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Displaying from Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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March 2015
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Wednesday 11 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Age of Experience: cultural heritage in museums of the future : A public lecture by Sarah Kenderdine, Director, iGLAM Lab (Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
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This lecture will examine new paradigms for developing cultural heritage as embodied museum experiences inside
a series of large-scale immersive and interactive museum display systems.
The lecture will conclude with a focus on two exhibitions currently in production: the 'Atlas of (...)
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Thursday 12 |
Curators, critics and academics have various approaches to framing exhibitions of Aboriginal art and material culture, their review and critique.
Join Dr Vanessa Russ and Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Curator, Content Development New Museum Project, Western Australian Museum as they discuss (...)
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Friday 13 |
17:00 - CONCERT - Voice! Fridays@Five : The UWA Voice program aims to celebrate our emerging young artists and their mentors in a series of vocal performances, workshops and masterclasses throughout 2015
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Under the leadership of Helpman award winner Andrew Foote, Fridays@Five showcases the UWA voice students. From the Vocal Consort, solo song in recitals, public workshops, mixed instrumental and voice ensembles, or public Masterclasses with Q&A, Fridays@Five are an ideal way to start your (...)
The UWA French Club Play is a club tradition spanning over 70 years. After a four year lapse, the UWA French Club has revived this tradition to bring you the play Lysistrata.
This is a seductive comedy with a strong political bent. Set during the Peloponnesian War, the women of Greece (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
In this public lecture, Professor Hermann Nicolai, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, will review some recent ideas and approaches towards a more complete theory of quantum gravity unifying the fundamental interactions of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Wednesday 18 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living on the Edge: Suicide in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
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An On the Edge public lecture by Professor Pat Dudgeon, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA and Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project.
Suicide and mental health conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are double (...)
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Thursday 19 |
13:10 - CONCERT - Lunchtime Concerts : Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
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School of Music is proud to present: Andrew Foote (baritone) and Caroline Badnall (piano) present Schumann's "Dichterliebe"
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Entry is free, no bookings required.
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Twenty Years after the Beijing Declaration: how are women faring? : 2015 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Professor Carmen Lawrence
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Twenty years ago Carmen Lawrence took part in the UN Conference on the Status of Women in Beijing. The event seemed like a watershed and the good will was palpable; participants were determined to develop a practical plan which committed governments to specific actions rather than collating lofty (...)
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Friday 20 |
11:30 - FUNDRAISER - Kirkbride Melanoma Centre luncheon : Kirkbride Melanoma Centre 10th anniversary lunch 20 March
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Book your tickets today and join us to celebrate and support an important cause. Cost $170 per head, includes a sumptuous lunch with wine and beer. Email [email protected]
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - "Smooth muscle, how does it work and why do we care" : The Lung Institute of WA presents Prof Chun Seow, University of British Columbia
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Prof Seow's presentation will focus on recent findings on the structural and functional properties in smooth muscle and how these unique smooth muscle properties allow the muscle to function over a much larger length range compared with that in skeletal muscle, and also how dysregulation of these (...)
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Saturday 21 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - *SOLD OUT* We Are Better Than This : An afternoon with Julian Burnside AO QC
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Julian Burnside, winner of the 2014 Sydney Peace Prize, will present a lecture 'We Are Better Than This' on refugee justice (and injustice) in Australia. His talk will be followed by a conversation with Janet Holmes a Court.
This is a not for profit event sponsored by UWA Publishing, Not (...)
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Monday 23 |
18:00 - EXHIBITION - Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture
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Painting Toward Architecture travelling exhibition traces the work of prominent Australian architect, Harry Seidler (1923-2006). It examines his distinctive place and hand within and beyond modernist design methodology.
Dozens of featured projects realized across four continents bring to focus (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
14:00 - FREE LECTURE - Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture : ALVA Seminar Series G22
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Vladimir Belogolovsky will trace the work of Australia's most prominent architect of the 20th century, Harry Seidler (1923-2006), examining his distinctive place and hand within and beyond modernist design methodology. Some of the architect's key projects - from single family houses to multi-story (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The link between Neoproterozoic supercontinental break-up, snowball glaciation, and biospheric evolution
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In this public lecture, Galen Halverson, T.H. Clark Chair of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, McGill University and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow, will discuss the flurry of new radiometric ages that confirms the synchronicity in the onset and demise of two global glaciation events in the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Reconstructing a Masterpiece : Walter Burley Griffin's Garden (1904) for Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House
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In 1902, soap manufacturer Darwin Martin commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design his new home at Buffalo, New York. Wright responded with nothing short of a tour-de-force: an integrated complex of a main house with a pergola connecting it to a conservatory and carriage house with chauffeur's (...)
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Wednesday 25 |
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay: Lessons from inside the gender revolution : with Christine Christian
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After 15 years as chief executive of Dun and Bradstreet Australia, Christine thought she had learnt everything there was to know about being a woman leader and a female first in a C suite role. But when she began to look up from the day to day of running a business, Christine saw that what had been (...)
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Friday 27 |
13:30 - EVENT - Public Lecture with The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG : Free Public Event
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The Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Securing Change in the DPRK (North Korea)
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Saturday 28 |
17:30 - EVENT - Astrofest 2015 : The largest astronomy festival in Australia is back again in 2015
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The largest annual astronomy festival in Australia is returning in 2015. Astrofest, a vibrant celebration of astronomy and Western Australian science, will be held at Curtin Stadium on the Curtin University campus in Bentley on Saturday 28th March.
Preregister to go in the draw to win a (...)
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Tuesday 31 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Why do grandparents invest in their grandchildren? : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Speaker: Dr David Coall completed his PhD in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia and his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Centre for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After returning to UWA as a Research (...)
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April 2015
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Wednesday 01 |
12:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Infectious Diseases Community Conversation - Registration essential : A chance for community members to have a say about vaccines, antibiotic use and infections in pregnancy research
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The Telethon Kids Institute Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases invite consumers and community members to have a say on a wide range of research into childhood infectious diseases including:
- Ear Health
- Vaccines
- Antibiotic use
- Infections in pregnancy.
If you have an (...)
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