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 June 2013
Saturday 22
11:00 - EVENT - Wine Show by the Bay : There will be something for everyone at this year's Wine Show by the Bay! Website | More Information
There will be something for everyone at this year’s Wine Show by the Bay as we help celebrate The University of Western Australia’s Centenary year.

Enjoy a fabulous day sampling a wide variety of local, interstate and international wines, expand your palate at a series of master classes hosted by experts at the top of their game, tantalise your tastebuds at a series of cooking demonstrations presented by some familiar faces in the culinary scene, enjoy the high life at the Chandon lunch in the Club Restaurant hosted by Moët Hennessy or enjoy a rustic Long Table picnic lunch in the Club Colonnade.

General Admission

Entry to Wine Show by the Bay is $20 for Members and guests. Price includes entry to the tasting fair featuring over 40 exhibitors, and a monogrammed tasting glass.
Monday 24
12:00 - SEMINAR - Medical Research Seminar : "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex" Website | More Information
LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex" by Clin/Prof Stephen Stick, Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children; School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music presents: DMA Lecture Demo - An Exploration of English Language Sung Poetry More Information
Join DMA candidate Karen-Elizabeth Sekararum on Monday 24 June 2013 - 5pm in the Tunley Lecture Theatre, School of Music, UWA

An Exploration of English Language Sung Poetry as presented in the Recital Srimaya's FAll from the Demon's Circle

DMA Lecture-Demonstration
Wednesday 26
13:00 - EVENT - Sharks, Camera, Action! : Forum and Mini Film Festival Website | More Information
Sharks, Camera, Action! is a forum and a mini film festival, focused on sharks and their relatives, which aims to encourage, inspire, and educate the general public about the important role that these animals play in our oceans. Our goal is to facilitate communication about sharks and their relatives by screening marine research and conservation films, from around the world.

Globally sharks are being overfished at levels never before seen in human history, and lack of proper management is pushing many species to the brink of extinction. Substantial attention is now focused on identifying the most at risk species and implementing effective conservation and management plans. Join us to hear from researchers and conservationists from around the world to learn about why we should be afraid for sharks not of sharks.

Shark Expert Panel: Associate Professor Nathan Hart, UWA School of Animal Biology, Oceans Institute and Neuroecology Group; Winthrop Professor and WA Premier’s Research Fellow Shaun Collin, UWA School of Animal Biology, Oceans Institute and Neuroecology Group; Professor Erika Techera, Dean, Faculty of Law, UWA; Tim Nicol, Conservation Council of Western Australia.

Convenor: Ryan Kempster, Marine Neuroecologist, Oceans Institute, With assistance from: Channing Egeberg, Caroline Kerr, Carl Schmidt and Jessica Mountford.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. Book online: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/sharks

16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Language attitudes and us Website | More Information
Language attitudes are inextricably linked to linguistic variation and deeply tied up to groups of people and what is believed about them. The study of people’s beliefs about language, including evaluations and discriminations of language variety, falls in the area of sociolinguistics known as folk linguistics (Preston 2002).

This talk explores folk linguistic accounts by speakers of Anglo-Celtic Australian English, Argentinian River Plate Spanish and foreign language learners of Spanish in Australia. The different attitudinal positions noted in the data are discussed vis-à-vis Preston’s (2002: 64) notions of ‘correctness’, ‘ordinary language’, ‘dialects’ and ‘errors’. Understanding language attitudes can help us make sense of who we are and how we are evaluated by others. This seminar seeks to make a contribution to this understanding.

About Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro

Celeste Rodriguez Louro joined UWA Linguistics as Assistant Professor in 2011, after completing a PhD in Linguistics at Melbourne University in December 2009. Trained in Argentina, the USA and Australia, she specialises in language variation and change in English and Spanish. Dr Rodriguez Louro’s research has been consistently funded internally and externally since 2002. This support has resulted in a growing publication record, including two recent publications on discourse-pragmatic aspects of Perth English–a variety previously undocumented in the sociolinguistics literature–and the first-ever Corpus of English in Australia.

