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Displaying from Sunday, September 18, 2011
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September 2011
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Sunday 18 |
19:15 - PERFORMANCE - Chapels of St. Mary's by Candlelight : UWA Winthrop Singers with St Mary's Cathedral Choir
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The UWA Winthrop Singers and the St Mary's Cathedral Choir will perform a number of sacred works at St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday the 18th of September.
Works include Allegri's Miserere and Gabrieli's Magnificat, and new works that utilise spatial separation in the rich cathedral (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
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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Monday 26 |
0:00 - CONFERENCE - INDONESIA COUNCIL OPEN CONFERENCE : INDONESIA COUNCIL OPEN CONFERENCE
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The ICOC is a biennial, multi-disciplinary conference which provides a forum for the presentation of new and innovative work on Indonesia. There is particular emphasis on encouraging engagement between newer Indonesianists and established scholars. It attracts participants from all over Indonesia (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Lecture : The Contribution of the Roman Catholic Tradition to Biomedical Ethics
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Issues raised by bio-medical ethics touch on some of the most profound moments of joy, hope, fear, anger, sorrow, disappointment and relief in our lives. The Roman Catholic moral tradition has constantly wrestled with life issues. Are there valuable insights that this long theological tradition (...)
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.
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Wednesday 28 |
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.
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Thursday 29 |
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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October 2011
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Tuesday 04 |
11:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 7 Minute Speeches : Four panelists from culture and the arts are challenged to present a 7 minute, short speech on a painting of their choice from the Recent Past exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
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Dr Darren Jorgensen, writer, researcher and Assist. Prof., Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA, Dr Ric Spencer, artist, writer and curator at Fremantle Arts Centre, Dr Tony Hughes-d'Ath, writer, cultural historian and Assoc. Prof., English and Cultural Studies, UWA, and Thomas Hoareau (...)
13:00 - TALK - EMPLOYER TALK - Department for Child Protection Information Session : Are you studying towards a career in Human Services and want to make a difference? Then come along to the Department of Child Protection Information Session
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Are you studying towards a career in Human Services and want to make a difference? Then come along to the Department of Child Protection Information Session and find out more about job opportunities, recruitment processes and what a day in the life of a Child Protection Worker looks like.
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Performance Practice Values in the Twentieth Century Early Music Movement: Initial Findings
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Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.
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Wednesday 05 |
The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.
Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC TALK - "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" : Public Talk on the book "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" ; All Welcome!
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Nahid Afrose Kabir has recently taken up a position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. Currently, Dr Kabir is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University (...)
The Women in Finance Cocktail Evening is hosted by the Finance Association of Western Australia (FAWA) and the UWA Business School to assist high-achieving young women to explore and develop a meaningful career path in finance. The initiative aims to encourage more women to consider diverse career (...)
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Thursday 06 |
20:00 - EVENT - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Composition Concert 2
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The UWA Music Students' Society presents it's 3rd concert of the Semester. This concert will showcase works composed by students and performed by UWA Music Students.
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Monday 10 |
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Composing the self: The therapeutic benefits of song-writing in adjusting to adversity
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Dr Felicity Baker is well known for her extensive research in the field of music therapy. In this lecture Dr Baker explores how therapeutic songwriting assists clients to manage their reactions to adversity. By creating songs in a therapeutic relationship, clients begin to address psychosocial (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Gender Equality in Islam- A public lecture by Nina Nurmila : No RSVP required! All welcome!
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Muslim feminists argue that there are at least two factors that contribute to the women’s subordination in Muslim societies. First, patriarchal interpretations of the Qur’an which tend to subordinate women and blur the Qur’anic message of gender equality. Second, many Muslims cannot (...)
19:30 - Interactive Panel Discussion - Q&A: Adventures in Mental Health : SPAMH's Inaugural Question and Answer Panel Discussion
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Got some Questions? Want some Answers? Come join us in Mental Health Week to pick the brains of our diverse panel of experts at SPAMH's inaugural Q&A event: Adventures In Mental Health. No issue is off-limits!
Stalls from 7pm, Q&A from 7.30pm.
Light supper provided.
Dress code is smart (...)
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Thursday 13 |
The second concert in the series in which UWA students present the Opus 20 string quartets of Haydn
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY - SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER 2, 2011 : The Golden Rock: The Archaeology of St Eustatius and the SECAR GIS
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Sint Eustatius, a tiny Caribbean island comprised of two volcanoes joined by a fertile plain, was mysteriously abandoned by its indigenous inhabitants c.1000 years ago. It was resettled in 1636 by enterprising merchants representing the Dutch West India Company, who were soon outnumbered by slaves (...)
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