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 November 2013
Sunday 10
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future Website | More Information
This lecture by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives’ co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.

This lecture will look at how food, particularly marine lipids, have played a determining role in the way that creatures developed on earth, and will discuss how nutrition is shaping life in the future. It points to the links between poor nutrition and modern degenerative diseases.
Tuesday 12
13:00 - Colloquium - Delusions, Positive Illusions and Jumps to Conclusions: Understanding Departures from Rational Belief More Information
Rational belief formation involves holding beliefs with the firmness that the evidence warrants. Unfortunately, humans are known to fall short of this ideal, being prone to various forms of “misbelief”. Such deviations from rational belief range from “healthy” (yet potentially destructive) forms, such as “positive illusions” about one’s prowess and prospects, to the bizarre delusions common in certain psychiatric and neurological disorders. According to the dominant psychiatric conception (e.g., the DSM), delusions are fixed beliefs that are under-responsive to relevant evidence. I will argue that whereas many cases of misbelief fit this definition (e.g., sexual overperception, positive illusions, anosognosia), delusions do not. I will present evidence that delusion-prone individuals are actually overly responsive to current evidence. Biography Ryan McKay is a senior lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include cognitive neuropsychiatry, evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics. He was educated at UWA (B.Sc. Hons) and Macquarie University (MClinPsych, PhD), and has held research posts in Boston (Tufts University), Belfast (Queen’s University), Zürich (University of Zürich) and Oxford (University of Oxford).

19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Life on the Eastern Goldfields in the 1890s - Exploring some traditional images and perspectives More Information
About the talk

We are familiar with the traditional, often romanticised images and stories of prospectors, diggers up and down on their luck, rushes into the wilderness, mining mates, camp life and lonely deaths in the bush. 'The rush to be rich' lured a multitude of people to the fields - travellers and observers, itinerants and settlers, builders and speculators. This period and place has been fertile ground for the proliferation of myths and legends. Some myths have passed comfortably into history. Do we see different things and things differently when we re-took at the historical evidence from the perspective of the 21st century?

This talk will explore that question, re-examining the representations of 1890s travellers, such as Albert Calvert and Walter Hodgson, Catharine Bond and May Vivienne, as well as some iconic photographic images and personal writings. It tells a (somewhat) different history of the 1890s fields.

About the Speaker

Dr Lenore Layman is a Murdoch University historian who researches widely in Western Australian history. She has recently published 110° in the Waterbag. A History of Life, Work and Leisure in Leonora, Gwalia and the Northern Goldfields; and Powering Perth. A History of the East Perth Power Station and the Electrification of Perth. She is the historian member of the team which has produced the Australian Asbestos Network website on the health disaster of asbestos use in Australia. Lenore has published numerous articles on aspects of Western Australia's industrial, labour and health history, and is currently assisting the National Party of Australia (WA) with the writing of the party's centenary history (1913-2003).

Members Free, Non-Members $5 donation

For further information contact 6488 2354 or email [email protected]
Wednesday 13
17:30 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - Dr Joan Trevelyan Memorial Lecture 2013 : A public lecture presented by Professor Mohammed Ayoob. He will be speaking about conflict and terrorism in the Middle East. More Information
The Arab Spring has both changed and charged some of the region’s thorniest problems – from the rise of political Islam to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israel-Palestine conflict to rivalries between key regional powers. Exploring the sources of conflict in the Middle East and their various linkages, the lecture would provide an assessment of whether the region is indeed destined for implosion or whether political sagacity and diplomatic creativity can bring it back from the brink.

