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 February 2013
Tuesday 05
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations 2013 Annual Lecture: Social Movements in the Era of Neoliberalism Website | More Information
Professor Michael Burawoy who is the 2013 UWA Business School Visiting Professor will present a public lecture as part of the Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations Series.

Abstract: The world is currently living through multiple crises including the ongoing global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, pervasive work insecurity and the present and looming ecological disasters. In this lecture, Professor Burawoy will consider new social movements that have emerged in response to these, and their source in the different manifestations of neoliberalism and its impacts on labour, finance, nature and knowledge. How should we characterise these movements, what can we attribute them to, and what can we glean from them in terms of future forms of engagement both broadly, and in relation to work and labour?

Professor Burawoy is a longtime member of the sociology department at the University of California at Berkeley and the current President of the International Sociological Association. Professor Burawoy was the former president of the American Sociological Association.
Thursday 07
19:00 - TALK - STEPHEN SCOURFIELD'S KIMBERLEY ADVENTURE - AS THE RIVER RUNS : Meet the Author of 'As the River Runs' set in the Kimberley Website | More Information
Join Stephen Scourfield as he takes you on a pictorial journey through his new novel As the River Runs, a powerful ode to one of Australia’s most stunning regions. In the Kimberley water is plentiful, but in Perth it’s precious, and political. When ex-greenie Dylan Ward takes a group of city pollies through the wild river country, their journey takes some unexpected turns.

As a novelist, photographer and travel editor of The West Australian, Stephen weaves stories and images together.

THINGS TO KNOW This talk runs for an hour with time for questions. Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.

Tickets $29 Concession available
Friday 08
9:30 - SEMINAR - Illuminating Thoughts - 1913, 2013, 2113 : Manning Clark House Day of Ideas Website | More Information
The celebration of The University of Western Australia’s centenary in 2013 gives pause to think about the luminous ideas that shaped the contemporary world and the possibilities for tomorrow. The focus of this symposium will be on moving from ideas of modernism to post-modernism to an increasingly global and virtual reality and the new ideas that will shape the next hundred years.

Cost: $75/$70 (concession). Register online at http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/conf/2013-doi

18:30 - ALUMNI EVENT - Alumni Weekend Celebrations 2013 : UWA's Inaugural Alumni Weekend Website | More Information
The Alumni Weekend presents a unique opportunity to celebrate the University's centenary. It offers a diverse program of activities, events and reunions, including a Welcome Cocktail Party, seminars, lectures, panel discussions, tours and the launch of the Shaun Tan Sundial, Centenary plant, music CD entitled Luminosity, Musical Treasures from UWA and the history of UWA book entitled Seek Wisdom.

Lectures and seminars will be presented by prominent UWA alumni including Sir Rod Eddington AO, the Hon Geoff Gallop AC, Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall AC CitWA, Professor Steve Hopper AC, Professor Peter Quinn (The Square Kilometre Array), mountaineer Patrick Hollingworth and Geraldine Doogue AO.

The festivities begin with LUMINOUSnight where the campus will come alive with art and illuminations that celebrate UWA's history and its key alumni, teachers and researchers.

For booklovers, there is the Writers' Corner which will showcase the brilliance of our award winning writers.

The UWA residential colleges are offering accommodation for those who require it as well as hosting sundowners and dinners on the Saturday night for those who would like to attend.

You can book events by visiting http://www.centenary.uwa.edu.au/

All queries can be answered by contacting the Alumni Weekend team on 61 8 6488 4773 or by email at [email protected]

19:00 - EVENT - LUMINOUSnight : A one-night only free public celebration of art and culture to commemorate The University of Western Australia's Centenary Website | More Information
From 7pm until midnight on Friday 8 February 2013, the UWA Crawley campus will be transformed into a walk through phantasmagoria presenting a rich program of performances and displays that celebrate key moments and individuals in the University’s glowing history.

With more than 250 artists involved in this spectacular program, there is something for everyone including music (classical, world, folk, pop and jazz); dance, theatre and multi-media performances; readings; a silent film with a live original score; a spectacular architectural projection onto Winthrop Hall; projected portraits onto prominent campus trees; virtual augmented reality images embedded in the landscape; street performances; giant articulated puppets; exhibits of light-art, science-art and astro-photography; and a fire finale.

Visit www.luminousnight.uwa.edu.au for full program details, performance times and information on refreshments, parking and special bus services.

