What's On at UWA

Join us on campus at The University of Western Australia for a 3-day match between the EBC England Lions and the WACA XI team.

The ECB England Lions team may well include possible future England star and Australian born Sam Robson, along with established Test player Tim Bresnan. Also likely to play are current internationals, Jos Butler, Chris Jordan, and Danny Briggs.

The WACA XI will possibly include Michael Beer, Tom Triffett, and Nathan Rimmington, along with a number of contracted players keen to catch the eye of State selectors. A couple of WA "young guns' will also be given the chance to prove their worth.

The match will be held over Tuesday 10 December – Thursday 12 December from 10.30am at James Oval.

Bring your chairs, food and sunscreen and get settled in for three days of outstanding cricket in a relaxed and beautiful setting.

You, your friends and family will be able to get close to the action to see these two teams play, just days before the third Ashes test gets underway in Perth.

While on campus, you can wander around our beautiful grounds, purchase food and drinks from our Guild Village Cafe or University Club or head across the road to the scenic Matilda Bay.

Please plan your journey by checking our parking and transport information page. Please note that this venue is not licensed and is smoke and alcohol free.

Members of the UWA community, family and friends are invited to a traditional service of readings, carols and hymns at the Chapel of St. George's College on Thursday 12th December at 7pm. The choir is the UWA Winthrop Singers.

The event is free and we invite a donation which will be shared equally between the Winthrop Singers Development Fund and the Christmas Bowl Appeal (for overseas development aid).

Space is limited so please RSVP to the college reception by phoning 9449 5555 or email: [email protected]

Parking is available near the boat sheds on the corner of Mounts Bay Road and Hackett Drive.

An annual event at St George's College is the Christmas Carols performed by the Winthrop Singers. An evening not to be missed. Please book as there is limited space. Performances are on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December.

Master of Music (Research) student Marco Lombardi presents his Master's Piano recital. The program includes:

Chopin, Frederic - Preludes Op 28 Mozart, W.A. - Rondo in A minor K511 Busoni, Ferruccio - Sonatina Seconda Castiglioni, Niccolo - Sonatina

Entry is free - all welcome!

The School of Population Health is holding an Information Evening on Monday 16 December at 5.30pm.

We will present three concurrent information sessions for those interested in achieving a Master of Nursing Science, Masters of Social Work or Master of Public Health.

If you are interested in one of our Masters degrees, please register to attend a session at sph.uwa.edu.au. There will be a brief presentation outlining the relevant course for you, followed by plenty of time for your questions. Drinks and nibbles will be provided and you will have the opportunity to talk to some of our lecturers and current students.

These information sessions will be held at the School of Population Health in the Clifton Street Building, Nedlands Campus.

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 fitness and stroke technique.

The program will be catered to the abilities and skills of individual participants.

Times: Monday 9.30am - 11am and/or Saturday 8.30am - 10am When: January 11th - February 17th

Cost: Monday block $90*due to public holidays - Saturday block $108 (Private health rebates may apply)

Location: School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health (Uniswim and UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic - Parkway Entrance #4)

PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED!!! SO GET IN QUICK!!

We are all aware that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole. Well, maybe not! In 1974 Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes emit a form of radiation, which has become known as Hawking radiation.

This radiation originates at the black hole horizon – the spherical surface inside of which light is trapped. The black hole horizon is effectively a control surface for light: the interior of the sphere is said to be superluminal and the exterior, subluminal. An interpretation of Hawking’s analysis is that when particle-antiparticle pairs are formed at a black hole horizon, one falls into the hole while the other escapes and reduces the energy in the black hole.

Unruh (1981) showed that there is a mathematical analogy between the process described above and the behavior of water waves propagating upstream against a current. I will report on the results of the experiments of Weinfurtner et al. (2011) that tested this analogy in a 6.2 m long and 0.15 m wide flume.

The fate of free surface water waves propagating upstream toward the crest of a streamlined obstacle has been examined. As the waves propagate toward the crest of the obstacle they slow down, both because the flow velocity in the channel increases, and because their phase speed decreases as they shoal. As their wavelength decreases so too does their group velocity and eventually the waves are arrested and are converted into pairs of short waves.

Both waves have a downstream group velocity, but one has an upstream phase velocity and the other a downstream phase velocity. These wave pairs are analogous to the particle-antiparticle pairs of Hawking radiation and represent the closest analogy to Hawking radiation observed to date.

