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Displaying from Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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March 2013
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Tuesday 05 |
A Lecture by Director and Playwright, David Milroy.
In being commissioned to contribute to this anthology I was intrigued by the theme that had been chosen. Given the recent traumatic events caused by bushfires in the South West and other parts of Australia, it is a topical theme. While (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
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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Wednesday 20 |
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 |
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 (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
17:45 - EVENT - Stephenson-Hepburn Oration 2013 : Being Hot but Staying Cool: Complexities in Delivering the Dream of Density
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The WAPC and planning academia agree furiously that we need increased density in our city. The planning profession agrees that we need to shift the balance from the suburban towards the urban in order to contain the economic and ecological hazards of sprawl in our rapidly growing city. Socially, we (...)
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April 2013
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Friday 05 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Engineering and Ethics with Neural Culture : Public talk with SymbioticA resident researcher Riley Zeller-Townson
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New media artworks that feature living neural networks, such as “MEArt” and “Silent Barrage,” suggest that humans have ethical obligations to these hybrid neuro-robotic entities. These entities are interesting from an ethics perspective, as interaction between the entity and it's (...)
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Monday 08 |
In a confused world still tainted by a gross abuse of humanity, 18 artists have found a peaceful yet powerful way to express their wish for the end to the largest humanitarian concern in the world today through a return to traditional culture and values.
The artists in this exhibition (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Are Seagrasses Drowning or Being Poisoned? Worldwide diebacks of seagrass ecosystems
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A public lecture by Ole Pedersen, University of Copengagen and 2013 IAS Professor-at-Large.
Seagrasses suffer worldwide and we are not sure why. Should we care about it? This lecture will argue that we should indeed care, as seagrasses also protect against coastal erosion, they promote (...)
“INTENSELY COMPELLING…EXTRAORDINARY.”
Karen Curry- Former CNN Bureau Chief New York
The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction…
The multi-award winning “Free China: The Courage To (...)
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Thursday 11 |
“INTENSELY COMPELLING…EXTRAORDINARY.”
Karen Curry- Former CNN Bureau Chief New York
The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction…
The multi-award winning “Free China: The Courage To (...)
Don Watson’s three books on modern language – Weasel Words, Death Sentence and Bendable Learnings – have entertained and educated many readers, and prompted change in the way corporate and government language is written and used. Don’s witty and provocative views on language and writing (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
A public lecture by Ian Reid, Adjunct Professor, English and Cultural Studies UWA.
A century ago, when The University of Western Australia first opened its doors to students, the general purposes of higher education seemed relatively clear in the public mind. But these days there is (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
17:00 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - Improving salt tolerance in wheat: : Discoveries from the search for genes which reduce the rate of sodium accumulation in leaves
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In this lecture, internationally renowned and highly cited plant scientist, Prof Rana Munns, will show how the combination of fundamental plant biology and targeted plant breeding can produce significant outcomes for crop production in saline soils.
Saline soils restrict plant growth in (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Probation worker responses to turbulent conditions: Constructing identity in a tainted occupation
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Public lecture by Anne Worrall, Professor of Criminology, Keele University, UK and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Law School, UWA.
Drawing on recent research on the occupational cultures of probation workers, Anne Worrall explores the motivations, values and job expectations of present (...)
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Thursday 18 |
A public lecture by Núria Marbà , Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (UIB-CSIC).
Marine vegetated habitats (seagrasses, salt-marshes, macroalge and mangroves) occupy 0.2 % of the ocean surface but contribute 50% of carbon burial in (...)
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Friday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Marriage and the Wedding Industry : St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies
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With the average Australian wedding costing $36,000, is the wedding day really the "Bride's Day"? And should the bride still be "given away" like property?
Professor Tom Scirghi SJ of Fordham University, New York, is the 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'More than the sum of the parts?' : Guest Lecture by Vivien Lovell
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‘More than the sum of the parts?’ addresses interrelationships between art practice, architecture, landscape architecture, art history and criticism. The lecture will consider the roles, relationships, scope and creative tensions surrounding artists’ collaborations with other creative (...)
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May 2013
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Wednesday 01 |
A public lecture by Professor Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
If, as the linguist John Lyons has argued, individual colours as distinct from colour as a whole, ‘are the product of the lexical and grammatical structure of particular languages’, the question I wish to raise (...)
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Friday 03 |
13:00 - EVENT - Confession & the Popular Media: Guest Seminar with A/Prof Tom Scirghi SJ : St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies
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A/Prof Tom Scirghi, the 2013 St Thomas More College Visiting Chair of Jesuit Studies, presents the second of three seminars, focusing this week on confession and the popular media.
Why was Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah Winfrey so criticised by the media? And is forcing priests (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Amplifying Ambiguity, Contesting Futures : Public talk with SymbioticA resident Art historian Nora Vaage
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In our contemporary Knowledge society, ideas for and about science are often shaped by the visions, scenarios and predictions offered by more or less clear-sighted actors within different societal spheres.
Entering into the contested terrain of which futures to prepare for, some of these (...)
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