She has been invited to contribute her innovative research to international volumes, has presented her work at more than 30 peer-reviewed conferences, and has been invited to present her research to audiences in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Spain and the USA. Dr Rodriguez Louro has a strong record of international collaborations and has led several panels and workshops on language variation and change.

Solidly linked to her teaching, Dr Rodriguez Louro’s research program has been enriched by contributions from Honours students, research assistants, and PhD candidates. She has received nominations for her Honours supervision and undergraduate teaching and has been nominated for a 2012 Young Investigator Award. Dr Rodriguez Louro has acted as reviewer to several world- renowned journals and publishing houses, has developed a strong record of media appearances, and is committed to foregrounding to the general public the importance of understanding language in society.

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

****All Welcome****


 July 2013
Wednesday 03
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Lake Baikal: The Pearl of Siberia. Website | More Information
Lake Baikal has a unique natural heritage. There is no other water body similar to this huge fresh-water reservoir whose maximum depth exceeds 1 mile (1,600 m). The lake contains about 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater; more than that held in all of the Great Lakes of North America.

  The area of Lake Baikal is similar to that of countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, and the bottom-sediment thickness is more than 8 km.  The lake is more than 25 million years old.

These features and other aspects of the hydrology, meteorology, hydrobiology, and paleoclimates wll be discussed in this presentation, using information from the Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  A particular focus will be on the bottom sediments and enumeration of strains of oil-degrading bacteria collected from the numerous bottom bitumen mounds of Lake Baikal. These and some other features of the lake, I will try to discuss in my presentation. 

Short Bio,

Alexander Likhoshvay,   from Russia which is located near the oldest and deepest lake on Earth - Lake Baikal and graduated Irkutsk State University in 2007 with MSc in Chemistry (“Integrated chemical and microbiological study of sediments from South basin of Lake Baikal”) and had been working in Limnological Institute SB RAS (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science).

Alexander,has successfully defended his PhD thesis on December 2011, With a topic of “Ecology of bacteria of the genus Rhodococcus from deep-water bitumen mounds of Lake Baikal”.

He and his wife hold a PR visa & came to Australia in January, 2013 located in Perth . Currently he is a visitor at CWR.

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

****All Welcome****

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Worshipers of the Cross and Eaters of Pork': Food, Conversion and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean Website | More Information
A public lecture by Eric Dursteler, Associate Professor History Department, Brigham Young University.

One of the central credos of food studies is Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s famous aphorism, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” What Brillat-Savarin sensed intuitively, modern scholars have verified: because of the biological imperative of daily consumption, food inheres in a uniquely intimate way in collective and individual identities. Food also marks religion, where it functions as symbol, as subject of petition, and as a form of communion.

Given the significance of food in religious practice and identity, what impact does conversion have on an individual’s foodways? What changes accompany, or are expected to accompany, conversion? The experience of the Morisco minority in early modern Spain represents a suggestive case-study of the complex ways in which food informed religious and communal identity, and how the sincerity of religious change associated with conversion was measured in part by changes in food practices.

