What's On at UWA

The forum's objective is to enable engagement by academics, tax professionals and tax law students with the Board of Taxation. The forum will enable several members of the Board of Taxation to present on revenue law matters which are currently of relevance to the community. In particular, the current role of the Board of Taxation in ensuring community involvement in tax system design and contemporary drafting issues for tax legislation. Engagement will be encouraged through the opportunity for questions and discussion with Board members.

The sessions will deal with the theory and practice of how you measure the risks posed by the legal system of a host country, sovereign risk, contract stabilisation, bribery and corruption, social licence to operate and corporate governance.

GUEST SPEAKERS: Philip Wood, QC, Allen & Overy; Phil Edmands, Rio Tinto Iron Ore; Meredith Campion, Allen & Overy; The Honourable Professor Neville Owen; Barry Irwin, Allen & Overy and Michael Blakiston, Gilbert and Tobin

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

A public lecture by Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, University of Montana and 2013 US Fulbright Senior Specialist UWA.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. Register: http://2050food3-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#

Wild marine fisheries comprise approximately 15% of all animal protein in the human diet. However, the world now faces a global fishing crisis. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 70% of all commercially important marine fish stocks are fully fished, overexploited, or depleted. The harvesting of marine fish can have genetic effects that threaten the sustainability and potential recovery of this valuable resource. For example, recent genomics work with Atlantic cod has shown that the observed reduction in size and earlier age at sexual maturity is at least partially caused by a genetic response to fishing pressure. To sustain the productivity of harvested marine fisheries populations, it is crucial to incorporate genetic considerations into management. Management plans should be developed by applying basic genetic principles combined with molecular genetic monitoring to minimize harmful genetic change.

Professor John Eikelboom who originally trained at Royal Perth Hospital, is a world leader in blood disorders and blood clotting,having co-authored over 350 research papers,including several in the most prostigious international journals. He is an expert in translational clinical research and is currently driving several large multinational clinical trials on the effectiveness of blood anticoagulants (blood thinning agents), as well as blood transfusion therapies.

Professor Eikelboom will explain the increasing need for researchers to focus on critical clinical questions, and for laboratory-discovery research to identify the processes associated with disease. Together, these complementary approaches will decrease the time required to get new medicines to the bedside.

The Harry Perkins Oration is a FREE event for the community but registration is essential as places are limited.

Winthrop Professor Ted Snell, AM CitWA, Director of the Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia invites you to attend the opening of three exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 11 October 2013. Doors open: 5pm.

STAN HOPEWELL: GOD IS LOVE // BLISS // PEOPLE WHO YOU CAN'T MEET FACE TO FACE

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will also launch STAN HOPEWELL: FACING THE STARS written by Ted Snell with photography by Frances Andrijich and Henrik Tived, published by UWA Publishing.

The exhibitions will be opened by Ms Robin McClellan, former US Consul-General and current Director of Minerals Research Initiatives at Curtin University.

Doors open at 5pm. Refreshments will be served. RSVP essential to [email protected] or 6488 3707 by Thursday 10 October 2013.

Exhibition info: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au

"United" - Craig Ogden is the most sought after guitarist for chamber music in the United Kingdom. He regularly appears as soloist and chamber musician at major London venues including the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican. In this concert he joins long time collaborator Paul Tanner fresh from their performances in the UK

The Winthorp Singers perform a programme of light music including jazz and music theatre standards in the Dining Hall.

Admission is free, bookings are required as there is limited space.

Art After Death

A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death.

Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource.

An artist’s primary concern is developing their professional practise, in whatever guise that might take. But do artists ever ponder what will happen to their work when they are no longer here? Who will decide where their work can be shown, who can reproduce it and for what purposes can it be copied or used?

Like any other personal property, planning for an artist’s artwork, including who will own the work, administer the artist’s copyright and moral rights, and protect their reputation after death is an important but rarely discussed consideration.

Art After Death provides a unique opportunity to hear from prominent legal, accounting and arts professionals about the issues artists and their professional advisors may need to consider when planning for an artist’s will and estate. Participants will also have the rare opportunity to ask questions and raise issues with the panel during the session.

The Cultural Precinct is pleased to invite you to this free public lecture by Katrina Strickland, as she discusses her new book Affairs of the Art: Love, loss and power in the art world on Monday 14 October 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist’s reputation after he or she dies.

Through interviews with those handling the estates of artists including Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Howard Arkley, Bronwyn Oliver, George Baldessin and Albert Tucker, as well as a raft of art dealers, academics, curators and auctioneers, Strickland traverses the strange alleyways of the art market, where power resides with those who hold the best stock, and highlights the sometimes heart-wrenching way emotion and duty intersect in the making of decisions by those left behind.

