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 July 2012
Thursday 26
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance Website | More Information
Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand, Islamic economics and the World Bank’s engagement with world faiths as well as the future of the dialogue at the boundaries between theology and economics.
Saturday 28
8:00 - EVENT - Wound Care and Skin Integrity Seminar Day Website | More Information
UWA in association with Wounds West and Silver Chain presents this educational seminar day that will provide an update in best practise and the clinical skills required for assessment and management of wounds in Western Australia.
Monday 30
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Geoff Laurent presents "Stem cells and lung regeneration" Website | More Information
LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Stem cells and lung regeneration" by Professor Geoff Laurent, Director, Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sexuality as a Human Right: The transformation of sex from sin, disease, identity, companionship, and recreation, to rights Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Gilbert Herdt, Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC).

Over the past two centuries, Western civilization has witnessed a broad set of paradigm changes that characterize how and why we think about human sexuality as a social expression. Beginning with religious formulations of sin and depravity, and proceeding on to 19th century preoccupations with disease and the medicalization of sex, later 19th century expressions then fixated on identity-based paradigms and movements, followed by 20th century definitions focused on the couple and companionship, and in the 1960s especially and onward, recreational pleasure. Through these transformations has been the underlying conflict between individual experience and expression versus collective laws, policies and norms. Late modern sexuality is not only plastic, in Giddens’ terms, but also virtual, global, and texted through social media and the Internet. Sexual health and access to quality health for women and men has infused this transformation since 1975 with added meaning for sexual, gender, and reproductive rights. This lecture will also examine how human sexuality and rights have come to be seen as controversial and at times created moral panics in a variety of countries. It will also examine the impact of these panics on people’s rights, especially those at the margins of society.

Dr Gilbert Herdt is a cultural anthropologist, Professor and Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies, and Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University, and Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), created with major support from the Ford Foundation.

Cost: Free, RSVP your attendance to [email protected]
Tuesday 31
2:30 - SEMINAR - WAMSI Kimberley Marine Science Seminar : The first in a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley. Website | More Information
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution welcomes you to the first of a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley.

1st Speaker: Dr Barry Wilson (Murex Consultants), Patterns of life on Kimberley shores

The major controls of palaeographic development of the North West Shelf, including the Kimberley, have been climatic and sea level change and tectonism. The history of these events, especially those of the Quaternary, superimposed on the regional geology, has determined the range of habitats, the biological connectivity between them and adjacent regions, and the evolutionary development of the marine fauna. In this presentation, the contemporary marine fauna of the Kimberley is discussed in these historical biogeographic terms.

2nd Speaker: Dr James Gilmour (AIMS), Two decades of research on the Kimberly’s oceanic reef systems: dynamics and connectivity of coral assemblages in a changing world

This talk summarises almost twenty years of research by AIMS on the oceanic reefs of north-western Australia, focusing on the Scott Reef system. Scott Reef is unique in being far from the influence of many human activities responsible for the degradation of coral reefs globally, but for a catastrophic mass bleaching event in 1998. The 80% reduction in coral cover that followed provided an opportunity to quantify the rates and processes of recovery following a massive climatic disturbance. The recovery of the reef after 12 years is explained in the context of its connectivity to other reef systems and the underlying demography of its coral assemblages.

Afternoon tea (provided) and networking opportunities will follow the presentations.

RSVPs are essential please, for catering purposes.

General public and media welcome to attend.

RSVP & more info: Sue Lim [email protected]

www.wamsi.org.au

16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Visiting CMSS Fellow �The Bureaucracy and the Politics of Identity� : A lecture by Bambang Purwoko on a Study on the Influence of Ethnicity In The Bureaucratic Restructuring Process In Sorong Selatan Regency, West Papua, Indonesia. More Information
Visiting CMSS Fellow, Mr. Bambang Purwoko, will complete his ground-breaking study examining the impact of ethnicity and political identity on the bureaucracy in the Sorong-Selatan Regency of the Indonesian province of West Papua. This study was born of a longstanding desire to understand and address the fundamental reasons underlying the chronically poor performance of the bureaucracy in local governments in West Papua

17:00 - EVENT - An Evening with Marita Cheng: Mechatronics Engineer and Young Australian of the Year : What do engineers really do, especially mechatronic engineers? Especially young and wildly enthusiastic ones? More Information
This is an opportunity to learn how young engineers are helping people by making the world a better place to be.

Marita Cheng was awarded Young Australian of the Year for her work with RoboGals: see http://www.robogals.org/latest-news/latest/182 and this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRXlT0b_v0

This event is her first stop in Western Australian tour. This is an opportunity to meet one of Australia’s most wildly enthusiastic young engineers. It will also be a great opportunity to meet young people who would like to become engineers.