This lecture is supported by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Thursday 04
18:00 - EVENT - WinterARTS in Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery : This is a free event. Bookings are essential Website | More Information
As part of the WinterARTS Festival and in celebration of the magnificent exhibition ORIENTing on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, join Western Australian guitarist Christine Yeong for an intimate performance and evening viewing of works. Yeong, brings her passionate, energetic, and unique style of classical guitar playing to the stage with an exciting program featuring Spanish, Latin American, English, and Australian compositions, as well as her own arrangements.
Friday 05
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The modal weight of an interactive and electronic artwork; relational materiality, distributed cognition and the actor-network : Public seminar with Mark Cypher Website | More Information
Generally, interactive and electronic artworks are conceptualised as essentially immaterial. That is, the digital artwork is a pure abstraction that lacks the physical properties that literally ground an artwork in the empirical world. In contrast, this paper maps the effects of interactivity in an electronic artwork as beholden to a whole range of material actors. This distributed effect is explained in terms of Actor-Network Theory. The combined outcome is that the supposed immateriality of digital artworks is in fact reconstituted with a kind of relational and informational materiality. Composed of, if not dependent on, the heterogeneous nature of a whole host of actors that sustains an artwork from production into exhibition and interaction. The events observed and experienced in many interactions involving the artwork suggest that materiality is present at every stage. The implication then is that wherever actors, cognition and materiality meet, a mutually catalysing and constituting relationship is likely to develop. Consequently, when an actor interacts with the artwork, there is a shift in relational matter and hence the way it is expressed in information materiality. Thus, meaning is co-enacted in relation with the affordances in place. This cumulative generation of meaning points to a distributed and collective expression of cognition that constantly blurs the distinctions between intention and material affordance in interactive artworks. Therefore, the description that follows demonstrates that meaning, cognition and action arise together with the modal weight of materials in interaction that then shapes the nature of the electronic and interactive artwork.

Dr Mark Cypher received a PhD in 2011 from the University of Western Australia and is currently a Senior Lecturer and Program Chair for Interactive Digital Design and Games Art and Design at Murdoch University - Western Australia. His art and design practice reflects an ongoing engagement with the practice and discourse of interactivity particularly in relation to actor-network theory. His artwork has featured in over 16 international exhibitions including, 404 International Festival of Electronic Arts (Argentina), Salon International De Art Digital (Cuba), Siggraph 2006 (USA), FILE - Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica ( Brazil), NewForms06 (Canada), BEAP -Biennial of Electronic Art (Australia), Haptic 07 (Canada), Bios4, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain), ISEA 2011 (Istanbul), Transitio_MX (Mexico) and Electrofringe (Australia).
Saturday 06
13:00 - EVENT - Berndt Museum Family Focus Day Website | More Information
As part of WINTERarts at UWA, join us for a family focus day at the Berdt Museum to celebrate our new exhibition Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land. There will be storytelling, performance, a special talk by Dr John Stanton and hands-on activities in the Gallery. For a full program of events visit www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au. Free event, all are welcome.
Monday 08
7:45 - EVENT - Kids Holiday Program : Years 4 - 6 Educational Holiday Program. Open to everyone. Website | More Information
Educational and recreationally based program for Years 4 -6. Daily from 7.45 - 5.00 pm including breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon tea, all activities and high mentor to child ratio. $80 per child/day casual or $75 per child/day for 3 or more in one week. Great program and lots of fun.

12:00 - SEMINAR - �Canadian Research in Respiratory Health Care Delivery� : A presentation on the latest research on Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, pulmonary function testing and respiratory health care delivery issues. Website | More Information
By Professor Kenneth R. Chapman, Director, Asthma and Airway Centre of the University Health Network; President, Canadian Network for Asthma Care; Director, Canadian Registry for Alpha1 Anti-trypsin Deficiency. 12 noon for light lunch, 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation
Tuesday 09
9:00 - CONFERENCE - ALSA Clayton Utz Conference 2013 : Championship Mooting Competition Website | More Information
The conference will see law students from around Australia, New Zealand and the broader Asia-Pacific battle it out in the international championships of six prestigious legal competitions. His Honour Chief Justice French of the High Court of Australia will be the keynote speaker at the Closing Gala of this year's ALSA Conference on Monday 15 July. His Honour will also preside over the Grand Final of the Championship Moot to be held earlier that day.

19:00 - TALK - Friends of the UWA Library speaker : Becoming a Historian More Information
Suzanne Welborn will discuss her personal journey through seven decades of enormous cultural, sexual and economic changes in the lives of Australian women, as a journalist in Perth and London, a wife and mother and as a historian including the way puzzles of her childhood influenced her writing of history.