Katrina Strickland has been writing about the arts for more than fifteen years, for the past six as arts editor of the Australian Financial Review, and is now Deputy Editor of Australian Financial Review Magazine.

Prior to that she worked at The Australian for eleven years, filling various roles including arts editor, deputy arts editor, national arts writer and marketing writer. She is a former World Press Institute fellow and joint winner of the 2010 Trawalla Foundation Arts Journalism Scholarship. She holds arts and law (hons) degrees from the University of Melbourne. Her first book Affairs of the Art (MUP) was published in May 2013.

Copies of Katrina's book are available from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. RRP $34.99

This event is FREE. However, registration is essential: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram/katrina-strickland/_nocache

The UWA Film Society, together with the section of Italian Studies at UWA, and the Consulate of Italy are happy to present: "The Italian 'Spaghetti' Western". A three movie series including:

- Monday 14th October - "Per un pugno di dollari" ("A Fistful of Dollars", by Sergio Leone, 1964);

- Thursday 17th October - "Django" ("Django", by Sergio Corbucci, 1966);

- Monday 21st October - "Il mio nome e' nessuno" ("My Name is Nobody", by S. Leone and T. Valeri, 1973).

FREE event, original soundtrack with ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

7 PM, SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE THEATRE (G130).

ABSTRACT: Two critical and interrelated means of success in the workplace are maximizing one’s current performance by exploiting existing skills, and improving one’s future performance by developing ones skills. In the short-run, trade-offs often exist between learning and performance; time spent learning is often time that could instead be spent performing.

Honours presentations: Cathering Bapty; Michelle Welschbillig; Eboney Nheu-Leong; Jessica Khoo

An Inquiring Minds public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director of The UWA Oceans Institute.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for plastic pollution, impacting marine life from tiny copepods to whales. The finding of an accumulation of plastic debris floating in the NW Pacific alerted the public to the accumulation of plastic in areas of the ocean with particular oceanographic dynamics. This triggered interest in mapping the abundance of floating plastic debris in the ocean.

This lecture will present the first results of a global survey of plastic pollution in the ocean along with the ensuing insights on the fate of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Cost: free, RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/duarte-inquiring-minds

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts will host a public workshop, part of the national Office of Learning and Teaching research project ‘Recasting Terra Nullius - Indigenising Built Environment Education and Practice'.

The workshop is organised in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA - WA Chapter) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). The workshop will provide opportunities to discuss the aims of the project and to get vital feedback on how both planning and design education, and practice, can respond to the future challenges of working with Indigenous Australians.

All interested parties welcome to attend. Register using the URL below.

Join us in acknowlegement of Archbishop Riley, a key figure in the foundation of the University, the second Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia, first Warden of the UWA Convocation and co-founder of St George's College. It will be an afternoon and evening of events to mark Archbishop Riley's vital contribution to the founding of UWA and St George's College.

5.00 pm Eucharist in the College Chapel conducted by The Most Reverend Roger Herft AM, Anglican Archbishop of Perth.

6.00 pm Archbishop Riley Lecture

7.00 pm Complimentary Refreshments

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

A public lecture by Dr Jesse Ransley, Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ransley

The labour of Indian Ocean sailors (known by Europeans as ‘lascars’) underpinned transoceanic trade, and the newly-global flow of people, materials and ideas which characterised the eighteenth century. Lascars were among the first people to live truly global lives. Their experiences are central to understanding the earliest structures of colonial trade, migration and labour in the Indian Ocean. Lascars are, however, largely invisible in historical accounts of colonial trade or the development of European colonial power structures in the region. This lecture will explore the material, spatial and institutional engagements shaping lascar lives in the eighteenth century. It will look to illuminate their experiences by drawing together some of these fragments alongside archaeological sources.

"Integrate" - Craig Ogden is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Visiting Lecturer at London’s Royal College of Music. In this performance, Craig works with some Western Australia’s finest emerging artists in a concert that is sure to mesmerise.

Every year, the outstanding ability and youthful passion of the emerging artists and their mentors combine to celebrate the culmination of a yearlong collaboration. Under the baton of Head of School and resident conductor, Alan Lourens, three young artists perform a movement of their chosen concerto onstage with orchestra in the finals of the prestigious VOSE competition. In the interval, vote in the People’s Choice Award for your favourite performance before immersing in the magnificence of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. For tickets, please visit: http://www.music.uwa.edu.au/concerts/artistry