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Displaying from Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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March 2010
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Tuesday 23 |
17:00 - EVENT - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘Music Listening and Health Impact’
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Tara French is a graduate research student working with Professor Raymond Macdonald who directs the music and health research unit at Glasgow Caledonian University. Tara’s research explores how people regulate mood and overall wellbeing through their choice of music. In this presentation she will (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - World Cities of Sex : Exploration of the sexual economy in cities.
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In this presentation, Professor Hubbard will explore the ways in which cities have become hubs in an international sexual economy that is increasingly important as a driver of global economic change. Focusing on the intersections between business travel, sex tourism, prostitution and pornography (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Wednesday Night Conversations : A series of free public talks in March and April at the Gallery
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Leigh Robb is Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Brendan van Hek is a contemporary West Australian artist. Hear their take on Aernout Mik’s video installation touch, rise and fall (2008), and how it connects to other recent video art practice in Australia and overseas.
In this lecture, author Susanna de Vries will speak about her latest book 'Females on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s Brave Pioneers'.
Females on the Fatal Shore documents the story of the lives of 12 significant women who sailed to the Australian colonies in its founding years. Every (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Geophysical monitoring of WA natural gas and CO2 projects: balancing energy & environment
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Join Winthrop Professor David Lumley as he talks about how WA is poised to embark on several new world-class energy projects. These include over A$250 Billion investment in major offshore natural gas reserves in the Carnarvon, Browse and Bonaparte basins, of which Gorgon is the first.
Developing (...)
Year twelve can be a stressful time for students and parents!
Our free information session will give you a head-start on making your child's Year twelve experience a positive one.
You'll hear: current UWA students talk about what worked for them in Year 12, and what they'd do (...)
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Thursday 25 |
UWA EXTENSION PRESENTS - AN EVENING WITH TIM COSTELLO
Recognised as one of Australia’s leading voices on social justice issues, Tim has spearheaded public debates on gambling, urban poverty, homelessness, reconciliation and substance abuse. Since February 2004, as CEO of World Vision (...)
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Friday 26 |
SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Philip Gamblen;
Title: 'Relay' - Artist talk;
Location: Heathcote Museum and Gallery - Duncraig Road, Applecross; 3:30-5pm;
"Philip Gamblen will give an artist talk at his Relay exhibition at the Heathcote Gallery. Relay takes its name from the (...)
18:00 - SCREENING - An exclusive invitation to Life & Physical Science Alumni under 40 to the Australian Premier of Max Manus
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Join us for the Australian Premiere of "Max Manus" including pre-show drinks and finger food.
"From 1939 to 1945 Norway was occupied by the Nazis, and it fell on the gallant Norwegian resistance hero Max Manus (19141996) to save his homeland from the Third Reich. Manus was (...)
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Sunday 28 |
9:00 - EVENT - Perth Sun Fair : Discover sustainable living, renewable energy first hand
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Numerous - experts and people like you who have done the yards The Perth Sun Fair is on again on Sunday 5th April - Find out all about sustainable living, renewable energy, solar power, electric vehicles, grey water recycling, inventors association etc, free seminars all day in 4 marquees.
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Monday 29 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Medical Research Seminar Series : Stem cell therapy for lung disease: Hope versus Hype
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Lung diseases comprise a major global
burden of health and are characterized
by loss of gas-exchange units and tissue
remodeling. Conventional therapeutic
interventions have not been effective in
treating these conditions. In this talk,
we explore the latest developments
in cell biology, animal (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture Series : Professor Greg Whyte, Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor Greg Whyte is one of British sport's foremost research scientists and internationally renowned for his work on the heart of athletes and performance enhancement and has worked as consultant physiologist to a large number of Olympic and professional sports. Prior to his appointment at (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture - Professor Greg Whyte : Is Exercise Bad for the Heart? The Impact of Endurance Exercise on Cardiac Structure and Function
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Moderate intensity, moderate duration exercise is widely recognized as being wholly beneficial for health. In contrast, the impact of repeated bouts of high intensity, prolonged bouts of exercise are not fully understood. The growing number of endurance and ultra-endurance events in recent times (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music International Research Seminar Series : ‘The Oppenheimer Siddur: Artist and Scribe in a 15th-Century Hebrew Manuscript’
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The Oppenheimer Siddur (prayer book) in the Oxford Bodleian Library stands out among extant dated and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts from all regions that have been classified as user-produced. Made in 1471 in Germany by an Ashkenazi scribe for his family, this small book is remarkable for the (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture - Professor Greg Whyte : Anything is Possible: Exercise for Life
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Professor Greg Whyte is one of British sport's foremost research scientists and internationally renowned for his work on the heart of athletes and performance enhancement and has worked as consultant physiologist to a large number of Olympic and professional sports. Prior to his appointment at (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
7:00 - EVENT - The Rotary Club of Crawley Charter Breakfast : The Birth of a new Rotary Club at UWA
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What is a Charter Breakfast and why is it such a special occasion? Rotary Club receives its Charter, the official recognition that it has met all the requirements of Rotary International, only once in its history. Rotary is the most successful service organisation in the world. It is a vast (...)
13:00 - EVENT - ABC Broadcast Live from Winthrop Hall - ALL WELCOME
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Are you spending the Easter long weekend cleaning up from last week's big storm?
Well whether it's mildew in the ceiling, wet carpet in the car or rust stains on the towels, Shannon Lush can answer all your storm related questions.
Join Shannon, ABC's Gillian O'Shaugnessy and (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture - Professor Greg Whyte : Pre-participation Cardiovascular Screening in Sport - Is it worth it?
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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young athlete during sport is an uncommon event however; the high profile media coverage combined with the public’s perception that athletes represent the healthiest portion of society results in a significant and widespread impact associated with such events.
18:00 - SCREENING - An exclusive invitation to Life & Physical Science Alumni under 30 to the Australian Premier of Soul Kitchen
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Join us for the Australian Premiere of "Soul Kitchen" including pre-show drinks and finger food.
"This hectic comedy is about Greek brothers Zinos and Illias, who operate a restaurant in a converted warehouse in a run-down area of Hamburg. Soul Kitchen combines good food (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Business School & NWQ Capital Management - Public Lecture with Professor Edward Altman : A Tale of Three Periods: current conditions and outlook in global credit markets
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Professor Altman explores the fascinating recent debacle in global credit markets by analysing…
• How the world built up the credit bubble which began to burst in June 2007?
• What has happened between that date and today?
• The outlook on credit markets, corporate defaults and (...)
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