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Displaying from Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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February 2018
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Tuesday 13 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How Remembering Causes Forgetting : A public lecture by Professor Amy H. Criss, Psychology, Syracuse University
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Humans rely on memory at nearly every moment: we use our memories of the past to predict the future, and memory is essential to our concept of self. Nevertheless, our memory for the details of events is imperfect. Some details of an event are forgotten and other details can be falsely remembered (...)
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Monday 19 |
Although cardiovascular disease develops 7 to 10 years later in women than in men, it is still the major cause of death in women. Exercise and physical activity are a highly effective means of decreasing the risk of heart attack, stroke and dementia. These talks, presented by the School of Human (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
Join two outstanding female leaders as they share the motivations, challenges and achievements of their life in activism.
Christine Milne was the leader of the Australian Greens from 2013 to 2015. She is now the Global Greens Ambassador. Her political biography, 'An Activist Life', is (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Personality, Values, Culture, Evolution � why are we similar and yet so different? : Public lecture by Ronald Fischer, Center for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington
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Humans are complex social beings. Curious observers through the ages have noted the dramatic differences in human behaviour around the world. How similar or different are our personalities? To understand human behaviour, an integrated perspective is required – one which considers both what we (...)
It is generally understood that exercise and physical activity are important lifestyle factors that maintain the health of your heart and arteries and decrease the risk of the most prevalent and debilitating diseases in the Western World, namely heart disease, stroke and dementia. But distinct “do (...)
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Thursday 22 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The criminalization of inter-racial sex and white male suicide in South Africa, 1950-1985 : A public lecture by Susanne M. Klausen, Professor of History, Carleton University, Ottawa
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Upon winning power in 1948, the National Party (NP) immediately set out to end miscegenation in South Africa. The NP proclaimed that a central tenet of proper white sexuality was avoidance of sexual contact with people of different “races.” Many men ignored this injunction and the new (...)
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March 2018
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Wednesday 07 |
17:30 - Open Rehearsal - UWA Music presents: Converge | The Irwin Street Collective : Jamie Hey (cello)
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Join us each week for a delightful musical surprise!
From young artist-led concerts to informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind-the scenes workshops, lectures and masterclasses, these free weekly musical experiences will delight all music lovers.
This week (...)
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Thursday 08 |
A public lecture by Bob White, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
The subject of war in Elizabethan literature, and Shakespeare’s plays in particular, has attracted sustained attention from a variety of perspectives. However, it is usually treated in the light of military (...)
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Monday 12 |
A public lecture by Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
For over a decade, Australians have been debating whether and how to recognise Aboriginal and Torres (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A van Gogh, a toilet, and the trumping of Trump : A Talking Allowed event
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A Talking Allowed event with Associate Professor Clarissa Ball, Discipline Chair, History of Art, UWA School of Design and Director, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
In late 2017, Donald and Melania Trump asked the Guggenheim Museum if they could borrow a van Gogh painting for their (...)
A public lecture by Dr Susanne Meurer, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.
Virtuous women encountered a great deal of violence in early modern art – at times they were the victims of physical brutality or emotional cruelty, at times they were its righteous (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
A public lecture by Liz Pellicano, Professor of Educational Studies, Macquarie University.
In this presentation, Liz will argue that truly understanding autism – knowing autism – requires both objective and subjective understandings, experiences and expertise, that is, listening (...)
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April 2018
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Wednesday 04 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Resisting the Orientalization of the Enemy: Korean Americans, Japanese American Incarceration, and Moral Imagination on the Homefront during World War II
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A public lecture by Lili M. Kim, Associate Professor of History and Global Migrations, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA and 2017-2018 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.
World War II, often referred (...)
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Thursday 05 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Allegories for Meditation and Self-Reflection in the Elite Renaissance Home
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A public lecture by Dr Elizabeth Reid, Researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
The paintings that decorated the Renaissance home were not solely intended for aesthetic appreciation, but for moral instruction. This talk will take a small selection of the (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
A public lecture by Bob White, Professor of English and Cultural
Studies, UWA.
The subject of war in Elizabethan literature, and Shakespeare’s plays in
particular, has attracted sustained attention from a variety of
perspectives. However, it is usually treated in the light of military
m (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
13:00 - TALK - The Virgin, the Madame, and the Greenie Girlie-man: an art scholar�s tale. : A Talking Allowed event with Dr Ann Schilo, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University.
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Kehinde Wiley’s recent official portrait of the former US president, Barack Obama, has caused debate over dinner tables and in conference rooms. Looking unlike the conventional figure of conservative, patriarchal power, Obama is pictured seated, amidst a forest of flora. While it has been (...)
A public lecture by Mark McKenna, Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney.
The UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, City of Perth Library and Boffins Books are pleased to present Mark McKenna, author of 'Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future' in 'Quarterly Essay 69'.
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Tuesday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Beautiful Florentines: perfumes, powders and paint in the Renaissance
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A public lecture by Professor Evelyn Welch, Provost (Arts & Sciences), King’s College London.
The portraits of Renaissance men and women show unblemished skin, smooth, well-groomed hair and strong, handsome physiques. Women were all shown with pale white complexions while the men (...)
A public lecture by Professor Sarah Pink, Professor of Design (Media Ethnography), RMIT and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Self-driving cars, screenless technologies, digital assets, self tracking, automation and data - such emerging technologies are often represented (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Seeing without Light: how people with disability are embracing emerging technologies : A public lecture by Dr. Scott Hollier, digital access specialist, lecturer, and author
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The rapid evolution of computers and mobile devices has
had a significant impact on how we engage online and
with each other. Yet for people with disabilities, including visual impairment, such technologies represent far more than just the sum of their parts - it is ultimately a gateway for (...)
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