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Displaying from Sunday, February 06, 2011
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February 2011
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Sunday 06 |
From the beginning of the twentieth century—when the great Australian novel, Such is Life, was first published—Australia has been transformed, with vast changes to society, culture and our sense of ourselves in an ever more international world.
In this lively afternoon seminar, four (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Science, Art & Ethics Panel : as part of VISCERAL: THE LIVING ART EXPERIMENT
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Science, Art & Ethics Panel;
Location: Paccar Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Join us for a special discussion on science, art, ethics, and the sparks (and inspirations) that arise when the three combine.
A must-see for artists, curators, scientists, and anyone interested in (...)
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Monday 14 |
Dr C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Planning and Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School is visiting Perth from the U.S.
Dr Combs oversees a medical simulation program and is responsible for the development of EVMS's new simulation center which will open in the summer of 2011 (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: Cryo-SEM : A cool technique for imaging hydrated and beam sensitive specimens in their natural state
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Following a successful 2011 ARC LEIF bid, CMCA will acquire cryo-SEM capabilities this coming year, to provide improved imaging capabililties for hydrated and beam sensitive samples. Marilyn Carey from Gatan UK will present information on cryo-SEM techniques for those wanting to know more about (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay with Bernard Salt : The Big West – Seachange, Treechange, FIFO, Boom!
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Presented by WestNet Infrastructure Group
At this breakfast noted author and social commentator Bernard Salt will be commenting on how social, cultural and demographic trends are impacting on Western Australia’s business future.
In light of Australia’s increasing and also (...)
Dr Gerald Crabtree is Professor of Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also an Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr Crabtree's laboratory is studying the interaction between the signaling pathways and genetic (...)
17:30 - RECITAL - Bang the Gong Workshop : Create music inside Diokno Pasilan's Memory House
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Join artist Diokno Pasilan for a free child-friendly music workshop in his Memory House, an art installation alongside UWA's beautiful Tropical Grove, part of PIAF and the UWA Cultural Precinct's Dialogues With Landscape. Bring a picnic and friends. All are welcome. Visit website for the nine (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America�s Far Northwest
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Melting glaciers are now revealing material evidence that reinvigorates longstanding oral traditions about human history and environmental change, posing new questions for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. In this lecture, Julie Cruikshank, Professor Emerita in the Department of (...)
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Thursday 17 |
17:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Creative Writing and its Contexts: Symposium for Dennis Haskell : To be held 17-18 February, 2011, to honour the many-sided achievements of Dennis Haskell, poet, editor, scholar, teacher and administrator
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Final Registration Reminder
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled 'Creative Writing and its Contexts'.
The Symposium will be opened at 5 pm on (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Leaning Tower of St. Moritz: Geotechnical Aspects of Construction on a Creeping Landslide
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2011 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow, Alexander M. Puzrin, of the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zurich will present a lecture on the famous Leaning Tower of St Moritz. St. Moritz, Switzerland is a famous ski resort built on an active creeping landslide and the tower is the most (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Chinese New Year Celebration : Performances by Wenqin Arts Troupe, Zhejiang University PRC
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Come and celebrate the year of the Rabbit with us!
Enjoy performances by Wenqin Arts Troupe, Zhejiang University PRC at the Dolphin Theatre, UWA on Thursday 17th February 2011 at 7.30 pm. $20 per entry and seats are limited.
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Monday 21 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Advances in Understanding Ore Systems & Exploration Success : Experts interpret the current state of research and exploration in a series of mineral systems.
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Experts interpret the current state of research and exploration in a series of mineral systems and exploration-oriented workshops on the following deposit types; orogenic and intrusion-related gold, iron-oxide copper gold, Carlin-style gold and Cu-Mo-Au porphyry, regional-scale metallogenic (...)
12:00 - Scholarship - Chinese Government Scholarship is NOW available at Confucius Institute : Scholarship
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2011 Chinese Government Scholarship
Chinese Government Scholarship program is established by the Ministry of Education of P.R. China in accordance with educational exchange agreements or understandings reached between Chinese government and governments of other countries, organizations (...)
18:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Business School Public Lecture with Dr Mary Gentile : Giving Voice to Values: the “How” of business ethics
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Dr Gentile will share a ground-breaking new approach to preparing business managers and leaders for values-driven decision making. Drawing on both the actual experience of business practitioners as well as cutting edge research, GIVING VOICE TO VALUES (GVV) fills a long-standing and critical gap in (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
11:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Tuesday Seminar - James Ward (UNSW, Head of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Program) : Improving Aboriginal people's sexual health & bloodborne viral health outcomes through research
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Tuesday Seminars at the School of Population health are held every week. Students and staff are given the opportunity to showcase current research activities and hear from visiting speakers.
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Monday 28 |
9:00 - COURSE - Senior Exploration Management Course : This course is ideal for exploration professionals who are in positions of senior responsibility.
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Western Mining Services (WMS) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) have combined to offer a senior-level exploration management course on February 28 – March 3, 2011 on the campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. The Director of the CET, Professor McCuaig, was so (...)
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March 2011
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Tuesday 01 |
10:00 - EVENT - MATHWEST IMU WORKSHOP PERTH : UWA Mathematics Symposium Celebrating the First IMU Executive Committee Australian Visit
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The University of Western Australia is proud to announce the Year of Mathematics 2011, a celebration of mathematics and the powerful role that it plays in our everyday lives.
Central to the program of events is the MathWest Workshop, where over two days, members of the International (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Flights of Imagination in Research: lung science from airways to asbestosis
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Lung diseases affect one in five people worldwide. They carry a high mortality and have a devastating effect on a normally active lifestyle. Australians, like most people in developed countries, are experiencing an increased incidence of many lung diseases including asthma and smoking related (...)
19:00 - POETRY READING - 'Masonic' : Poetry Reading at the Convocation Pavilion on Whitfeld Court UWA
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Come along for a sunset poetry reading in the Convocation Pavilion on Whitfeld Court at UWA. Poets include:
Amanda Joy, Belowsky Poet, Vivienne Glance, Jan Napier, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Dosh Luckwell, Tristan Parr, Gabrielle Everall, Sue Clennell, Andrew Burke and Afief Ismail
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Thursday 03 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - Scooby Doo Origins Auditions : Auditions for the latest UWA Panto Society show
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Pantomime is a traditional British parody of well known fairytales and stories, which UWA PantoSoc has shamelessly converted to an M15+ parody of anything and everything.
Although we started out focusing on fairytales, we quickly realised that this was our last chance to fulill our own dreams by (...)
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