Professor Mohammed Ayoob is Michigan State University's Distinguished Professor of International Relations. He has published 13 books and over 90 papers and articles in leading journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, amongst others. He recently published an edited volume with Etga Ugur entitled Assessing the War on Terror. The lecture will present the ideas contained in his forthcoming book to be published by the Polity Press (Feb 2014).
Thursday 14
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities Symposium : We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th Website | More Information
We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th as part of the activities of our Centre for Research Excellence in Primary Oral Health Care (UWA node). This symposium brings together a number of outstanding national and international speakers to share research findings and perspectives regarding oral health in aged care. Guest speakers include: Dr Penny Flett (Chief Executive Officer of Brightwater Care Group and Chair of the WA Aged Care Advisory Council) Aged care perspective on oral health Professor Murray Thomson – ( University of Otago, New Zealand) New Zealand research on oral health in aged care Professor Clive Wright (Previously Chief Dental Officer, Centre of Oral Health Strategy, NSW Health). Research, policy and education. Dr Barry Gibson –(School of Dentistry at the University of Sheffield, UK) Sociology of ageing Ms Adrienne Lewis – (SA Dental Service and University of Adelaide) Better Oral Health Connections in Aged Care Prof Leon Flicker (Professor of Geriatric Medicine at UWA) Aged care in Australia Prof Lone Schou – (recent Dental Dean, University of Copenhagen) Health Promotion, Inequality and Aged Care: A European Perspective A/Prof Matt Hopcraft – (Australian Dental Council, past president ADA Vic) Dental care and disease in Victorian Nursing homes We welcome researchers, dental and health professionals, nursing and other relevant professional groups, aged care staff and anyone interested in these issues. Further information can be found at http://www.dentistry.uwa.edu.au/research/symposium. Please register early as places are limited. Convened by Professor Linda Slack-Smith, queries to Dr Lydia Hearn [email protected]. RSVP by October 25th – see web link to register (please distribute to those interested).

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Progressive Politics and the Environment in Australia: what now? Website | More Information
A public talk by David Ritter, Executive Officer, Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

In his public talk, David will consider some of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities facing the environmental and progressive movements in contemporary Australia. He will make a positive case for increased prioritisation among issues, sharper focus on securing the common foundations for democratic flourishing, and a plea for renewed attention to the political elaboration of a coherent vision for the good society.

This lecture is co-sponsored with the Centre for the Study of Social Change at UWA.

Free, but RSVP essential via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/david-ritter
Friday 15
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - From Objects of Science to First Australians : Public talk with Jane Lydon Website | More Information
Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous agenda. Today however such images have been re-contextualised, used to reconstruct family history, document culture and express connections to place. They have become a significant heritage resource for relatives and descendants. As a medium of exchange, photographs of Aboriginal people have served vastly different purposes within Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, from embodiments of kin and ancestral powers, to visual data that actively created scientific knowledge. In the digital age, it has become an urgent matter to understand and balance these traditions, and over the last decade, numerous innovative projects have employed digital means of making this resource accessible to Aboriginal communities: what are the benefits and challenges of this work to date?

Jane Lydon is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her books include Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Duke, 2005) and Fantastic Dreaming: The archaeology of an Aboriginal mission (AltaMira, 2009), which won the Australian Archaeological Association's John Mulvaney Book Award in 2010. Her most recent book The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights (NewSouth, 2012) explores the ways that photography has been called upon to argue on behalf of Aboriginal people, and won the 2013 Qld Literary Awards’ University of Southern Qld History Book Award.

19:15 - EVENT - Luminous Dreams - Geraldton : Lighting up the silo with a futuristic Geraldton tale Website | More Information
On the evening of Friday 15 November a dramatic tale of Geraldton’s future, imagined through the eyes of artists and local high school students, will be projected onto the CBH silo at the Port, with a soundtrack simulcast on Radio Mama 100.5FM.

The Luminous Dreams project was developed by the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts (UWA) and the Australian Urban Design Research Centre with the generous support of the City of Greater Geraldton.

