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March 2013
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Tuesday 19 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Alexander Jensen
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Alexander Jensen: Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology.
Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology
Western music has always been a way of expressing that what is most important to men and women. In the past (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: DMA Lecture Recital - Georg Corall: The Eloquent Hautboy
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Georg Corall: DMA Lecture-Recital
The Eloquent Hautboy
Scholars have investigated ‘music as speech’ and the ‘weapons of rhetoric’ in musical execution in order to understand the importance of text in historically-informed performance practice (HIP). This has led to (...)
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Thursday 21 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
17:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Muslims, Democracy and the 21st Century by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi : Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is an internationally renowned scholar of Islam who has contributed to debates on the role of Islam in Muslim societies.
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Mr Ahmad has authored numerous books and lectured widely on Islam and Muslim issues including democracy, blasphemy law, rights of citizens particularly women, and terrorism. Born in Pakistan in 1951, he holds a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the Government College, Lahore (1972) and (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tunisian Women in the Arab Spring by Dr Leila Ben Mcharek : What makes Tunisia an exception in the Arab world as far as women’s rights are concerned ?
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What makes Tunisia an exception in the Arab world as far as women’s rights are concerned ?
What role did Tunisian women play in the Revolution (17 December 2010- 14 January 2011) ?
What is the status of Tunisian women since the Revolution ? What are the main debates involving women’s status and (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Nicholas Bannan
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Music as the ‘missing link’: the evolutionary pathway from animal communication to language.
A growing consensus drawing on research in a wide variety of disciplines has over the last fifteen years or so argued the need to revisit Darwin’s conjecture of 1871 that language may be (...)
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Sunday 31 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Summer Lecture 3 : Roman Britain with Guy de la Bédoyère
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On Sunday 31 March we will have the pleasure of a lecture by one of the best-known experts on Roman Britain – Guy de la Bédoyère, well known for his appearences on the popular television show Time Team. All welcome, but please RSVP as venue capacity is limited. You will be issued with a (...)
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April 2013
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Tuesday 09 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Andrew Sutherland
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Principles for designing an effective, post-compulsory Music curriculum suitable for Western Australia.
A new post-compulsory Music course known as the West Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) Music course was recently introduced into Year 11 and 12 in Western Australian (WA) (...)
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Thursday 11 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
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Monday 15 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Morning after the Arab Spring : CMSS has invited Nina Markovic from the UNA Centre for European Studies, to explain the EU’s multi-dimensional foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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This lecture aims to explain the EU’s multi-dimensional foreign policy towards
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which is a vitally important
neighbourhood for the future of the entire Union and its members. In the EU’s security strategy, the risk of failing states is seen as a (...)
17:00 - SCREENING - CMSS "Crossing the Line" a documentary film by Anita Barar : An Australian film about the partition of India in 1947.
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In 1947, when India attained freedom from the British Empire, a line was drawn on the map of India on the basis of religious majority creating two countries – India and Pakistan.
Millions crossed the line and massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides. The history of humanity has (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Kristin Bowtell
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Kristin Bowtell (returning Court Music Fund award-holder)
The Embodied Score: Conductors' Interpretive Decision-Making
Conductors are expected to develop a personal interpretation of each piece in advance of the first rehearsal, yet the conducting and performing literature (...)
18:00 - SEMINAR - Mature-age Entry Information Evening : Find out about UWA's Mature-age entry pathways
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There are a number of entry pathways for mature-age students interested in studying at UWA - including those that have no previous secondary school results.
If you are 20 years of age or over by the 1st March in the year you wish to commence study, you may qualify for one of our mature-ag (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : A conversation with Philippa Maddern
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to Me and Why (with W/Prof Philippa Maddern)
When: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Where: Science Library – Reid Meeting Room (B139 in Reid Library)
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA (...)
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Thursday 18 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday
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Friday 19 |
Opening the season, conductor and virtuoso violinist Paul Wright conducts a program affected by classical sensibilities featuring some of the period’s best-loved works.
Grainger: Duke of Marlborough Fanfare;
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished);
Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major (Soloi (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - David Symons
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David Symons: Antill After Corroboree: A Return to Conservatism?
This paper investigates one of the widespread perceptions in much critical comment on the music of John Antill following the composition of his famous ballet Corroboree – namely, that the composer reverted to a ‘quieter� (...)
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Friday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Marriage and the Wedding Industry : St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies
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With the average Australian wedding costing $36,000, is the wedding day really the "Bride's Day"? And should the bride still be "given away" like property?
Professor Tom Scirghi SJ of Fordham University, New York, is the 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Elections in Pakistan 11 May 2013: Possible Scenarios : CMSS Panel Discussion on who would win the elections in Pakistan on May 11, 2013?
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For the first time in Pakistan’s history, a democratically elected government
has completed its term and has stepped down. Pakistani nation will be casting its
vote to elect a new government on 11 May 2013. These elections are a good omen
for the political and democratic culture of Pakistan as it (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Clint Bracknell/Makoto Takao
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Clint Bracknell - Songs from the South: The Wirlomin Project and Southern Noongar Song
Aboriginal people, language and song inform a rich sense of place in Australia. Wirlomin Noongar people from the southwest are in the process of claiming, consolidating, enhancing and sharing their (...)
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