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Displaying from Monday, October 17, 2016
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October 2016
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Monday 17 |
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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'GAME OF THRONES! History, Medievalism and How it Might End' : A Lecture by Carolyne Larrington
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In this lecture Professor Larrington will talk about watching and writing about HBO’s Game of Thrones as a medieval scholar. She will explain some of the medieval history and literature from which George R. R. Martin chiselled the building blocks for the construction of his imaginary world. Game (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Death, music and the ineffable
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
A public lecture by Lino Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University.
Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human being? A point beyond which our spirit dies and only pure (...)
18:15 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music presents - The 2016 Callaway Lecture: Martyn Evans : Music, embodiment and the imagination – for good or ill
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken to the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations II
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Thursday 27 |
10:00 - FREE LECTURE - Book Launch: "A Partnership for Change: Australia - China Joint Economic Report 2016" : With special guests Prof. Peter Drysdale and Dr. Mike Nahan, Treasurer
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The Perth USAsia Centre invites you to a panel discussion to launch the Partnership for Change: Australia-China Joint Economic Report 2016, with Professor Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University and The Hon. Dr (...)
What is Open Access? An overview of OA plus an update on the latest global and local developments
Open Access publishing offers benefits to individual researchers and to the wider community, and key Australian funding agencies have mandates supporting it. If you have heard the term but (...)
Building on the specular concerts in the past two years, the UWA School of Music students again join with St Mary’s Cathedral for a night of mystery, majesty and divine music.
The program includes Samuel Barber’s deeply reflective Agnus Dei (originally the Adagio for Strings used as the (...)
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Friday 28 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Free Lunchtime Concert: Pi�ata Percussion
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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School. Free entry - no bookings required! This week Piñata Percussion will perform a variety of works on 'Mostly Marimba'
13:00 - EVENT - Video Feedback: Engage students & enhance their learning experience : Helping provide a higher quality of feedback in the same amount of time.
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Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Pi�ata Percussion - Mostly Marimba
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The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Enrich! Glee Club, Ukulele and Percussion Sensation
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The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.
Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic ensemble performances.
This Friday the massive 70 plus member Ukulele Ensemble will be (...)
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Monday 31 |
17:00 - EVENT - Psychology colloquium: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)
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Psychology Colloquium
Monday 31st October 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)
Title: Testing (...)
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November 2016
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Tuesday 01 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Honours & Postgraduate Information Session : For all students interested in pursuing a career in Archaeology and cognate fields
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> Honours is regarded as the minimum qualification to call oneself an ‘archaeologist’.
> Wide range of dissertation topics available (Honours, Masters & PhD).
> Explanation of how the Honours year works (and also Masters and PhD).
> Information on what funding and resources are (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations III
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Art & the Heart: The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System & the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges : A Public Lecture by Alexander Cohen
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In the late nineteenth century, the study of the human flourished – both as an entity of flesh, blood, bones and nerve tissue, and as a vehicle for emotion that was also subservient to external forces. This study was heavily influenced by the emergence of a school of hard-heads: practitioners of (...)
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Monday 07 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Like a Libyan Lion: Getting to Grips with Rage in Eighteenth-Century England : A CHE Seminar with Thomas Dixon
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This talk takes its title from an account in Daniel Defoe’s The Complete English Tradesman (1726) describing a shopkeeper of a fragile temper who was often enraged by the impertinence of his customers. Although the man maintained a polite and civilised exterior with his annoying customers, when (...)
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Monday 14 |
Each year the School of Music celebrates the amazing talent of our perfromance and composition students in a series of senior and graduation recitals.
We invite you to join us to help celebrate our students' endeavour and enjoy some wonderful free music.
Monday 14 November
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Tuesday 15 |
8:30 - Course - Introductory Statistics : The course is open to anyone and is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics who want to develop understanding of basic statistics.
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The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)
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