What's On at UWA

Kristin Bowtell (returning Court Music Fund award-holder)

The Embodied Score: Conductors' Interpretive Decision-Making

Conductors are expected to develop a personal interpretation of each piece in advance of the first rehearsal, yet the conducting and performing literature gives little guidance beyond ‘gain experience’. Contemporary research in neuroscience, learning theory and philosophy suggests that musical expressivity originates in bodily processes, (particularly motion) and that cognition is not purely located in the brain but is distributed throughout the body. This indicates that conductors who seek to develop their range of musical expression (and hence increase their interpretive options) should utilise the body as a musical interface and source of ideas, rather than merely as a machine that inputs and outputs sounds on behalf of the disembodied brain.

There are a number of entry pathways for mature-age students interested in studying at UWA - including those that have no previous secondary school results.

If you are 20 years of age or over by the 1st March in the year you wish to commence study, you may qualify for one of our mature-age entry pathways.

This session will provide you with advice on UWA's entry pathways and courses; what to expect from student life; and, there will be time afterwards to answer any questions you have.

A public lecture by Ian Reid, Adjunct Professor, English and Cultural Studies UWA.

A century ago, when The University of Western Australia first opened its doors to students, the general purposes of higher education seemed relatively clear in the public mind. But these days there is less certainty about the relevance of some cherished academic traditions. What distinctive role do universities still have, if any? What can the wider community reasonably expect universities to deliver? What should be the relationship between universities and cultural institutions in the heritage and collections sector?

This lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies, the National Trust of Australia (WA) and Australia ICOMOS to celebrate the International Day of Monuments and Sites on 18 April. The theme for the 2013 celebration is the Heritage of Education. This year’s lecture also forms part of the National Trust’s 2013 Western Australian Heritage Festival. For more details on the festival go to www.national trust.org.au .

Cost Free, but RSVP essential. Bookings: www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ian-reid or RSVP to [email protected] or 6488 1340

Public lecture by Anne Worrall, Professor of Criminology, Keele University, UK and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Law School, UWA.

Drawing on recent research on the occupational cultures of probation workers, Anne Worrall explores the motivations, values and job expectations of present and former workers. Arguing that probation work is often regarded by society as a ‘tainted’ or ‘dirty’ occupation which operates in turbulent political, social and economic conditions, Professor Worrall will consider how probation workers respond to these adverse circumstances to make their work meaningful and fulfilling, or just to cope.

Bookings: www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/worrall or RSVP to [email protected] or 6488 1340

Free 50min Concert every Thursday

A public lecture by Núria Marbà, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (UIB-CSIC).

Marine vegetated habitats (seagrasses, salt-marshes, macroalge and mangroves) occupy 0.2 % of the ocean surface but contribute 50% of carbon burial in marine sediments. Their canopies dissipate wave energy while high burial raises the seafloor, buffering the impacts of rising sea level and wave action with climate change. The loss of 1/3 of their global cover involves a loss of CO2 sinks and the emission of 1 Pg CO2 annually. The conservation, restoration and use of vegetated coastal habitats in eco-engineering solutions for coastal protection provide a “Blue Forest” strategy delivering significant capacity for climate change mitigation and adaption.

Free, but RSVP essential. Bookings: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/marba or RSVP to [email protected] or 6488 1340

Professor Engle’s research combines clinical, genetic, and molecular biological approaches to the study of strabismus (commonly referred to as 'misaligned eyes' or 'squint') and ocular motor neuron and axon development. As a paediatric neurologist, her research has focused primarily on a set of disorders referred to as the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders. These are incomitant forms of strabismus in which primary gaze may be aberrant and one or both eyes are unable to move into one or multiple fields of gaze. These disorders can cause significant visual impairment and can be cosmetically disfiguring. Professor Engle's Lecture will discuss recent advances in causes, genetic diagnosis and treatments for these disorders.

Opening the season, conductor and virtuoso violinist Paul Wright conducts a program affected by classical sensibilities featuring some of the period’s best-loved works.

Grainger: Duke of Marlborough Fanfare; Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished); Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major (Soloist: Paul Wright); Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 Classical

Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $20 - available here: http://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=AUUNITHEATRES&event=art1 or on the door.

