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Join Jonathan Holloway, the Artistic Director of Perth International Arts Festival 2012-2015, as he outlines the benefits the Festival will provide to the Perth arts and business community in the coming years. He will discuss how he was instrumental in the transformation of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival turning it into a financial success and the benefits it brought to the city. He will also discuss his plans for Perth International Arts Festival as it celebrates its 60th festival in 2012 and over the next four years.

Before coming to Perth Jonathan spent six years as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in the UK. Under his stewardship, the festival and its city were transformed: Norwich tripled ticket sales, turnover increased by over 600% and audiences increased from 35,000 to 330,000, becoming the fourth largest city-based festival in the UK.

Jonathan’s vision for Perth is to draw visitors to the city and the Perth Festival with world-class artists and performances, to nurture the arts roots of the region as well as offer a program of international and regional artistic exchanges and to increase ticket sales by engaging those who do not traditionally engage with arts festivals, using accessible programming and participation.

Presented in association with Perth International Arts Festival and supported by the UWA Business School

For bookings please contact Club Reception on 6488 8770 or visit www.universityclub.uwa.edu.au

Members $45/Guests $55 Or $450 for a table of 10

Price includes a sit down two-course breakfast and presentation.

The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.

Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to staff, honours and postgraduate students.

For more information about the Expo along with details on the presentations being held throughout the evening please go uwa.edu.au/postgradexpo

Nahid Afrose Kabir has recently taken up a position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. Currently, Dr Kabir is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. In this lecture, Dr. Kabir will talk about her book “Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media.”

In Britain’s highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, “Young British Muslims…” provides an in-depth understanding of British Muslim Identity through the following social constructs: migration history, family settlement, socio-economic status, religion and culture, and the wider societal environment.

Dr. Kabir was a visiting fellow (Aug. 2009 – July 2011) in Islam in the West program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, USA. Her current research project is titled, “An Understanding of the Identity of Muslim Youths and Young Adults in the United States of America.” Nahid Kabir is also the author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (London: Routledge 2005).

Set your tastebuds to global roaming as we celebrate one of the highlights of Multicultural Week on Thursday 6th October 2011. All members of the community are invited to the moonlit surrounds of the Guild Village to feast on over 50 food stalls and a banquet of International entertainment. MCW is a joint event between International Student Services and UWA Guild Activities Department!

A UWA engineering qualification combines practical and theoretical learning in an exciting and engaging environment that will make you a sought-after graduate, with an internationally recognised education.

To find out more about how to become an engineer, come along to one of our free Engineering Information Evenings and talk to us about commencing your engineering career at UWA.

The information evenings will cover course and career options, the types of engineering available to study, what the course entails, entry pathways available and how to apply through TISC.

The UWA Music Students' Society presents it's 3rd concert of the Semester. This concert will showcase works composed by students and performed by UWA Music Students.

The 2011 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas has invited a range of speakers to discuss how the population dynamics predicted by mid-century will affect how we live. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and the raising and sharing of ideas.

Speakers:

*Population Trends - Dr Tom Wilson, Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Centre for Population Research. *Social Capital and Sense of Community - Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Deputy Director, Centre for Built Environment, UWA. *Urban Spaces - Professor Shane Murray, Dean, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. *Rural Demography and Social Dynamics - Winthrop Professor Matthew Tonts, Head, School of Earth and the Environment, UWA. *Environmental Sustainability and Population Growth - Chuck Berger, Director of Strategic Ideas, Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne.

Registration Cost: $70 standard | $55 concession

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Mohammed Benghezal will give a talk on surface properties of urease and persistence of H. pylori in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 7 October 2011 at 9:00am. Helicobacter pylori enzyme urease facilitates gastric colonisation by neutralising the acidic pH. A number of in vitro studies have demonstrated urease-dependent activation of monocytes, macrophages and epithelial cells resulting in cytokine and chemokine production and recruitment of inflammatory cells, suggesting an immune modulation role of urease in vitro. A structure-based insertion mutagenesis analysis of the urease complex performed in our laboratory identified a discrete region on the enzyme surface that is needed for persistence of H. pylori in a mouse model of infection. This result confirms a non-enzymatic role of urease in establishing chronic infection. The abundance of urease (10% of the cell weight) and the fact that it is secreted in the extracellular medium support the idea that the surface of the urease interacts directly with host components important for the host-pathogen interaction and immune modulation enabling bacterial persistence.

