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Displaying from Thursday, July 01, 2010
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July 2010
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Thursday 01 |
Building off of a ground-breaking paper published in Nature in 2008, Professor Huiming Bao (Louisiana State University and 2010 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow) and colleagues have discovered a new line of evidence supporting a truly alien Earth condition which took place approximately 635 (...)
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Friday 02 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> 'Puturru Palyalpayi � Stringmakers' Artists Talk
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In 2009, the International Year of Natural Fibre and the International Year of Reconciliation, an artists’ exchange project was arranged, supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts. This enabled a small group of women artists from the coastal plains of Perth to visit and work with senior (...)
18:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Banksia photographic exhibition at The University Club Gallery
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Photographer John Maloney's Botanica exhibition is developed around two major fine art collections of Banksia images: archival prints based on images of banksias that were first collected around the King George Sound, Albany, in 1801 by Robert Brown; and prints based on images collected in the (...)
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Sunday 04 |
12:00 - EVENT - Campus Challenge : A week long live- in residential camp for Yr 10-12 students to experience UWA
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Campus Challenge aims to provide high school students with the opportuntity to experience different aspects of university life through participation in academic, sporting, recreational and social activities on campus at the University of Western Australia. The main objective of the camp is to (...)
17:00 - CONCERT - Keyed Up! Annette Goerke : Annette Goerke delights us in recital on the newly refurbished McGillivray Organ!
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University Organist Annette Goerke, who studied with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris, is one of Australia’s finest exponents of French organ music, the works of Olivier Messiaen’s in particular.
Hear the magnificient newly refurbished McGillivray organ in a program to include works by Franck, Mulet (...)
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Monday 05 |
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - UWA Business School Public Lecture - Do Our Values Really Determine Our Actions? : The connection between personal values and social behaviour
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Do the basic values we proclaim influence our behaviour, or are they mere lip service or ways to justify our behaviour?
Professor Schwartz will provide a convincing answer to this question that goes against what psychologists thought for most of the past 50 years. He will discuss the (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
The second annual UWA Historical Society Lecture will be given by by Dr Sue Boyd, former diplomat and President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (WA Branch).
In 1969, Sue Boyd was elected first female president of the UWA Student Guild.
Student riots in (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Sustainability, displacement and a global agreement: Issues for climate change law and policy in Australia and around the world : CWR Seminar
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There is a gap between emissions reduction targets and timeframes which science tells us are required to deal with climate change and those which are proposed in legislation or treaties. As the International Alliance of Research Universities states, the conclusion from both the Intergovernmental (...)
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Thursday 08 |
17:30 - CANCELLED - EVENT - UWA Albany Skywest Public Lecture : Water, Fire & Weeds: River research in tropical Australia
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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The tropical rivers of northern Australia are world renowned for their high biodiversity and conservation values. They support many important industries in the region including tourism, commercial and (...)
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Friday 09 |
The Western Australia Chief Scientist, Professor Lyn Beazley, and the University of Western Australia's Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management are hosting a conference in Albany to showcase the excellent science taking place in the Great Southern region.
'Great Southern (...)
SymbioticA Tour:
As part of the UWA Winter Arts Festival, SymbioticA Director Oron Catts will discuss past and present SymbioticA resident research projects. A tour around the School of Anatomy and Human Biology will also be included.
This will take part during our regular Friday Seminar time:
3:30 (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
Scitech Profs and Pints - BLURRED BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY -
We will weave around the ethical challenges and conundrums, exploring humanity in light of technological, biological and artistic evolution.
The third edition of Profs and Pints will be held on Tuesday 13 July at The (...)
19:45 - EVENT - Friends of the Library talk : What makes music expressive?
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This talk is about musical expression in terms of production and perception in performance. It will focus on comparing solo piano performances given by some
of the world’s greatest interpreters to explore what characterises the similarities and differences between performances to make them more (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
HAWKE EXCLUSIVE MOVIE PREVIEW - Hosted by Ted Bull
Price: $39.00 per person
Price includes a complementary preview screening of HAWKE, presented by 6PR and TEN, hosted by Ted Bull and followed by a canape reception.
HAWKE is the story of Australia's Messiah. His (...)
Shamini Flint, ex-lawyer, stay-at-home mum, environmental activist and writer will explain why she believes that crime fiction is a great prism through which to explore the tensions (as well as the food and the beer!) within modern Asian society. Join Shamini and Inspector Singh ("It's (...)
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Thursday 15 |
18:00 - Panel Discussion - Challenges in Commercialising Technology : Panel discussion on issues faced in commercial development of technology
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The Cooperative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) program, Institute of Advanced Studies, and Office of Industry and Innovation invite you to a public panel discussion of the challenges encountered in the commercial development of technologies originally developed in institutions of (...)
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Friday 16 |
9:00 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of a UWA Business School Student : Spend a day at UWA Business School to discover what a typical day at uni is like.
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The UWA Business School is offering WA secondary school students the opportunity to take part in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun, competitive and very rewarding. You will work in teams with other students and interact with lecturers and current business students (...)
13:30 - EVENT - The UWA Institute of Agriculture: 2010 Industry Forum : Snapshot of what agriculture education for the future might look like and its demands on universities, industry, undergraduates and postgraduates
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World population continues to grow, increasing demands on agriculture, whilst the earth’s resources dwindle. The face of world agriculture continues to change; crops are now, not only used for food, but also for fuel and other high value products. Meeting these challenges requires more than (...)
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 'Triple Bond Nutrition: Expressing BioArt with Baby Steps'> A SymbioticA Friday Seminar : Speaker: Abhishek Hazra
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Abhishek Hazra;
Title: Triple Bond Nutrition: Expressing BioArt with Baby Steps;
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
"For this edition of the Friday Seminar, SymbioticA resident Abhishek Hazra will give an overview of the projects he has been exploring so (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Delivering value to citizens: the challenge for Australia�s Federation : The 2010 Reid Oration
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This year's Reid Oration will be given by Mr Peter Allen, Deputy Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
The challenges facing Australia have changed significantly since the Federation was created in 1901. Increasingly, the national government is using its dominant role in (...)
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