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Briony Elliot, postgraduate student (PhD), will give a talk on Molecular Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in Australia in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, this Friday, 23 September 2011 at 9:00am. Australian isolates of C. difficile are extremely diverse and include a (...)
15:30 - Colloquium - Why Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy and what happens when it is not
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Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy – but often it is not. Many policy makers assume they know, because they are human and live in society, all they need to know about human behaviour. Or they assume that economic theory will provide all the critical insights necessary to (...)
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Monday 26 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (5APCEI) : Educational Integrity: Culture and Values
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The 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (5APCEI) will be held in Perth at The University of Western Australia between 26-28 September 2011. The conference is co-sponsored by three of Perth’s other universities; Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Inside/Out Japan:Families Moving in Times of Socio-Cultural Change : A public lecture co-sponsored by the Institute of Advance Studies & the Discipline of Asian Studies at UWA
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Despite many decades of close
economic and diplomatic ties between
Australia and Japan, mainstream media
coverage of that country continues
to reinforce long-standing superficial
stereotypes of a static, harmonious,
mono-cultural and inward looking
society. In reality, Japanese society
has long (...)
Speakers: Professor Vera Mackie, Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong and Associate Professor Leng Leng Thang, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore.
This public lecture will look at how, in the context of globalization (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Works for performer and live electronics
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Christopher Tonkin, Associate Lecturer, School of Music, UWA and a leading composer discusses some of his recent works.
We invite you to join us for this final lecture by Kevin Goss in his role as head of Future Farm Industries CRC.
This public address is a reflection on the wicked, unintended consequences that can arise from rapid economic development, the high cost of government policy inertia to deal (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
Essential Skills for a Successful Career in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Law and Education. A workshop for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
UWA's Institute of Advanced Studies and the Office of Research and Research Training invite you to participate in a (...)
12:30 - FREE LECTURE - Paintings and Emotion: The stuff of mind and spirit : Lecture by Winthrop Prof. Jane Davidson, Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music, Program Leader of the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions.
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Professor Davidson will examine works from the UWA collection which form the current exhibition, Recent Past, interrogating her emotional responses to the works.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : “Losing Our Endemic Sense of Place: Solastalgia in South West Western Australia.”
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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 (...)
18:30 - Forum - UWA BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011 FORUM : Global Financial Crisis II: The Case for Optimism?
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With the possibility of a double-dip recession in the US and sovereign debt crisis facing the EU, UWA experts in finance and economics will assess the case for optimism and answer your questions on the future of the local, national and global economy at an open public forum. Find out whether there (...)
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Thursday 29 |
12:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture : Clinical conversations in healing, relief of suffering and finding meaning
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Emeritus Professor Eric Cassell from New York Presbyterian Hospital has a distinguished international reputation in the field of moral problems in medicine, with special focus on the care of the dying and the nature of suffering. His widely cited works include: The Healer’s Art, The Place of the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tadeusz Kosciuszko: Poland's National Hero in British Art and Literature
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A public lecture by Thomas McLean, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Most Australians know Kosciuszko as the name of a mountain. But Tadeusz Kosciuszko was one of the most important figures of the late eighteenth and early (...)
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