The School of Anatomy & Human Biology at the University of Western Australia will be holding a memorial ceremony in honour of those who have donated their body to the University to further medical and scientific teaching and research.

The families of donors are invited to attend the ceremony.

For further information and to register attendance, please contact Vicki on 6488 3288 by 16 September, 2011.

We are living in a period of ecocultural disintegration. The complexity and diversity of culture and ecology (ecocultural diversity) is being removed and/or homogenised by powerful forces all tied to modernity, global development and now, climate change. In some respects we are now all in the position of Indigenous peoples who have a lived experience of the desolation of their endemic sense of place and culture. But now, as global ecosystems and the climate change, the whole earth as ‘home’ becomes alien to us. Despite the scale and power of these transformations to our home at all scales, we generally lack the concepts to understand the negative and positive dimensions of our situation. This presentation will examine what I call ‘psychoterratic states’ with particular emphasis on the concept of solastalgia, developed by me to explain the lived experience of negative environmental change to a loved home environment. In this case, the loved home environment is Perth and its location within South West, Western Australia. I will conclude with some thoughts about positive concepts that oppose solastalgia that might bring about genuine sustainability and human happiness ... even in Perth.

Friday talk with SymbioticA resident artist Amy Congdon Date: 7 Oct 2011 Time: 3:30pm Venue: SymbioticA HQ Speaker: Amy Congdon

Current resident Amy Congdon will be talking about a selection of her previous projects and research interests. As well as this she will be reflecting on her experiences so far as a resident and how this has changed and expanded her ideas. Working with completely embroidered scaffolds and primarily skin cells Amy's current work focuses on the intersection of textiles and the body.

Amy Congdon is a textile designer whose work revolves around the blurring of roles that is occurring between science and design. Having completed a BA in Contemporary Textiles she went on to graduate in 2011 from the MA Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

An embroiderer by training she has a particular research interest in the use of traditional textile techniques being re-appropriated into new areas, most specifically the use of digital embroidery to produce medical implants. Amy’s practice falls within the category of critical design, in that it seeks to create work intended to provoke debate around the crafting of materials from living matter and whether we are reaching a stage where the body is becoming the ultimate luxury commodity.

Registrations are now open for an upcoming professional workshop entitled DNA: The good, the bad and the ugly. This lively two day workshop addresses everything you ever wanted to know about DNA but were too afraid to ask. The workshop is fun, interactive, and highly relevant for all lawyers, police officers and law enforcement personnel who need to know how to tackle DNA evidence. You will be taken from absolute first principles to what to ask the experts and how to understand and evaluate their answers. The workshop will be held over two days - Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October - and costs $750 per person. Attendants are awarded a certificate of completion and 7 CPD points (if applicable). A limited number of places are available so REGISTER NOW to ensure you don't miss out!

The University of Western Australia is proud to support into the Shimmer Heat and UWA graduate Sara Macliver, one of the nation's most accomplished and admired opera singers.

Come on a journey into the SHIMMER HEAT...

Led by a team of internationally renowned artists, the landscapes and characters of the vast West Australian desert are brought to life in a visually stunning transformation of the Heath Ledger Theatre.

A story of love, loss and life, this new West Australian Opera will combine music, puppetry, dance and song in a theatrical experience full of passion, humour and magic.

Chamber in scale, epic in vision - let us take you on a ride...

into the SHIMMER HEAT is crashing into the Heath Ledger Theatre from 8th – 15th October.

Book tickets at BOCS now by calling 9484 1133 or online at bocsticketing.com.au

Dr Felicity Baker is well known for her extensive research in the field of music therapy. In this lecture Dr Baker explores how therapeutic songwriting assists clients to manage their reactions to adversity. By creating songs in a therapeutic relationship, clients begin to address psychosocial, emotional, cognitive, and communication needs. Examples from Dr Baker’s research will be used to illustrate the profound benefit songwriting has for people with significant acquired disabilities.

Dr Alan Harvey, Winthrop Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia, and researcher in the area of the neuroscience of music, will give a response to Dr Baker’s lecture.

A short musical performance will follow the lecture.

This is a Mental Health Week event.

