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Displaying from Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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October 2019
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Tuesday 22 |
10:00 - EVENT - The Great Song Cycle: Mastering the art of doing everything you love, and getting away with it : Masterclass with musician and author, Joanna Wallfisch
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Internationally acclaimed musician and author, Joanna Wallfisch, visits IAS to present a masterclass, performance and discussion on how to balance and combine the concepts of career, vocation and one’s life passions. A songwriting and vocal coach, she will offer tips of conveying story through (...)
A public lecture by Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Professor of Environmental and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Science, UWA.
Sápmi, or Lapland, sits at the extreme north of Scandinavia, mostly above the Arctic Circle, and straddles four countries. Its people, the Sami (formerly the (...)
A public lecture by Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Professor of Environmental and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Science, UWA
Sápmi, or Lapland, sits at the extreme north of Scandinavia, mostly above the Arctic Circle, and straddles four countries. Its people, the Sami (formerly the Lapps) (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
18:00 - EVENT - Taking the pulse of Italy today: a creative presence in Europe and in Australia
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A public lecture by H.E. Francesca Tardioli, Ambassador of Italy in Australia
This lecture is part of a year-long series that celebrates the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA
2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Power of Earth: the 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and case studies
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A public lecture by Dr Lijun Deng, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
Earthquakes are one of the most catastrophic natural hazards worldwide. What can happen to (...)
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Thursday 24 |
The Lions Eye Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies present the 2019 Ian Constable Lecture - by Professor Keith Martin, Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia.
Glaucoma remains the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. The field of glaucoma is (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Challenges of Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management in a Developing Country
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A public lecture by Mylene Lising, Cultural Deputy Officer, National Museum of the Philippines; Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The Philippines is a developing country with a population of over 100 (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Struggles with scale, strategy, and stewardship: fifty years of environmental activism
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A public lecture by Graeme Wynn FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
By common account, environmentalism has had three major concerns: beauty, health, and permanence. Roughly translated these terms (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Porn Down Under: The Politics of Consumption, Pleasure and Regulation
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Join us for this special panel discussion that will consider the role of pornography in contemporary Australia.
Speakers:
Associate Professor Paul J. Maginn, Urban/Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia - '“Gagging for It”: Geographies of ‘Straight’ and (...)
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Thursday 31 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Experiences of migrant women in contemporary Taiwan
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A public lecture by Tiffany Hsu and Yow-Jiun Wang, National Cheng Kung University, 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellows.
This lecture has been cancelled. Apologies for any disappointment caused.
Dr Hsu and Dr Wang will give a masterclass on 'Women’s Migration (...)
A public lecture by Costantino D’Orazio, Art historian and writer, Rome.
This lecture is part of a year-long series that celebrates the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA
2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The (...)
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November 2019
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Monday 04 |
A public lecture by Professor Thomas Bortfeld, Medical Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Even though cancer is far from being universally curable, there has been significant progress in its treatment over the past few decades. In the Unites States, for (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Surgical robots � What they can and can�t do, what are they for, and the future
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A public lecture by Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Deputy Director of Health Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
Surgical robots are one of the top hi-tech medical gadgets of the day (...)
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Saturday 09 |
Presented by Holmes à Court Gallery@ No.10 in association with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
Unfortunately, due to a change in circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We are sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment that arises from this decision.
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Tuesday 12 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Leading the Rebellious with Empathy: a new paradigm for (STEM) education
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A public lecture by Dr Johannes Strobel, Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education has seen a huge renaissance in the USA with several (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia.
In celebration, join us for a panel conversation exploring the contribution of artists with an Italian heritage who have lived and worked in Western Australia (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Perils of Fornicating on the Beach : Reproductive constraints in a keystone fish may underpin collapse of the Northwest Atlantic foodweb
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A public lecture by Dr Craig Purchase, Associate Professor of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Keystone species hold critical roles in the functioning of foodwebs. About 30 years ago, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
A public lecture by Professor Dahbia Talbi, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France.
A surprisingly rich chemistry occurs in space, as evidenced by the discovery so far of nearly 200 different molecules in the interstellar medium and in stellar (...)
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Thursday 21 |
A public lecture by Professor Philip Gerrans, Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
In a near future the most basic and intimate of human needs from infancy to end of life will be met by artificial intelligence and (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Technology and the Future of Work: an international perspective in the shadow of the competition for talent
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A public lecture by Gordon L Clark, Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford; Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
It is widely believed that technology – (...)
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