Hawking, S.W. (1974) Nature 248, 30. Unruh, W.G. (1981) Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 1351. Weinfurtner, S., E.W. Tedford, M.C.J. Pennrice, W.G. Unruh & G.A. Lawrence (2011) Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021302.

Biography: B.E., (W. Aust.), M.S., Ph.D. (Berkeley), P.Eng. Research Interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management.



PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

There is increasing attention to the fact that global increases in sex work occur not only among female sex workers, but also among cohorts of male sex workers. However, current research continues to focus predominately on female sex workers, and specifically on street sex workers, despite the existence of large numbers of MSW and significant changes in the geography of sex work from ‘outdoors’ to ‘indoors’. International research suggests that the majority of men who have sex with men meet their partners through the internet. Despite this sex industry research has only recently begun to examine the impacts of technological change on the male sex industry. At a broad social level, telecommunications has increased the numbers of male escort workers, created new spaces for sex work encounters, and has extended the reach of sex work to a wider socio-demographic audience. At the behavioural level, research indicates that the needs, desires and experiences of sex workers and clients and the context of their encounters are different when conducted in cyberspace. With attention to the larger social context of masculinity, power, spatially situated forms of interaction, and the body as commodity, this presentation examines how telecommunications, in changing the structure and organization of sex work, has opened up new spaces for the expression of masculinity and intimacy.

1)Chinese Martial Arts 2)Chinese Literature and Film 3)Chinese Arts and Music 4)Chinese Cuisine and Food Culture 5)Chinese Business Culture 6)Chinese Medicine and Well-being

2014 Chinese Language Course 1) Day time Chinese Beginners Course(10 weeks) 2) Chinese Beginners Course (10 weeks) 3) Chinese Intermediate Course (10 weeks) 4) Advanced Chinese Course (10 weeks) 5) NEW Children's Chinese Courses (10 weeks)

Three correlational studies investigated implications associated with explicit-implicit sexual orientation ambivalence for information processing and psychological well-being in samples of straight and gay individuals.

Across the studies, 243 straight participants completed explicit and implicit measures of sexual orientation; in one of these studies, 48 gay participants completed the same measures. Within individual studies, participants also completed measures of self-esteem.

When considering the effects of ambivalence between self-reported and indirectly measured sexual orientation (SO), among straight participants explicit-implicit SO ambivalence was positively associated with time spent deliberating questions on sexual preferences; an effect moderated by the direction of ambivalence. In an attempt to explain this effect, in our third study, straight participants read ambivalence-relevant arguments that were either strong or weak in quality. In line with the effect found previously, the amount of explicit-implicit SO ambivalence positively related to post-message cognitive responses after reading strong but not weak arguments. This effect was also found to be moderated by the direction of ambivalence.

For gay participants, individual differences in explicit-implicit SO ambivalence tended to influence time deliberating sexuality. In addition, explicit-implicit ambivalence in sexual orientation attitudes among gay individuals, but not straight individuals, was related to self-esteem in addition to defensive self-esteem.

Our findings demonstrate the information processing consequences of explicit-implicit ambivalence in both straight and gay individuals when considering an attitude object that has considerable personal relevance. Furthermore, our results highlight that explicit-implicit ambivalence in sexual orientation attitudes may be an important antecedence of psychological well-being in gay-individuals.

Speakers:

1) Professor Li Zhongshang, Minister-Counsellor for Education, Embassy of P.R China in Australia Title: Chinese Economy and the Chinese Dream

2) Dr Liu Jingyuan, Senior Advisor, Shandong Association Title: Did the Chinese Discover Australia?

3) Professor Jan Ryan, Hon Professor, Edith Cowan University Title: Shifting Profile of Chinese Women in Australia

4) Dr Han Baolei, Senior Advisor, Shandong Association Title: Why did the Confucius Thought Emerge in Shandong Province?

Government Accountability – Law and Practice

Continuing professional development course ideal for those working in government or government related organisations.

The continuing growth of government in recent decades has led to a rise in the number (and reach) of accountability agencies, so much so that some commentators now talk of the emergence of a fourth branch of government – the ‘integrity’ branch.

In this course we will explore: - the place of government in the modern state, and the how and why of government accountability; - accountability frameworks (with reference to traditional and contemporary administrative law, political structures, the media, academia and non-government organisations); and - the theoretical underpinnings, development, evolving law and practice, and regulation of various accountability agencies.

