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Displaying from Friday, October 14, 2016
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October 2016
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Friday 14 |
Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.
This week talented UWA piano students perform some of their repertoire for two pianos, ahead of Friday night's Waveney Wansborough (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Voices of young Yemeni Women after the mirage of the Arab Spring
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The wave of optimism that swept across Yemen amongst progressive and globally minded
youth in 2011 had turned into a drowning despair by 2014. Young women who were at the
forefront of nationwide protests demanding the ‘fall of the regime’ are now amongst the
most disillusioned of Yemenis. Hopes (...)
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Waveney Wansborough Prize (Piano)
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The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)
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Saturday 15 |
11:00 - EVENT - Let's Talk About Mental Health and Suicide: Reducing Stigma and Embracing Life : This free public event aims to provide education on mental health issues and promote community organisations
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This free public event hosted by the School of Psychology at UWA aims to reduce stigma, provide education on mental health issues, and promote community mental health organisations.
Postgraduate clinical psychology/neuropsychology students and researchers from the School will be (...)
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Sunday 16 |
The exceptional ability of young emerging artists is celebrated as three young performers compete in the finals of the coveted VOSE Memorial Prize, performing their chosen concerto movements with the UWA Symphony Orchestra.
In the concert finale, the Orchestra will be joined on stage by the (...)
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Monday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'GAME OF THRONES! History, Medievalism and How it Might End' : A Lecture by Carolyne Larrington
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In this lecture Professor Larrington will talk about watching and writing about HBO’s Game of Thrones as a medieval scholar. She will explain some of the medieval history and literature from which George R. R. Martin chiselled the building blocks for the construction of his imaginary world. Game (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
15:00 - EVENT - INFORMATION SESSION: Are you interested in becoming a top health professions educator?
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Apply now for postgraduate study if you have a background in science or health and are interested in teaching.
The University of Western Australia’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences offer the following postgraduate courses in Health Professions Education:
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17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Death, music and the ineffable
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
9:00 - EVENT - Medibank Private Health Insurance Consultations : A free consult with a Medibank Private representative
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We welcome you to attend a free 30 minute consultation with a Medibank Private representative to understand what their health insurance plans can offer.
A public lecture by Lino Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University.
Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human being? A point beyond which our spirit dies and only pure (...)
18:15 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music presents - The 2016 Callaway Lecture: Martyn Evans : Music, embodiment and the imagination – for good or ill
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken to the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)
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Thursday 20 |
At UWA, during October 20 - 29, explore your creativity by taking part in a world-wide drawing festival.
A range of different activities are available including: drawing and painting in immersive 3D virtual reality using Google’s cutting-edge Tilt Brush technology.
Draw and (...)
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Monday 24 |
The 2016 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas will focus on the theme ‘Framing the West’.
Hosted by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, ‘Framing the West’ will address the ways in which understandings, ideas and imaginings about Western Australia have been shaped and framed by (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - 2016 Joan Trevelyan Memorial Lecture: Power Failure - The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani by Syeda Abida Hussain.
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In Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, Syeda Abida Hussain outlines the impacts that key political events in Pakistan have had on her personal life — and on the destiny of the nation. It is a political autobiography which gives (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations II
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - CMSS Religion, State and Society Seminar: Salafi Islamisation and Authoritarian Governance in Malaysia
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Salafi Islamisation and Authoritarian Governance in Malaysia
Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government & International Relations, University of Sydney
WHEN: 4.30pm – 6pm
WHERE: Room 2.63 Political Science Conference Room, Social Sciences Building, UWA
ENTRY: Free
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18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The How and the Why of Live Cells Imaging in the Retina : current trends in the clinical and basic research
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A public lecture by Robert J. Zawadzki, Assistant Research Professor, Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis.
Routine imaging of live cells in the human eye is one of the great achievements of modern Optical Engineering that has been just recently accomplished in both clinical (...)
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Thursday 27 |
10:00 - FREE LECTURE - Book Launch: "A Partnership for Change: Australia - China Joint Economic Report 2016" : With special guests Prof. Peter Drysdale and Dr. Mike Nahan, Treasurer
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The Perth USAsia Centre invites you to a panel discussion to launch the Partnership for Change: Australia-China Joint Economic Report 2016, with Professor Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University and The Hon. Dr (...)
Building on the specular concerts in the past two years, the UWA School of Music students again join with St Mary’s Cathedral for a night of mystery, majesty and divine music.
The program includes Samuel Barber’s deeply reflective Agnus Dei (originally the Adagio for Strings used as the (...)
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Friday 28 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Free Lunchtime Concert: Pi�ata Percussion
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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.
Free entry - no bookings required!
This week Piñata Percussion will perform a variety of works on 'Mostly Marimba'
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