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Displaying from Thursday, July 11, 2019
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July 2019
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Thursday 11 |
A public lecture by Professor Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University; Professor, Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara; and previous-UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
A public lecture by Jessica Meeuwig, Professor of Marine Science, The University of Western Australia and 2019 Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering Eminent Speaker.
Oceans are fundamental to life on planet “earth”. Over 72% of the planet’s surface is water; every 2nd (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
A public lecture by Dr Susan Broomhall, School of Humanities (History), UWA.
This lecture explores how the character of Rembrandt van Rijn is interpreted through place, gender and emotions in museums and heritage sites in the Netherlands today. It focuses on the cities of Leiden and (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
A public lecture by David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, School of Natural Sciences,The University of Tasmania.
There is increasing recognition that a focus on understanding wildfire as a narrow physical phenomenon, and the associated pursuit of better predictions (...)
A public lecture by Barry Godfrey, Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool and Russell Ward Visiting Professor, University of New England and 2019 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
Which worked best, the system of convict transportation or the British home convict service? Between (...)
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August 2019
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Thursday 01 |
The 2019 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Don Bradshaw,
Emeritus Professor, Zoology.
It is over forty years since the publication of George Seddon’s 'Sense of Place', a masterly evocation of the city of Perth and its environs. Perth has grown and changed much in the interim and is now (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
18:30 - EVENT - From evidence to empowerment � translating UWA breastfeeding research into practice
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To mark World Breastfeeding Week, three of UWA’s leading breastfeeding researchers will share their research projects and participate in a panel discussion:
* What does the research tell us about the role of breastfeeding in allergy prevention? - with Professor Valerie Verhasselt (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
Join us for a screening of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), followed by a discussion with Alex Haslam, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and an Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland.
The Stanford Prison Experiment is a feature film that revisits (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
A public lecture by Dr Catherine Kovesi, History, University of Melbourne.
That Italy and Luxury go hand in hand seems hardly noteworthy. It is a pairing at once both obvious and nebulously evocative. However Luxury has a long history, one with a rather sordid past, from which it has (...)
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Thursday 22 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Women, Inequality and the Butterfly Effect : The 2019 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Antoinette Kennedy AO
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The “butterfly effect” was coined in 1972 by Edward Lorenz in a talk titled “does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” It models how a small action can have a significant impact.
In this year’s Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture, the Honourable (...)
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Monday 26 |
A public lecture by Paolo Boccagni, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Trento, Italy and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
All across social sciences and humanities, "home" has emerged as a unique research topic, despite its inherent ambiguity (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Constructing the Baroque: women artisans on building sites in the seventeenth-century Vatican and Rome
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A public lecture by Professor Nicoletta Marconi, University of Roma Tor Vergata and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The contribution of female artists and craftswomen to the history of construction in early modern Rome forms an understudied part of the development of (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
A public lecture by Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In medical terms critical care, also known as intensive care, is a specialized branch of medicine dedicated to diagnosing and treating life-threatening conditions. For this lecture, this term (...)
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September 2019
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Tuesday 03 |
The 2019 Robin Winkler Lecture by Helen Milroy, Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Western Australia.
Indigenous mental health is an area of major concern in Australia. In this talk, Professor Milroy will consider the historical, cultural, and contemporary issues facing (...)
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Thursday 05 |
A public lecture by Anthony Pym, Translation Studies (Intercultural Studies), The University of Melbourne.
How good is neural machine translation? How good will it become? When everyone can use high-quality free online machine translation, what will be left for translators to do? (...)
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Thursday 12 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Using the Land-Ocean Transition to Understand Past Coastal Landscapes
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A public lecture by Mark Bateman, Director Sheffield Luminescence Dating Laboratory, University of Sheffield and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Coastal dunes can contain lengthy, but complex, records of long-term environmental, climatic and sea-level fluctuations (...)
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October 2019
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Wednesday 02 |
16:30 - PUBLIC TALK - An African-American feminist visits Perth in 1960: who she met, what she saw, what she said, and what she wore
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Keynote Address by Emerita Professor Ann Curthoys, chaired by Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, Professor Jane Lydon
In December 1960, Eslanda Robeson visited Perth with her famous husband, singer and actor Paul Robeson. She gave several press and radio interviews, and spoke to (...)
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Thursday 03 |
A public lecture by Sir Roy Anderson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London and Director, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research.
This public talk will address the potential for a future Influenza A pandemic and (...)
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Monday 14 |
A public lecture by Professor David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Not long ago we were shocked when we discovered that our personal information had been hacked, stolen and misused. Now it has (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Margaret Cavendish�s Life of Newcastle (1667), a Wifely Intervention in the Making of History
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A public lecture by Dr Diana Barnes, Lecturer in English Literary Studies, University of New England and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
By 1667 when Margaret Cavendish’s biography of her husband, Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William (...)
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