About the Speaker

Graduate 1958 BA UWA

Journalist West Australian 1960-62

Woman Writer for the Melbourne Herald Cable Service 1962-64, London

Graduate 1981 MA UWA

Books by Susan Welborn:

Lords of Death: a People, a Place, a Legend (1982), (winner WA non-fiction award) republished as Bush Heroes: a People, a Place, a Legend (2002)

Swan:the History of a Brewery (1987)

Sandgropers Solicitors & Silks (1998)

Freehills A History of Australia's First National Law Firm (2011) shortlisted for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize (2011) in Sydney

Members: free Non Members: $5 donation
Wednesday 10
16:00 - EVENT - CWR Presents : Surface water convergence and divergence due to wind vorticity Website | More Information
Using a numerical model, FANTOM3D, horizontal circulation observed at the head of Tokyo Bay on the 10th of August 2001 was shown to appear in conjunction with surface water convergence.

The effect of negative wind vorticity and other components, such as river discharge and heating/cooling on the water surface, were investigated but results suggest that horizontal circulation was predominantly induced by wind vorticity.

The influence of positive and negative wind vorticity on horizontal circulation was categorized into three regions using the Rosby number: Region 1 (positive vorticity) – Coriolis and nonlinear Ekman pumping; Region 2 (negative vorticity) – Coriolis downwelling; and, Region 3 (negative vorticity) – nonlinear Ekman pumping.

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

****All Welcome****
Friday 12
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Artist's Talk: The Mechanism of Life (after Stephane Leduc) : Public talk with Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr Website | More Information
At the very same time that Bergson developed his concept of Élan Vital in his book Creative Evolution, others attempted to do away with the metaphysical notion of vital force. One significant endeavour was taken by Stephane Leduc, who set out to prove that life is merely a chemical process.

In his 1911 book The Mechanism of Life, Leduc proposed a series of chemical experiments showing the emergence of life-like phenomena of different degrees of complexity. Using seductive imagery of mainly diffusion and osmosis Leduc attempted to prove the mechanistic aspects of life and challenge Vitalism.

With the recent advent of Synthetic Biology where the engineering mindset towards biology is set to dominate approaches to life, we see a rehashing of similar stories from a hundred years ago. One such story is the creation of the basic unit of life, the cell, out of non-living materials. The so called protocells are becoming a major field of study complete with the hyperbole rhetoric about their potential applications.

This piece will reappropriate one of the simplest protocell protocols offered by Leduc, working with the diffusion of two concentrations of solutions that create transitory cell-like droplets. The droplets resemble cells with membrane and nuclei, they last for a few moments before succumbing to entropy and dissolving into a murky liquid, “much like life.”

This protocol is automated using another hyped technology: three-dimensional printing. There is much discussion about 3D printing technology as the next industrial revolution - something that parallels the assembly line of Fordism at the time Leduc was working on the Mechanism of Life. The promise of 3D printing technology is in its core based on information transfer as the business model; the focus is on the instructions/data as the currency while the materiality is merely an optional manifestation. This is problematic as at the very same time, the 3D printing industry suggests the ability to print actual life, or at least parts of the living. This very seductive scenario of printing life from scratch is played off in this work against the unstable, uncontrollable and transient nature of the protocell droplets as a material. What would capture the public imaginary? The precise movement of the machine? The perfect arrangement of the droplets? Or the off-putting murky outcome of entropy?

To a large extent this piece deals with issues of cultural amnesia and reimagining; pointing attention to the use of certain visuals and expressions to persuade, hype and then disappoint. In a time when the idea of creating synthetic life is in the forefront, it is important to culturally probe current and past approaches to the idea of the Mechanism of Life. The printed “protocells” are unstable and temporary and take on forms that appear organic and then disappear. More than a proof on the mechanism of life, they are a suggestion for a humble approach to the question of what life is and how far are we willing to make life into a raw material for our own ends.

