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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)

CONTACT THE CLINIC TO REGISTER.

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

What is the relationship between Higher Education and Social Justice? Is there one? Does Higher Education promote social justice in society or, rather, does it create social injustice? These troubling questions are the ones we attempt to address in our recent publication ‘Social Justice and Higher Education’ (Baillie et al, 2012, Engineering and Social Justice, London). We decided to explore these questions in more detail by interviewing a range of educators from all over the world about their views on this topic. As we chose not to define what we meant by social justice the conversations were very rich and diverse, prompting many insights into the working experience of the respondents. We did not conduct these interviews as a traditional researcher might. The project became more of a long, ongoing conversation and the resulting, illustrated book, is authored by us all, including the artist whose interpretations of our conversations added extra depth and insight. The responses ranged from the belief that HE can enhance social justice in society to the view that HE is inherently based on unjust principles and alternatives are needed now. This seminar will share some of these views to provoke broader discussion about changes in the role of HE in society.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A/Prof Tom Scirghi, the 2013 St Thomas More College Visiting Chair of Jesuit Studies, presents the second of three seminars, focusing this week on confession and the popular media.

Why was Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah Winfrey so criticised by the media? And is forcing priests to reveal confessions of child abuse likely to curtail the abuse, or curtail the confession of abuse?

The St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies is a joint initiative involving St Thomas More College, The University of Western Australia, and the University of Notre Dame Australia, bringing a visiting Jesuit scholar to Perth each year for a series of seminars and public lectures.

In our contemporary Knowledge society, ideas for and about science are often shaped by the visions, scenarios and predictions offered by more or less clear-sighted actors within different societal spheres.

Entering into the contested terrain of which futures to prepare for, some of these visions are more ambiguous than others. This talk will discuss some of the artworks coming out of the SymbioticA Centre in relation to two other speculative projections of possible futures: The movement of Transhumanism, and the synthetic biology undergraduate competition iGEM.

Nora S. Vaage is an interdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is working on her PhD dissertation on artistic research and the ethics of bio art, of which the SymbioticA Centre is the main case study. Her Master?s thesis in Art History discussed the transgenic artworks of Eduardo Kac, and she also holds a Bachelor?s in Aesthetics. Nora is a member of the research group Cnature, the Cultural History of Nature. She is a lecturer in Art Theory and the ethics of images, and a seminar teacher in Visual Culture and Visual Rhetoric at the University of Bergen.

A mixture of old and new works for cello and piano covering the last 100 years. Older pieces from the start of the century with new interpretations plus new works from the later part of the century. There will also be original music written by a UWA Music School student.

Entry is free, bookings are essential. Visit EpicEvents for bookings.

Scott Stephens of ABC Religion and Ethics will speak on "The Missing Middle: How we lost our sense of the Good (and our sense of God along with it)." This is one of several events commemorating C.S.Lewis and his impact. One of 2013 UWA CHaplain's International Lecture series.

Louise Devenish (DMA candidate)

Ever since 9/11, “Islamic terrorism” has been regarded by Western political leaders, the media and a great number of academics and terrorism experts as the most serious security threat facing Western countries and their allies. Pakistan in particular has, with some exaggeration, been singled out by as a failing, impoverished, politically unstable, nuclear armed state dominated by socalled fanatical “Islamic terrorists” who threaten the security of the rest the world, particularly the West.

In his recently published book, The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan, Eamon Murphy demonstrates that the root causes of terrorism in Pakistan have little to do with the teachings of Islam but rather lie in more mundane political, social and historical developments. He argues that the use of the term “Islamic terrorism” is not only inaccurate, unfair and insulting to the vast majority of Muslims but has also contributed to the growth of Islamophobia throughout the Western world.

Eamon Murphy is Adjunct Professor in the newly formed Department of Social Sciences and International Affairs at Curtin University. Previously he had taught history, politics and international relations at Curtin for over 36 years. His current research interest is terrorism in South Asia, and he has published books, journal articles and book chapters on aspects of terrorism in India and Pakistan, including his co-edited volume Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice ( Routledge, 2010). His latest book The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of the Extremism has just been published in the prestigious Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies series.

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be hosting an evening for prospective applicants to the School Leaver Pathways for the Doctor of Medicine (MD) course.

Year 12 students who are considering applying to the one of the School Leaver Pathways are encouraged to attend. Parents and teachers are welcome.

BOOKING IS REQUIRED (via the URL below). After booking a seat, you will be sent email confirmation. Please bring a copy of the email confirmation to the information session.

The presentation will look at the current situation in India in terms of its economic development, political landscape and demographic changes that directly influence its strategic path and progress. It will then examine the possibility of India emerging as a genuine global power in the future. In doing so the presentation will analyse the factors that have a direct bearing on a nation becoming a regional/global power and then view the same factors from the perspective of India becoming a global power.

Dr Sanu Kainikara is the Air Power Strategist at the Air Power Development Centre, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

He is a former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF) who retired voluntarily as a Group Captain (Acting) after 21 years of commissioned service. He has vast operational flying experience in a number of modern fighter aircraft and was the Commanding Officer of an Operational fighter squadron.

Dr Kainikara has received the RAAF, Chief Air Force’s Commendation. He was also decorated for gallantry and is also the recipient of the Air Force Cross and two Commendations from the IAF Chief of Air Staff.

Dr Kainikara is currently focusing on the topic of the Law of Armed Conflict and Military Strategy at the ANU. He is a graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and the College of Air Warfare. He holds two Bachelor degrees (Strategic Studies and Aerospace Engineering) a Master of Science in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras and PhD in International Politics from the University of Adelaide.

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

from the wheatbelt to the Murchison in the path of Surveyor Robert Austin’s 1854 expedition.

An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Stephen Hopper, Winthrop Professor of Biodiversity,The University of Western Australia.

In this talk, Professor Hopper will present a modern journey taken from the central wheatbelt to the Murchison goldfields in the path of Surveyor Robert Austin’s 1854 expedition. The team comprised staff from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, a consultant landscape ecologist and a Noongar elder.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential.

To register a place visit http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/stephen-hopper