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Events for the public
 March 2014
Monday 17
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - SYMPOSIUM - Shadow Land: Memory and Colonialism Website | More Information
Since 1995, artist Anne Ferran has been examining and rediscovering Australia’s colonial history, through museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites.

Her investigation into Australia’s colonial past, especially its lost histories of incarceration, offers a rich opportunity for archaeologists and historians concerned with recent and contemporary pasts to consider how the materiality of places, landscapes, remains, and objects, both reflect and shape practices that produce identity and memory.

As part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's campus partnership with the University of Western Australia's faculties, academic staff from the disciplines of History and Archaeology will share their research in this special symposium at the Gallery.

The symposium is free to attend, however, REGISTRATION is essential. For more information on the program, speakers attending and to register, please visit: http://shadowland-symposium.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal


16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Perth USAsia Centre presents a public lecture from New York Times Editorial Board Member Carol Giacomo Website | More Information
Visting New York Times editorial board member Carol Giacomo will be at UWA and talking with students on covering the world from home and abroad; looking at the challenges facing journalists covering foreign policy issues. An established commentator on US foreign policy, Ms Giacomo also discusses President Obama’s Asia rebalance and how it affects US relations with major countries in the region.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture Series 2 - Understanding Chinese Economy, Investment and Business More Information
As Australia's future is so bound up with that of China, it is important that we understand the ongoing changes in China, especially its economy. The Confucius Institute at The University of Western Australia is inviting you to join the second lecture series on “Understanding China --- China's Economy, Investment and Business presented by international well-known experts.
Tuesday 18
9:00 - WORKSHOP - The #altac Track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careers Website | More Information
#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and the public sector. Roles often include a combination of administration, project management, teaching and research work.

This free, 3-hour workshop will explore strategies and tools to help PhD candidates and early career researchers imagine and build alternative academic careers. It will include a panel session with several practicing “alt-academics”, hands-on activities and plenty of lively discussion and debate.

9:00 - WORKSHOP - A Taste of HuNI: Using the HuNI Virtual Laboratory Website | More Information
This FREE workshop is designed to introduce humanities researchers to the HuNI Virtual Laboratory.

Researchers will be given an introduction to the contents and capabilities of the HuNI VL, and its relationship to the various contributing datasets. They will learn how to create their own account in HuNI and use it to build and share collections of data relevant to their research. They will also learn how to annotate entities in HuNI to show relationships between them, and how to export information from HuNI.

After completing the workshop, attendees will be able to start using the HuNI Virtual Laboratory as an integral part of their research. The workshop is not intended to be an in-depth look at the technical architecture and functionality of the Virtual Laboratory, and is not designed for technical experts.

Two sessions are being held from 9am - 12pm, and 1400-1700 (the afternoon workshop is a repeat of the morning workshop). You must register to attend this free workshop.

14:00 - CONFERENCE - Digital Humanities Australasia 2014 Conference Website | More Information
The biennial conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). aaDH was formed to strengthen the digital humanities research community and is a member of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).

Join us from 18th – 21st March 2014, on the beautiful UWA Campus.

This year’s conference themes are as follows:

WORKING WITH TEXT; NEW MEDIA and the DIGITAL; METHODS, APPROACHES and USES; WORKING WITH DATA; BUILDING the DH COMMUNITY and PRESENCE; INDIGENOUS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIGITAL RESEARCH

All delegates are required to register in advance. Registration closes on 9th March 2014, at 12:00 midnight WST.

Workshops and a Masterclass with Dr Anthony Beavers will be held on the 17th and 18th of March. The Master class on Computational philosophy and the moral implications of automated decision making, held on the 18th of March from 14:00 – 17:00, is at iVEC@ECU, Building 13, ECU Mt Lawley Campus.

16:30 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music Presents: Research Seminar Series - Jon Prince Website | More Information
Jon Prince

How melodic contour, rhythm, tonality, and metre affect musical similarity and expectancy
Wednesday 19
7:30 - EVENT - UWA Nedlands Bike Breakfast : Celebrate cycling as a great way to travel to UWA. Website | More Information
Cycle to UWA and enjoy a free, full breakfast. Get a free bike check with our bike doctor. See the State Minister for Sport and Recreation launch CycleWest's Strategic Framework for Cycling.

Registrations are essential and will go into the draw to win a $700 spending spree at the winner's chosen bike shop.

