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Displaying from Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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October 2014
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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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Saturday 25 |
Oceans Community is a once a year event created for the broader community who want to better understand marine issues in WA and contribute in some way to the marine environment.
This year's event has been organised by The Oceans Community and the UWA Oceans Institute with the objective to (...)
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Monday 27 |
18:30 - PUBLIC TALK - A Future Made Together: New directions in the ethics of autism research
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A public lecture by Liz Pellicano, Director of the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Institute of Education, University of London.
In this talk, Dr Pellicano will suggest that we not only need greater investment in currently under-researched areas in autism and under-ser (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A decade of developments in tsunami science and warning systems since the 2004 Sumatra event
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A public lecture by Charitha Pattiaratchi, Winthrop Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia.
In this lecture, Professor Pattiaratchi will discuss advances in the tsunami science in terms of deep water propagation and inundation with respect to Western (...)
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Thursday 30 |
Wesfarmers and The University of Western Australia proudly present the inaugural Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History Oration by Winthrop Professor Jane Lydon.
In 1905 HG Wells wrote that photographs ‘send out a ray of special resemblance and remind one more strongly of this friend (...)
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November 2014
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Tuesday 04 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - WA on the threshold - new understanding, new discoveries and new opportunities with the SKA
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An Inquiring Minds lecture by Professor Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
Mankind’s understanding of Nature is now at a point of crisis. More than 95% of the Universe we live in is composed of mysterious stuff - matter that is (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Was self-government for Western Australia based on a betrayal of Indigenous people?
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A public lecture by Ann Curthoys, Honorary Professor of History, University of Sydney and 2014 IAS Short-Stay Visiting Fellow.
The years leading up to the passing of the Western Australian constitution in 1889 (effected in 1890) saw several interlocking public debates in WA itself and in (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Emerging biosciences capacity in Africa: Case study of the Regional Cassava Viruses Disease Diagnostic Project
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A public lecture by Dr Joseph Ndunguru, Molecular Plant Virologist, Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Tanzania.
Cassava is an important food staple in sub Saharan Africa, however it is under threat from deadly viral diseases, which are decreasing yield and leaving many (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Conservation of Highly Migratory Marine Species: The Need to Integrate Physiology, Behavior and Ecology : Oceans Institute Public Lecture by Daniel Costa
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The conservation of upper trophic level marine vertebrates presents some unique challenges in that they can migrate over great distances, in some cases covering entire ocean basins. A critical component to their conservation is to assess their home range. However, this is only a first step, as (...)
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March 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Transport and Storage of CO2 and why it�s not the same as Oil and Gas
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In this public lecture, Professor Roland Span, Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum will highlight how models developed for oil and gas applications are deficient for many important Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) applications. He will discuss new models for predicting (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Age of Experience: cultural heritage in museums of the future : A public lecture by Sarah Kenderdine, Director, iGLAM Lab (Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
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This lecture will examine new paradigms for developing cultural heritage as embodied museum experiences inside
a series of large-scale immersive and interactive museum display systems.
The lecture will conclude with a focus on two exhibitions currently in production: the 'Atlas of (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
In this public lecture, Professor Hermann Nicolai, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, will review some recent ideas and approaches towards a more complete theory of quantum gravity unifying the fundamental interactions of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Wednesday 18 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living on the Edge: Suicide in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
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An On the Edge public lecture by Professor Pat Dudgeon, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA and Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project.
Suicide and mental health conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are double (...)
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Thursday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Twenty Years after the Beijing Declaration: how are women faring? : 2015 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Professor Carmen Lawrence
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Twenty years ago Carmen Lawrence took part in the UN Conference on the Status of Women in Beijing. The event seemed like a watershed and the good will was palpable; participants were determined to develop a practical plan which committed governments to specific actions rather than collating lofty (...)
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Saturday 21 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - *SOLD OUT* We Are Better Than This : An afternoon with Julian Burnside AO QC
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Julian Burnside, winner of the 2014 Sydney Peace Prize, will present a lecture 'We Are Better Than This' on refugee justice (and injustice) in Australia. His talk will be followed by a conversation with Janet Holmes a Court.
This is a not for profit event sponsored by UWA Publishing, Not (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The link between Neoproterozoic supercontinental break-up, snowball glaciation, and biospheric evolution
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In this public lecture, Galen Halverson, T.H. Clark Chair of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, McGill University and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow, will discuss the flurry of new radiometric ages that confirms the synchronicity in the onset and demise of two global glaciation events in the (...)
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April 2015
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Wednesday 29 |
This lecture by David Gordon, Director of the Queen's University School of Urban and Regional Planning will present current practice in better design and redevelopment of suburban areas, extensively illustrated with examples from across Canada provided by the Council for Canadian Urbanism.
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