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Displaying from Friday, August 22, 2014
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August 2014
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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’.
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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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Wednesday 08 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Antipodes in Literature: European Geographies - Australian Appropriations
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A public lecture by Klaus Stierstorfer, Professor of English and Chair, British Studies, University of Münster, Germany and 2014 IAS Short-Stay Visiting Fellow.
The Antipodes are a concept which originated in European Antiquity and then travelled with expanding and changing (...)
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Thursday 09 |
A public lecture by Terry Speed, Professor of Bioinformatics, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
Scientists have now mapped the human genome - the next frontier is understanding human epigenomes; the ‘instructions’ which tell the DNA whether to make skin cells or (...)
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Monday 13 |
A public lecture by Professor Pere Masqué, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and 2014 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 caused the largest accidental release of (...)
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Wednesday 15 |
A public talk by Alice Vrielink, Professor of Structural Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia.
The science of crystallography has had an enormous impact on our understanding of molecules, their structures, chemical and physical properties (...)
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Friday 17 |
Often translated from the Latin as ‘remember you must die’ or ‘remember your mortality’, memento mori serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death. The term ‘memento mori’ first entered English in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) and was immediately accepted (...)
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Monday 20 |
A public lecture by Achim Kempf, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Waterloo and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
The two deepest laws of nature that are known to date are quantum theory and general relativity. Not all is well with these two theories (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
A public lecture by Susana Agusti, Professorial Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute, and Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA).
In this lecture Professor Agusti will describe the current state of the (...)
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