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Displaying from Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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March 2014
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Wednesday 12 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - WA 2.0 - A plan to reboot Western Australia : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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WA 2.0 is a comprehensive set of initiatives that show how Greens policies can be implemented here in Western Australia now.
What could our state look like if we created a more resilient, connected and prosperous community that cares for our environment and for people?
Australi (...)
17:15 - FREE LECTURE - Start-Up Exchange: Idea to Venture : Learn from and listen to speakers and companies, who did it!
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In conjunction with four WA universities, The Innovation Centre WA is hosting a series of Start-Up Exchange workshops throughout 2014. The first of these workshops “Idea to Venture” is jointly hosted by UWA’s Office of Industry and Innovation.
You will hear from Prof Tim St Pierre (...)
18:00 - PRESENTATION - Year 12 Information Evening (repeat session) : Information session for Year 12 students and their parents
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If you're a Year 12 student (or a parent of a Year 12 student), this session will provide information about UWA's courses, admission requirements and how to achieve your study and career goals.
UWA Prospective Students Office staff will be available to answer your queries following the (...)
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Thursday 13 |
13:10 - CONCERT - FREE Lunchtime Concerts : Sophie Curtis (cello) Caroline Badnall (piano)
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Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm.
No booking required, just turn up!
16:00 - SEMINAR - CRC for Water Sensitive Cities Seminar : Water in Western Australian Cities of the Future
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The CRC for Water Sensitive Cities - Western Region invites you to join us as we explore our Cities of the Future.
• What does it mean in a Western Australian context?
• What do we want our cities to look like?
• What new practices and attitudes do we need to employ to get (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Re-Visioning Field Stations, Marine Laboratories, and Research Centers to Address Global Environmental Change
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A public lecture by Dr Peggy Fiedler, Director of the Natural Reserve System at the University of California.
In this lecture Professor Fiedler will provide context for understanding the role of field stations, marine laboratories and other protected areas by discussing specific examples (...)
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Friday 14 |
14:30 - DISTINGUISHED VISITOR - Mr Bong-hyun Kim, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Australia : The Ambassador will share his views on the topic of Middle Powers on the Global Stage: Collaborative Initiatives by the Republic of Korea and Australia
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The School of Social Sciences has the honour of hosting His Excellency Ambassador Mr Bong-hyun Kim, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Australia. The Ambassador will share his views on the topic of “Middle Powers on the Global Stage: Collaborative Initiatives by the Republic of Korea and (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Suspense and Suspensions: Materials and Dialogic Tension : Public talk with Miik Greek and Chris Malajczuk
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Artist Miik Green and nanotechnologist Chris Malajczuk collaborate on art projects. Although from diverse backgrounds, they converge to explore ideas about resistance, transformation and limbo. They will present select works from 2011 - 2014, discussing life and its conservation, revealing the (...)
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Monday 17 |
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 (...)
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Perth USAsia Centre presents a public lecture from New York Times Editorial Board Member Carol Giacomo
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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 (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture Series 2 - Understanding Chinese Economy, Investment and Business
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - The #altac Track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careers
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#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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Jon Prince
How melodic contour, rhythm, tonality, and metre affect musical similarity and expectancy
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Wednesday 19 |
7:30 - EVENT - UWA Nedlands Bike Breakfast : Celebrate cycling as a great way to travel to UWA.
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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' (...)
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
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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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The Enchantment of Remote Islands and Their Peoples : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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Friday 21 |
12:30 - EVENT - Harmony Day : An annual event celebrating cultural, linguistic and religious diversity
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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 (...)
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