LUMINOUSnight is the University’s 100th birthday gift to the people of Western Australia.
Tuesday 12
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Friendly for Whom? Rethinking Age-Friendly Communities Website | More Information
A lecture by Professor Norah Keating, Director, The Global Social Initiative on Ageing.

In this presentation, Professor Keating speaks about her journey toward answering the question, ‘age-friendly for whom’? To illustrate the tremendous diversity in both people and place, she draws on examples of communities such as retirement villages in rural Canada and high-density urban settlements in urban South Africa; and of active engaged older persons and those who are marginalized as a result of poverty and poor health. She argues that an age-friendly community is one in which there is a good fit between the needs and preferences of older persons and community features and resources.

Viewing age-friendly as a measure of goodness of fit between communities and their older residents provides a platform for examining what community resources and needs might be most compatible with which groups of older residents. It moves the focus away from somewhat static evaluations of whether communities have a set of requisite features toward an examination of what opportunities they afford and to whom.
Wednesday 20
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Turf Research Program Open Day : Managing turfgrass on a water allocation Website | More Information
You are invited to an informal Open Day at the UWA Turf Research Facility to see how different water allocations, in combination with wetting-agents, have influenced the development of dry-patch. A brief presentation will commence at 10:15am sharp. Please remember to wear sturdy footwear, as the site is very sandy. RSVP appreciated
Thursday 21
11:00 - PROGRAM - AusAID Connect 2013 : Mentoring AusAID students More Information
As with all international students who come to study at UWA, AusAID students face many challenges. They need to understand local geography, adapt to our cultural and social norms, adjust to a different climate and food and quickly come to terms with their role and responsibility in the UWA community. While the staff in the International Centre provides a comprehensive orientation program, it can still take some time for these students to settle in to their new environment.

The AusAID Connect program was established to provide our AusAID students with the experience of meeting and spending time with a local family. Jointly run by the Alumni Relations office and the International Sponsored Student Unit at UWA, it gives you, as a UWA alumnus, the opportunity to make a positive difference in the life of a student adjusting to being so far from their home, by hosting them at a dinner in your home.

Alumni interested in being involved firstly need to fill out the program registration form and sign the authorisation. We will then review all applicants and match the students with alumni families based on information provided by both parties. As a part of this matching process we may contact you by telephone. Participating alumni will then receive information on the student as well as the country and culture from which they come.

If you are matched with a student you will need to attend a function on Friday, 8 March 2013 which is for all participating alumni, families and students to meet, start to get to know each other and arrange your hosting dinner.

Close of Applications is the 21st of February

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Welfare vs Private Charity: Some Lessons from Medieval and Early Modern Europe Website | More Information
In this talk, Sharon Farmer, Professor of History at University of California Santa Barbara will use examples from Medieval and Early Modern Europe to challenge the major tenet of twenty-first century conservatism that, when it comes to taking care of those who cannot take provide for themselves, societies that rely on systems of private charity are far superior to those that rely on government sponsored systems of social welfare.

This lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia.
Friday 22
11:00 - EVENT - 2013 O-Day Festival - UWA Student Guild : Biggest UWA Student Guild Event of the Year. Concert, Stalls, Food and Markets More Information
The O-Day Festival is a great opportunity to get involved with the social side of uni and activate your Guild membership, join clubs and societies and then wrap up the day with a huge concert on the Oak Lawn!

Headlining the O-Day Festival are hot Australian band, Last Dinosaurs - who are here as part of their First Degree Tour. Other acts include Sun City, DJ Lindsay, and some other special guests!

Time: 11am - 6:30pm (Concert starts at 2pm!) Place: James Oval and Oak Lawn, UWA When: 22nd February, 2013 Who: EVERYONE.

Don't miss the biggest student event on campus and and the best way to kick start your uni year!

The 2013 Guild O-Day Festival is an alcohol and drug free event.

15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Shakespearean Ontogeny : Public talk with Dr. Richard Paul Hamilton Website | More Information
There is a popular view of biological development which goes something like this. Biological form is the cumulative result of internal genetic forces and external environmental ones. Like all models in biology this rather neat view had the advantage of allowing researchers to navigate a path through the bewildering complexity of organic life. But like all metaphors it comes at the price of bewitchment. As Wittgenstein writes in Philosophical Investigations 115: “a picture held us captive and we could not escape it because it lay in our language”. One consequence of this bewitchment is that explanatory privilege was given to the internal 'code' enshrined in the DNA, a view most famously (or notoriously) associated with Richard Dawkins' gene-centric account of evolution. This apparently resolved a number of outstanding puzzles in theoretical biology notably the transmission of stable form across generations.