The project is part of the UWA Gives Back Centenary celebrations in rural and regional areas of the state and was made possible with the assistance of the Geraldton Port Authority, CBH Group and Yamaji Art.
Monday 18
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children Website | More Information
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children Website | More Information
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
Tuesday 19
13:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Perception : Vocal information plays a major role in person perception and social communication More Information
While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world, paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker´s arousal and emotional state, and extralinguistic cues reflect more stable speaker characteristics including identity, biological sex and social gender, socioeconomic or regional background, and age. Here I discuss how recent methodological progress in voice morphing and voice synthesis has promoted research on current theoretical issues, such as how voices are mentally represented in the human brain. Special attention is dedicated to the distinction between the recognition of familiar and unfamiliar speakers, in everyday situations or in the forensic context, and on the processes and representational changes that accompany the learning of new voices. I describe how specific impairments and individual differences in voice perception could relate to specific brain correlates. Finally, I consider that voices are produced by speakers who are often visible during communication, and present evidence that shows how speaker perception involves dynamic face-voice integration. Overall, the representation of para- and extralinguistic vocal information plays a major role in person perception and social communication, could be neuronally encoded in a prototype-referenced manner, and is subject to flexible adaptive recalibration as a result of specific perceptual experience.

Biography: Stefan Schweinberger is a full professor at the University of Jena in Germany. He is chair for General Psychology and head of the DFG-funded Person Perception Research Unit. Stefan received his Ph.D. and Habilitation from the University of Konstanz and was professor at the University of Glasgow before moving to Jena. His research interests include the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying person perception, particularly the electrophysiological correlates of face and voice perception.
Wednesday 20
7:00 - EVENT - CANCELLED: Diversity Champions Breakfast : Discover why inclusion for LGBTI employees is now crucial to your business success Website | More Information
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Join international human resources and diversity expert, Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin and leaders from Chevron, IMB, UWA and Westpac, as they discuss the international trends and organisational developments in the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) employees.

While LGBTI citizens are more visible, research tells us that many LGBTI employees still feel uncomfortable and even unsafe in disclosing their sexual orientation and their family circumstances in the workplace. This is a problem for the individual, the team, and society. For business, the inclusion and contribution of all employees is essential for sustainable growth.

Learn how these Diversity Champion organisations achieved Top 10 Workplace Equality Index ranking for LGBTI inclusion and what you might be able to progress in your workplace.

Tickets $60 inc. GST (includes full breakfast) Tables of 8. For the event flyer contact Jacquie Hutchison

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Austere times, and the perverse reproduction of neoliberal reason Website | More Information
A free public lecture by Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

The lecture will explore the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism in these ostensibly twilight times. Particular attention will be focused on the peculiar course of austerity politics in the United States, where a banking crisis has once again been transformed into a state crisis, the costs of which have been trickling down in ways that the benefits of growth never did.

Cost: free, RSVP to http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/peck
Thursday 21
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Global Diversity Challenges in the 21st Century Website | More Information
Effective management of diversity in society and workplaces continues to present challenges in the 21st century. Diversity management remains a fragmented research discipline and profession which suffers from crises of legitimacy and trust. Despite an ‘it’s good for us: it’s good for business’ mantra, diversity management still attracts resistance ranging from active backlash to passive indifference.

The lively interactive lecture will explore reasons for this resistance and highlight understandings of how diversity management contributes to an organisation’s triple bottom line (people, profit and planet related performance outcomes). Drawing on his extensive research collaboration with a wide range of industries and organisations, Professor Özbilgin will outline how to develop evidence based arguments to achieve support from leadership and line management for diversity management initiatives; as well as provide models which can aid assessment of diversity management activities from multiple perspectives and interests including strategy, employee well-being and productivity, reputation, profit and competitiveness. The lecture will be interactive and audience members will be able to contribute to the discussion.

Cost: free, RSVP required vis http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ozbilgin
Monday 25
18:00 - EVENT - Commemorating Seamus Heaney Website | More Information
The Guardian newspaper once called him “the greatest poet of our age”. Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, celebrated translator, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and many other awards, was the rarest of poets: one who was lauded by critics and loved by readers from around the world. The Nobel Prize committee described his oeuvre as “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”. His books made up two-thirds of all sales of living poets in the UK. Seamus Heaney died at the age of 74 in August this year, but his writings will be read, recited, and studied for many years to come.

Join us for a special evening to commemorate the life of Seamus Heaney.

UWA literary scholars Winthrop Professor Philip Mead, Professor Andrew Lynch and Dr Duc Dau, will give short talks about the place of Heaney’s poetry in their academic and personal lives. Audience members will then be invited to recite a short poem or excerpt and, if they so wish, describe its significance to them. The celebration will conclude with light refreshments.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential to [email protected]. Places are limited so early booking is advised.
Tuesday 26
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2013 UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture : 'The Fly-out, Fly-in Professor' with E/Prof Reg Appleyard Website | More Information
Associate Professor of Economics Paul McLeod will chair a 'fireside presentation' with colleagues of our guest, Emeritus Professor Reg Appleyard. Hear about changes to university education and student internationalisation during Prof Appleyard’s time as Head of Department with his frequent visits to Europe for discussions with many UN and international committees.
Wednesday 27
8:00 - CONFERENCE - EPHEA 2013 Conference : 8th Biennial Conference of Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia Website | More Information
During the last week of November The University of Western Australia will be hosting the biennial EPHEA conference in conjunction with Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.

The theme for this year’s conference is "Building for the Future: Leadership, Community and Social Inclusion"

Conference papers cover a wide range staff and student-oriented topics in the Higher Education context, including Indigenous participation, LGBTI inclusivity, cultural diversity, student outreach, mental health, disability, and gender in leadership.

For the conference program and full registrations, please visit http://tinyurl.com/EPHEA2013

For single session registrations please visit http://payments.weboffice.uwa.edu.au/equity/payment
Friday 29
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Jill Scott Artists Talk: AURALROOTS : Public lecture with current SymbioticA resident Website | More Information
AURALROOTS is a quasi-real interactive sculpture inspired by the behaviour of the outer hair cells and inner hair cells and auditory nerves of the cochlea. It combines tactile and augmented technologies with the strategies of scale to allow the viewer to hear biological and traditional stories about the way we hear on a visceral level (in the womb), on a survival level (in the landscape and on a communication level (tests in the science lab). This exploration also triggers augmented reality, visuals that can be seen on screens and changes in a display of supporting hair cells in vitro. (Collaborators: The Auditory Lab: UWA)

Jill Scott was born in Melbourne and has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. She is Professor for Research in the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland), which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK-a program with 16 international research candidates.

Her recent publications include: Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry (2006 Springer/Vienna/New York) and Coded Characters Hatje Cantz (2002, Ed. Marille Hahne). She was awarded a PhD from the University of Wales (UK) and has a MA from the University of San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (University of Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975 she has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience- particularly the somatic sensory system artificial skin (e-skin) 2003-2007 and on neuro-retinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease ("The Electric Retina", 2008) and ("Dermaland", 2009).

17:30 - LAUNCH - Westerly magazine launch : The Westerly Centre, in partnership with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, will launch the latest issue of Westerly magazine Website | More Information
Westerly will launch issue 58:2 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The launch is being held in conjuction with the Bliss exhibition, for which the Westerly Centre was campus partner.

This special edition, On Beauty, has been guest edited by long-term former editor, Dennis Haskell, and was conceived at a panel discussion held at the Perth Writer's Festival earlier in the year.

Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct, will open the event, and wine and cheese will be served before and after his address.

 December 2013
Monday 02
6:00 - EVENT - Summer Running Club & Outdoor Fitness : UWA Summer Running Club Website | More Information
OUTDOOR FITNESS [FIT-R + RUNNING CLUB] FIT-R: Outdoor exercise class including strength, fitness and mobility training designed to challenge participants and at the same time cater for individual difference and tailor appropriately.

RUNNING CLUB: Twice weekly group running sessions tailored for all levels.

WHEN: 10 week program commencing Dec 2 (with break over Christmas). Running Session - 6am Mon & Fri. Fit-R - 6am Wed.

COST: $12 per week ($120 for whole program incorporating 3 sessions per week)

WHERE: UWA Health & Rehabiliation Clinic (South end of campus - adjacent to Business School)

BONUSES: Pool tokens for public swimming sessions at UWA Aquatic Centre and 10% discount on other clinic services (incl. Physiotherapy & Exercise Physiology)

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