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Displaying from Monday, June 18, 2012
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June 2012
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Friday 22 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Careers Centre - Wageline Interviews : Department of Commerce, Labour Relations is conducting interviews on campus.
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Labour Relations Officer role:
Provides information to private sector clients on State awards, agreements and industrial legislation through the Wageline call centre.
Contributes to the services provided by Wageline to promote compliance with State employment laws.
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Tuesday 26 |
The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Resurrecting the Passions: Lessons from the History of Passion and Emotion
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In this lecture bioethicist Professor Louis Charland will examine medical highlights of the history of passion and emotion and then consider several arguments why the passions must be reinstated in Western psychiatry. The passions, it turns out, are not only central constituents of any adequate (...)
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Friday 29 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Opposition to Portraiture in Islamic Art : Public talk with Art Gallery WA Director Dr Stefano Carboni
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It is commonplace to purport that Islamic art is non-representational because of a religious ban on figurative expressions. Although this statement is far from being comprehensive or entirely true, the opposition to the figurative arts is a constant feature in the landscape of Islamic art (...)
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July 2012
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Monday 09 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - "India�s Enigmatic Policy towards Iran" by Professor P.R. Kumaraswamy : For close to a decade Iran has emerged as the most controversial and contested dimension of India’s foreign policy. The bonhomie that was visible following the end of the Cold War gave way to disputes, tensions and above all excessive US intervention.
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Synopsis: While some of the problems were external and hence beyond the control of both these countries, Iran has not been an easy customer and India’s ability to pursue energy security relations with Tehran has been compounded by a host of bilateral disputes and tension. Until Iran resolves its (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
Join renowned Western Australian artist Julie Dowling and Lee Kinsella, curator of Julie Dowling: Family and Friends, as they talk about Julie's auto-ethnographic approach to portraiture and the stories that resonate behind the works in the exhibition. Free event.
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Friday 13 |
In collaboration with The University Club of Western Australia, The School of Music proudly presents Brass Royalty and World Artists Robert and David Childs. Joined on stage by Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA, these world-renowned Euphonium players are both in high demand (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - UWA Extension - Lunch with Richard Ford : Sponsored by the the Faculty of Arts and the Chair of Australian Literature, UWA
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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of the Sportswriter trilogy, Richard Ford over lunch as he discusses his latest work, Canada. In Canada, Ford has created a masterpiece. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity. It questions the fine line between (...)
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Saturday 21 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Free Lecture : Two illustrated lectures on Roman Archaeology: Palmyra, and the Roman Peloponnese
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The Roman Archaeology Group of Perth presents two fully illustrated lectures on Roman Archaeology: Palmyra: an ancient oasis between East and West presented by Rebecca Banks; and The Roman Peloponnese presented by Kevin O'Toole.
Saturday 21 July, 1:30pm at Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA.
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Wednesday 25 |
12:00 - Competition - Three Minute Thesis Final : 10 PhD students will explain their research and its significance in just 3 minutes each.
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The 3MT competition challenges research students to give a dynamic and engaging presentation about their research and its significance in a way that can be understood by everybody. The audience will select the "People's Choice" winner.
18:15 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture 2012 : Mathematics and Women - 36 years at The University of Western Australia
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The Annual Lecture is the highlight of the year for the UWA Historical Society and Convocation and we are delighted to welcome Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger to the podium to reflect upon her years on Campus and subsequent experiences
and achievements.
Mathematician Cheryl Praeger (...)
Nine German Arias - Hymns to Nature by George Frideric Handel
Sung by Sara Macliver, Soprano
Accompanied by Paul Wright, violin; Noeleen Wright, cello; Andrew Tait, violone; Stewart Smith, harpsichord and chamber organ.
Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm Government House Ballroom
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Thursday 26 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance
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Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand (...)
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Tuesday 31 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Visiting CMSS Fellow �The Bureaucracy and the Politics of Identity� : A lecture by Bambang Purwoko on a Study on the Influence of Ethnicity In The Bureaucratic Restructuring Process In Sorong Selatan Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Visiting CMSS Fellow, Mr. Bambang Purwoko, will complete his ground-breaking study examining the impact of ethnicity and political identity on the bureaucracy in the Sorong-Selatan Regency of the Indonesian province of West Papua. This study was born of a longstanding desire to understand and (...)
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August 2012
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Friday 03 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird
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American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding (...)
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Friday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Ireland: Church, State and Society, 1800-1870 : Seminar Series
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"The Irish Catholic Community and the State in the 19th Century: Setting the Scene"
Professor Oliver Rafferty SJ, the 2012 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, will present the first in a series of six lectures on nineteenth century Irish history.
The (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Futures of the Biologically Designable : Public talk with Orkan Telhan
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Glowing plants, drug-delivering artificial cells, smell-changing bacteria, propelling mouse tissues… Today, new kinds of biological designs are increasingly gaining public awareness and shifting biological imagination towards new horizons. Next to scientists and engineers, do-it-yourself (...)
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Sunday 12 |
UWA opens up the whole campus to the public.
Come and find out about the courses on offer, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music and (...)
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