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Displaying from Wednesday, August 06, 2014
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August 2014
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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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Tuesday 16 |
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Mark Spackman, Winthrop Professor and Head, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia.
We all know what crystals are, but how much do we know about what lies within? And how do we know it? This year celebrates the centenary of (...)
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Thursday 18 |
In this special 'On the Edge' forum, three marine experts from the UWA Oceans Institute will discuss the ‘science of sharks’.
Panellists
Winthrop Professor Shaun P. Collin, UWA Oceans Institute, the School of Animal Biology and IAS Distinguished Fellow;
Research (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
An On the Edge Lecture by Jon Jureidini, child psychiatrist, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide.
Over diagnosis and overtreatment are dangerous, not just because of the possible adverse effects of unnecessary interventions, but because they detract from autonomous citizenship.< (...)
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October 2014
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Wednesday 01 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Disaster preparedness and response in remote, disaster-prone, ethnic minority-based communities in China
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A public lecture by Professor Emily Chan, Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response.
China is a natural disaster-prone country and its rural population faces the highest natural disaster risk. Like Australia, China faces (...)
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Monday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Some public policy challenges of change in our region : The 2014 Reid Oration
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The 2014 Reid Oration will be given by Stephen Smith Winthrop Professor of International Law at The University of Western Australia, and former Australian Defence and Foreign Affairs Minister.
Great change in our region - the rise of China, the rise of the ASEAN Economies combined and (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
A public lecture by Tim Seastedt, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado.
Conservationists are faced with managing for environmental changes they cannot control. Ecosystems now experience longer growing (...)
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