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 February 2012
Wednesday 29
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - A World of Opportunities: Social innovation in the international and Australian cultural sector Website | More Information
A Public Lecture by Vanessa Kredler, UNESCO.

This presentation will introduce the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Cairo, which is being developed under the auspices of UNESCO. The NMEC is an ambitious new museum project that will look at Egyptian civilization from prehistory to the present day. There are huge opportunities for this emerging institution to become an agent of social change and deal with contemporary challenges.

Museums are well placed to deal with contemporary social issues, including climate change, health, and conflict resolution. The presentation will talk about opportunities at the NMEC and introduce good practice examples from other regions of the world before inviting an open exchange on opportunities for the Australian arts and cultural sector to lead in social innovation.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA, the Western Australian Museum and Museums Australia Western Australia.

 March 2012
Thursday 01
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : Visiting Artist Adam Pinto (piano) More Information
A program of Impressionist Masterpieces including works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong : The Winthrop Singers perform evensong at St Thomas More College More Information
Our first evensong as guests in St Thomas More College. Come along to hear some quality choral music.

Responses: Rose Psalm 121 Canticles: Byrd Short Service Anthem: Mozart Ave verum corpus
Tuesday 06
17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Unsafe Haven, Hazaras In Afghanistan : Public Lecture by Mr. Abdul Karim Hekmat on Hazaras and their treatment in Afghanistan Website | More Information
Last November a 27 years old Hazara asylum seeker was about to be deported to Afghanistan. The Federal Magistrate Court put a temporary injunction against his forced removal because of ‘lack of procedural fairness.’ Now a legal challenge is underway in the High Court to determine the fate of all Afghan refugees listed for forced deportation under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Australian and Afghan governments in early 2011. Increasingly, the Hazara refugee applications have been rejected as the Australian government argues that the situation for Hazaras has improved in Afghanistan and thus have ‘no need of international protection.’ Abdul Hekmat will discuss this controversial deal against the background of continuing persecution and suffering of Hazara people in Afghanistan. He made a personal trip to Hazarajat, Afghanistan in 2010 to document Hazara lives. He has produced a striking photography exhibition touring around the country and a first-hand report detailing the current situation of Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This will be a rare opportunity to see the ‘Unsafe haven’ exhibition at the University Club on a closing day and hear his talk on the exhibition and the Hazara situation in the context of Afghan politics in the post Taliban period.

Speaker Bio: Abdul Karim Hekmat arrived as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2001. He spent five months in Curtin detention centre in WA and then lived for over three years under Temporary Protection Visa. He has participated in many forums, conferences and media debates, the Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has articles published about refugees at The Australian, National Times, The Age and the Drum. He also writes short stories and his first short story will be published an anthology ‘Alien Shores’ in May, 2012. He lives and works in Sydney helping young people from refugee backgrounds with their settlement and capacity building.

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - America's Water Crisis and what to do about it : Trepidation and Inspiration for Western Australia Website | More Information
A public lecture by Robert J Glennon, The Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.

Australia and the United States are both facing a water crisis. Recent and severe droughts, especially in Western Australia and in Texas, have demanded an unprecedented response from governments and water users. Excessive groundwater pumping has lowered the water table in many aquifers as current uses are simply unsustainable. The economic costs to farmers and industry have been immense: fields fallowed, jobs lost, and projects cancelled. In both countries, there is a profound disconnect between supply and demand.

Using the National Water Commission’s September 2011 biennial report on the implementation of the National Water Initiative as a reference, this talk will offer a comparative look at how the United States is responding to the water crisis. The US has embarked on major reforms at the same time as it has pursued surreal “solutions,” including weather modification, and smugly assumed that business-as-usual will suffice.

Australia and the US share a need for more energy, but it takes a lot of water to produce energy and, conversely, a lot of energy to pump, treat, move and deliver water. Western Australia has made a major push to desalinate ocean water as has the US, but desalination is not a cure-all for the water crisis.

Glennon argues that neither the US nor Australia can engineer its way out of the problem with the usual fixes or zany—but very real—schemes. Both countries must make hard choices and Glennon’s answer is a provocative market-based system that values water as a commodity and a fundamental human right.

Professor Glennon serves as Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers’ Science and Technical Advisory Committee; and as a commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs as well as print and online media. His current book Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It (2009, Island Press), provides both a frightening and wickedly funny account of the tragedy—and irony—of water in America. In 2010, the Society of Environmental Journalists awarded it the Rachel Carson Book Award for Reporting on the Environment and Trout magazine gave it an Honorable Mention in its list of Must-Have Books published on the environment. 'Unquenchable' will be available for sale at the lecture.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.
Wednesday 07
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay : Diversity - who benefits and does it matter? Website | More Information
Addressing true issues of diversity and employing leaders who are representative of an organisation's stakeholders can bring new voices, experiences and approaches to the decision making process, adding depth to existing skills and ideas.

Yet while the benefits of having diversity in an organisation are now widely accepted by the majority of ASX-listed companies and non-profit organisations, the focus remains on gender rather than other measures of diversity such as ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and age. The panelists will discuss the importance of diversity, the costs of implementing diversity, and how to address the issues of building more inclusive and truly diverse organisations.

