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Displaying from Monday, July 21, 2014
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July 2014
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Tuesday 22 |
16:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMSS Public Lecture: Canadian Muslim Youth and Perceptions of Political Participation : A Public Lecture by Katherine Bullock
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News media often portray Canadian Muslim youth as alienated from society and prone to radicalisation. This lecture focuses on a more complex reality of alienation and engagement, seen through the lens of perceptions of political participation. Using qualitative interview data from 30 Muslim youth (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - PERTH PUBLIC TRANSPORT PATRONAGE: MID-TERM TRENDS AND CURRENT SITUATION : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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In the past months there have been several claims about the declining figures in the public transport patronage. This seminar envisages analysing public transport trends over the last decade using Perth Transport Authority (PTA) datasets. Through this analysis, the aim is to determine the validity (...)
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Thursday 24 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - �What�s the magic number behind epithelial cell differentiation, innate immunity and asthma: (p)300� : Medical Research Seminar
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Professor Knight has published over 110 papers and 4300+ citations and a H-index = 36, and is focused on his research interests of pulmonary pharmacology and pathology and how they impact on airway and lung function.
17:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Pop West: A foundation for understanding multiple global wests as mediated by popular culture : A symposium on popular culture and geographical 'wests'
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The Pop West research project will analyse a range of popular media–film, music, radio, television, storytelling, maps and novels–to explore how different political formations come to popularise and understand their own wests.
The Pop West Project began in late 2013 when researchers (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Afghan Culture in an Era of Globalisation : Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Series
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The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a series of events as part of the 'Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul' exhibition, presented by the WA Museum.
This lecture by Professor William Maley, AM FASSA, Professor and Director of the (...)
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Friday 25 |
Winthrop Professor Ted Snell, Director of the UWA Cultural Precinct, invites you to the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre, UWA for the opening of three new exhibitions - HERE&NOW14, Glitter: Pat Larter vs Lola Ryan and Wildflower Dreaming. To attend, RSVP via email ( [email protected]) or (...)
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Monday 28 |
16:30 - EVENT - Expert Panel on Indonesia's Presidential Election : Experts discuss the future of Indonesia and its foreign relations under its next president, Joko Widodo.
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On 22 July, Indonesia's national election commission announced Joko Widodo as the winner of the 2014 presidential election. He defeated former army general Prabowo Subianto by a slim margin of about 8.4 million votes. The Perth USAsia Centre is proud to host an expert panel to discuss the result of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Making Marine Protected Areas More Effective: resilience through diversity
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A public lecture by Peter Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.
There are growing societal concerns about the health of our seas and increasing interest in the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help address these concerns. However (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Uncovering the driving mechanisms of perceptual multi-stability: follow the eyes!
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Dr. Meso is a Research Fellow at the Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone, a Laboratory of the CNRS in Marseille, France, which he joined in 2011. He is part of a small team of researchers who probe the mechanisms underlying visual function (specifically dynamics and probabilistic computations) (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - A comparative study of time-frequency masking approaches to blind source separation and source number : this seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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A remarkable skill that is often taken for granted is the ability of the human cognitive system to distinguish between multiple simultaneously active speakers. In fact, in 1953 a challenge was proposed to the engineering community:
"How do we recognise what one person is saying when (...)
18:30 - EVENT - 'Dancescapes: Stories Through Dance' for WinterArts : A unique dinner event, with specially choreographed dances and the words that inspired them.
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Experience the wonder of language and stories told through the drama of dance for this UWA WinterArts finale event.
Author and travel writer Stephen Scourfield will read excerpts of his writing, distilled from his travels in WA and abroad. These readings will then take the physical form (...)
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August 2014
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Friday 01 |
17:00 - WORKSHOP - UWA School of Music presents Fridays@Five : A new series for 2014, Fridays@Five showcases the Voice students. Whether the Vocal Consort, solo song in recital, public workshop, mixed instrumental and voice ensemble or public Masterclass with Q & A, Fridays@Five are an ideal way to start your weekend.
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Public Workshop - an open workshop for 3-4 senior students. where the audience gets in on the feedback action!
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Monday 04 |
0:00 - COURSE - Recreate Courses - Sem2 Winter : Recreate short courses - fitness, health and wellbeing, sport, leadership
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Hit the ground running this semester with the Semester 2 winter Recreate® program. Most courses run for seven weeks and include yoga; pilates; paddling; tai chi; tennis; badminton; sailing; first aid accreditation and heaps more. Courses begin next week (Monday 4 August), so get your enrolment in (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living and Working Underwater: The Aquarius Reef Base underwater laboratory and residence
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A public lecture by James W. Fourqurean, Director, Marine Education and Research Initiative at Florida International University and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
Humans are limited in their ability to study the health of the coastal ocean. While robots, cameras (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Science Communication: Winning Hearts and Minds : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: As Chief Scientist of Western Australia I had the privilege of seeing many examples of terrific science, technology and engineering across the length and breadth of our great State. They represent major opportunities and challenges, spanning the resources sector, agriculture, education (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Gender and Social Choice in Saudi Arabia: Rights versus the Optimal Social Choice : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sean Foley
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Although the women’s driving movement in Saudi Arabia has gained tremendous visibility in recent years, it has failed to meet its basic objective: winning women the right to drive. While there is no question that the movement has encountered sustained resistance to its agenda, resistance alone (...)
The 2014 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Anas Ghadouani, Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia.
Throughout the history of humanity there has always been a strong link between water and society. The most successful of our past civilisations are (...)
19:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A week long festival of New Music, featuring composer Martin Bresnick, pianist Lisa Moore and members of Syzygy Ensemble in a week of performances, workshops and masterclasses brought to you in partnership with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the UWA Cultural Precinct.
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Contemporary Performance Masterclass
UWA students in masterclass with Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. THIS IS A FREE EVENT
Described as “brilliant and searching...beautiful and impassioned...lustrous at the keyboard” by (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
12:00 - Public Forum - Community conversation on heart disease and medication : A conversation about experiences of taking medications for heart disease
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The School of Population Health are running a ‘community conversation’ for people who have had, or care for someone, with heart disease, heart failure or atrial fibrillation. We are really interested in people coming along to tell us how they manage their heart disease and medicines.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Sediment geochemistry in freshwater seas: Lakes Superior and Malawi and comparisons with marine systems : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Lakes are often referred to as “the test tubes of oceans”, but how much of the geochemical information is transferable between marine and freshwater systems? Should relationships such as those developed for the mineralization rates of marine organic carbon or marine rates of denitrification be (...)
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