December 2013
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Friday 13 |
19:00 - EVENT - Christmas Carols with the Winthrop Singers : Beautiful Christmas Carols performed by the Winthrop Singers
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An annual event at St George's College is the Christmas Carols performed by the Winthrop Singers. An evening not to be missed. Please book as there is limited space. Performances are on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December.
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Sunday 15 |
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: Master's Recital - Marco Lombardi (piano)
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Master of Music (Research) student Marco Lombardi presents his Master's Piano recital. The program includes:
Chopin, Frederic - Preludes Op 28
Mozart, W.A. - Rondo in A minor K511
Busoni, Ferruccio - Sonatina Seconda
Castiglioni, Niccolo - Sonatina
Entry is free - all welcome!
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Monday 16 |
17:30 - EVENT - Information evening for Nursing, Social Work and Population Health : Master of Nursing Science, Masters of Social Work and Master of Public Health.
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The School of Population Health is holding an Information Evening on Monday 16 December at 5.30pm.
We will present three concurrent information sessions for those interested in achieving a Master of Nursing Science, Masters of Social Work or Master of Public Health.
If you are interested in one of our Masters degrees, please register to attend a session at sph.uwa.edu.au. There will be a brief presentation outlining the relevant course for you, followed by plenty of time for your questions. Drinks and nibbles will be provided and you will have the opportunity to talk to some of our lecturers and current students.
These information sessions will be held at the School of Population Health in the Clifton Street Building, Nedlands Campus.
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January 2014
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Saturday 11 |
9:30 - COURSE - Over 50's Swim & Gym Program : 50+ Swim and Gym
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The UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic along with UWA Uniswim invite you to join our launch of a gym and swim program for over 50's.
The program will include a 40min gym session working on strength, function and balance. Plus a 40min swimming session working on cardiovascular fitness and stroke technique.
The program will be catered to the abilities and skills of individual participants.
Times: Monday 9.30am - 11am and/or Saturday 8.30am - 10am
When: January 11th - February 17th
Cost: Monday block $90*due to public holidays - Saturday block $108 (Private health rebates may apply)
Location: School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health (Uniswim and UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic - Parkway Entrance #4)
PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED!!! SO GET IN QUICK!!
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Wednesday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Waves and Currents: Hawking Radiation in the Hydraulics Laboratory : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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We are all aware that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole. Well, maybe not! In 1974 Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes emit a form of radiation, which has become known as Hawking radiation.
This radiation originates at the black hole horizon – the spherical surface inside of which light is trapped. The black hole horizon is effectively a control surface for light: the interior of the sphere is said to be superluminal and the exterior, subluminal. An interpretation of Hawking’s analysis is that when particle-antiparticle pairs are formed at a black hole horizon, one falls into the hole while the other escapes and reduces the energy in the black hole.
Unruh (1981) showed that there is a mathematical analogy between the process described above and the behavior of water waves propagating upstream against a current. I will report on the results of the experiments of Weinfurtner et al. (2011) that tested this analogy in a 6.2 m long and 0.15 m wide flume.
The fate of free surface water waves propagating upstream toward the crest of a streamlined obstacle has been examined. As the waves propagate toward the crest of the obstacle they slow down, both because the flow velocity in the channel increases, and because their phase speed decreases as they shoal. As their wavelength decreases so too does their group velocity and eventually the waves are arrested and are converted into pairs of short waves.
Both waves have a downstream group velocity, but one has an upstream phase velocity and the other a downstream phase velocity. These wave pairs are analogous to the particle-antiparticle pairs of Hawking radiation and represent the closest analogy to Hawking radiation observed to date.
Hawking, S.W. (1974) Nature 248, 30.
Unruh, W.G. (1981) Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 1351.
Weinfurtner, S., E.W. Tedford, M.C.J. Pennrice, W.G. Unruh & G.A. Lawrence (2011) Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021302.
Biography:
B.E., (W. Aust.), M.S., Ph.D. (Berkeley), P.Eng.
