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Events for the public
 July 2012
Tuesday 24
15:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Coastal and Shelf Sediment Transport Website | More Information
A public lecture by Michael Collins, Emeritus Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton.

Michael Collins is Ikerbasque Fellow at the Plentzia Marine Station (PIE), the University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU), Spain and Emeritus Professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, UK.

Professor Collins is a fellow of the Geological Society of London, and is a consultant to many national and international organisations and industrial concerns. He is currently a Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow at UWA.

Cost: Free. RSVP to [email protected]
Wednesday 25
12:00 - Competition - Three Minute Thesis Final : 10 PhD students will explain their research and its significance in just 3 minutes each. Website | More Information
The 3MT competition challenges research students to give a dynamic and engaging presentation about their research and its significance in a way that can be understood by everybody. The audience will select the "People's Choice" winner.

18:00 - PRESENTATION - 'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening : Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA. Website | More Information
Prospective students are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA. These sessions will explain course details, career opportunities, prerequisite subjects and how to apply, as well as providing the opportunity for attendees to ask questions and meet Faculty staff.

Whether you're coming to the end of your time at high school and are considering your university study options, or you already have an undergraduate degree and are looking to re-skill or complete postgraduate study, our 'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' information sessions will provide you with the information you need to get your career in engineering headed in the right direction.

If you can't make it to this session, further sessions will be held in October and November.

Please visit the website for more information and to register your attendance.

18:15 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture 2012 : Mathematics and Women - 36 years at The University of Western Australia Website | More Information
The Annual Lecture is the highlight of the year for the UWA Historical Society and Convocation and we are delighted to welcome Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger to the podium to reflect upon her years on Campus and subsequent experiences and achievements.

Mathematician Cheryl Praeger has served the University of Western Australia as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor since 1976. She leads a flourishing research group in pure mathematics and is in the top one per cent of highly cited mathematicians in the world.

Attendance is free.

19:00 - COURSE - Fortified wine tasting Website | More Information
Join James of Talijancich Wines for a special tasting sensation. Discover the differences among liqueurs aged for one year to 45 years old, comparing Talijancich’s famous muscat, a liqueur shiraz and the Pedro Ximenes liqueur. Learn the wines’ histories, watch how James blends, try blending yourself, and have a taste and a chat. $89, bookings essential.

19:30 - CONCERT - Festival Baroque Australia Presents: Nine German Arias Website | More Information
Nine German Arias - Hymns to Nature by George Frideric Handel

Sung by Sara Macliver, Soprano

Accompanied by Paul Wright, violin; Noeleen Wright, cello; Andrew Tait, violone; Stewart Smith, harpsichord and chamber organ. Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm Government House Ballroom Tickets: $60/$50 conc/$20 student To Book: UWA extension / 08 6488 2433 / http://tiny.cc/NineGermanArias
Thursday 26
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance Website | More Information
Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand, Islamic economics and the World Bank’s engagement with world faiths as well as the future of the dialogue at the boundaries between theology and economics.
Saturday 28
8:00 - EVENT - Wound Care and Skin Integrity Seminar Day Website | More Information
UWA in association with Wounds West and Silver Chain presents this educational seminar day that will provide an update in best practise and the clinical skills required for assessment and management of wounds in Western Australia.
Monday 30
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Geoff Laurent presents "Stem cells and lung regeneration" Website | More Information
LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Stem cells and lung regeneration" by Professor Geoff Laurent, Director, Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sexuality as a Human Right: The transformation of sex from sin, disease, identity, companionship, and recreation, to rights Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Gilbert Herdt, Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC).

Over the past two centuries, Western civilization has witnessed a broad set of paradigm changes that characterize how and why we think about human sexuality as a social expression. Beginning with religious formulations of sin and depravity, and proceeding on to 19th century preoccupations with disease and the medicalization of sex, later 19th century expressions then fixated on identity-based paradigms and movements, followed by 20th century definitions focused on the couple and companionship, and in the 1960s especially and onward, recreational pleasure. Through these transformations has been the underlying conflict between individual experience and expression versus collective laws, policies and norms. Late modern sexuality is not only plastic, in Giddens’ terms, but also virtual, global, and texted through social media and the Internet. Sexual health and access to quality health for women and men has infused this transformation since 1975 with added meaning for sexual, gender, and reproductive rights. This lecture will also examine how human sexuality and rights have come to be seen as controversial and at times created moral panics in a variety of countries. It will also examine the impact of these panics on people’s rights, especially those at the margins of society.