In this context, the Human Genome Project can be seen as the most fruitful failure in scientific history. Such a claim may seem puzzling, since the Human Genome Project might be considered a success, not least in the numerous promising advances in medicine that it presaged. Nevertheless, the somewhat hyperbolic claim that it would finally unlock the secret code which would reveal what it means to be human have been largely unfulfilled and with good reason. There never was such a code.

The last two decades in the biological sciences can be characterised by the slogan: Taking Development Seriously. Whereas the neo-Darwinian mathematical modellers tended to treat the actual process of development as a black box, a sustained effort is now underway to explain the relationship between evolution (phylogeny) and organismic development (ontogeny). One thing has become clear: the simple dichotomous picture of gene and environment is inadequate, even as a simplifying device. DNA rarely exists in isolation and where it does it is inert. There is no reason to give DNA causal or explanatory privilege in developmental processes. Rather, development is a complex and contingent process in which the developing organism constructs itself and to some extent its developmental environment from the resources at hand. The organism makes its own history albeit not in circumstances of its choosing.

If the code metaphor is no longer adequate what can replace it? In this talk I will suggest a new and hopefully fruitful analogy which might capture some of the complexities involved. I will compare the process of biological development to the construction of a Shakespearean play. As Shakespeare scholars have long known there are no definitive Shakespeare texts and it seems likely that Shakespeare never actually sat down and wrote Hamlet or Much Ado About Nothing. Rather the plays were workshopped and Shakespeare provided prompt notes to the players. The texts with which we are familiar are re-constructions of performances which have been handed down corrected and interpreted through numerous generations. Most crucially every new performance of Shakespeare is an interpretation be it a group of Lesbian players doing in Hamlet in Soweto or an 'authentic Elizabethan dress' performance at the Globe in London. Moreover, every performance takes place in a rich and complex interpretative environment and the audience plays as much a role in the play's construction as the author or players.

Similarly, all the natural world is a stage, or so I shall argue.

Dr. Richard Paul Hamilton completed a PhD on love as a social phenomenon, under the supervision of Professors Susan James and Jennifer Hornsby at Birkbeck College, The University of London. He works on moral philosophy, the philosophy of the emotions, the philosophy of action and the philosophy of social sciences with particular interests in the legal definition of morally contested concepts. His most recent publications have dealt with evolutionary psychology and love as an essentially contested concept. He is currently engaged in a project investigating the biological bases of moral conduct. Before arriving at Notre Dame, he taught at the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Monday 25
13:00 - COURSE - UWA Class2Go: UWA Public Open Online Courses : Take a free UWA course "Developing the Sociological Imagination" on UWA Class2Go https://www.class2go.uwa.edu.au Website | More Information
UWA's free open and online courses begin with "Developing the Sociological Imagination" and "Ocean Solutions"

Registration is free
Tuesday 26
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Reading and writing historical novels in the age of instant messaging Website | More Information
A trillion text messages are sent and received every hour. Every minute 48 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube alone. The “present” has never been as ever-present as it is now. Institute of Advanced Studies Writer-in-Residence Kunal Basu will discuss whether such a high premium on the instantaneous and the topical in our “fact rich” world obliterate historical imagination.

Free, but RSVP essential. Bookings: www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/basu
Wednesday 27
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Water Accounting has been in development since June 2004 when the States and Commonwealth Governments signed the National Water Initiative. Website | More Information
Recent developments in water accounting include the release of:-

1. the Australian Water Accounting Standard,

2. a draft Water Accounting Assurance Standard for public comment,

3. a Water Accounting Framework for the members of the Minerals Council of Australia,

4. the third iteration of the National Water Account by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and;

5. research into the potential for International adoption of Australia’s water accounting standards.

Research into world trends in water management and reporting show that Australia is leading the world in the development and deployment of water accounting.

Western Australia leads the way in water accounting for groundwater systems. Lindsay Preece will in this presentation outline water accounting developments at the National, State and Local levels and why the time is right for Universities and Corporations to get actively involved.

BIO:

Lindsay Preece is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years experience in the public and private sectors.