Research Interests:
Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management.
PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.
****All Welcome****
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Friday 17 |
17:15 - FREE LECTURE - Virtual Masculinity and Intimacy: Telecommunications and the Changing Spatiality of Male Sex Work
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There is increasing attention to the fact that global increases in sex work occur not only among female sex workers, but also among cohorts of male sex workers. However, current research continues to focus predominately on female sex workers, and specifically on street sex workers, despite the existence of large numbers of MSW and significant changes in the geography of sex work from ‘outdoors’ to ‘indoors’. International research suggests that the majority of men who have sex with men meet their partners through the internet. Despite this sex industry research has only recently begun to examine the impacts of technological change on the male sex industry. At a broad social level, telecommunications has increased the numbers of male escort workers, created new spaces for sex work encounters, and has extended the reach of sex work to a wider socio-demographic audience. At the behavioural level, research indicates that the needs, desires and experiences of sex workers and clients and the context of their encounters are different when conducted in cyberspace. With attention to the larger social context of masculinity, power, spatially situated forms of interaction, and the body as commodity, this presentation examines how telecommunications, in changing the structure and organization of sex work, has opened up new spaces for the expression of masculinity and intimacy.
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Monday 20 |
1)Chinese Martial Arts
2)Chinese Literature and Film
3)Chinese Arts and Music
4)Chinese Cuisine and Food Culture
5)Chinese Business Culture
6)Chinese Medicine and Well-being
18:30 - COURSE - Chinese Language Course : Beginners level, Intermediate level, Advanced level, etc
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2014 Chinese Language Course
1) Day time Chinese Beginners Course(10 weeks)
2) Chinese Beginners Course (10 weeks)
3) Chinese Intermediate Course (10 weeks)
4) Advanced Chinese Course (10 weeks)
5) NEW Children's Chinese Courses (10 weeks)
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Tuesday 21 |
13:00 - Colloquium - On feeling torn about one�s sexuality: The effects of explicit-implicit sexual orientation ambivalence. :
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Three correlational studies investigated implications associated with explicit-implicit sexual orientation ambivalence for information processing and psychological well-being in samples of straight and gay individuals.
Across the studies, 243 straight participants completed explicit and implicit measures of sexual orientation; in one of these studies, 48 gay participants completed the same measures. Within individual studies, participants also completed measures of self-esteem.
When considering the effects of ambivalence between self-reported and indirectly measured sexual orientation (SO), among straight participants explicit-implicit SO ambivalence was positively associated with time spent deliberating questions on sexual preferences; an effect moderated by the direction of ambivalence. In an attempt to explain this effect, in our third study, straight participants read ambivalence-relevant arguments that were either strong or weak in quality. In line with the effect found previously, the amount of explicit-implicit SO ambivalence positively related to post-message cognitive responses after reading strong but not weak arguments. This effect was also found to be moderated by the direction of ambivalence.
For gay participants, individual differences in explicit-implicit SO ambivalence tended to influence time deliberating sexuality. In addition, explicit-implicit ambivalence in sexual orientation attitudes among gay individuals, but not straight individuals, was related to self-esteem in addition to defensive self-esteem.
Our findings demonstrate the information processing consequences of explicit-implicit ambivalence in both straight and gay individuals when considering an attitude object that has considerable personal relevance. Furthermore, our results highlight that explicit-implicit ambivalence in sexual orientation attitudes may be an important antecedence of psychological well-being in gay-individuals.
16:00 - EVENT - Confucius Forum : Everything about Confucius and China
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Speakers:
1) Professor Li Zhongshang, Minister-Counsellor for Education, Embassy of P.R China in Australia
Title: Chinese Economy and the Chinese Dream
2) Dr Liu Jingyuan, Senior Advisor, Shandong Association
Title: Did the Chinese Discover Australia?