Price; Members $45 / Guests $55 / Table of Ten $450 Price includes two-course breakfast and panel discussion.

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Arab Spring, Non-Arab reactions : Public Lecture by Professor Ehud Toledano on reactions by non-Arabs to the Arab Spring Website | More Information
Speaker Bio: Ehud Toledano is a Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History, and the Director of the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he held the role as Head of the University’s History Department. He is a leading Israeli academic specializing in Turkey and the Ottoman legacy as well as contemporary Middle Eastern politics.

He holds a Princeton PhD (1979), and has occupied teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. Among his books are The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840- 1890, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982 (also published in Turkish),State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998 and As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Responding to Marine Disasters Website | More Information
Ocean disasters of the last decade have brought to public awareness the significant consequences and threat to life on earth posed by tsunamis, climate change and industry accidents. In this public lecture, three expert commentators will offer their expertise on the future of disaster management in our ocean:

**Larry Madin: “Scientific response to BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill: lessons learned” - Dr Laurence Madin, Vice President and Director for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, will speak on the ongoing impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico, and possible solutions to the disaster. “While the Gulf spill has shocked and horrified us all, it also has energised the research community to understand the effects and find ways to minimise current and future impacts,” says Dr Madin.

**Robert Nicholls: “The role of science in managing the risks of coastal flooding” - Professor Robert Nicholls is an internationally renowned expert on sea-level rise based at the University of Southampton in England. His main research interests are long-term coastal engineering and management, especially the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise.

**Charitha Pattiaratchi: “History, successes and regrets of Tsunami alert systems” - Winthrop Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi is the Australian Coordinator of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System, and a Professor of Coastal Oceanography at The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Environmental Systems Engineering. His research interests are in coastal physical oceanography and coastal sediment transport, with emphasis on field experiments and numerical modelling.

This public lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Oceans Institute at UWA.
Friday 09
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Caring and Sharing Cultural Heritage : Indigenous Art Collections - Mark Stewart and Pauline Williams in conversation at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Website | More Information
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Museums presents an informative lunchtime conversation this Friday 9 March, 1pm. This is a free public talk, all welcome.

University Art Collections play a vital role in the acquisition, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art to a diverse Australian public. Pauline Williams, Exhibition Coordinator, John Curtin Gallery, and Mark Stewart, Art Curator, Murdoch University, will discuss this responsibility in relation to the curatorial premise of an exhibition they co-curated in 2011 titled 'Evolving Identities – Contemporary Indigenous Art'.

This talk is part of a series of Friday lunchtime conversations focusing on the role of collecting in the Indigenous art sector. For details on further Friday talks refer to the public program at www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions.

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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Tuesday 13
20:00 - EVENT - Visiting Speaker : Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations More Information
Illustrated story of the rise and fall of the Boans Department Store, from its beginnings in 1895 to the Myer takeover in 1984. Will show the Jewish influence underpinning the company's commercial success.
Wednesday 14
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Satellite Remote Sensing of Fire Website | More Information
Fire stick farming of hunter-gathers preceded the development of agriculture. Fire continues to be a major land management technique and contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In the last two decades satellites have provided at regional and global scales unprecedented amounts of data on active fires and burnt areas. Most anthropomorphic in origin, some from lightening.

Dr Richard Smith will present data on the satellite monitoring of fire in the agricultural areas of southern Australia, the Tropical Savannas of northern Australia and the Tropical Rainforests of Indonesia. He will discuss their application to the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions.

Bio 1961-present:

BSc (Agric) London University, Dip. Agricultural Economics (Oxford), PhD (Agronomy) UWA. Farm Management Consultant (Broomehill, WA), Senior Lecturer Agronomy (University of New England. NSW), Irrigation Research leader (CSIRO, Griffith, NSW), Research Associate Remote Sensing (NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre), Manager Satellite Remote Sensing Services, WA Government.

In retirement Rottnest Volunteer Guide and with the Floreat Uniting Church, Community and Economic Development of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community, near Derby.



PS* This seminar is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****


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
7:00 - MEETING - UWA Mental Health Professional Network : Discussion on whether 'University study is a pathway for mental illness rehabilitation?' Website | More Information
It is with great pleasure that Counselling and Psychology Service and Student Services invite you to attend a discussion on whether ‘University study is a pathway for mental illness rehabilitation?’ at our next Mental Health Professionals Network (mhpn) meeting. This meeting is suitable for mental health professionals and all UWA staff actively involved with students who have mental health difficulties. Date: 15th of March 2012, Start Time: Arrive at 7.00am for 7.30am presentation by Prof Kaiser followed by panel discussion including an analysis of a hypothetical student’s journey. Finish Time: 9am. Place: The University Club, UWA. Light breakfast will be provided. RSVP by 13/3/12: Claire Murphy, [email protected].

Panel members Dr Ann Solar (Consultant Psychiatrist, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital), Ms Pauline Parnell (Psychologist, UniAccess, UWA), Ms Bev Hill (Associate Director, Equity & Diversity, UWA), Prof Roland Kaiser (Associate Dean[Student Affairs] Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, UWA), Ms Margaret Doherty (Board member of a number of community action groups for people with mental illness and member of the Western Australian Mental Health Advisory Panel).