All welcome to the Mass and Lunch, either or both, starting at 12 noon. Mass is offerd by the new Catholic Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costello. Lunch will be served after Mass. The UWA Chapel is on the first floor above the Village Cafe in the Guild Courtyard, that is one floor below the medical centre.

David Symons: Antill After Corroboree: A Return to Conservatism?

This paper investigates one of the widespread perceptions in much critical comment on the music of John Antill following the composition of his famous ballet Corroboree – namely, that the composer reverted to a ‘quieter’ and more conservative musical style in his later output in the 1950s and 1960s. The generally negatively-toned criticisms of Antill’s later work are assessed from two standpoints – that of musical ‘style’ or ‘character’ and that of musical ‘language’ or idiom. While Antill never wrote another work as ‘barbaric’ or ‘abrasive’ in manner as Corroboree, his later works explore a wider expressive palette in which there are some examples of the milder English ‘pastoral’ style, but the predominant ‘language’ is that of between-the-wars neoclassicism or neo-tonality of Bartok, Hindemith and Stravinsky. In this respect Antill shares a general stylistic range with the more progressive Australian composers of the same period such as Margaret Sutherland, Dorian Le Gallienne, Raymond Hanson and Robert Hughes.

With the average Australian wedding costing $36,000, is the wedding day really the "Bride's Day"? And should the bride still be "given away" like property?

Professor Tom Scirghi SJ of Fordham University, New York, is the 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, and will discuss marriage and the wedding industry as the first of a series of seminar topics scheduled over the next three weeks.

The St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies is a joint initiative between the College, The University of Western Australia, and the University of Notre Dame Australia, bringing a leading Jesuit scholar to Perth each year to teach, lecture, and interact with the local community.

Join UWA School of Music guitarist Don Candy as he plays some of his chilled tunes on solo guitar followed by School of Music composer and jazz pianist Josiah Padmanabham performing classic and original pieces of jazz trio.

Admission is free, book ahead by visiting Epic Events.

Running Club - All Levels!

Monday & Friday @ 6.30am - Variety of group runs, hills and intervals Wednesday @ 6.15am - Strength and Mobility session for Running (incl. Pilates, stability training, technique coaching)

$10 a week for 6-week block OR $350 yearly membership

Suits participants of all abilities including those returning from injury or waiting to start running for the first time. Great for those working towards an event or fun run (i.e. City to Surf).

Sessions will run ‘rain, hail or shine’ with access to indoor training facilities if required. Running coach with coordinate Monday and Friday sessions, with Wednesday classes run by an Accredited Exercise Physiologist* (*Private Health Rebates may apply)

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The Information Evening will provide details to everyone interested in enrolling in the Master of Pharmacy Program in 2014 about entry requirements, the application process, fees and commonwealth supported places, clinical placements and preregistration. We will also provide an overview of our two year course.

For the first time in Pakistan’s history, a democratically elected government has completed its term and has stepped down. Pakistani nation will be casting its vote to elect a new government on 11 May 2013. These elections are a good omen for the political and democratic culture of Pakistan as it will ensure the continuity of the democratic practices. However, the country is facing increased energy shortage, dismal economic situation, terrorism, sectarianism and ethnic problems. Who would win the elections? Would Imran Khan-led Pakistan’s Justice Movement (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, PTI) with its popularity among the youth of Pakistan, emerge as the winner or be part of a coalition? How do ethnic communities view the elections?

The panel comprises of specialists on Pakistani politics and foreign policy at theCMSS.

Naeem Salik Brigadier (Retired) is currently a PhD candidate at Centre for MuslimStates and Societies/Pol Science and IR Department at UWA, Perth. Before his retirement from Pakistan’s military, Brigadier Salik served as director of armscontrol and disarmament affairs in the Strategic Plans Division, the secretariat of Pakistan’s National Command Authority.

Rizwan Zeb is a doctoral candidate at the Center for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia, and a Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a former Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor in Politics , University of Bristol (2006); Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC (2004); and member, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (current). He is co-author of Indo-Pak Conflicts: Ripe to Resolve? (Manahor, 2005).He is currenttly working on a book on the history and future of Pakistan.

Dr Samina Yasmeen is director of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, School of Social and Cultural Studies, at UWA. She is also an associate professor in Political Sciene and International Relations, the University of Western Australia (UWA),As a specialist on politico-strategic developments in South Asia, Professor Yasmeen has focused on the role of Islamisation in Pakistan’s domestic and foreign policy. Her current research focuses on the role of Islamic militant groups, their prescriptions for social and political structures for Muslim states, and the implications of these ideas for Pakistan’s stability and foreign policy. She has conducted research on groups including Lashkar-e- Toiba (LeT) and Jaish Mohammad.