Dr Gilbert Herdt is a cultural anthropologist, Professor and Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies, and Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University, and Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), created with major support from the Ford Foundation.

Cost: Free, RSVP your attendance to [email protected]
Tuesday 31
2:30 - SEMINAR - WAMSI Kimberley Marine Science Seminar : The first in a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley. Website | More Information
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution welcomes you to the first of a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley.

1st Speaker: Dr Barry Wilson (Murex Consultants), Patterns of life on Kimberley shores

The major controls of palaeographic development of the North West Shelf, including the Kimberley, have been climatic and sea level change and tectonism. The history of these events, especially those of the Quaternary, superimposed on the regional geology, has determined the range of habitats, the biological connectivity between them and adjacent regions, and the evolutionary development of the marine fauna. In this presentation, the contemporary marine fauna of the Kimberley is discussed in these historical biogeographic terms.

2nd Speaker: Dr James Gilmour (AIMS), Two decades of research on the Kimberly’s oceanic reef systems: dynamics and connectivity of coral assemblages in a changing world

This talk summarises almost twenty years of research by AIMS on the oceanic reefs of north-western Australia, focusing on the Scott Reef system. Scott Reef is unique in being far from the influence of many human activities responsible for the degradation of coral reefs globally, but for a catastrophic mass bleaching event in 1998. The 80% reduction in coral cover that followed provided an opportunity to quantify the rates and processes of recovery following a massive climatic disturbance. The recovery of the reef after 12 years is explained in the context of its connectivity to other reef systems and the underlying demography of its coral assemblages.

Afternoon tea (provided) and networking opportunities will follow the presentations.

RSVPs are essential please, for catering purposes.

General public and media welcome to attend.

RSVP & more info: Sue Lim [email protected]

www.wamsi.org.au

16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Visiting CMSS Fellow �The Bureaucracy and the Politics of Identity� : A lecture by Bambang Purwoko on a Study on the Influence of Ethnicity In The Bureaucratic Restructuring Process In Sorong Selatan Regency, West Papua, Indonesia. More Information
Visiting CMSS Fellow, Mr. Bambang Purwoko, will complete his ground-breaking study examining the impact of ethnicity and political identity on the bureaucracy in the Sorong-Selatan Regency of the Indonesian province of West Papua. This study was born of a longstanding desire to understand and address the fundamental reasons underlying the chronically poor performance of the bureaucracy in local governments in West Papua

17:00 - EVENT - An Evening with Marita Cheng: Mechatronics Engineer and Young Australian of the Year : What do engineers really do, especially mechatronic engineers? Especially young and wildly enthusiastic ones? More Information
This is an opportunity to learn how young engineers are helping people by making the world a better place to be.

Marita Cheng was awarded Young Australian of the Year for her work with RoboGals: see http://www.robogals.org/latest-news/latest/182 and this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRXlT0b_v0

This event is her first stop in Western Australian tour. This is an opportunity to meet one of Australia’s most wildly enthusiastic young engineers. It will also be a great opportunity to meet young people who would like to become engineers.

Apart from Marita you will also meet mechatronic engineers doing exciting things here in WA, such as Professor Thomas Braunl, robot builder and now running one of Australia's largest trials of electric cars, here in Perth. See http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/8382462/perth-hosts-electric-car-trials/

There will be a modest charge ($10) for light food and refreshments: students and young people will be admitted free of charge.

ABOUT THE KEY SPEAKER

While still a university student, Marita Cheng has demonstrated vision and leadership well beyond her years and is dedicated to encouraging young women to become interested in a career in engineering. The daughter of Chinese parents, Marita was born and raised in far north Queensland and now studies at the University of Melbourne. She founded Robogals Global in 2008, as a response to the traditionally low levels of participation by women in engineering and technology. Robogals uses fun and educational activities to teach schoolgirls about engineering and the difference that engineers make to our lives. Already Robogals has run robotics workshops for 3,000 girls across 80 schools in Australia and now has 17 chapters across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Marita's career path includes studying for a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Computer Science on a Paterson Scholarship. She has a Nancy Fairfax Churchill Fellowship, an International Youth Foundation YouthActionNet Fellowship and an Anita Borg Change Agent Award. A former panellist on ABC TV's New Inventors program, Marita plans to start a robotics company, creating robots that will take care of many everyday and mundane tasks. Already she has changed the way that girls view their capacity to contribute to engineering and technology.