Background on UWA mhpn. This is an open network that aims to bring together people providing mental health services to UWA tertiary students. The purpose of the network includes information sharing, collaboration and professional development opportunities. It is envisaged that the network will provide opportunities for the UWA Services to enhance referral pathways to external clinical services with the aim of improving the coordination of care students receive.

Future mhpn on 25th of July and 22nd November 2012.

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.

18:00 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - SOLD OUT - The sexualisation of girls and the digital age: navigating the debates, averting moral panics and responding to another challenge for gender equality : The 2012 Grace Vaughan Lecture Website | More Information
Speaker: Donna Chung, Winthrop Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, The University of Western Australia.

In the last decade there has been increasing concern by a cross section of the community about what has been termed the sexualisation and ‘pornifcation’ of children, particularly young girls. This has led to government inquiries in Australia and the US in recent years with a particular focus on the role of the media in this phenomenon. There is no doubt that various forms of digital media have changed how images are produced, circulated and accessed, however, we cannot assume that digital technologies have created this concern.

In this presentation the origins of the concerns and the various debates will be examined as they relate to gender equality and women’s status. The question of what all this means for future actions and responses will be discussed.

Donna Chung's research interests have been in the areas of gender equality, gendered violence and heterosexual relationships. As a result of her research Donna has worked as a consultant to governments advising on policies and programs aimed at stopping gendered violence and promoting gender equality.

The annual Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is a partnership arrangement between the Australian Association of Social Workers, The University of Western Australia and Department for Communities - Womens Interests, Western Australia.

The Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is held annually to commemorate the life and achievements of Grace Vaughan who died in 1984.

This is a free public lecture, All Welcome. Please RSVP your attendance to [email protected] by 7 March 2012.

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong More Information
The Winthrop Singers, UWA's chamber choir, perform an Evensong service every Thursday this semester at St Thomas More College.

Responses: Rose Psalm 139 Old Testament Reading: Genesis 45:4-14 New Testament Reading: Hebrews 2:5-9 Canticles: Farrant in g minor Anthem: Pearsall Tu es Petrus Hymn: Praise my soul the King of Heaven
Friday 16
15:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Professor LOUISE SHARPE (University of Sydney) The role of attentional biases in the development and management of pain More Information
The literature investigating attentional biases in chronic pain has been mixed, however, a recent meta-analysis has confirmed the presence of attentional biases in chronic pain patients that are similar to those observed in patients with anxiety disorders. However, unlike the anxiety disorders, there is relatively little evidence that has assessed the role of attentional biases prospectively as a predictor of subsequent pain. Indeed, although all four studies that have assessed attentional biases as a predictor of future pain have found that biases predict subsequent, clinically meaningful pain, the nature of biases that predict pain in these studies has been different to the pattern of biases that are found in patients with chronic pain. That is, while chronic pain patients show a bias towards sensory pain words, it has been a bias away from affective pain words or towards happy words that has been associated in prospective studies with chronic pain. These results seem to support the role of vigilance-avoidance hypothesis of attention in the development of chronic painful conditions. Understanding the attentional mechanisms associated with the development of chronic pain is important because interventions, such as attention bias modification (ABM) have shown good preliminary results in the management of anxiety disorders. Indeed, results of two laboratory based studies and two field studies in the area of pain will be presented to demonstrate that ABM has considerable potential in the management of pain conditions also. However, the results of recent prospective work have important implications for optimizing ABM protocols specifically for pain patients, which will be discussed.

18:30 - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - FIRST ORDINARY MEETING OF CONVOCATION : FIRST ORDINARY MEETING OF CONVOCATION Website | More Information
CONVOCATION, THE UWA GRADUATES ASSOCIATION

invites all graduates and other members of Convocation to attend its

FIRST ORDINARY MEETING

with reports from

the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson

the Warden of Convocation, Associate Professor David Hodgkinson

and the Guild President, Mr Matthew Mckenzie

Guest: Speaker Winthrop Professor Paul Flatau, Director, UWA Centre for Social Impact

Topic:

Abstract: Accounting for Social Impact

Abstract In recent years, we have witnessed a significant change in the number and form in which social and community initiatives and programs have been financed and delivered. Whereas previously the social arena was dominated by government financed and delivered programs with support from the not-for-profit sector, now we see a much greater role for the corporate sector in their community investment programs and in terms of different forms of impact investing. At the same time there is now much greater emphasis on the role of measurement of the effectiveness and impact of social programs and initiatives. This talk will explore these various themes and trends.
Wednesday 21
7:00 - EVENT - Bike Week Breakfast 2012 : Ride your bike to UWA and be rewarded with breakfast More Information
It’s on again, the UWA Bike Breakfast. All UWA cyclists welcome. On Wednesday 21st March ride your bike to Riley Oval and be rewarded with breakfast catered by Uni Club. Breakfast from 7.00am until 9.00am. So cycle down to UWA and help celebrate all things cycling. Great prizes will be on offer.

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