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Displaying from Thursday, June 26, 2014
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June 2014
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Thursday 26 |
A public lecture by Craig Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York.
This lecture will explore the two great trials of the celebrated French heroine, firstly at Rouen in 1431 while in the hands of her enemies and then between 1455 and 1456, when a posthumous (...)
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July 2014
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Tuesday 08 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Advancing Cross-Cultural Understanding through Experimental Literary Translation
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A public lecture by Congrong Dai, Fudan University, Shanghai and Chinese translator of 'Finnegans Wake'.
A fertile ground is needed for a work to be translated and accepted in the target culture, which entails an in depth understanding of the cultural and ideological background of the (...)
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Thursday 24 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Afghan Culture in an Era of Globalisation : Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Series
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The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a series of events as part of the 'Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul' exhibition, presented by the WA Museum.
This lecture by Professor William Maley, AM FASSA, Professor and Director of the (...)
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Monday 28 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Making Marine Protected Areas More Effective: resilience through diversity
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A public lecture by Peter Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.
There are growing societal concerns about the health of our seas and increasing interest in the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help address these concerns. However (...)
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August 2014
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Monday 04 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living and Working Underwater: The Aquarius Reef Base underwater laboratory and residence
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A public lecture by James W. Fourqurean, Director, Marine Education and Research Initiative at Florida International University and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
Humans are limited in their ability to study the health of the coastal ocean. While robots, cameras (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
The 2014 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Anas Ghadouani, Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia.
Throughout the history of humanity there has always been a strong link between water and society. The most successful of our past civilisations are (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
A public lecture by Pip Willcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio arrived at the Bodleian Library in 1623. Why and when did it leave? What chance brought it back in 1905? What had happened to it in the (...)
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Thursday 07 |
18:00 - EVENT - Listening to Images, Hearing the Text : New Music that Engages the Visual and the Literary
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A public talk and performance by Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition, Yale School of Music.
The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be united with other arts - poetry, dance, theater and cinema. In our own time, the association of music, words and images has been (...)
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Saturday 09 |
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Hazara Exodus -The Unseen Road to Asylum : Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Series
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In this lecture, photographer Barat Ali Batoor will discuss his journey and the persecution of the Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including their migration to Australia.
Barat Ali Batoor and his family were driven out of Afghanistan during the civil war when most of his people were (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
A public talk by Sergei Katsev, Associate Professor, Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota and 2014 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
The string of large lakes held by the East African Rift is a true marvel of the World. These lakes contain a quarter of all the fresh water on the (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
The 2014 ATSE lecture by Dr Rob Hough, Australian Resources Research Centre, CSIRO.
In this talk, Rob will describe the ways that science and innovation are helping to find the resources that can provide a prosperous future for Australia.
Just a small proportion of Australia's (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
An 'On the Edge' public lecture by Paul Power, Chief Executive Officer of the Refugee Council of Australia.
For the past eight years, Paul Power has been actively engaged in debates about the direction of Australian and international refugee policy as Chief Executive Officer of the (...)
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Thursday 21 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - When Antarctica was Green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history : The 2014 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture by Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey
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Although the polar regions are currently covered in ice and snow, life was very different at high latitudes under past warm climates millions of years ago – the polar regions were green. Fossil plants (leaves, wood, pollen, seeds and flowers) preserved in rocks from Antarctica show that the (...)
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Friday 22 |
A fascination with modes of thinking, the nature of creativity as well as the neuro-physiological basis of these have led me to pursue work within the domains of art and science throughout my adult life. My conviction, through my own experience, that the practices of art and science are varied (...)
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Sunday 24 |
A performance and lecture by Fred Smith, singer/ songwriter/ diplomat.
In this special event, Fred Smith will share his reflections on Afghanistan from his experience of working closely with tribal leaders during the two years he spent as a diplomat and political advisor in Uruzgan (...)
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Monday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - What is X-ray Crystallography and How Did It Transform Our View of the World?
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A public talk by Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London.
Just over a hundred years ago a narrow beam of X-rays was fired at a crystal for the very first time. The experiment, an early attempt to investigate the nature of this recently-discovered radiation (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Leadership and the six degrees of separation - researching inclusive leadership
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A public lecture by Dawn Freshwater, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The University of Western Australia.
Models and theories around change management, structures and formulas, and guidelines to successful change are available in industrial quantities in the literature. What seems to be (...)
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September 2014
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Wednesday 03 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Together/Apart: intimacy and autonomy in contemporary personal life
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A public lecture by Sasha Roseneil, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London and 2014 IAS Professor-at-Large.
We long to connect, to be close to another, yet we also want our own space, need to do our own thing. That a fundamental tension exists (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
18:00 - EVENT - Exploring the Epigenome: from stem cells to your brain, and in between : 2014 Ian Constable Lecture
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The 2014 Ian Constable Lecture by Professor Ryan Lister, Future Fellow Plant Energy Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence.
In this lecture Professor Lister will discuss the cutting edge DNA sequencing techniques that have led to the production of the first comprehensive maps of the human (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The looting and trafficking of cultural property in Africa; why we should care and what we can do about it
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An 'On the Edge' Lecture by Benjamin W. Smith, Winthrop Professor of World Rock Art at UWA
In this lecture Professor Smith will draw upon experiences from his past four years as President of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association to consider the illicit practices, the scale and the (...)
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