 August 2012
Thursday 02
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert : Visiting Artist - West Australian Opera Website | More Information

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong at St George's College Chapel : First Evensong of semester with the Winthrop Singers More Information
The Winthrop Singers return to a refurbished St George's College Chapel for the first Evensong service of Semester 2.

Featured music is by composers from UWA

Introit: Tunley Jesu Dulcis Memoria Canticles: Caitlin Woods Anthem: Joyce Ubi Caritas
Friday 03
15:00 - EVENT - �Measuring Values in Young children : “Measuring Values in Young children with a new animated best-worst instrument” Website | More Information
A new animated best-worst values instrument for young children, which adds pictorial context to both verbal and textual presentation of the values items. Primary school children (from 5 to 12 years old) were asked to choose which of five values presentations was most like them and which was least like them.

15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Tsunami Debris and Synthetic Habitats in Pelagic Waters : Public talk with Paul Sharp (Founder of Two Hands project) Website | More Information
Paul Sharp is founder of Two Hands Project and works on issues of plastic pollution, particularly in the marine environment. Two Hands Project is a collaborative approach to dealing with plastic pollution: take 30 Minutes and Two Hands to clean up yOUR world anytime, anywhere.

Two Hands embodies the spirit of the huge national/international clean up days but asks what you can do with your two hands in 30 minutes, at a location near you, on any day of the year. We are taking it all back to grass roots, looking at what you can do to care for the place(s) that are near to you or important to you, anytime that you want. Whether you’re doing this to improve the health of our oceans, reduce the risk to wildlife or to simply clean up unsightly trash in one of your favorite parks or beaches, what you can do with your own Two Hands is easy.

Sharp will be talking about his recent experiences in the North Pacific, where he was part of the 5 Gyres/Algalita Marine Research Foundation Tsunami Debris Expedition.

twohandsproject.org

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird Website | More Information
American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding performers in an evening of chamber bliss.
Monday 06
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Why Do We Get Osteoarthritis: Can We Fix Our Arthritic Cartilage? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Alan Grodzinsky, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT.

It is widely accepted that Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, causing major health problems, pain and disability for adults young and old. Yet today, there are still no disease modifying Osteoarthritis drugs (“DMOADS”) that can halt or reverse the progression of disease, only drugs that may temporarily alleviate painful symptoms in knees, hips or other affected joints. Osteoarthritis is a disease of the whole joint, including cartilage, bone and other soft tissues.

In this lecture, Dr Grodzinsky, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Professor-at-Large, will discuss current challenges to diagnosis, tissue degradation, and drug discovery for Osteoarthritis.
Tuesday 07
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Ending of Life and Medical Care: Legal Challenges Website | More Information
A public lecture by Associate Professor Meredith Blake, Law School, UWA.

With an ageing population and the medical technology available to prolong life, action and inaction connected with the ending of life in the clinical setting raises confronting issues for modern society. The issues engage the disciplines of religion, philosophy, ethics, medicine, and economics, as well as the law, and therefore represent a complex, multi-layered challenge for legal regulation. One of the problems which the law faces in this context is its struggle to deal with scientific and philosophical concepts from these other disciplines.

When is it in the best interests of a person to cease life-sustaining medical intervention? Should persons be able to request medical assistance in hastening death? In what circumstances can doctors decide not to resuscitate profoundly disabled young children? These are some of the questions which illustrate this challenge. The place which the sanctity of life occupies in society explains why these sorts of questions are troubling, especially when that principle is ‘in conflict’ with both objective and subjective assessments that a life is of unacceptably poor quality. Given the significance of these issues, it is especially important that the law responds coherently and transparently.

These are some of the difficult questions which will be addressed in this lecture.

Cost: Free, but seats are limited. RSVP to [email protected].

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