Please register at www.transport.uwa.edu.au/events

This event is organised by UWA Sustainable Initiatives and the City of Nedlands with support from UniPark, the Department of Transport as part of Cycle Instead BikeWeek, the University Club and the University Bicycle Club.

13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Public Lecture by Hanifa Deen: Taslima Nasreen, the Female Rushdie: Freedom of Speech and Islamophobia : CMSS presents: A Public Lecture by Hanifa Deen Website | More Information
Hanifa Deen explores the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen. Following a newspaper interview the author gave in neighbouring India, violent demonstrations broke out in 1994 and she was accused of blasphemy. This led to an international campaign by human rights organisations such as: Amnesty International, International PEN and Reporters San Frontiers to ‘Save Taslima’. Labelled ‘the female Salman Rushdie’, which eventually proved her undoing, Nasreen ‘escaped’ to the West where she became an overnight celebrity, a much-lauded feminist and free speech icon adopted by European freedom of expression organisations and USA feminists. Her Western supporters never asked why Bangladeshi feminists, secularists and human rights activists never ‘adopted’ her. Nasreen’s brand of feminism and Indian backing alienated her from what should have been her domestic support base. Eventually Nasreen toppled from her literary pedestal in the West, a victim of everyone’s expectations, political manoeuvring and her own sense of entitlement. Nasreen writes in Bengali, her mother tongue, and wants to live permanently in West Bengal, India. This presents difficulties for the government as her presence leads to violent demonstrations by Muslim extremists. She is also famous for her acrimonious fallings out with her male mentors in Bangladesh, Western Europe and now in India. Hirsi Ali, another critic of Islam, has in some respects relegated Nasreen to the sidelines.

Hanifa Deen is an award-winning West Australian-born author who writes narrative non-fiction and now lives in Melbourne. Her books include: Caravanserai: A Journey Among Australian Muslims, for which she won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award; Broken Bangles, short listed for a WA Premier’s Award, The Jihad Seminar (UWA Press) short listed for the Australian Human Rights Commission, Literature Non-Fiction Award; Ali Abdul vs. The King, (UWA Publishers, 2011). Her latest book On the Trail of Taslima was released in June 2013.

Deen has also served as a Hearing Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia, and also on the Board of Directors, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS). She was the Director of Community Education at the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission as well as the Deputy Commissioner at the Multicultural Affairs Commission WA.

Currently she is Chair of the Institute of Cultural Diversity and is also the Editor of Sultana’s Dream, an online magazine written and produced by Australian Muslim women which she founded in 2011.

You are welcome to bring your lunch and join the conversation

16:00 - SEMINAR - The Enchantment of Remote Islands and Their Peoples : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series. Website | More Information
In part, this seminar is a travelogue and, in part, it is an amateur study in comparative anthropology. While exploring many small, remote and near-isolated islands around the world I became fascinated by the history and sociology of the small human communities that occupied those corners of the world.

In this seminar I tell many of their stories, mostly tragic, often uplifting and sometimes heroic but almost always the result of clashes with the larger world. At the same time I had the pleasure of photographing and then exhibiting the scenic grandeur of these ocean-bound patches of ground.

In the process I will march through time from the remarkable remains of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in the Orkneys to the dramatic pinnacle of Skellig Michael off the southwest coast of Ireland, a place that Sir Kenneth Clark credited with contributing to the survival of civilization during Europe’s Dark Ages.

From there we will move halfway around the world to the murderous story of the Batavia shipwreck on the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of Western Australia and back again to the British Isles for a visit to the remote island of St.Kilda and its ill-starred people. I finish with the current story of Tory Island off the northwest corner of Ireland whose people, persecuted in the past, are struggling to retain a viable existence on their island.

(See “The Far Side of the Sky” at http://www.dankat.com/mstory/mstory.htm)

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

****All Welcome****




18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How nature makes materials Website | More Information
A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.

Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of properties of natural materials is mind-boggling, and in many instances not easily surpassed by man-made substitutes. One important aspect of many natural materials is their intricate structure, extending often from a few nanometers to macroscopic dimensions.

In this lecture Professor Steiner will discuss some recent work that illustrates what we can learn from nature: how to make structured materials and how to copy their properties. Some of the examples that Professor Steiner will cover will include: animal skeletons and sea shells; structural colour in nature; adhesion properties of insects, spiders and lizards; and self-cleaning surfaces.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/steiner

Friday 21
12:30 - EVENT - Harmony Day : An annual event celebrating cultural, linguistic and religious diversity More Information
Harmony Day is an annual event in the UWA calendar that provides an opportunity to affirm and celebrate cultural, linguistic and religious diversity in the campus community.