Oron Catts is Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia. Catts is an artist, researcher and a curator at the forefront of the emerging field of biological-arts, whose work addresses shifting perceptions of life. Dr. Ionat Zurr is an artist, researcher and the Academic coordinator at SymbioticA. Catts together with Zurr formed the internationally renowned Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) in 1996.

The work The Mechanism of Life (after Stephane Leduc) was collaboratively created with Corrie Van Sice. Her work applies concepts of bio-mimesis to the production of fabrication methodologies, which identify the inherent potential for matter to become functional, and human curiosity’s creative influence on natural systems. Van Sice earned her Masters at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the self-proclaimed “center for the recently possible,” and worked as Materials and Processes Engineer at the popular 3d printing company, MakerBot Industries. She has partnered with synthetic biologists at Brooklyn’s citizen science lab Genspace, and began work with Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr via the Finnish Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in the fall 2011.
Tuesday 16
18:30 - EVENT - Chinese Languages Courses: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced & Business : 10 Week Course Website | More Information
The Confucius Institute will be running our 3rd intake of our Chinese Language courses. We offer an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from Beginners to Advanced levels and Business Chinese.

Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.
Wednesday 17
16:00 - EVENT - CWR Presents : Spectral detection of stress-related pigments in Samphires of Western Australia Website | More Information
Wetlands in north-western Australia have significant national and international value since they sustain a large number of endemic Samphire, species growing under saline, waterlogged, and dry conditions. We investigate the ecophysiological aspects of these succulent species using a combination of spectral measurements, pigment concentrations and environmental variables.

We correlated samphire tissue pigment concentrations with climatic data and determined the relationships between pigments and field spectroradiometer readings for Tecticornia indica, one of the dominant samphire species in WA. Tecticornia plants with visually different colour contained different pigment concentrations and reflected differentially the visible light, in particular at wavelengths between 500 and 700 nm.

The reflectance data obtained by the spectrometry indicated that spectral detection of pigments could be used to identify changes in plant pigments, as well as other changes in vegetation status produced by different stress drivers. This methodology offers a rapid/reliable approach to describe natural ecosystems and evaluate the impact of human activities in marshes and wetlands ecosystems.

Biography:

Victoria, Completed a PhD in Agronomy Sciences from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her study area is the Ecohydrology of arid zones. Since 2011 I have worked with Dr Erik Veneklaass and Tim Colmer at the School of Plant Biology (UWA) on a project related to vegetation dynamics in areas affected by mining activities in the Pilbara’s region. she has work at different spatial scales, from leaf and plant and plot scale using both glasshouse and field experiments and remote sensing technologies.

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

****All Welcome****

Thursday 18
14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - Crawley Campus Tour - July 2013 : An enjoyable and informative walking tour around UWA's stunning Crawley Campus Website | More Information
The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus in the July school holidays (18 July 2013).

These tours are for prospective students (and their parents) who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful gardens and buildings at the Crawley campus.

The tour finishes at the Admissions Centre & Prospective Students Office where you will be able to collect course brochures.

Tours run for approximately one hour. Please bring a jacket and wet weather gear if necessary.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Courageous integrity Website | More Information
The 2013 Vincent Fairfax Oration by Tony Cripps Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Bank Australia.

Tony Cripps will talk through his banking experiences in markets across different continents, and how financial services should change and respond to meet the political and regulatory challenges and societal expectations of today.

The Vincent Fairfax Oration, part of a wider program funded by the Vincent Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Foundation, was established as a way of engaging leaders from different sectors of society in discussion, debate and on-going conversations about ethics and leadership. The Oration focuses on ethics and leadership as they apply to topics of relevance to Australian society.

The Vincent Fairfax Oration is presented by The University of Western Australia and the Centre for Ethical Leadership, Melbourne Business School.

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