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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
 February 2012
Wednesday 29
18:00 - EXHIBITION - Student Gallery Viewing : An opportunity for students to view the new exhibitions on campus. Website | More Information
Students are invited to spend an evening at the gallery observing the vibrant colours, eclecticism and innovation of the Western Desert’s Ngaanyatjarra artists, rediscover some forgotten treasures from the Berndt Museum and view important pieces from Australia’s largest collection of women’s art.

- Special Guest Speakers and Performers

- Tours of the Gallery

- Free Food and Drink Provided

 March 2012
Thursday 01
11:00 - EVENT - English Language Assistants for work in Spain : Information session on paid short term positions as English Language assistants in Spain More Information
For all students who might be interested in paid, short term positions as English Language assistants in Spain, the Spanish Counsellor for Education, Prof Gonzalez Fernandez-Corugedo will be giving a presentation. To be eligible you need to be an Australian national, have completed a university degree or be a final year student of a degree, have English as a first language and some knowledge of Spanish.
Tuesday 06
13:00 - EVENT - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk 2012 - The Boston Consulting Group : Find out more about the Boston Consulting Group. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
BCG is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Our customised approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets, with close collaboration at all levels of the client organisation. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organisations, and secure lasting results.

We have offices in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney and would like to invite you to our on-campus presentation on full-time graduate career opportunities. This presentation will be a good opportunity for you to find out more about the high impact work we do and a terrific opportunity to meet people from the local offices of BCG.

17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Professor Jane Edwards from the University of Limerick, Ireland Website | More Information
Prof Jane Edwards is a world leading music therapist and will speak on parent and infant music making.
Wednesday 07
13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre- EMPLOYER TALK 2012- McKinsey & Company : Find out more about working for McKinsey & Company. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
McKinsey & Company is the world's most influential management consulting firm. In 2011 we served private companies and public sector institutions from more than 89 offices in over 50 countries. In a career with McKinsey, you will build unparalleled expertise, work with leading corporations around the world, and have real impact. We are looking for bright, creative women and men, of exceptional intellectual ability and character, to join our consulting team. We offer one of the most attractive opportunities in Australia for new graduates. We give you incomparable work experience, cutting-edge training, and exposure to many industries around the world.
Thursday 08
12:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk - Port Jackson Partners : Find out more about working for Port Jackson Partners. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
Do you want to be challenged with original problems every day? Be trained in how to communicate your ideas concisely and powerfully? Make a difference to leading Australian and global businesses?

Then, this presentation is for you!

Refreshments and networking following presentation.

13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk - Bain & Company Recruitment Presentation : Find out more about working for Bain & Company. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
Have you considered a career in Management Consulting? Do you want to find out more about working for Bain & Company and the type of work we do? If so then come along to our recruiting presentation to meet Bainies and hear all about the work we do.

13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : Alexander McCracken (clarinet) Website | More Information
Works for chamber clarinet.
Friday 09
13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk 2012 - LEK Consulting : Find out more about working at LEK Consulting. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
L.E.K has establised a global track record of helping companies achieve tangible, high-impact results. We have proven experience in applying sophisticated analytics to devise solutions to complex issues, giving executives the answers they need to make critical business decisions. L.E.K Consulting will be on campus to promote our graduate opportunities. Come along to our presentation to find out more about a exciting career in management consulting. REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW!

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost : Shakespeare's most literary comedy Website | More Information
‘These are barren tasks, too hard to keep, Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!’

The beautiful Elizabethan style New Fortune Theatre at the University of Western Australia with its resident peacocks is the perfect setting for Shakespeare’s most beautifully lyrical play, Love’s Labour’s Lost, an extravaganza of wordplay and wit, glowing with lush language and romantic tomfoolery.

The Graduate Dramatic Society’s Sixtieth Anniversary production is directed by Grant Malcolm, the Award-winning director of the inaugural GRADS’ Summer Shakespeare season.

Hilarious and highly entertaining, this boisterous comedy delights with its excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, drunkenness, bust ups and pratfalls.

No sooner have the young king and his courtiers at the court of Navarre zealously vowed to give up good living and women for three years to focus on serious study, than temptation arrives in the form of the Princess of France and her very attractive, very intelligent, and very saucy entourage – and the young men find their pulse rates soaring!

Infatuation, adolescent pranks and playful confusion lead to more serious matters, revealing the cost of real love.

This, Shakespeare’s most intellectual comedy, is also a joyous celebration of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies.

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Monday 12
13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre - Credit Suisse Recruitment Presentation : Find out more about working for Credit Suisse. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
Credit Suisse offers intellectual challenges, exceptional rewards and global development potential for people who want to make a difference in the world. It's not about filling jobs. We are looking for people with the energy, ambition and passion to help Credit Suisse become the world's premier bank.
Tuesday 13
13:00 - EVENT - UWA Careers Centre - J.P.Morgan Recruitment Presentation : Find out more about working for J.P.Morgan. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
Find out more about working for J.P.Morgan. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Come along to this networking session at UniClub. Bookings essential on CareerHub.

13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk 2012 - Chevron : Find out more about working for Chevron. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
Engineering, Geology, Computer Science/IT, Maths, Physics and Business students welcome.

