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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking (...)
14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Longevity Dividend Symposium : Health, ageing, creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
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The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA (...)
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Monday 04 |
The UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic along with UWA Uniswim invite you to join our launch of a gym and swim program for over 50's.
The program will include a 40min gym session working on strength, function and balance. Plus a 40min swimming session working on cardiovascular (...)
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Cell therapies for lung cancers and mesotheliomas" by Dr Sam Janes. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Wednesday 06 |
16:00 - EVENT - A microscope-in-a-needle: New technologies to image disease : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Optical coherence tomography is a recently developed imaging technology, capable of high resolution in vivo imaging of tissue. It is analogous to ultrasound, but uses near infrared light instead of sound waves.
It is used clinically in ophthalmology, and is rapidly gaining importance in (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - **CANCELLED** Cultural Heritage Keepers: digital technology and musical instrument repatriation
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A public lecture by Jennifer C. Post, ethnomusicologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UWA
**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled**
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Friday 08 |
15:00 - PRESENTATION - Striving for 5 year Survival with Glioblastoma : Neuro-Oncology Tumour Collaborative Presentation
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Dr Lindy Jeffree was inspired to specialise in surgery of brain tumours by working with Prof Andrew Kaye at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Dr Charlie Teo in Sydney.
Her research experience includes glioma research at the University of Sydney, an MSc in electrophysiology at the University of (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science Cafe : Science on Trial: The L'Aquila Earthquake. Should scientists be jailed for manslaughter?
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In the early morning of 6 April 2009, the town of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy experienced a Magnitude 6.3 earthquake. In the aftermath of the event, 309 people were killed, 1,600 were injured and thousands were made homeless.
Six days before the earthquake and after several (...)
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Sunday 10 |
This lecture by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives’ co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.
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Tuesday 12 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Delusions, Positive Illusions and Jumps to Conclusions: Understanding Departures from Rational Belief
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Rational belief formation involves holding beliefs with the firmness that the evidence warrants. Unfortunately, humans are known to fall short of this ideal, being prone to various forms of “misbelief”. Such deviations from rational belief range from “healthy” (yet potentially destructive) (...)
19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Life on the Eastern Goldfields in the 1890s - Exploring some traditional images and perspectives
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We are familiar with the traditional, often romanticised images and stories of prospectors, diggers up and down on their luck, rushes into the wilderness, mining mates, camp life and lonely deaths in the bush. 'The rush to be rich' lured a multitude of people to the (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
17:30 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - Dr Joan Trevelyan Memorial Lecture 2013 : A public lecture presented by Professor Mohammed Ayoob. He will be speaking about conflict and terrorism in the Middle East.
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The Arab Spring has both changed and charged some of the region’s thorniest problems – from the rise of political Islam to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israel-Palestine conflict to rivalries between key regional powers. Exploring the sources of conflict in the Middle East and their various (...)
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Thursday 14 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities Symposium : We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th
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We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th as part of the activities of our Centre for Research Excellence in Primary Oral Health Care (UWA node). This symposium brings together a number of outstanding national and (...)
A public talk by David Ritter, Executive Officer, Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
In his public talk, David will consider some of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities facing the environmental and progressive movements in contemporary Australia. He will make a positive case for (...)
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Friday 15 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - From Objects of Science to First Australians : Public talk with Jane Lydon
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Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous agenda. Today however such images have been re-contextualised, used to reconstruct family history, document culture and express connections to place. They (...)
19:15 - EVENT - Luminous Dreams - Geraldton : Lighting up the silo with a futuristic Geraldton tale
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On the evening of Friday 15 November a dramatic tale of Geraldton’s future, imagined through the eyes of artists and local high school students, will be projected onto the CBH silo at the Port, with a soundtrack simulcast on Radio Mama 100.5FM.
The Luminous Dreams project was developed (...)
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Monday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 19 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Perception : Vocal information plays a major role in person perception and social communication
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While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world, paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker´s arousal and emotional state, and extralinguistic cues reflect more stable speaker characteristics including identity (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
7:00 - EVENT - CANCELLED: Diversity Champions Breakfast : Discover why inclusion for LGBTI employees is now crucial to your business success
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Join international human resources and diversity expert, Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin and leaders from Chevron, IMB, UWA and Westpac, as they discuss the international trends and organisational developments in the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and (...)
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