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Displaying from Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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March 2018
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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 (...)
A public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Vervoort, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, Washington State University and 2018 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
Earth scientists have long been interested in the nature of Earth’s earliest continents. There are several (...)
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Thursday 19 |
A public lecture by Professor John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School, British Columbia and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples around the world are rebuilding their (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Secret of Cultured Pearls Revealed- from the Water to your Necklace
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A public lecture by Dr Marie-Lise Schläppy, Research Associate at The University of Western Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Pearls have been used as jewels for centuries and pearl aquaculture has helped make pearls more readily available. How are these pearls (...)
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May 2018
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Tuesday 01 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Collective Power and Potential of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and girls: recognising their human rights in achieving gender equity : The 2018 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
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In April 2017, June Oscar AO became the first woman to be appointed as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Commissioner Oscar has made the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls a (...)
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Thursday 03 |
A public lecture by Giuliana Costa, Associate Professor of Sociology, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
A great many of us will be in need of care during our lifetime, mainly when we grow old. It is likely we will have to gather together (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
A public lecture by Andrew Lynch, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
The middle ages acquired a higher cultural prestige in nineteenth-century ideas of English national heritage. Literature exemplifying the spirit of medieval ‘chivalry’ was called on to offer behavioural (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Talking Allowed: Talking Aloud about Head Coverings, with Krishna Sen
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Krishna Sen FAHA, Professor Emerita, Social Sciences, UWA asks the question, "Is there something particular about the hijab in our time or is ‘to cover or not to cover’ always a central political question?" in Talking Allowed an event series, in collaboration with UWA Institute of (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Savonarola and Botticelli: the visionary prophet and the penitent painter
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A public lecture by Arvi Wattel, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.
After the French invasion in 1494, the Florentine people revolted against its de facto rulers and exiled the Medici family from Florence. Subsequently, the followers of the Dominican preacher Girolamo (...)
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Thursday 17 |
A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
One of the expected responses of marine fishes to ocean warming is decrease in body size, as supported by (...)
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