Apart from Marita you will also meet mechatronic engineers doing exciting things here in WA, such as Professor Thomas Braunl, robot builder and now running one of Australia's largest trials of electric cars, here in Perth. See http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/8382462/perth-hosts-electric-car-trials/

There will be a modest charge ($10) for light food and refreshments: students and young people will be admitted free of charge.

ABOUT THE KEY SPEAKER

While still a university student, Marita Cheng has demonstrated vision and leadership well beyond her years and is dedicated to encouraging young women to become interested in a career in engineering. The daughter of Chinese parents, Marita was born and raised in far north Queensland and now studies at the University of Melbourne. She founded Robogals Global in 2008, as a response to the traditionally low levels of participation by women in engineering and technology. Robogals uses fun and educational activities to teach schoolgirls about engineering and the difference that engineers make to our lives. Already Robogals has run robotics workshops for 3,000 girls across 80 schools in Australia and now has 17 chapters across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Marita's career path includes studying for a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Computer Science on a Paterson Scholarship. She has a Nancy Fairfax Churchill Fellowship, an International Youth Foundation YouthActionNet Fellowship and an Anita Borg Change Agent Award. A former panellist on ABC TV's New Inventors program, Marita plans to start a robotics company, creating robots that will take care of many everyday and mundane tasks. Already she has changed the way that girls view their capacity to contribute to engineering and technology.

 August 2012
Thursday 02
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert : Visiting Artist - West Australian Opera Website | More Information

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong at St George's College Chapel : First Evensong of semester with the Winthrop Singers More Information
The Winthrop Singers return to a refurbished St George's College Chapel for the first Evensong service of Semester 2.

Featured music is by composers from UWA

Introit: Tunley Jesu Dulcis Memoria Canticles: Caitlin Woods Anthem: Joyce Ubi Caritas
Friday 03
15:00 - EVENT - �Measuring Values in Young children : “Measuring Values in Young children with a new animated best-worst instrument” Website | More Information
A new animated best-worst values instrument for young children, which adds pictorial context to both verbal and textual presentation of the values items. Primary school children (from 5 to 12 years old) were asked to choose which of five values presentations was most like them and which was least like them.

15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Tsunami Debris and Synthetic Habitats in Pelagic Waters : Public talk with Paul Sharp (Founder of Two Hands project) Website | More Information
Paul Sharp is founder of Two Hands Project and works on issues of plastic pollution, particularly in the marine environment. Two Hands Project is a collaborative approach to dealing with plastic pollution: take 30 Minutes and Two Hands to clean up yOUR world anytime, anywhere.

Two Hands embodies the spirit of the huge national/international clean up days but asks what you can do with your two hands in 30 minutes, at a location near you, on any day of the year. We are taking it all back to grass roots, looking at what you can do to care for the place(s) that are near to you or important to you, anytime that you want. Whether you’re doing this to improve the health of our oceans, reduce the risk to wildlife or to simply clean up unsightly trash in one of your favorite parks or beaches, what you can do with your own Two Hands is easy.

Sharp will be talking about his recent experiences in the North Pacific, where he was part of the 5 Gyres/Algalita Marine Research Foundation Tsunami Debris Expedition.

twohandsproject.org

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird Website | More Information
American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding performers in an evening of chamber bliss.
Monday 06
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Why Do We Get Osteoarthritis: Can We Fix Our Arthritic Cartilage? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Alan Grodzinsky, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT.

It is widely accepted that Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, causing major health problems, pain and disability for adults young and old. Yet today, there are still no disease modifying Osteoarthritis drugs (“DMOADS”) that can halt or reverse the progression of disease, only drugs that may temporarily alleviate painful symptoms in knees, hips or other affected joints. Osteoarthritis is a disease of the whole joint, including cartilage, bone and other soft tissues.

In this lecture, Dr Grodzinsky, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Professor-at-Large, will discuss current challenges to diagnosis, tissue degradation, and drug discovery for Osteoarthritis.
Tuesday 07
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Ending of Life and Medical Care: Legal Challenges Website | More Information
A public lecture by Associate Professor Meredith Blake, Law School, UWA.

With an ageing population and the medical technology available to prolong life, action and inaction connected with the ending of life in the clinical setting raises confronting issues for modern society. The issues engage the disciplines of religion, philosophy, ethics, medicine, and economics, as well as the law, and therefore represent a complex, multi-layered challenge for legal regulation. One of the problems which the law faces in this context is its struggle to deal with scientific and philosophical concepts from these other disciplines.