In the Western Australian context, particular reference will be made to the Corruption and Crime Commission (and the relevant Parliamentary Inspector), the Inspector of Custodial Services, the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General, the Public Sector Commissioner, and the Information Commissioner.

National and international comparison will be drawn at various points.

Dr Orkun Akseli from Durham (UK) is an expert in the corporate and commercial field with particular emphasis on harmonisation of secured transactions laws and facilitation of credit.

All are welcome to attend this interesting talk about secured transactions and legal transplantation.

Join us at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 7 February 6pm for the opening of:

Anne Ferran: Shadow Land + The launch of the companion publication - Shadow Land + Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World This event is free to attend, however please register your attendance here: http://lwag-launch-feb.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal

To find out more about the exhibitions, visit the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery website: www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au

2 FREE Lectures - All are welcome! 1:30pm - "Justinian's Empire" presented by Dr Michael Champion. 2:30pm - Afternoon Tea. 3:00pm - "Western Travellers to Petra in the 19th Century" presented by W/Prof. David Kennedy.

N.B. Lectures are FREE, however there is a small charge for the refreshments served at the mid-session break: $7pp (RAG members) / $10pp (non-members)

In conjunction with the exhibition of her work, Shadow Land, one of Australia's most acclaimed photo-media artists, Anne Ferran offers a personal look into her multi-faceted artistic practice.

The artist talk is free to attend, however, please REGISTER your attendance via http://ferrantalk.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal

The exhibition Shadow Land, runs from 8 February until 19 April 2014, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as part of the Visual Art program for the Perth International Arts Festival.

Shadow Land is a survey exhibition of Anne Ferran’s most significant projects and series, spanning more than 30 years.

The earliest series of works touch on French cultural theories of feminism and representation in their staged classical tableaux style. Since 1995, Ferran has been examining and re-discovering Australia’s colonial heritage utilizing museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites, nationally and internationally.

Anne Ferran is interested in the gaps or silences in the records and personal histories of those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals, mental asylums and female factories. Her practice incorporates a variety of media including photography, textiles, installation, text, and video/film.

Abstract: This project follows the careers of a female network originating at the court of Anne of France (1461-1522), regent for her brother Charles VIII, and mentor to many girls who went on to illustrious careers: Marguerite of Austria, Louise of Savoy, Diane de Poitiers and Anne of Brittany. To this original circle I add the next generation: Anne of Brittany’s daughters Claude, Queen of France and Renée, Countess of Ferrara, together with Louise of Savoy’s daughter, Marguerite de Navarre, who in turn trained her own daughter, Jeanne d’Albret. Master of politics, Anne passed on knowledge about succeeding in a man’s world. Her father Louis XI chose her to be unofficial regent on his deathbed, apparently believing that in this way she would encounter less opposition than if she were formally appointed. Although female regency in France continued to be exercised unofficially, it was an important institution. From the beginning of Anne’s regency until Louis XIV came of age, ending the regency of Anne of Austria, the kingdom was for all practical purposes ruled by women for about 42 years, which is to say that, in a kingdom that prohibited female rule, women ruled about 25% of that time.

I examine Anne of France’s extended circle as an “emotional community” with the goal of understanding how members were prepared emotionally to exercise power while conforming to a repertoire of female stereotypes. Their libraries are of special interest, because in the works they shared we find models for ideal emotional modulation. I will present from a chapter on marriage, passion, and love. Passionate love was the result of an imbalance of humors; marital affection was an idealized, modulated emotional state between spouses in dynastic marriages. I compare some idealized representations of marital relationships in works from the libraries of the women with reports about these relationships from chronicles and ambassadors’ letters. These sources are all “texts”, of course, but I believe that, in comparing what was perceived as an ideal with impressions of the women, we find clues as to how they assimilated and manipulated their emotional models.

West Australian Opera, Black Swan State Theatre Company and ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) unite to offer an evening of insight and intrigue based on analysis of the character of Iago, key to both Shakespeare’s play and Verdi/Boito’s opera Otello. This scholarly and practical event explores the ways in which drama (through spoken language) and opera (through sung text and music) arouses emotion and depicts character, and how these are translated over time. Attendance is free, but RSVP essential by Thursday 6 February to [email protected]

This four day workshop is accessible to lawyers entering the field, government officials, resource company personnel, and others who seek an understanding of the legal context in which oil and gas issues arise. The short course covers the legal nature and protection of oil and gas exploration and production rights, both generally and in Australia.

For further information and registration visit the webpage http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/cpd/oil-gas