The Vice-Chancellor, Winthrop Professor Paul Johnson, invites you to join him in the Tropical Grove to hear guest speaker Suresh Rajan's talk entitled "I'm not a Racist but...". Suresh will speak on the topic of Casual Racism.

18:00 - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - First Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2014 : First Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2014 Website | More Information
Ordinary Meetings of Convocation were originally the general meetings of The University of Western Australia. These meetings of Convocation still provide the opportunity to receive an update on the operations of your University and current issues in tertiary education from the Vice-Chancellor, the Warden of Convocation and the Guild President.

An opportunity for questions from the audience is provided.

Guest Speaker Dr Lawrence will speak on "An avalanche of change: Will universities as we know them survive the onslaught?"
Saturday 22
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - 2 FREE PUBLIC LECTURES : Roman Archaeology Group presents 2 free lectures: Baths of Caracalla & Rome, Renewed : 2 FREE PUBLIC LECTURES - Roman Archaeology Group Website | More Information
2 FREE Lectures - All are welcome! 1:30pm - "Building the Baths of Caracalla" by W/Prof. David Kennedy. 2:30pm - Afternoon Tea. 3pm "Rome, Renewed - the Archaeology of Appropriation" by Rebecca Norman.

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)

SYNOPSIS: "Building the Baths of Caracalla" by W/Prof. David Kennedy. Sandra Ottley lectured on the Baths in a RAG lecture in 2012. In this lecture, we will explore – thanks to the work of an Australian archaeologist, Janet DeLaine, the logistics of constructing this immense building, so much of which still survives in Rome.

Rome, Renewed – the Archaeology of Appropriation” presented by Rebecca Norman. Rebecca Norman was supported by a Don Boyer Archaeology Travel Scholarship to spend time in Rome and participate in a course on the city, its development and the survival and re-use of the past.
Tuesday 25
11:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Ray Griggs : Public Lecture on the Role of the Royal Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean Website | More Information
FREE - but registration is essential. The Perth USAsia Centre is pleased to host the Australian Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Ray Griggs AO CSC to share his views on the mission, challenges and opportunities facing the Royal Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean.

16:30 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music Presents: Research Seminar Series - Jane Ginsborg Website | More Information
Jane Ginsborg

Practice-led research in music-making: What it can tell us about learning

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - 'Want to be a better lover?' : Join Stuart Fenner for a short talk and experience of Christian Meditation. Website | More Information
This session will introduce an approach to meditation which originates from the third century desert monks of Egypt. Because 'God is love', communion with God's Spirit transforms one's life and relationships. Many people who mediate report greater clarity and compassion, for both self and others. Perhaps it could be said that we become 'better lovers'.

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Science fact or fiction? "Doctors can see into our living cells" Website | More Information
An Inquiring Minds lecture by Winthrop Professor David Sampson, Head, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) and Director, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis (CMCA) at The University of Western Australia.

In this talk, Professor Sampson will tease apart fact from fiction in explaining new technology that allows us to see inside a living human body. He will describe how far we have come and what the future technology will bring. Be warned, this talk will contain lots of pictures, and some may contain blood.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required to http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/sampson

Wednesday 26
16:00 - SEMINAR - What does the Study of Older Men Teach us? Website | More Information
Having trained clinically and in research in Sydney, Newcastle and Melbourne, Leon became the inaugural Professor of Geriatric Medicine at The University of Western Australia in 1998. He has established a productive research unit aimed at translational issues focusing on the health needs of older people culminating in 2006, the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing at The University of Western Australia. As well as these research activities, he has led the reorganization of undergraduate and postgraduate education in geriatric medicine in Western Australia. He remains a practicing geriatrician and is Head of Inner City Geriatric Services at Royal Perth Hospital. He has served on numerous government committees addressing the health needs of older people. He was President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine for 2003-2005. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles addressing a wide variety of health issues in older people.

17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture : Annual lecture on a topic related to transgender inclusion More Information
The 2014 Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture is entitled "Making History: All the places we've been and are still yet to go in the fight for Transgender and Intersex Rights".

The lecture will be deliverd by Aram Hosie, a queer identified transgender man from Perth, Western Australia, who has been involved in advocating for the rights of LGBTI people nationally and internationally for over a decade.

The lecture will begin at 6pm, which light refreshments served from 5.30 pm.

For more information and to RSVP, please email [email protected]

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