When is it in the best interests of a person to cease life-sustaining medical intervention? Should persons be able to request medical assistance in hastening death? In what circumstances can doctors decide not to resuscitate profoundly disabled young children? These are some of the questions which illustrate this challenge. The place which the sanctity of life occupies in society explains why these sorts of questions are troubling, especially when that principle is ‘in conflict’ with both objective and subjective assessments that a life is of unacceptably poor quality. Given the significance of these issues, it is especially important that the law responds coherently and transparently.

These are some of the difficult questions which will be addressed in this lecture.

Cost: Free, but seats are limited. RSVP to [email protected].
Wednesday 08
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - SOLD OUT - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming Website | More Information
The 2012 Joseph Gentilli Lecture by Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies University of California & 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

This event has reached capacity, no more registrations can be taken.
Thursday 09
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert : The Winthrop Singers Website | More Information

16:45 - Internship - Internships : iVEC Research Internships 2012-2013 - Call for Project Proposals Website | More Information
Would you like to give an outstanding student an opportunity to use some of the most advanced computing facilities in WA? If so, please nominate a project for the iVEC research internship program. iVEC welcomes proposals for internship projects suited to a 10 week period over December 2012 to February 2013. Selected undergraduate students (3rd and 4th year and honours students) will receive up to $6,000 tax free over the 10 week internship.

Nominated projects must clearly demonstrate that the intern will be involved in exploring aspects of supercomputing, eResearch, large-scale storage, high-speed communications or scientific visualisation and must utilise iVEC Facilities.

Projects can come from any research field and should be submitted in early August.

Sponsored positions can be accommodated. In previous years, sponsored intern projects allowed iVEC to increase available places from eight to fourteen.

For more information and for application forms, see our website http://www.ivec.org/research_interns or email Valerie Maxville at [email protected] .

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How Cultural Continuity Reduces Suicide Risk in Indigenous Communities Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Michael J. Chandler, Emeritus Professor, The University of British Columbia, Canada.

There is overwhelming evidence that Australian Indigenous peoples’ mental health and social and emotional wellbeing is well behind that of other Australians and is a key contributor to the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The cumulative effect of inter-generational trauma and ‘malignant grief’, combined with social and economic disadvantage, has resulted in high rates of psychological distress, substance abuse and self-harm. Suicide rates among Indigenous Australians are a national tragedy. For example, in Western Australia between 2004-2008 Indigenous suicides were triple that of other West Australians.

Similarly, the rate of Aboriginal youth suicide in Canada is a serious problem. However, ongoing research by Professor Michael J. Chandler amongst Canada’s First Nations communities has found that youth suicide is not necessarily an “Aboriginal” problem per se, but may be a problem for only some communities. The communities that take steps to preserve their cultural past and control their civic lives tend to have fewer suicides. That is, a sense of identity and ‘cultural continuity’ can help Aboriginal people, and especially youth, to see that they have a future.

Professor Chandler’s 2012 Australian lecture tour is timely and important. It will not only inform the important ongoing academic research around cultural continuity and suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities, but also has the potential to influence public debate and government thinking in this critical policy area.

Professor Michael J. Chandler’s visit is generously sponsored by: *UWA’s School of Indigenous Studies; *Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation; *Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing; *WA Commissioner for Children & Young People; *WA Mental Health Commission: *Centre for Social Impact at the UWA Business School

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Choral Evensong : Evensong at St George's College Chapel Website | More Information
This week's service will feature West Australian music - Jerusalem by choir conductor Dr Nicholas Bannan, Nunc Dimittis by UWA student Francis Cardell-Oliver, and music by Dom Stephen Moreno of New Norcia.

Introit: Bannan - Jerusalem Responses: Rose Moreno - Te Deum Cardell-Oliver Nunc Dimittis Anthem: Moreno - Agnus Dei
Friday 10
13:00 - SEMINAR - Ireland: Church, State and Society, 1800-1870 : Seminar Series More Information
"The Irish Catholic Community and the State in the 19th Century: Setting the Scene"

Professor Oliver Rafferty SJ, the 2012 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, will present the first in a series of six lectures on nineteenth century Irish history.

The Chair of Jesuit Studies is jointly recognised by the the University of Western Australia and the University of Notre Dame Australia, and aims to bring a leading academic from the worldwide Jesuit community to Perth each year.

Professor Rafferty is visiting from Heythrop College, University of London, where he specialises in Irish and Ecclesiastical history. He will present the remaining five seminars in the same locations, and at the same time, on Fridays 17th and 24th August, and Fridays 7th, 14th, and 21st September.

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