Refreshments to follow presentation. Bookings essential on CareerHub.
Wednesday 14
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : conversations on meaning with UWA staff More Information
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’.

At each session an invited guest will speak about ‘what matters to me and why’ and then there will be an opportunity for questions and conversation. The speaker on this occasion is Farida Fozdar, Future Fellow Anthropology and Sociology.

Bring your own lunch but please don’t carry coffee from the café through the science library. You can make a tea or coffee at the kitchenette at the meeting room if you wish.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - What Does Ethics Have to do with Leadership? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Michael Levine, Winthrop Professor of Philosophy and Jacqueline Boaks, The University of Western Australia.

Talk of leadership seems to dominate public discourse. Many of us have images of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a moral leader harnessing and focussing the hopes of millions in the mid-twentieth century. Millions of people read books written by corporate ‘leaders’ such as Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet in an attempt to not only gain insight into their money making abilities but also look to them for inspiration with respect to how whole societies can or should change. Teenagers wear t-shirts and badges that appeal to Che Guevara as leader. Sporting figures, especially coaches and captains, write books and give motivational speeches as ‘leaders’.

Much of this talk includes discussion about values and ethical leadership. But is this focus on values and ethics in leadership a sign of natural fit between the two, or perhaps a sign of deep seated concern that there might not be any natural fit at all? Is it simply wishful thinking? This talk will explore whether we have reason for thinking that ethics and leadership go together, and the reasons and ways that this thinking can and does go wrong.

Michael Levine is Winthrop Professor of Philosophy at UWA where he teaches a course on philosophy, film and aesthetics. His publications include: Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture (with Bill Taylor. Routledge, 2011),Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (with Damian Cox. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the ‘War on Terror’ (with Damian Cox and Saul Newman. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Integrity and the Fragile Self (M. Levine; D. Cox; M. LaCaze. Ashgate, 2003.). He is currently working on regret (oh brother!!!) and other emotions of self-assessment.

Jacqueline Boaks studied philosophy at UWA before working in management roles in several large Perth organisations. She is now undertaking a PhD in Philosophy looking at leadership in the areas of ethics, political philosophy and business literature.

This lecture is a part of the Institute of Advanced Studies 2012 lecture series ‘Global Transformation and Public Ethics’. This series of free public lectures aims to stimulate considered debate about urgent issues in public ethics and policy as well as reflecting on ways we can improve public discourse about such issues.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.
Thursday 15
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Adam Lewin (flute) Website | More Information
Adam is showcasing some of his favourite contemporary repertoire along with some new works, Adam presents a lunchtime concert like no other.
Monday 19
13:00 - TALK - UWA Careers Centre - Employer Talk - UBS : Find out more about working for UBS. Don't miss the chance to meet them on campus. Website | More Information
UBS is a global firm providing financial services to private, corporate and institutional clients.

In Australasia, UBS has operated in the financial market for over 70 years, having grown from a private stock-broking business to a leading financial services firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Today, UBS is a market leader and employs more than 1,300 staff in Australia and New Zealand.

We offer talented individuals a world of opportunity. If you are interested in an exciting and rewarding career in global financial services, join us for a company presentation, designed to offer you valuable insight into our firm, along with useful career advice. You’ll also meet our employees, giving you the opportunity to learn firsthand what it’s like to work at UBS.

Bookings essential on CareerHub.
Friday 23
18:00 - EVENT - UWA Careers Centre Employer Talk 2012 - Standard Chartered Bank : Find out more about SCB International Graduate Program Website | More Information
International Graduate Programme

Standard Chartered is seeking Masters students, or recent Masters graduates interested in working in these highly successful markets, to join our Consumer Bank International Graduate Programme. We are hiring in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and across Africa and the Middle East.

We are hosting a unique event for individuals who share our passion for and commitment to the communities in which we live and work. Learn more about banking in emerging markets from Prasenjit Chakravarti - Head of Consumer Bank Strategy and how the bank operates from David Lynch - Group Head - Consumer Bank Operations. Hear our Head of Talent Acquisition for Consumer Bank talk about our focus on career development and speak one-to-one with our Leadership Team about what a career with a market leading bank could mean for you.

Bookings essential on UWA CareerHub.
Saturday 24
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Free Lecture : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Two Illustrated Lectures by Winthrop Professor David Kennedy Website | More Information
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3rd Session. Two illustrated lectures by Winthrop Professor David Kennedy. Saturday 24 March, 1:30pm. Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia.

Program:

1:30pm - Lecture - Fall: Economic, Social, Environmental... and more.

2:30pm - Tea Break ($7 for RAG Members, $10 for non-members)

3:00pm - Lecture - What Happened... and Does it Matter?

Please let us know of your interest by emailing Norah Cooper: [email protected]

Next lectures: Winter Lecture Series TBA.

To learn more about the Roman Archaeology Group of Perth please visit http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/roman-archaeology.
Tuesday 27
18:05 - FREE LECTURE - Lecture on Dante : Emeritus Professor John Scott will deliver the 2012 Francesco Vanzetti Memorial Lecture on Dante's Purgatorio. Website | More Information
"Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto"

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