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April 2012
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Friday 20 |
8:30 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of a Music Student : Experience a typical day in the life of a UWA Music Student
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Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Music student at UWA?
"A Day in the Life of a Music Student" is a great opportunity for you to discover what a typical day at university is like.
The School of Music is offering WA secondary school students the (...)
12:00 - EVENT - What Matters to Me and Why : Conversations with UWA Staff on what they care about
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We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘what matters to me and why’. The next session is Friday 20th April 2012, 12-1.30pm at the seminar room on the 3rd floor of the Science Library.
At each session an (...)
12:00 - EVENT - 'What matters to me and why" 2012 : As part of the Religion and Globalisation Initiative academics explore personal beliefs, philosophy, faith or religious practices
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We invite you to listen and engage in lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of 'what matters to me and why'. Bring your own lunch!
14:15 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar : Linguistics Seminar: Puzzles of Aspect in Nen
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Professor Nick Evans, Head of Department of Linguistics at the ANU.
Topic: Puzzles of Aspect in Nen. Nen is a langauage of the Morehead-Maro family (Nambu branch) spoken in just one village (Bimadbn) in the Trans-Fly region of PNG.
Friday, April 20, 2.15pm SSCI:2.29, Social Sciences Building
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Thursday 26 |
Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Moral Pragmatism:Thin Universals and Thick Practices : Second in the 2012 series of the Three Universities Lectures
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - Ethics Lecture : Moral Pragmatism: Thin Universals and Thick Practices
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
A public lecture by Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College and 2012 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
War is atrocious. In this this talk, Professor Joanna Bourke will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime been told, reflecting on the terror (...)
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Friday 27 |
In a special partnership with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, emerging artists take to the stage with their mentors to present a program of some of the best-loved music of the classical period. The Winthrop Singers will also join the ensemble in heavenly music. Lead by Paul Wright and Alan (...)
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May 2012
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Tuesday 01 |
11:45 - EXPO - UWA Student Exchange Fair : A showcase of the Student Exchange Program's partner universities
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Did you know that UWA students can go on exchange to USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Singapore, Chile, Norway, China, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Korea, Hong Kong and Spain?
The annual Student Exchange Fair has (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Bazm-e-Sarfraz 2012 Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Progressive Thinkers in Pakistan : This year, the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at UWA is celebrating Faiz Ahmed Faiz's centennial year by organizing a symposium on his poetry. This symposium is unique because anyone can participate in a poetry recital/singing competition based on Faiz poetry. Faiz's daughter Moneeza Hashmi will be the judge.
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The Symposium organised by the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, commemorates the contribution and services made by Begum Sarfraz Iqbal(1939-2003) to Urdu literature.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was one of the leading poets of Pakistan. Listed four times for the Nobel Prize, he is also (...)
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Thursday 03 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert: Belinda Callaway (flute) : Belinda Callaway and Adam Pinto present a selection of works for flute and piano, including Prokofiev's Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 94.
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Tuesday 08 |
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Dr Una Mcllvenna
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Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.
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Thursday 17 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : String Quartet Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh
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2011 Flora Bunning Memorial prize winners Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh present and exciting program for string quartet, featuring Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"
15:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar: Professor Emeritus Timothy Earle : A Political Economy Analysis for Pacific Prehistory
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Visiting Scholar Professor Emeritus Timothy Earle, from Northwestern University, Illinois, and supported by the Society of Antiquaries of London presents a seminar bringing together case studies from his many years of research in the Pacific.
The development of chiefdoms was a political (...)
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Friday 18 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - The vocal program at The School of Music, UWA Presents "The Mikado - in absentia"
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What happens when you have a show needing a chorus of men and five major male leads, but only five men and not a tenor in sight, too many women who are all suitable to sing the two major women leads, no budget, no sets, no props, a bare music auditorium and a grand piano?
Answer. UWA (...)
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Saturday 19 |
RSVP by Monday 14 May 2012 (by phone only - 9384 6166)
Cost: UWAHS members Free, non-members $5.00
FOUR FOUNDATION PROFESSORS
Panel presentation of ‘thumb-nail’ profiles:
1. Professor A. D. Ross - Dr. John Robins
2. Professor H. E. Whitfeld - Winthrop Professor John Melville-Jones
3 (...)
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Sunday 20 |
International concert pianist, Bernadette Harvey is renowned for her commitment to Australian music. Since winning the ABC "Young Performer of the Year" as a young woman, her career has taken her all over the world to great acclaim.
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Tuesday 22 |
18:00 - EVENT - Shamanism and the origin of creative genius in western Europe : A public lecture by David S Whitley
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The start of the European Upper Palaeolithic, about 35,000 years ago, is marked by the dramatic appearance not just of art, but of true creative genius.
World renowned cave art sites like Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira are widely recognised as artistic masterpieces. Although scientists (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - Women Beware Women : English playwright Howard Barker's re-visioning of Thomas Middleton's Jacobean revenge tragedy
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Five nights only. From Tuesday May 22 through to Saturday May 26, at 8pm. $20 full; $15 concession. Tickets at door.
Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies present contemporary English playwright Howard Barker’s revisioning of Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean revenge tragedy Women Beware (...)
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