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Displaying from Monday, August 01, 2011
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August 2011
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Monday 01 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Early Detection of Central Airway Cancer : LIWA is proud to present a seminar for the medical and scientific community
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Dr Lee is an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She is also a Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital.
Dr Lee has an active interest in lung cancer, pleural disease, obstructive airway disease, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy (...)
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Tuesday 02 |
17:00 - EVENT - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Exploring the Politics of Collaboration: Bridging the Scholarly Divide in the Kyrgyz Manas Epic
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Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signaling its global importance. It sits alongside Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or the (...)
17:30 - INFORMATION EVENING - UWA Business School - BHP Billiton Scholarships Information Evening : Information Evening
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Up to twelve Scholarships for Honours, Masters and PhD students at the UWA Business School are available each year, valued from $20,000 up to $153,000.
For information about the scholarships, join us and senior BHP Billiton representatives for an Information Evening. Networking and (...)
A free public lecture by Professor Lyndel V. Prott, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland.
Appreciation, accumulation, devastation? The love of beauty has inspired many great collections of works of art.
Source countries are today increasingly articulate about the (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
In order to achieve significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, Australia, along with the rest of the world, must dramatically cut emissions from power generation.
Renewable energy technologies offer the potential for very low emission electricity but are currently a relatively (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ECM Faculty Seminar Series : This seminar series will cover broader themes related to the Faculty
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Walking into Slavery with Open Eyes: The Descent of “Science”
16:30 - BOOK LAUNCH - My Men from the Archives - Book Launch : WA Book Launch of "Ali Abdul v The King" by Hanifa Deen
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You are cordially invited to the WA Book Launch of "Ali Abdul v The King" by an award-winning author Hanifa Deen. The details for the event are as follows:
Date: Wed, 3rd August 2011
Time: 4.30-5.30pm
Venue: Grevillea Room, UWA Extension, UWA Claremont Campus (corner of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Climate Change and Energy Security Policies: Are they really two sides of the same coin?
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The 2011 Reid Oration will be presented by Peter Hartley, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.
Professor Hartley is a 2011 Professor-at-Large at the Institute of (...)
Music for Cello and Piano with Guest Artists Niall Brown, cello and Isabelle Trub, piano
Following more than ten years of concerts, it has become clear that cellist Niall Brown and pianist Isabelle Trub have created something quite special in chamber music that the press have unanimously (...)
3 - 8 August 2011
A festival of old and new music for 1-12 cellos spanning 3 centuries
Old meets new in an exciting festival of music composed for the cello, ranging from baroque works written in the early 18th century through to world premier compositions by UWA resident (...)
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Thursday 04 |
Specialist performer Geoff Gartner will workshop UWA student composer pieces, as well as presenting select works from the repertoire, and give composers advice about writing for cello.
As a musicologist Gartner specializes in the American experimental scene with a particular emphasis on (...)
Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize in Composition and Pauline Steel Prize for Solo Cello
Students competing for the Pauline Steel Prize for cello will play newly composed works for solo cello by UWA student composers especially for the Old Cello/New Cello Festival in this combined lunchtime (...)
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Friday 05 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - 'Where the rubber meets the road�: The centrality of what people decide to do during the period between awareness of threat and impact of the hazard
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Most of the limited research reported in Australia about community bushfire safety has focused on peoples’ intentions to prepare for bushfires. Relatively little research has focused on what people decide and do when under threat of bushfire attack. I will present findings from research following (...)
Accompaniment with Guest Artist Isabelle Trub, piano
Trub has also been closely associated as an accompanist with the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland, Freiburg Hochschule and Villa Musica in Germany, Hindemith Foundation in Switzerland and more recently Youth Music (...)
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Saturday 06 |
9:30 - SEMINAR - Stay on Your Feet Seminar & UWA Clinic Open Day
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Presentation from Stay on Your Feet WA on the 9 steps that you can take to reduce your falls risk. 1 in 4 people over 60 will fall each year which can lead to injury and significant physical limitation. Being active and independent is a key to being able to enjoy our lives at any age. Come along (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Spanish Fire : A performance of one of the great Spanish compositions in a stunning arrangement for castanets and piano.
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Danzas Espanolas is one of Enrique Granados’ supreme achievements for keyboard.
Now there’s a rare opportunity to listen to, and watch, as two masters of their art – Deanna Blacher (castanets) & Cameron Roberts (piano) – take you into the uniquely thrilling and passionate (...)
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Sunday 07 |
15:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Concert: Artistry! 4 - Old Cello/New Cello Festival Concert
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In association with Tura New Music this concert can only be described as an extravaganza of music.
Bringing together international and national cellists, music for one to twelve cellos will saturate the senses in their exquisite sound.
Featuring guest artists Niall Brown (...)
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Monday 08 |
Selected UWA cello students will perform and work with cellist Niall Brown in this public masterclass.
Niall Browns talent was recognised early on by Yehudi Menuhin. Brown has performed as soloist with the Camerata Bern, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the Link to Keyboard Improvisation
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In this Power of Music Seminar, Stewart Smith, Coordinator Classical Music, WAAPA, ECU discusses exciting historical musicology research entitled Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the
Link to Keyboard Improvisation.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to stack oranges in three dimensions, 24 dimensions, and beyond
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A free public lecture by by Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University and 2011 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
How can we pack balls as tightly as possible?
In other words: to squeeze as many balls as possible into a limited space, what� (...)
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