In government Lindsay has worked for 13 agencies and most recently held key positions at the Department of Planning and at the Water Department.

At Planning, Lindsay was the Secretary to the Western Australian Planning Commission.

Currently at the Department of Water, Lindsay leads Water Information and Modelling which encompasses spatial datasets, time series data collected from a telemetry network, the capture of data from monitoring bores, modelling and water accounting development.

Lindsay’s Top 20 customers include Commonwealth, State and Local Governments, Universities and their students, Mining Companies, Engineering and Water Consultants and; his team provisions 40,000 data requests every year.

Since 2007 Lindsay has been proactively involved in the development of water accounting at the local and national scale.

He represented Western Australia on a number of national committees – most recently providing technical input into the development of the Australian Water Accounting Standard and the draft Australian Water Accounting Assurance standard.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

 March 2013
Friday 01
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Token Skepticism: Podcasting Science And Pop Culture : Public talk with Science Podcaster Kylie Sturgess Website | More Information
An investigation of science podcasting, using social media and the reach of online radio. What is podcasting, what can it contribute to the understanding of science and what are the pros and cons of using such a medium? Kylie Sturgess has been podcasting since 2005, and brings her experience and research into the medium of science podcasting under the microscope.

Kylie Sturgess is a Philosophy teacher, who has lectured on pseudoscientific and anomalistic beliefs worldwide. She is the host of the Token Skeptic podcast, a show that looks at the intersection of science, media and pop culture. Kylie writes for a number of publications, including CSICOP’s ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ online column, and enjoys combining her love of art, science, and social media as a means of communicating science to the public.
Monday 04
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society March 4th Convocation Centenary: Photo Shoot at 10am : All welcome on the steps of the old St George's Hall 500 Hay St Perth to celebrate 100 years to the day of the first meeting of UWA's Convocation. Website | More Information
You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.

The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico, steps and tall white columns were restored when the new Perth District Court was constructed behind it at 500 Hay Street. To celebrate the Centenary of this meeting, a photo-shoot of 100 'graduates' will take place on the steps of the façade at 10am on Monday March 4th 2013.

The UWA Historical Society would be delighted if you could join us.

If you have academic robes, please bring them. If not please come anyway, as having just a few robed members will provide the ‘flavour’. Balloons for a joint release will be provided.

Monday March 4th is a public Holiday (Labour Day). There should be nearby street parking available and there is a public parking station across the road at King’s Hotel.

The UWA Centum will be there

14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - Crawley Campus Tour - March 2013 : An enjoyable and informative walking tour around UWA's stunning Crawley Campus Website | More Information
The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus on the Labour Day long weekend (4 March 2013).

These tours are for prospective students (and their parents) who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful gardens and buildings at the Crawley campus.

The tour finishes at the Admissions Centre & Prospective Students Office where you will be able to collect course brochures.

Tours run for approximately one hour. Please bring a jacket and wet weather gear if necessary.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Cooling of Planets and Extra Terrestrial Life Website | More Information
As a planetary body ages, its internal heat gradually escapes to the surface. In Earth-like bodies, this slow cooling may lead to solidification of iron-rich cores and provide energy sources for magnetic dynamos. In giant planets’ icy moons, this slow cooling may result in freezing of their sub-surface oceans and alter their structure and dynamics.

In this lecture, Professor Li will show recent experimental results of:

1. the iron-sulfur binary system melting at high pressure, which suggest Mercury’s core may actually be “snowing” and which reveal new mechanisms for the planet’s dynamo; 2. the thermal conductivity of water-ices under high pressure, with implications for the thermal evolution history of giant planets’ icy moons.

Implications for extra-terrestrial life will be discussed.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. To register a place - http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/li
Tuesday 05
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Iran : Occasional Research Conversation with Dr. Anahita Movassagh Riegler More Information
Dr Anahita Movassagh Riegler will discuss her PhD which she has recently completed at the Faculty of Law, UWA. The topic Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is rooted in the inequality of power between men and women. In countries where patriarchal attitudes are dominant, such as in some Muslim countries, State laws provide men with more rights and place them in a superior position to women.

18:00 - SEMINAR - Year 12 Student Information Evening : Information session for Year 12 students and their parents Website | More Information
If you're a Year 12 student, or a parent of a Year 12 student, this session will give you information about UWA's courses, admission requirements and how to achieve your study and career goals.

UWA staff from the Prospective Students Office will be available to answer questions after the presentation.

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