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Displaying from Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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March 2010
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Wednesday 24 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - World Cities of Sex : Exploration of the sexual economy in cities.
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In this presentation, Professor Hubbard will explore the ways in which cities have become hubs in an international sexual economy that is increasingly important as a driver of global economic change. Focusing on the intersections between business travel, sex tourism, prostitution and pornography (...)
In this lecture, author Susanna de Vries will speak about her latest book 'Females on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s Brave Pioneers'.
Females on the Fatal Shore documents the story of the lives of 12 significant women who sailed to the Australian colonies in its founding years. Every (...)
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Thursday 25 |
19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - "Shaky Enlightenment: Thomas Gordon's challenge to 18th Century earthquake theories". : CMEMS / PMRG Public Lecture Thursday 25th March
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Tuesday 30 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘The Oppenheimer Siddur: Artist and Scribe in a 15th-Century Hebrew Manuscript’
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The Oppenheimer Siddur (prayer book) in the Oxford Bodleian Library stands out among extant dated and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts from all regions that have been classified as user-produced. Made in 1471 in Germany by an Ashkenazi scribe for his family, this small book is remarkable for the (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
13:00 - EVENT - Careers Centre - Teach for Australia Recruitment Talk : Come along to find out more about this great opportunity. All disciplines welcome!
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Teach For Australia is an innovative, not-for-profit organisation working to confront educational disadvantage in Australia. We do this by transforming outstanding graduates from all disciplines into inspirational teachers and leaders.
Our fully-paid, two-year program develops you as a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CLAH / CMEMS Public Lecture : The Deplorable Life and Disgusting Death of Andronicus I Comnenus, Emperor of the Romans
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April 2010
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Tuesday 13 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘Sound Recordings as a Chronicle of Performance Style: Trends and Individual Artistic Signatures in Playing Solo Bach on the Violin’
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The presentation draws on my ongoing research into changing styles of performance practice as evidenced on sound recordings. First it provides a brief overview of the major issues and current state of the literature. Then it introduces methods of analysis and the kinds of problems, questions and (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMEMS / PMRG Public Lecture : Lucretia in Ovid's Fasti and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
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Friday 16 |
10:00 - Master Class - CMEMS Latin Master Class : The Philomela episode from Ovid Metamorphoses 6
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Opportunity to read a Latin text in Latin with Professor Peter Davis, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide.
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Thursday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Personal wealth and traditional roles:women entrepreneurs in China : Dr Minglu Chen focuses on a special group of contributors to China’s economic reform—women entrepreneurs
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A Virtual Seminar from a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partner at the University of Sydney. Dr Minglu Chen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who researches social changes in contemporary China and is currently working on a project on the evolution of the interaction between the new rich and (...)
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Friday 23 |
REQUIEM, conducted by Nicholas Bannan, comprises three musical works that communicate the conviction that the human spirit survives mortality. Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was written as a personal memorial to his friend, the French composer Claude Debussy, and embraces elements of (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
11:45 - EVENT - UWA Student Exchange Fair : TUESDAY 27TH APRIL in the Guild Village Courtyard
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UWA Student Exchange Fair
Tuesday 27th April
GUILD VILLAGE COURTYARD
11.45AM - 2.00PM
Get all of the info you need to know about going on exchange…
plus the chance to meet UWA's International Partners, UWA students who have been on exchange and International Exchange Students (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘Children’s music in Limpopo, South Africa’
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The cultural landscape of South Africa is reflected in the songs and games of young children whose music embodies the social and political history of the world around them. My research with young children in the Limpopo province of South Africa (primarily from Venda and Pedi cultures) is (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
19:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMEMS PMRG Seminar Series : Dr Paul McDonald, "Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises
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"A New Edition of Kenelm Digby's Treatises (1644)"
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Thursday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Global Justice and Climate Change: Implications for China : The challenge of climate change on international and cosmopolitan justice, consumption and policy: Implications for China
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China is now the largest national source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions causing climate change. These emissions must be limited and eventually reduced if the most catastrophic consequences of climate change are to be avoided. However, the Chinese government rejects internationally binding limits (...)
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May 2010
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Tuesday 04 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - SPECIAL EVENT! : ‘The role of the subscriber in eighteenth-century musical publications’
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Emeritus Professor Margaret Seares, will give special lecture entitled ‘The role of the subscriber in eighteenth-century musical publications’. This lecture is given to honour UWA’s outstanding musicologist and composer Emeritus Professor David Tunley, as part of the celebration of his (...)
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Thursday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Eunuchs Still? A Conversation Commemorating Forty Years since the Publication of The Female Eunuch
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Germaine Greer seems to have been a trigger for outbursts of acrimony ever since the publication of The Female Eunuch forty years ago, but what was the book actually about, and why has it entrenched such violent reactions in Australia since 1970?
What made it so radical, and does it have anything (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘Capturing Sound’
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Stephen Vitiello is an internationally celebrated American sound and media artist. Focusing on the physical aspect of sound he uses atmospheric noise or transforms energies such as light and wind to create new environments and experiences. Vitiello’s visit to North-Western Australia in early 2010 (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMEMS PMRG Seminar Series : David Urry, "Romanesque to Contemporary: The production of stained glass windows"
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"Romanesque to Contemporary: The production of stained glass windows"
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Thursday 13 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar : Phoenicians in Spain: Trade, Exchange and Cultural Interactions in the Iron Age.
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Phoenicians in Spain: Trade, Exchange and Cultural Interactions in the Iron Age.
The Bajo de la Campana Shipwreck
This first-ever archaeological excavation and study of a Phoenician shipwreck, located off the south-eastern coast of Spain, is yielding a large and varied assemblage of (...)
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