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Displaying from Tuesday, August 07, 2012
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August 2012
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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 (...)
15:00 - EVENT - Working Memory Binding and Episodic memory Formation : “Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: Neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging
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15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Futures of the Biologically Designable : Public talk with Orkan Telhan
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Glowing plants, drug-delivering artificial cells, smell-changing bacteria, propelling mouse tissues… Today, new kinds of biological designs are increasingly gaining public awareness and shifting biological imagination towards new horizons. Next to scientists and engineers, do-it-yourself (...)
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Saturday 11 |
19:00 - ALUMNI EVENT - 20 year Medical Reunion : The Class of 1992 will be celebrating their 20th Year Medical School Reunion
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The Class of 1992 will be celebrating their 20th Year Medical School Reunion at The University Club on Saturday the 11th of August 2012 from 7pm to 11pm. This affair will be a cocktail event with tickets costing $100 per person.
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Sunday 12 |
UWA opens up the whole campus to the public.
Come and find out about the courses on offer, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music and (...)
11:00 - EVENT - SCINEMA Film Festival : Science films showing on Open Day in the Science Library Foyer
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As part of National Science Week, the Science Library is once again hosting the SCINEMA Film Festival
Two collections of short films on selected topics will be screened in the Science Library Foyer during Open Day, and they are as follows:
11:00am - 12:45pm - ‘A Climate for (...)
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Monday 13 |
13:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - A life course approach to understanding ethnic differences in health - insights from the DASH study : Raine Visiting Professor Seeromanie Harding
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The overall aim of Professor Harding research programme is to focus on how the timing and duration of social exposures are related to ethnic differences in health and health related behaviours over the life course. Professor Harding established the first large scale cohort study of ethnic minority (...)
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Tuesday 14 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Blue Stockings in the Cultural Precinct : Panel Discussion
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For Blue Stockings Week this year (13-17 August), the Berndt Museum is presenting a panel discussion on the important role of women within the UWA Cultural Precinct. Blue Stockings Week is a commemoration of the Blue Stockings Society, an 18th century club for 'clever ladies and their gentlemen (...)
A public lecture and performance by Julianne Baird, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University and Internationally Acclaimed Early Music Scholar-Performer.
What can we learn from Shakespeare’s use of music and from musical references in his plays? In this lecture-performance, renowned (...)
19:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Friends of the Library Speaker : Almost a French Australia
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French-British Rivalry in the Southern Oceans
Australia was very nearly a nation divided, like Canada, with two languages and cultures, nevertheless Australian history books neglected these early chapters of our nation’s history for almost two centuries.
In a strategic (...)
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Wednesday 15 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Reflecting on how education researchers are tackling some of Australia's pressing issues
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The Graduate School of Education invites you to participate in this inaugural Seminar Series.
With a focus on sharing personal insights into timely and relevant topics in education research, these seminars will engage participants in a lively discussion of some of the pressing issues (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : REGULATON OF THE WATER, GAS AND ELECTRICITY INDUSTRIES IN W.A
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Regulation of the utility industries is relatively new in Western Australia. The Economic Regulation Authority was established to licence, monitor and set customer protection standards across the utility industries, particularly water, gas and electricity.
In addition, the Authority determines (...)
A public lecture by Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies, New York University.
Climate change presents us with problems of utmost complexity. In particular, climate change poses the largest-scale and most difficult collective action problem that humanity has ever faced (...)
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Thursday 16 |
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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