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Displaying from Tuesday, October 04, 2011
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October 2011
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Tuesday 04 |
11:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 7 Minute Speeches : Four panelists from culture and the arts are challenged to present a 7 minute, short speech on a painting of their choice from the Recent Past exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
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Dr Darren Jorgensen, writer, researcher and Assist. Prof., Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA, Dr Ric Spencer, artist, writer and curator at Fremantle Arts Centre, Dr Tony Hughes-d'Ath, writer, cultural historian and Assoc. Prof., English and Cultural Studies, UWA, and Thomas Hoareau (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Performance Practice Values in the Twentieth Century Early Music Movement: Initial Findings
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Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Looking for meaning in all the wrong places : screening of Kurosawa's Ikiru and lecture by Michael Levine
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Akira Kurosawa directed and co-wrote Ikiru in 1952. Filmed in black and white, it ostensibly tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat and section chief who spends virtually his entire life working in a city office. Neither Watanabe nor anyone else in the office actually does anything much (...)
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Wednesday 05 |
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay : Breakfast by the Bay with Jonathan Holloway : Festivals Mean Business
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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 (...)
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 (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC TALK - "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" : Public Talk on the book "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" ; All Welcome!
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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 (...)
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Thursday 06 |
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 (...)
18:30 - PRESENTATION - Engineering Information Evenings : If your passion if to become an engineer, then give yourself a great career start and study engineering at UWA.
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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 (...)
20:00 - EVENT - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Composition Concert 2
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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.
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Friday 07 |
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 (...)
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Surface properties of urease and persistence of H. pylori
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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 (...)
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 (...)
15:00 - Colloquium - Losing Our Endemic Sense of Place: Solastalgia in South West Western Australia
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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Saturday 08 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - DNA: The good, the bad and the ugly : A professional workshop by the Centre for Forensic Science at UWA
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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 (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - into the Shimmer Heat : Contemporary music, theatre, dance and puppetry combine to create a 21st Century Opera.
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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 (...)
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Monday 10 |
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Composing the self: The therapeutic benefits of song-writing in adjusting to adversity
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Can We Make Low Carbon Cities? : A guest speaker event with sustainability expert Peter Newman
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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 (...)
18:15 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to supersize exercise: Lessons from mad men, freakonomics and the Marlboro Man
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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 (...)
19:45 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : A Personal Perspective of Perth Theatre -"Ancient & Modern"
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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
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