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Displaying from Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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October 2014
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Tuesday 14 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Basic assumption and possible underlying processes in Attentional Bias Modification
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Dr Bram Van Bockstaele obtained his master’s degree in theoretical and experimental psychology at Ghent University in 2007. After his studies, he completed his PhD as a member of the Learning and Implicit Processes Lab at Ghent University, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Geert Crombez and in close (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Pop-up Mini Postgrad Expo : Find out about PG courses at a mini expo held in the Arts Building hallway.
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Missed out on the PG and Hons Expo? No problem! Come along to our pop-up mini postgrad expo and find out about all PG courses across the University held in the Arts Building with FREE PIZZA!
15:00 - Lecture-performance - School of Music Presents : World Musician Vickneswaran Ramakrishnan
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Presented as part of the World Musician in Residence Program (made possible by a generous donation from a private donor to the School of Music) we are pleased to welcome Vickneswaran Ramakrishnan (tabla) and Praashekh Borkar (sarod) in a workshop-performance focussing on Hindustani classical music (...)
This year, Carmen Lawrence presents the Callaway Lecture exploring how music gives shape and meaning to our lives and what happens to us when its power is diminished. After training as a research psychologist at The University of Western Australia and lecturing in a number of Australian (...)
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Banning the Burqa is not the Answer : This lecture will discuss the place of the burqa in Australian society.
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The place of the Islamic face veil in public places has again arisen as an
issue for debate in Australia. Politicians from all sides have variously
called for its banning, called it confronting or appealed to liberal values in
defence of freedom of choice. In light of the recent debates it is time (...)
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Julie Szego - The tainted trial of Farah Jama : Join journalist and lawyer Julie Szego, as she explores a shocking miscarriage of justice.
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How did a young Somali man end up in jail for the rape of a woman he had never met, in an over-28s nightclub he was too young to be admitted to, in a Melbourne suburb he had never visited? Join journalist and lawyer Julie Szego, as she explores a shocking miscarriage of justice. Tickets $19.
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Wednesday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Novel imaging - Applications in Archaeology : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Paul Bourke will present two novel imaging technologies and how they are being applied to recordings in archaeology. The first is high resolution photography, that is, acquiring images many tens of times higher resolution than any single camera can capture.
The second is the (...)
17:30 - EVENT - MBA and Graduate Certificate Information Evening (Perth) : An information evening for prospective Master of Business Administration students
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Come along to the UWA Business School's information evening for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Graduate Certificates, where you can learn about our MBA Full Time, MBA Flexible, Graduate Certificate in Business, Graduate Certificate in Social Impact, and Graduate Certificate in (...)
A public talk by Alice Vrielink, Professor of Structural Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia.
The science of crystallography has had an enormous impact on our understanding of molecules, their structures, chemical and physical properties (...)
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Thursday 16 |
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm.
No booking required, just turn up!
The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.
Come and hear part of the wealth of musical talent on campus in this concert featuring our brand new ensembles for Semester 2 - the Ukulele Ensemble & Rumba (...)
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Friday 17 |
Often translated from the Latin as ‘remember you must die’ or ‘remember your mortality’, memento mori serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death. The term ‘memento mori’ first entered English in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) and was immediately accepted (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - CMSS Panel Discussion: The Role of Political Leadership in Building Communal Harmony : A panel of distinguished political leaders will discuss the role of political leadership in fostering and sustaining communal harmony.
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The Australian Government’s decision to elevate the threat level of violent extremism
in the country against the backdrop of the developments in Iraq and Syria has reignited
debates on the place of Muslims and Islam in Australia. The feeling of being victimised
among some Muslim minority groups (...)
Join us for the opening of two exhibitions: Memento Mori, curated by Ted Snell and Self Portrait as Shared Dream, curated by Gemma Weston.
Memento Mori are artworks that prompt us to ponder the emptiness and transience of earthly pleasures and re-assess our moral progress as we move (...)
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Saturday 18 |
19:30 - CONCERT - Artistry! Innovation : The exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers.
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Featuring late Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe's monumental work Memento Mori, plus a new arrangement of Lament for String Orchestra plus solo Violin and Cello, this concert will coincide with UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ 2014 Day of Ideas – Memento Mori.
Finalist (...)
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Sunday 19 |
14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - Art in Architecture Walk : Tour the UWA Campus to discover again the artworks in their architectural and landscape contexts
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Significant buildings and spaces on the Crawley Campus are embellished with applied or freestanding artworks. Sometimes the art is inherent in the architectural design like the winged lion frieze at the eaves to Winthrop Hall or the decorative panels built into the Institute of Agriculture Building (...)
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Monday 20 |
THE UNDISCOVERED symposium is the first of a proposed series of symposia that will emerge over the next three years, presented by Artsource and The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct.
Speakers include: Victorie Laurie, Ian McLean, Trevor Vickers, Stuart Elliot, Olga (...)
A public lecture by Achim Kempf, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Waterloo and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
The two deepest laws of nature that are known to date are quantum theory and general relativity. Not all is well with these two theories (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
Theories of working memory (particularly serial recall) have assumed that people structure information in a hierarchical fashion. I’ll discuss some recent research asking how people access this hierarchically structured information. Evidence from experiments manipulating the grouping of (...)
A public lecture by Susana Agusti, Professorial Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute, and Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA).
In this lecture Professor Agusti will describe the current state of the (...)
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