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Displaying from Saturday, March 09, 2013
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March 2013
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Tuesday 12 |
19:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Summiting Everest
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Margaret Watroba was born in Poland, the youngest of identical twins by 10 mins. As a 12 year old who loved geography and wished to explore other countries and cultures, Margaret discovered she could not realise her dreams in a communist country. It was then that she (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : The Spectacular Space Shuttle Era: My story, technical and personal
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In January 1969, I arrived as a new emigrant to United States at a time of great excitement for adventurers like myself. Astronauts were about to land on the moon and there was much talk of plans for a new spaceship to be called the Space Shuttle. That plan looked surprisingly like the imaginary (...)
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director, UWA Oceans Institute.
The Arctic is the least studied of all regions of the planet, but also that which has warmed fastest to-date and which is predicted to continue to do so along the 21 st century. While the Antarctic (...)
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Thursday 14 |
13:10 - EVENT - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Fiona McAndrew (soprano) & David Wickham (piano)
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
Choral Evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers. Feat. Farrant's "Canticles in G Minor" & Arvo Part's "The Woman With The Alabaster Brow."
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Friday 15 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers : SARE/ AARES seminar series
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The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture (zero tillage, mulching and crop rotation) are described, reviewed and modelled. The economics are defined broadly to include not just shortterm financial benefits and costs, but also the whole-farm management context, constraints on key (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A Theatre of Individuation: Theorising BioArt Encounters after Gilbert Simondon : Public talk with Andrew Lapworth
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Characterised by interdisciplinary practices at the intersections of arts, sciences, and biotechnologies, the emergent artistic genre of "bioart" is increasingly lauded within the social science literature as a crucial arena through which question and unsettle deep-rooted cultural (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
11:00 - EVENT - Enviro Fest '13 : UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
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UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
Each year Enviro Fest provides opportunities to indulge your interest in the natural environment and learn more about sustainable (...)
11:30 - EVENT - Centenary gardening activity, as part of UWA EnviroFest : Help plant a garden bed of the UWA Centenary plant, the beautiful and native Hakea.
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Join UWA Horticulturalist Mark Corbett and UWA Friends of the Grounds in creating a Centenary planting on UWA grounds.
Native plant species, Hakea is the official centenary plant for UWA.
Mark and FOG will lead you in an easy planting activity where you'll learn more about (...)
13:00 - GUIDED TOUR - Tour of UWA sustainable gardens - part of UWA EnviroFest : Join UWA Horticulturalist, Sue Smith on a tour of UWA's sustainable gardens.
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UWA Horticulturalist, Sue Smith will take you on a tour of the sustainable gardens on campus. Learn about waterwise plant species, including succulents and natives, and the methods UWA uses to reduce its water use.
Please book with Trish Howard (of UWA Sustainable Development). Please (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Alexander Jensen
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Alexander Jensen: Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology.
Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology
Western music has always been a way of expressing that what is most important to men and women. In the past (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: DMA Lecture Recital - Georg Corall: The Eloquent Hautboy
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Georg Corall: DMA Lecture-Recital
The Eloquent Hautboy
Scholars have investigated ‘music as speech’ and the ‘weapons of rhetoric’ in musical execution in order to understand the importance of text in historically-informed performance practice (HIP). This has led to (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Does phytoplankton biomass in a reservoir increase in the future?
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A water resource in the future is a great concern around the world. In 2009 the research area of "Innovative Technology and System for Sustainable Water Use" was launched by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). One of the projects is "Development of Well-Balanced Urban Water (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Unplanned Development: The hidden geometries of change in Southeast Asia
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A public lecture by Jonathan Rigg, Geography Department, Durham University.
This public lecture emerges from a puzzle: why are our explanations for the patterns of the world so often incomplete and far from universal in their application? Look across the development experience of (...)
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Thursday 21 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
17:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Muslims, Democracy and the 21st Century by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi : Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is an internationally renowned scholar of Islam who has contributed to debates on the role of Islam in Muslim societies.
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Mr Ahmad has authored numerous books and lectured widely on Islam and Muslim issues including democracy, blasphemy law, rights of citizens particularly women, and terrorism. Born in Pakistan in 1951, he holds a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the Government College, Lahore (1972) and (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Shaky Ground or Firm Foundation? When women's equality depends on a business case : 2013 Grace Vaughan Lecture
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A lecture by Dr Jacquie Hutchinson, UWA Business School.
It’s 2013 and Australian women workers are still being significantly under-recognised and under-valued for their skills, knowledge and contribution to the nation’s economic and social well-being. In response to this ongoing (...)
Choral Evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers. Feat. Gibbon's "Short Service" and Weelke's "Hosanna to the Son of David."
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Friday 22 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Postcards From the North : Public talk with Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
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Between August 2012 and February 2013 SymbioticA's Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr seconded to Aalto University in Helsinki, to help establish Biofilia- Base for Biological Arts. The resulting hybrid lab, launched in February, is a fully functioning state-of-the-art tissue engineering and molecular (...)
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Saturday 23 |
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? Experience the UWA Extension Summer School Choir’s performance of your favourite Queen hits, led by the queen of choirs, Dr Margaret Pride. Be part of the concert experience and join in the sing-along in the grand Octagon Theatre; be taken on a ride (...)
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