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April 2011
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Friday 29 |
8:45 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of a Music Student : Enjoy a day discovering what it's like to be a Music Student at UWA.
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The School of Music is offering WA secondary school
students the chance to take part in a wide range
of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun and
very rewarding.
Students will have the opportunity to*:
• Participate in a Performance/Composition workshop
• Observe current (...)
Over a breakfast of coffee and muffins, the emotional power of the human voice will be explored in a celebrity interview with world-renowned dramatic soprano Lisa Gasteen. Price: Standard $20, Friend of Music/Concessions $15
For tickets email [email protected] phone 6488 2054
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May 2011
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Tuesday 03 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - The Screened Score
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In this Power of Music Seminar, Lindsay Vickery, Lecturer in Composition and Technology, WAAPA, ECU will be presenting a seminar entitled 'The Screened Score' an investigation of the compositional process.
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Tuesday 10 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - The relationship between musical training and literacy development
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Adam Wigley, PhD Candidate, Schools of Music and Psychology,
UWA presents his innovative research investigating ways in which music learning impacts on literacy skills in young children. Part of the Power of Music Seminar series.
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Wednesday 11 |
Over the last fifteen years or so, an emerging consensus based upon research in a wide variety of disciplines has argued the need to revisit Darwin’s conjecture of 1871, that language may be descended from an extant musical medium of communication that development from animal calls, While humans (...)
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Thursday 12 |
Dr Suzanne Wijsman presents a recital including works by Faure and Martinu.
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - The Arab's Third Awakening and Osama's Passing : Osama bin Laden’s death has followed the change in the Arab World and demands for greater democratization. What do these two devel- opments mean for the Muslim world? How will they affect global stability? What does it mean for Australia? Professor Amin Saikal will address these questions in his public address.
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Professor Amin Saikal, Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University will be giving a public lecture on Thursday May 12th,2011 at The University of Western Australia. He will discuss issues surrounding The Arab's third awakening and Osama's passing and (...)
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Sunday 15 |
0:00 - EVENT - Desert Country : Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery present ‘Desert Country’, an Art Gallery of South Australia Travelling Exhbition
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Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will be the first venue in a national tour to exhibit the Art Gallery of South Australia’s exhibition ‘Desert Country’, following its successful season in Adelaide.
‘Desert Country’ charts the evolution and diversity of Australia’s most (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Charles Darwin, Percy Grainger and John Blacking: Australian influences on the concepts of evolution and archetype in music curriculum design
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Nicholas Bannan, Associate Professor, School of Music, UWA presents interdisciplinary research that brings insights to the school curriculum.
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Thursday 19 |
UWA Wind and Brass students - Old Wine in New Bottles.
Wind and Brass students present colourful arrangements of classic works.
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Saturday 21 |
9:30 - WORKSHOP - A day with J.R.R. Tolkien : Full day workshop open to the general public - registration fee applies.
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Learn from and discuss with UWA's Experts:
'Tolkien's world and work' (Andrew Lynch)
'Tolkien and History' (Caroline Finander)
'Tolkien's Politics' (Rob Stuart)
'Tolkien and medieval myth and legend' (Anne Scott)
'Tolkien on the screen' (Alice Davies)
Registration:
General $75 (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
In this lecture-performance, renowned soprano Julianne Baird, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, will discuss and perform music from the Jane Austen Songbook, reflecting from her research on what they tell us about the great English novelist’s musical tastes and the cultural milieu of (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - The Duchess of Malfi : John Webster's Jacobean revenge tragedy.
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Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies present Webster's provocative play of love, lust, and revenge involving a vengeful malcontent, a wilful Duchess and her two scheming brothers. Directed and designed by Steve Chinna. Five nights only in the Dolphin Theatre, Tuesday May 24 to Saturday (...)
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Thursday 26 |
Lyric Soprano Zoe Kikiros performs regularly as a Principal Artist with West Australian Opera. In this recital she will present a song cycle.
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Tuesday 31 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Navajo Infancy: Nature and Culture on the Cradleboard : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Jim Chisholm describes his fieldwork among the Navajo (1968, 1972, 1974-76). He provides an overview of Navajo society and culture then focuses on neonatal behaviour (temperament), the development of fear of strangers, and mother-infant interaction, especially as affected by use of the (...)
Across the world the story is the same. Sex scandal! Media frenzy. Public vilification. Disgrace. Another prominent man caught with his pants down. So why do men take such risks for sex? Bettina Arndt's new research is all about why sex matters so much to men. As one of Australia's first sex (...)
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June 2011
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Tuesday 07 |
16:00 - DISTINGUISHED VISITOR - 'The Emotional World of the Pastons' with Barbara Rosenwein : CMEMS / PMRG Research Seminar
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In the midst of many personal difficulties and public upheavals, the 15th-century Paston family wrote over 400 letters to one another--all of them remarkably calm and judicious. My purpose in this seminar is to begin to
explore the emotional world of the Pastons from these letters. Some (...)
A free public lecture by Dr Margaret Henderson, senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and a consultant to the National Museum of Australia, advising on a modern Australian women’s movement collection.
For the last two decades or so Western women’s movements have been (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Emotions and Modernity : With Peter N. Stearns, Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University
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One of the initial spurs to historical work on emotion was a desire to explore the relationship between emotions and modern conditions. For several reasons, this approach has come under fire. This talk assesses the effort, including the criticisms, while urging that we return to the task.
This (...)
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Thursday 09 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - 'Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern World' : This international conference will explore the emotions in the medieval and early modern world, c500-1800, from a range of disciplinary, geographical, historical and cultural perspectives.
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This conference is sponsored and supported by the UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies; the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
REGISTRATION: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/conf/cmems11
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