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Displaying from Thursday, July 26, 2012
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July 2012
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Thursday 26 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance
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Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand (...)
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Saturday 28 |
UWA in association with Wounds West and Silver Chain presents this educational seminar day that will provide an update in best practise and the clinical skills required for assessment and management of wounds in Western Australia.
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Monday 30 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Geoff Laurent presents "Stem cells and lung regeneration"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Stem cells and lung regeneration" by Professor Geoff Laurent, Director, Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sexuality as a Human Right: The transformation of sex from sin, disease, identity, companionship, and recreation, to rights
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A public lecture by Dr Gilbert Herdt, Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC).
Over the past two centuries, Western civilization has witnessed a broad set of paradigm changes that characterize how and why we think about human sexuality as a social expression (...)
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Tuesday 31 |
2:30 - SEMINAR - WAMSI Kimberley Marine Science Seminar : The first in a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley.
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The Western Australian Marine Science Institution welcomes you to the first of a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley.
1st Speaker: Dr Barry Wilson (Murex Consultants), Patterns of life on Kimberley shores
The major controls of (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Visiting CMSS Fellow �The Bureaucracy and the Politics of Identity� : A lecture by Bambang Purwoko on a Study on the Influence of Ethnicity In The Bureaucratic Restructuring Process In Sorong Selatan Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Visiting CMSS Fellow, Mr. Bambang Purwoko, will complete his ground-breaking study examining the impact of ethnicity and political identity on the bureaucracy in the Sorong-Selatan Regency of the Indonesian province of West Papua. This study was born of a longstanding desire to understand and (...)
17:00 - EVENT - An Evening with Marita Cheng: Mechatronics Engineer and Young Australian of the Year : What do engineers really do, especially mechatronic engineers? Especially young and wildly enthusiastic ones?
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This is an opportunity to learn how young engineers are helping people by making the world a better place to be.
Marita Cheng was awarded Young Australian of the Year for her work with RoboGals: see http://www.robogals.org/latest-news/latest/182 and this video http://www.youtube.com/watch (...)
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August 2012
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Thursday 02 |
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong at St George's College Chapel : First Evensong of semester with the Winthrop Singers
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The Winthrop Singers return to a refurbished St George's College Chapel for the first Evensong service of Semester 2.
Featured music is by composers from UWA
Introit: Tunley Jesu Dulcis Memoria
Canticles: Caitlin Woods
Anthem: Joyce Ubi Caritas
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Friday 03 |
15:00 - EVENT - �Measuring Values in Young children : “Measuring Values in Young children with a new animated best-worst instrument”
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A new animated best-worst values instrument for young children, which adds pictorial context to both verbal and textual presentation of the values items. Primary school children (from 5 to 12 years old) were asked to choose which of five values presentations was most like them and which was least (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Tsunami Debris and Synthetic Habitats in Pelagic Waters : Public talk with Paul Sharp (Founder of Two Hands project)
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Paul Sharp is founder of Two Hands Project and works on issues of plastic pollution, particularly in the marine environment. Two Hands Project is a collaborative approach to dealing with plastic pollution: take 30 Minutes and Two Hands to clean up yOUR world anytime, anywhere.
Two Hands (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird
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American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding (...)
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Monday 06 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Why Do We Get Osteoarthritis: Can We Fix Our Arthritic Cartilage?
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A public lecture by Alan Grodzinsky, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT.
It is widely accepted that Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, causing major health problems, pain and disability for adults young and old. Yet today, there are still no (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
A public lecture by Associate Professor Meredith Blake, Law School, UWA.
With an ageing population and the medical technology available to prolong life, action and inaction connected with the ending of life in the clinical setting raises confronting issues for modern society. The issues (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
The 2012 Joseph Gentilli Lecture by Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies University of California & 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
This event has reached capacity, no more registrations can be taken.
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Thursday 09 |
16:45 - Internship - Internships : iVEC Research Internships 2012-2013 - Call for Project Proposals
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Would you like to give an outstanding student an opportunity to use some of the most advanced computing facilities in WA? If so, please nominate a project for the iVEC research internship program.
iVEC welcomes proposals for internship projects suited to a 10 week period over December 2012 to (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How Cultural Continuity Reduces Suicide Risk in Indigenous Communities
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A public lecture by Dr Michael J. Chandler, Emeritus Professor, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
There is overwhelming evidence that Australian Indigenous peoples’ mental health and social and emotional wellbeing is well behind that of other Australians and is a key (...)
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Choral Evensong : Evensong at St George's College Chapel
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This week's service will feature West Australian music - Jerusalem by choir conductor Dr Nicholas Bannan, Nunc Dimittis by UWA student Francis Cardell-Oliver, and music by Dom Stephen Moreno of New Norcia.
Introit: Bannan - Jerusalem
Responses: Rose
Moreno - Te Deum
Cardell-Oliver Nunc (...)
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Friday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Ireland: Church, State and Society, 1800-1870 : Seminar Series
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"The Irish Catholic Community and the State in the 19th Century: Setting the Scene"
Professor Oliver Rafferty SJ, the 2012 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, will present the first in a series of six lectures on nineteenth century Irish history.
The (...)
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