3) Professor Jan Ryan, Hon Professor, Edith Cowan University
Title: Shifting Profile of Chinese Women in Australia
4) Dr Han Baolei, Senior Advisor, Shandong Association
Title: Why did the Confucius Thought Emerge in Shandong Province?
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Thursday 30 |
Government Accountability – Law and Practice
Continuing professional development course ideal for those working in government or government related organisations.
The continuing growth of government in recent decades
has led to a rise in the number (and reach) of accountability agencies, so much so that some commentators now talk of the emergence of a fourth branch of government – the ‘integrity’ branch.
In this course we will explore:
- the place of government in the modern state, and the
how and why of government accountability;
- accountability frameworks (with reference to traditional
and contemporary administrative law, political
structures, the media, academia and non-government
organisations); and
- the theoretical underpinnings, development, evolving
law and practice, and regulation of various accountability
agencies.
In the Western Australian context, particular reference will
be made to the Corruption and Crime Commission (and the
relevant Parliamentary Inspector), the Inspector of Custodial Services, the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General, the Public Sector Commissioner, and the Information Commissioner.
National and international comparison will be drawn at
various points.
12:45 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture: Secured Transactions and Legal Transplantation
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Dr Orkun Akseli from Durham (UK) is an expert in the corporate and commercial field with particular emphasis on harmonisation of secured transactions laws and facilitation of credit.
All are welcome to attend this interesting talk about secured transactions and legal transplantation.
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February 2014
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Friday 07 |
18:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Anne Ferran: Shadow Land + Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World
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Join us at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 7 February 6pm for the opening of:
Anne Ferran: Shadow Land
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The launch of the companion publication - Shadow Land
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Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World
This event is free to attend, however please register your attendance here:
http://lwag-launch-feb.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal
To find out more about the exhibitions, visit the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery website:
www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au
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Saturday 08 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - 2 FREE PUBLIC LECTURES : Roman Archaeology Group presents 2 free lectures: Emperor Justinian & Petra
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2 FREE Lectures - All are welcome!
1:30pm - "Justinian's Empire" presented by Dr Michael Champion.
2:30pm - Afternoon Tea.
3:00pm - "Western Travellers to Petra in the 19th Century" presented by W/Prof. David Kennedy.
N.B. Lectures are FREE, however there is a small charge for the refreshments served at the mid-session break: $7pp (RAG members) / $10pp (non-members)
In conjunction with the exhibition of her work, Shadow Land, one of Australia's most acclaimed photo-media artists, Anne Ferran offers a personal look into her multi-faceted artistic practice.
The artist talk is free to attend, however, please REGISTER your attendance via
http://ferrantalk.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal
The exhibition Shadow Land, runs from 8 February until 19 April 2014, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as part of the Visual Art program for the Perth International Arts Festival.
Shadow Land is a survey exhibition of Anne Ferran’s most significant projects and series, spanning more than 30 years.
The earliest series of works touch on French cultural theories of feminism and representation in their staged classical tableaux style. Since 1995, Ferran has been examining and re-discovering Australia’s colonial heritage utilizing museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites, nationally and internationally.
Anne Ferran is interested in the gaps or silences in the records and personal histories of those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals, mental asylums and female factories. Her practice incorporates a variety of media including photography, textiles, installation, text, and video/film.
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Monday 10 |
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - �Marriage, Passion and Love� : Hosted by PMRG, CMEMS and ARC Centre for the History of Emotions.
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Abstract: This project follows the careers of a female network originating at the court of Anne of France (1461-1522), regent for her brother Charles VIII, and mentor to many girls who went on to illustrious careers: Marguerite of Austria, Louise of Savoy, Diane de Poitiers and Anne of Brittany. To this original circle I add the next generation: Anne of Brittany’s daughters Claude, Queen of France and Renée, Countess of Ferrara, together with Louise of Savoy’s daughter, Marguerite de Navarre, who in turn trained her own daughter, Jeanne d’Albret. Master of politics, Anne passed on knowledge about succeeding in a man’s world. Her father Louis XI chose her to be unofficial regent on his deathbed, apparently believing that in this way she would encounter less opposition than if she were formally appointed. Although female regency in France continued to be exercised unofficially, it was an important institution. From the beginning of Anne’s regency until Louis XIV came of age, ending the regency of Anne of Austria, the kingdom was for all practical purposes ruled by women for about 42 years, which is to say that, in a kingdom that prohibited female rule, women ruled about 25% of that time.