Clint Bracknell - Songs from the South: The Wirlomin Project and Southern Noongar Song

Aboriginal people, language and song inform a rich sense of place in Australia. Wirlomin Noongar people from the southwest are in the process of claiming, consolidating, enhancing and sharing their endangered cultural heritage. In this context, I will examine the value of community-driven Aboriginal language revitalisation and the potential function of local Aboriginal song idioms in broader cultural sustainability activities.

Makoto Takao - Glocal Emotion: Performative Practices of Jesuit Conversion in Early Modern Japan

This thesis will explore Jesuit conversion policy in Japan during the Christian Century (1540-1650). It will specifically analyse the means by which performative practices were employed as a way of fostering faith through the use of music, drama, and visual arts. These modes of communication embody inherent emotive potency, and the measure of their success can be best identified as degrees of affectivity amongst the converted.

The Co-op UWA May Clearance Sale from Wednesday May 1st

Clearance stock of fiction, non-fiction and academic reference titles at $10, $5.95, $5 and $2. Co-op members also receive Member discount off Sale Prices.

Last shipment of grey, navy and black UWA Hoodies on sale @ $39.95

Monitoring of the ice shelf and sub-ice shelf ocean temperatures represents an important component towards understanding ice sheet stability and the potential for rapid sea level rise.Continuous monitoring is challenging due to difficult surface access, the difficulties to penetrate through the ice shelf, and the need for the long term operation of non-recoverable sensors.

During November 2011, two instrumented moorings were installed through the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica at Windless Bight to develop rapid, light-weight drilling and near-continuous fiber-optic temperature monitoring methods. A combination of ice coring for the upper portion of each shelf borehole, followed by a hot-point drill for penetration into the ocean, was employed.

The boreholes provided temporary access to the ice-shelf cavity, into which Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) fiber-optic cables and conventional pressure/temperature transducers were installed. The DTS moorings provided near-continuous in time and depth (1-m interval) observations of ice and ocean temperatures to a depth of almost 800 m beneath the ice-shelf surface. Data received via telemetry to date document the presence of near-freezing waters throughout the cavity during November through January, followed by the influx warmer Ross Sea surface waters reaching approximately 150 m beneath the ice-shelf base during February and March. The cyclic return to isothermal conditions was complete by May.

In this talk, we begin with an overview of DTS physics, followed by a detailed look at the installation methods, instrument package design, mooring cable design,power supply and challenges that arose during the year long deployment.

Following a brief discussion of the data processing tools need to achieve high resolution, we present an analysis of entrance and exit of warm sub-shelf waters and their sources. We close with examples of several related DTS experiments in snow dynamics, aquatic ecosystem restoration and soil moisture monitoring, as well as an overview of the US National Science Foundation's community user facility for DTS.

About the speaker

Dr Scott Tyler is a Foundation Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Nevada, Reno with appointments in the Department of Geologic Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs; a community instrument facility for DTS.

He is past editor of Water Resources Research, former chair of the Geologic Society of America’s Hydrogeology Division and incoming chairman of the board for the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences.

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

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A public lecture by Professor Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art.

If, as the linguist John Lyons has argued, individual colours as distinct from colour as a whole, ‘are the product of the lexical and grammatical structure of particular languages’, the question I wish to raise with reference to Venetian art and culture of the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, is how language directs attention by rendering particular named tints salient in consciousness. How did language divide up the manifold experience of colour in the city, and of the artefacts and artistic representations produced in it? In what ways did the lexicon and grammatical usage of colour terms change or expand in the period between about 1480 and 1580, and what does this imply about patterns of discrimination? And what can the Venetian evidence tell us about which comes first, lexical invention or diversification in manufactures such as polychrome silks. What in short is the relation between the materials of colour, their use in representations such as oil painting, and linguistic practices?

Paul Hills is well known for his publications on light and colour in Italian Renaissance art. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York; at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies; and at the Royal College of Art. In 2003 Hills was appointed Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor at the Courtauld, and took up a permanent post there in 2004. In July 2012 he was appointed Emeritus Professor.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/hills

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm