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May 2012
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Thursday 24 |
17:15 - SCREENING - Berndt Museum Film Night : Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976, 51 minutes, PG)
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The film demonstrates how villagers living in the Trobriand Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, transformed the game of cricket into their own form of ritual and fun. Methodist missionaries introduced cricket to the Trobriand Islands in 1903, the residents then altered the game to represent (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Light and the sea: an ocean of opportunities to understand the eye and brain
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A public lecture by Professor Shaun P. Collin, WA Premier’s Research Fellow, and Winthrop Professor, The UWA Oceans Institute.
The eye, and ultimately the brain, mediates the detection of light by all organisms on earth. However, eyes are all different and the levels of light available (...)
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform a choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
Responses: Tomkins
Psalm 101
Old Testament Reading: Genesis 47:13-19
New Testament Reading: Hebrews 8:1-7
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Friday 25 |
15:00 - EVENT - Colloquium: A Profile of Australians with Psychosis : Findings from the 2010 Australian National survey of High Impact Psychosis
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Monday 28 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : By Prof Graham Hall, "Lung function – going global in 2012"
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Lung function – going global in 2012" by Professor Graham Hall from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 29 |
A public lecture by Professor Jean-Pierre Burg, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich 2012 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow.
The Himalayan syntaxes, at the western and eastern extremities of the Himalaya Mountain Range, are anomalously high regions around which the mountain trends turn by (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
A public lecture by Professor Eric Higgs, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Canada and 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
The science and practice of ecological restoration have thrived for several decades on the idea that historical (...)
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Thursday 31 |
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform a choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week features a Nunc Dimittis by a member of the choir, settings of John Donne, and a Te Deum by New Norcia composer Dom Moreno.
Respo (...)
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June 2012
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Friday 01 |
In a synergy of sound, the UWA Symphonic Chorus and Symphony Orchestra blend strengths in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop Hall. Under the direction of resident conductor Alan Lourens, experience the depths of emotion of these remarkable works.
Wagner Meistersinger Overture/Hindemith Mathis der (...)
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Sunday 03 |
14:00 - EVENT - Bruce Bennett: A Celebration of His Life and Work : Family, friends and colleagues will gather to celebrate the life and work of Bruce Bennett.
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The Westerly Centre, Philip Mead (Chair of Australian Literature), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold an event to celebrate the life and work of one of the most respected and admired scholars and teachers in Australian literary studies, Bruce Bennett, who sadly (...)
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Monday 04 |
14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - UWA Crawley Campus Tour 4 June 2012 : An enjoyable and informative walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus
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The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus on the Foundation Day long weekend Monday public holiday (4 June 2012).
These tours are for prospective students who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Syria : Dr Jonathan Spyer will look into the origins and progress of the uprising against the rule of Bashar Assad in Syria.
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The lecture will focus on the as yet unsuccessful attempts of the opposition to unite, and the determined campaign of the regime to crush the revolt by force. Dr Spyer will give background details and an assessment of both the regime and the insurgency, and will ask why it has been that unlike in (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
Our emissions of carbon dioxide cause some global warming, and it has indeed warmed over the last century. But this doesn’t prove that our emissions are the main cause of that warming—there might be other, larger, natural forces on the temperature. The key question is: how much warming do our (...)
18:00 - PRESENTATION - 'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening : Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA.
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Prospective students are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA. These sessions will explain course details, career opportunities, prerequisite subjects and how to apply, as well as providing the opportunity for attendees to ask (...)
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Friday 08 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - I Lay My Ear to Furious Latin: Listening for Bees in Urban Environments : Public talk with Tarsh Bates and Susan Hauri-Downing
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Where do native bees live in contested urban environments? How has the colonisation and urbanisation of Perth affected native bee populations? What is the nature of the human/bee interactions and what cultural roles do they play? In the context of a global honey bee crisis, Australian colonisation (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Friends of the Library - Shakespeare: Anonymous or Synonymous?
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In the debate about Shakespeare’s authorship that began in the nineteenth century the absence of evidence has sometimes been taken as evidence of absence. However, in recent decades a great amount has been unearthed concerning Shakespeare’s life and times. There can now be little or no doubt (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Water management is a key issue confronting government, the mining industry and the wider Pilbara community.
This presentation will focus on three current developments in Pilbara water management: preparation of water allocation plans (mainly for the coastal alluvial groundwater (...)
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Thursday 14 |
DMA candidate Clare Tunney will be giving her final lecture-recital on the Bel Canto Cello next Thursday 14 June (5pm) in the Eileen Joyce Studio.
Entry is free, all welcome!
18:00 - PRESENTATION - Centenary Trust for Women Presents: The Making of Red Dog : A special presentation by Red Dog Producer, Nelson Woss.
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Join us for an exclusive evening with Western Australia's award winning film Producer Nelson Woss as he shares his
in-depth journey on the 'The making of Red Dog'.
Nelson will share the trials and triumphs of filming with Koko, cast and crew in WA’s wild outback before joining Dr Erica (...)
A free public forum hosted by UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.
Keynote Speakers:
The Hon Greg Combet AM, MP
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Minister for Industry and Innovation
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Winthtop Professor Malcolm McCulloch, FAA (...)
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