I examine Anne of France’s extended circle as an “emotional community” with the goal of understanding how members were prepared emotionally to exercise power while conforming to a repertoire of female stereotypes. Their libraries are of special interest, because in the works they shared we find models for ideal emotional modulation. I will present from a chapter on marriage, passion, and love. Passionate love was the result of an imbalance of humors; marital affection was an idealized, modulated emotional state between spouses in dynastic marriages. I compare some idealized representations of marital relationships in works from the libraries of the women with reports about these relationships from chronicles and ambassadors’ letters. These sources are all “texts”, of course, but I believe that, in comparing what was perceived as an ideal with impressions of the women, we find clues as to how they assimilated and manipulated their
emotional models.
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - �Iago: The Man, The Devil and Emotion� : Presented by WA Opera, Black Swan State Theatre Company and ARC Centre for the History of Emotions
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West Australian Opera, Black Swan State Theatre Company and ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) unite to offer an evening of insight and intrigue based on analysis of the character of Iago, key to both Shakespeare’s play and Verdi/Boito’s opera Otello. This scholarly and practical event explores the ways in which drama (through spoken language) and opera (through sung text and music) arouses emotion and depicts character, and how these are translated over time.
Attendance is free, but RSVP essential by Thursday 6 February to [email protected]
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Tuesday 11 |
This four day workshop is accessible to lawyers entering the field, government officials, resource company personnel, and others who seek an understanding of the legal context in which oil and gas issues arise. The short course covers the legal nature and protection of oil and gas exploration and production rights, both generally and in Australia.
For further information and registration visit the webpage http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/cpd/oil-gas
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Wednesday 12 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - �Delight in Friendship: The Proprieties of Affection in Early British Children�s Literature� : Hosted by ARC Centre for the History of Emotions.
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Abstract: Friendship, unsurprisingly, features prominently in children’s literature, perhaps most particularly in the school stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the eighteenth century, however, the period when children’s literature was first becoming established as a separate sector of print culture, the question of friendship was more vexed. ‘Love and Affection … will naturally lead you to delight in Friendship’, writes one mid eighteenth-century author to her young readers. But, she goes on to warn, ‘Delight in Friendship may lead you into all manner of Errors’. This paper will consider the place and proprieties of friendship in early British children’s books and ask why, to many authors, friendship was a perilous exercise that brought more harm than good both to the individual and society.
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Friday 14 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Applications of iPS Cells in Science and Art : Public talk with Dr Michael Edel
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Dr. Michael Edel is an Australian with European nationality and is currently a tenure track Group Leader funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. He completed his Bachelor of Science with honors in Anatomy and Human Biology and Physiology, his Post-Graduate Diploma in Education and his PhD in Pathology on the role of angiogenesis in breast cancer metastasis at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He is now group leader of the Control of Pluripotency Laboratory at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine.
His team works with adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) at a clinical grade level for research into new cell based treatments for heart disease, eye disease, neuronal disorders and spinal cord injury. The research seeks to define the role of cell cycle genes in pluripotency and cancer leading to a number of high impact publications (Nature Biotechnology 2008, Genes and Development, 2010; Stem Cells and Development, 2012). In collaboration with hospitals, he also models human disease using iPS cells, such as Retts syndrome and Atrial fibrillation to identify new directions to treat these diseases. Consequently, he is recognized as a Senior Research Fellow at University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Westmead, and NSW, AUSTRALIA.
Please refer to his group’s web page for more information: http://pluripotencylaboratory.wordpress.com/
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