Join Peter Newman, one of Australia's leading sustainability experts and Curtin's Professor of Sustainability as he discusses the possibility of a low carbon city for the future.

Peter has worked extensively in the field reviving and extending Perth's rail system, serving as the Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney and directing the production of the world's first state sustainability strategy. He has authored several books on climate change, peak oil, transport and resilient cities and is one of Australia's leading authorities on sustainability today.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear Peter's insights on the future of the way we live!

Professor Karim Khan is a renaissance man of sports medicine; Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, prolific author, plenary speaker, and editor of the seminal text: "Clinical Sports Medicine", now in its 4th edition. An inveterate traveller on the world stage, Professor Khan will address the endemic problem of chronic diseases related to smoking, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disorders and the critical role of exercise as a vehicle for change.1

This Raine lecture will be relevant to all in health and exercise; from primary prevention to clinicians involved in chronic disease management. An engaging speaker with wit and wisdom for all who have ears to hear. 1 Khan K M et al 2011, BMJ Jul 15:343

Anthony Howes looks back on his theatre career in Perth from the 60's through to present day, also focusing on Perth's oldest, continuous youth theatre: The Midnite Youth Theatre Company

It’s hard to maintain hope for the future of our civilization in the face of the flood of bad news in the media. But without hope, there is no hope.

It has been estimated that over a million organizations worldwide are working to change hearts and minds, create global networks of connection, develop and model alternatives, and take political action. In this seminar, I will give a brief overview of this global groundswell of action that promises to reach a tipping point of planetary transformation within the foreseeable future.

Hearts and minds are being changed by new media, social networking, education and personal transformation. Alternatives are being developed by building community locally and globally, creating alternative forms of settlement, adapting existing towns to climate change and post-peak oil, creating new economic and financial systems, increasing local food production and distribution, promoting new lifestyles, and developing green technologies. Meanwhile, grassroots political action is gaining traction through new approaches to campaigning powered by the web.

Bio,

Malcolm is Author of "The Science of Oneness" A worldview for the twenty-first century, and co-author with Christine Connelly of Hope for Humanity: How understanding and healing trauma could solve the planetary crisis.

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Muslim feminists argue that there are at least two factors that contribute to the women’s subordination in Muslim societies. First, patriarchal interpretations of the Qur’an which tend to subordinate women and blur the Qur’anic message of gender equality. Second, many Muslims cannot differentiate between cultural tradition and Islamic teaching, assuming that their cultural traditions are Islamic teaching. For example, some Pakistani Muslims (and Muslims in other countries such as Egypt, Iran, Jordan and Lebanon) have mistakenly regarded honor killing to be part of Islamic teaching; and some African Muslims (such as in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali) have mistakenly assumed that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is part of Islamic tradition.

Nina Nurmila, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Education and Teaching,State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung, Indonesia,will explain how Muslim feminists challenge the male biased interpretation of the Qur’an and elaborate their re-interpretations of the Qur’an on gender issues such as the story of the creation of the first humankind, women’s leadership, inheritance and polygamy.

Got some Questions? Want some Answers? Come join us in Mental Health Week to pick the brains of our diverse panel of experts at SPAMH's inaugural Q&A event: Adventures In Mental Health. No issue is off-limits! Stalls from 7pm, Q&A from 7.30pm. Light supper provided. Dress code is smart casual. This is a free, public event. Our Panel: Mr. Eddie Bartnik - Mental Health Commissioner of WA; Clinical Professor Paul Skerritt - Consultant Psychiatrist, former President of the AMA (WA); Associate Professor Alex Main - Psychotherapist and Trauma Counsellor, Honorary Fellow of the School of Psychology, Murdoch University; Dr. Jock McLaren - Consultant Psychiatrist, Northern Psychiatric Services, Darwin NT, Author of "Humanizing Madness: Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences"; Mr. Joe Calleja - CEO of the Richmond Fellowship of WA, former President of the Western Australian Asssociation for Mental Health; Ms. Leonie Ramsay - Mental Health Consumer and Advocate, Member of the National Register of Mental Health Consumer and Carer Representatives.

Register your attendance at http://spamhqanda.eventbrite.com. Places are strictly limited.

If you have a question that you would like to submit a question for panel discussion, send it to [email protected] or contact us via the registration page.